New Britain herald., 1918-01-18

first place, gratify these youngsters desire by giving them bread and but ter and jelly? Did they really need bread and butter, or even anything at all I leave the answer to you.
 What applies to these youngsters applies to us all. There is too much of this bread and butter and jelly stuff within our land, and it is about time that we began to realize that it behooves us, not only to cut out the jelly altogether, but maybe the but ter once in a while, and even the bread occasionally. Now, can it be done, and done effectively? Let me illustrate that by another simlle.
 Hoovcrizing Helps Cause.
 Tt is safe to assume that possibly 1 fifty million cups of coffee are con- stunned each morning. sweetened with ! from one to three Jumps of sugar. 1 Supposing an organized effort is made, l having as a result, that from tomor- | row morning. each individual con- 1 sumer of sugar with each cup of cof- 1 fee is cut one lump. That would 1 mean at once that saving each morn- l ing of fifty million Jumps of sugar, representing in weight thousands of tons. Now to cut down your sugar allowance just one lump is not going to hurt you one bit. You see what it amounts to. however, when na- tionaIly applied. What l endeavor to demonstrate with sugar holds good with all food, with fuel, and above al with money.
 That we as q nation have been woefully wastefuI and eXorbitantly ex- travagant is an established fact. The time has now come when existing present conditions and future pOsSi- bilities peremptorily demand that we have got to cut it out The only way this can be done so as to make it count and count quick, is to begin al the bottom with the small things and gradually extend it. and do it along thoroughly organized, absolutely sys- tematized lines.
 Tt was a good many centuries ago when Cicero, the illustrous Roman wrote in his Phillippies '4Nervi beli Pecunia Infnite"-(Endless money forms the sinews of war) Just as much as this applied to strife of an cient times, just as much does it apply to the war of the present day. It is, as I stated in. the beginning, the most essential thing. It must be fur nished and the financial demands of our government are such that it must be furnished beginning with the small amounts, of the masses and ending with the large amounts of the classes. In other words, everyone within the land must be given the opportunity to do his share commensurate with his means.
 An effort along these lines was
 made in connection with the past two issues of Liberty Bonds. Tn addition
 to the arrangement authorized by the government to pay for bonds in in stallments, patriotic financial institu- tions, and large employers of labor, offered to the people an opportunity to purchase such bonds on the basis of monthly and weekly installments. Now the opportunity to enable the masses to lend financial aid by be- ginning with small amounts has been
 still more increased Yes, I may say
 it has been established in most per
 feet and desirable form.
 War Savings Gets all Aid.
 "The plan of War Saving" has been evolved, whereby beginning with
 a quarter of a dollar. you are given the chance, not only to financially support the government by lending it your money at a most acceptable in
 terest, and under indisputable se- curity, but to teach you gradually and surely as a habit that which will
 mean in time your own betterment, the betterment of conditions for | those depending upon you, and the betterment of conditions in general | all over the land, and that is economy. | Show me an economic nation, and I ] will show you a prosperous nation; show me a prosperous nation, and I 1 will show you a happy one.
 "IS there anyone within my hear | ing who can truthfully state that he 1 is so situated that he is not in posi- ] tion to save one quarter of dollar, ! one small twenty-five cent piece per 1 week, or maybe per day. l ask you 1 is there? Let him rise. I see no l one Now then, how many do you
 think of the one hundred ten million 1 of our people are really so untOr- 1 tunate that they cannot begin to save 1 such a small amount and save it regu- l larly. Well do I know that there are l some who imagine that they cannot. 1 Well do I know that there are somc | who believe, and when they do so, l
 will tell you right here that they are 1 foOling themselves in such belief. that l they arc already saving all that they 1 can, and cannot save more, All one l needs is to realize the necessity of in | creased saving and what benefits there | will directly accrue to him, in order
 to be in to practice it, to make up
 his mind that he is going to do it.
 "Whcn that stage is reached, the | process of organizing and systematic
 ing must begin. Without it you have
 to combat with wasted efforts, and | with scattered energy, with just | spaSmodc and temporary endeaVor; | with it a national campaign can be l carried on which will gradually and
 of it's own accord gain in momentum.
 until finally such speed is reached.
 such lasting force created, and such
 results achieved, that will amaze not 1 only us but the entire world When