Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-03-09
THE REAL SIG.
NIfICANCE OF THE
THRIFT CAMPAIGN
BY James A. Davis.
Chairman Of the Public Speaking
Bureau of the Cook County War
Savings Committee.

confirmed trait of its people, is one
of the vital elements OF nations
wealth and strength 1t is one of its
greatest electives in maintenance of
war and its prosperous growth in time
of peace.
Thrift is rule of self control
against waste in any form. It is
principle the practice of which soon
becomes habit, an assured avenue
to prosperity and competency.
1t is stimulation to diligence and
industry, a discourager or corrective
of Incidence.
Thrift is thoughtful management.
II is the care we exercise in supply
ing our wants. II influences the
judgment we use in buying, in the
conservation of our earnings. II die
tates that we buy no more of anything
than we can profitably use, that we
refrain from buying anything we have
no use for. Thrift It is that causes
us to discriminate between and weigh
values. It makes a dollar function
to its fullest usefulness. 1t is rea.
SUI CuTU vi eAtTdNdSdHCe.
If we are about to buy any article
and have a choice between one for a
dollar and another for dollar and a
half, the $3.50 one differing in no es.
sential way from the one for a dollar
and no more serviceable, II is thrift
which leads us to purchase the one
for dollar. thereby saving fifty
cents.
This is the saving the thrift stamps
are created for, whether It be twenty
| five cents, fifty cents, five dollars, one
hundred or a thousand dollars.
This act might be defined as
economy, IL It were not that the def
mite object in view was that saving:
be increased by the fifty cents
Economy is only feature of, steI
in the process of thrift. The motiv,
in thrift is saving, the avoidance o
waste of money, the desire for profit
One can't practice thrift without be
ing economical but one can be eco
nomical without being thrifty. In
crease In accumulation Is the sole OF
ject of thrift. More to spend is oftel
the objective of economy.
II Is thrift that converts opportur
ity to earn into earnings, the unuse
into usefulness, idle time into profit
able occupation.
II is thrift which makes the gal
bage can unnecessary in France.
is thrift that led to the great By-Prot
uct industries of France, Belgium an
Germany for the conversion of vast
into commercial products.
Every man, woman and child in on
country must consider themselves
human by.product plant convertin
their needless, thoughtless over e,
penditures and waste into thril
stamps.
We must not confuse thrift wit
miserliness and niggardliness. It
not demanded of us that we ceas
buying everything except the food
nourish us. Such a policy woul
stine our industries and prostrat
trade. Industrial activity create
payrolls, Il creates profits to be take
for government revenue. II thei
were no proceeds from manufacture
and trade who would there be to bu
thrift stamps?
What thrift demands and our 60
eminent expects of us is that We r
frain from indiscriminate spendin
spending because we have the none
in our pockets to spend.
We must not interfere with IL
stability and the progress Of our 4
dustries.
Il Is not demanded that we depri,
ourselves of rational amusements b,
that we control our indulgence
them.
In substance thrift is carefulnes
management, prudence, frugality al
calculation to the end that q savir
of money be created.
That Is the thrift expected OF u
the results of which your PATRIOTS
will suggest be invested in Thri
Stamps and War Savings Certificate
That we may take advantage
and profit by this great lesson
thrift in the simple way provided, wi
profitable returns; that we may lei
our savings so created to our cover
. ment, giving us the glorious satisfa
ton that we are helping In this CT
ical period OF our Country's histo
to win its righteous war; that we a
saving that our brave boys at Il
front and In training and on the SCI
may have the best of food and plen
of 1t, the warmest clothing, the lin
of comfort, and best of medical ;
/ tendance, the most reliable OF arr
| and ammunition, the sharpest
| bayonets; that they may know tn
/ we are back of them heart and SO
| and purse to the last penny and q
| last heart beat. Isn't all this a,
| 1.-THE Great Cause" worth saving (
/ -25 cents at a time?
/ Our enemies have called us a I
| ton of MASTERS, Let us give the
/ the lie and prove that we are not on
| the richest nation in the world b
/ the thriftiest extravagant only In
fording means for defeating the
Il Men win battles, but money wi
wars"
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| Judge John r, Cayery 10 da