Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-05-03

| that knowledge at the back of ones
/ to every thinking man or woman
Savings represent much more than
| their mere money value. They are
proof that the saver is worth some
thing in himself. Any fool can waste
ANY fool can muddle, but it takes
more he saves the more of man does
| it make him. Waste and extravaganza
unsettle a mans mind for every crises :
thrift, which means some form of self
restraint and continuance. Steadies it,
And we need steady minds just now
| No Obstacles To" Saving
Remember, too, that everything we
| waste in the way of manufactured
goods, from match upwards, as well
as everything we buy that isn't abso-
| lutely necessary to get on with, means
diverting some man or WOman'S time
and energy from doing work connected
| with the war. And war work. which
| means supplies, food. munition, ships,
| is the only thing that is of the least inn
| portance now Everything outside
that necessity is danger and waste.
| So you see we are all in splendid
position to invest. Not only is there
more money going about and fewer
things to buy with it, but it is also
| wrong to spend money on what there
lis available The road has been cleared
of all obstacles to saving. The interest
on what we save helps to make us per-
s0nally independent the money we
| lend to the Government helps to set
our land and our world free. Our
| security for our loan is not only the
whole Of the British Empire, but also
the whole of civilization, which has
pooled it's resources in men, money
and material to carry on this war to
victory. Nothing else under Heaven
matters today except that the war shall
go on to that end.
Personal War Aims
From time to time the representa-
tives Of the Allies meet together and
| lay down what the war aims Of the
Allies are.
| From time to time our statesmen re-
peat them.
| They all agree we are fighting for
| freedom and liberty, for the right of
small States to exist, and for nations
to decide for themselves how they are
to be governed.
| All this we understand and perfectly
| believe. That is the large view Of the
situation.
What is the personal aspect of the
| the case for you and me?
We are fighting that me may not be
herded into actual slavery such as the
Germans have established by force of
their arms in large parts of Europe.
We are fighting for our lives, the
| lives of every man, woman and child
| here and everywhere else.
We are fighting against eighteen
hours a day forced labor under the lash
or at the point of the bayonet, with
dogs death and dogs burial at the
end of it.
We are fighting that men, women,
and children may not be tortured,
burned and mutilated in the public
streets, as has happened in this town
and in hundreds of others.
/ And we will go on fighting until the
race who have done these things are
in no position to continue or repeat
| their Offense.
If The HUn Wins
| If for any reason whatever we fall
short of victQry-and there is no half
way house between victory and defeat
what happens to us?
| This
| Every relation. every understanding,
every decency upon which civilization
has been so anXiously built up will go,
will be washed out, because it will
have been proved unable to endure.
The whole idea of Democracy
which at bottom is what the Hun fights
against-Will be dismissed from men
minds because it will have been shown
incapable of maintaining itself against
the Hun. 1t will die and it will die
discredited, together with every belief
and practice that is based on it.
The Hun ideal, the Huns root-no=
lions of life will take it's place through
out the world. Under that dispensati0n
man will become once more the natural
prey, body and goods, of his better
armed neighbor. Women will be the
instrument for continuing the breed ;
the vessel of mans lust, and mans
cruelty; and labor will become thing
to be knocked on the head it it dares to
give trouble, and worked to death il it
does not.
And from this order of life there will
be no appeal, no possibility of any es-
cape. This is what the Hun means
when he says he intends to impose Ger
man Kultur-Which is the German re-
ligion-upon the world.
This is precisely what the world had
banded itself together to resist.
1t will take every ounce in us; il
will try us out to the naked soul. Oul
trial will not be made less by the ear
nest advice and suggestions that we
. should accept some sort of compromise
. H. L.,