The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-09
SAYINGS AT HOME
WAR SINE'NS FOR
ARMY ABROAD
Marcosson, Back from Front,
Urges All Americans to Be-
come Joint Partners
THRIFT A WAR NECESSITY
BY ISAAC +. MARcossoh,.

American War correspo ndent. 4
Mr.. Mareosson has been on
every European battle front and
has Interviewed Tire leading states
men and war leaders OF all the
allied countries. .He was in Rus,
e STA during the revolution and has
written several books on the war.
We. have been at war more than q
year; we have sent an army overseas
We have shed our blood on the battle
fields Of France; yet the whole Ameri
can people have mot become partners
In the great enterprise: first for the
reason that they have no acute reali
cation Of what 1t all means; second
because the majority of them have as
yet no intimate personal stake In the
struggle. M,
When you read OF millions OF fight
ing men In the European armies and
OF billions OF dollars being poured Out
Oil the red, altar. you are apt. to lose
sight OF the large part that small
things play In the conflict. Yet the
whole stlpendous effort is made pos
stble by the. sum Of small units.
Just as the war is being won fby
the private soldier, SO must the cost
be betrayed by the private COIN. The
vast treasure recruited from com
,paratively few people will mot be 50
potent q factor in determining the
result as the money Of the masses.
In other words, the qilarteds that you
nut into thrift ,stampa ia like the
drop Of water that makes the rushing
.riynlet 5or the grain Of sand that
builds up, the mighty shore
Il Money Alone Will Not Win.
But 1T is not merely money that
the Nation must have to win this
fight. Wars are fought and won by
men and materials-men on the firing
line, mon back of the firing line, and
men In the industries back home pro.
ducing the things the fighting men
consume.
This stream Of materials 1.-The pro
duct of the labor OF millions of work
ers on the farms, in the factories; and
lin the shipyards--can not be poured
across the Atlantic In the enormous
volume needed to make our strength
felt in France, unless all of us here
at home reduce our personal consump.
ton Of labor and materials, and thus
give the Government large store to
draw upon.
AS the Secretary Of the Treasury
has SO we'll expressed It: 1--WE must
work and save as never before In our
history. We must increase our, out
nut and reduce our domestic consamp,
ton of all necessary products. in 0rdes
that, there may be great, increasing
volume of war materials going Tor;
ward to our armies and the allies who
are fighting side by side with as. As
the people reduce their personal con
sumption, they Will be enabled to
finance the war by lending their saw
ings to the Government, while at the
same time they will help themselves
by Increasing their personal resources
and income. In other words, 1t Is POS.
sible to transmute ones economies
into a specific obligation OF the Gov
ernment, and each one who saves Il
able to know that his economy Is
producing concrete result adSan'
itageons to himself, Ofbenefit to n1s
Government, and q direct contribution
| to, the winning OF the war.
ssstNar 10 the Nations Business.
ri have ranged the far-flung Euro
|pean firing line that stretches from
Russia by way OF France down into
Italy / have seen ut first hand the
Ihideous results OF German aggression
It, is written In gashed landscapes, 70
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