The Springdale news., 1918-06-28
is MORE TESTIMONY NEEDED?


use up the labor Of men, the products OF
the farm, mines and factories, and over
burdens transportation all of which must
be used to the utmost and at their very
best for war purposes"
Secretary Of the Treasury McAdoo
says: at is essential that the American
people economic and save in order to
make available to their Government the
money indispensably needed for the war
and to release supplies and labor required
for the production of things necessary for
our own military forces and for the mill
tary forces of the nations associated with
u.s.
Samuel Gompers, head of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, says: During
the time when we send our young men to
the trenches to live life that grills flesh
and nerve, let every man, woman and
child who is privileged to remain in free
America in physical safety count it free
mans duty to eat simple food and con-
serve for our Army and our allies, to wear
simple clothes, to avoid unnecessary or
unwise expenditures that we may give to
our fighting men and the Government
and have resources for the constructive
work of the country"
Frank A. Vanderbilt, chairman of the
National War Savings Committee and
president of the National City Bank, of
New York, says: Everybody should buy
less, consume less, save more money, and
loan their savings to the Government. The
result will be more money for the Govern
ment to run the war, Increased accumula-
ton of savings by the people at good in
terest and absolute security, and less
drain on the country's productive and in
dustrial resources"
Arthur T. Hadley, president of Yale
University, says: Those Of us who are
left at home must increase our production
and lessen our consumption IN order to
have men and supplies available for fight
ing. We must reduce our consumption to
a war basis. We must abstain from un-
necessary expenditures in the way of
comforts and services"
julius RosenWald, president of Sears,
Roebuck & Co., and now member of the
Advisory Council of National Defense,
says: Saving by everyone is as impera-
tive for the winning of this war as is the
modifying Of armies; more than that, the
modifying OF armies is entirely futile if
this military step is not accompanied by
the rigorous, common sense saving of the
Nation, for without saving the marshaled
hosts can not be equipped, can not be fed,
can not be carried overseas, and can not
be put into the fight We can finance the
enormous cost of this war by spending
only for the things we need, not by spend
ing for the things we desire. Just so long
as we continue to spend for things we do
not need, just that long do we prolong the
war and add to the tremendous sacrifice
of life and property"
Here is the testimony of the President
of the United States, of the Secretary of
the Treasury, of the country's most prom
inent labor man, of banker, of the presi-
dent of one of the foremost educational
institutions, and of merchant And the
burden Of their testimony is that it is the
duty OF everyone to save to the utmost
that there may be more money, labor, and
materials for the Government with which
to fight the war It is unusual to find
such agreement from so many different
quarters.
Is more testimony needed?
What pity it is thu President iison
made such grlevous blunders in picking
the men to whom ne has entrusted the
conduct Of the var plans He could
easily have gotten much better timber.
and might easily have have had the war
won long before this. We have men in
this town that can discount McAdoo, Bak-
err and the whole lot at Washington-at
least that is the conclusion one is inclined
to form after hearing them dilate for a
few hours on the subject Of what should
and should not be done in the circum-
stances Their stock of knowledge on
subjects mi litary is something at which to
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