Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-25
OUR DUTY

VI lllC INObdiy
Club to enter actively into the
sale of War Saving Stamps in
Harrisburg comes at a particularly
appropriate time-on the eve of the
pledge day. June 2S, proclaimed by
President Wilson. We in Harrisburg
have not taken the War Saving
Stamps seriously enough. We are
just beginning to get awake.
During the present intensive War
Savings campaign we are asked by
the President and by Secretary Nc
Adoo to pledge ourselves to save and
with our savings to buy at definite
times a specific amount of War Saw
ings Stamps. Why should we be
should we do it?
We are called upon to do 1t be-
cause, as President Wilson says, this
is war of nations, not of armies,
& and everyone in the land must do his
share. So far more than 100000
men have gone into the Army and
Navy and 100000 more are to join
before August 1. These 10000
men give themselves as their dona-
ton to the war. The remaining
9tp0O,O0O people left at home must
give something else as their share.
This savings pledge gives the stay
at-homes an opportunity for service.
We are asked to pledge ourselves to
save and economic, to use labor and
materials only as necessity demands,
and to invest our savings in War
Savings Stamps.
The government asks us to do this
because the amount of labor and
materials in the country is limited;
there is not enough of either to per-
NIT us to use 1t in the same free
way as we did in peace times and
at the same time to leave enough
in the markets for the use of the
government. 1t is purely question of
supply and demand. If we use the
supply the government does not have
it for war needs. And the smaller
the amount the government has for
use the longer will the war last. That
is the primary reason for the savings
campaign.
But there is another side to the
question. The government asks us to
pledge ourselves to save to help win
the war. 1t does not ask us to give
it anything except our cooperation.
In return for our help we receive a
government security which pays us
a good rate of interest.
IL We do as the government asks,
and as we should, this, then, will be
the result: We shall buy only those
things necessary to maintain us in
the best of health and spirits; by re-
framing from buying unnecessary
things we shall leave in the markets
for government use a greater supply
of labor and material with which to
win quicker victory; by not fritter-
Ing our money away on things that
do not make for efficiency we shall
keep ourselves in better health and
increase our powers of production;
by Investing our savings in War Saw
aside for those days which inevitably
come. if we live long enough, the
means to greater happiness
When so much can be accomplish
ed by joining in this War Savings
campaign, why should we not do it
The Rotary Club is to be commended
for striking the iron while it is hot.
Harrisburg is going to Cooperate
with the Commonwealth in the work.
ing out of the Capitol Park exten.
sion plans. This city has been doinp
it's part admirably for many years
and there is no danger of any failure
In this important matter. It is fortu.
nate that the present Board of Pub.
lie Grounds and Buildings is composed
OF men of vision and State pride, whc
will build largely for the future gen.
erations