Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-12
The Dollar You SAGE
And Lend Uncle Sam

his appeal to the American people for greater
earnestness in saving. Secretary McAdoo
Interestingly traces the course Of dollar
economical from waste and invested in Liberty
bonds Thrift stamps. First" he says, cit goes
to the Government as a loan for the war; second,
it is expended by the Government for food, cloth
ing and ammunition which go directly to a gallant
soldier sailor whose fighting strength is kept up
BY the food. whose body is kept by the cloth
Ing and whose enemy is hit by the ammunition"
Saving money and lending it to the Government
whether in twenty-five cent Thrift stamps or fifty
dollar or thousand-dollar Liberty bonds, thus be-
comes concrete and personal contribution to the
nations And equally true it is that failure
to save and failure to support the Governments
credit to the extent of ones ability is downright
personal dislOyalty to the nations cause.
In such crisis as America and mankind now
face, waste of any sort is reasonable The family
individual that consumes more food or more of
any basic material than is needfuI is weakening
America and the Allies, is helping the Huns is pro-
longing the wars vast sacrifice and agony This
is not oyer-heightened statement of the stua-
ton; it is literally and grimly true. The nations
energy and resources are taxed to the utmost to
meet the demands of our own gigantic army and
at the same time TO relieve the critical needs of
our Allies. Think what it takes feed and cIothe
and otherwise maintain between a million and
half and two million men, all of whom have been di-
verted from productive fields But when we have fed
and clothed them. our task has barely begun We
must equip them with guns and ammunition. We
must build ships to transport them and their SUD-
plies across three thousand miles of ocean We must
build railroads in France from the ports to the
battle front in order that there may be no break
or delay in the constantly needed stream of SUD-
plies And after we have cared for the multitudfn-
Gus needs or our own army and feet, still have
the imperative and formidable task of helping to feed
the armies and civilian populations of the conn
tries allied with in the war against civilizations
common foe Never before so tremendous or
inspiring duty laid upon any people We can
perform it gloriOusly if labor and save as we
should But if we waste any essential. whether If
be food, clothing, fuel money, we shall cripple
our fighting forces, sacrifice them our IMPROVE
dence. and fail ANONYMOUSLY.
In saving money by wise and persistent economv
we save also the materials which are necessary to
the prosecution OF the war. Extravagance eats dan
gerously into the general supply of the grain meat
wool, cotton and other basic commodities wtbout
an abundance of which our armies cannot be main
tanned Allies reinforced For the average
civilian, therefore the most useful patriotism Is
that which turns every possible dollar into Ioan
to the Government where it will buy things needed
for the men at the front. Thoughtful men will see
OF course, that this policy is to their own as we'll
as the cOuntry's advantage. Money invested in
Liberty bonds and Thrift stamps is incomparaby
safe; it draws a good rate of interest; and there
is no telling what boon and bulwark its provident
owner may find il in the years ahead. But the con-
sideration that weighs heaviest with loyal Ameri
cans is simply this if they do not save money and
food and other sinews, their brave defenders
on the battle front will suffer; IL they do not sus
tain the Governments credit by purchasing Liberty
bonds and Thrift stamps to the limit Of their capac
ity, their countrys cause involving all that thew
hold dear, will be lost The people have sub
scrfbed to two Liberty loans with trimming en-
thusiasm and now freely purchasing Thrift
stamps. But they have hardly SKINNED the sur
face of their resources for saving and helping the
Government The majority Of them have not approach
ed the point of self-denial which the French and
English and our other Allies reached three years
ago. The hour has when we must awake to
the oveTshadOwing need which the war casts upon
us, the need OF stopping all waste and Of lending
our dollars to the Government as freely as the
gallant soldier boys give their lives
Garden note: Don't fail to prune the turnip