The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-11
SAVINGS AT HOME
WAR SINEWS FOR
OUR ARMY ABROAD

| (By Isaac F. Marcosson, American War
! Correspondent
| Mr.. Marcosson has been on every
| European battle front and has inter-
viewed the leading statesmen and war
leaders of all the allied countries. He
! He was in Russia during the revolution
and has written several books on the
war.
| We have been at war more than a
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 not become partners
| in the great enterprise; first, for the
reason that they have no acute reali-
cation of what it all means: second, be-
cause the majority of them have as
yet no intimate personal stake in the
struggle.
When you read of millions of fight
ing men in the European armies and
of billions of dollars being poured out
on the red altar, you are apt to lose
sight of the large part that small
things play in the conflict. Yet the
whole stupendous effort is made posi-
bic by the sum of small units.
Just as the war is being won by the
private soldier, so must the cost be
betrayed by the private coin The vast
treasure recruited from a comparative
ly few people will not be so potent a
factor in determining the result as the
money of the masses. In other words.
! the quarter that you put into a thrift
stamp is like the drop of water that
makes the rushing rivulet or the grain
OF sand that builds up the mighty
shore.
Money Alone Will Not Win.
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nation must have to win this fight.
Wars are fought and won by men and
materials-men on the firing line, men
back of the firing line, and men in the
industries back home producing the
things the fighting men consume
This stream of materials-the product
of the labor of millions of workers on
the farms, in the factories, and IN 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 consumption of
labor and materials. and thus give the
government a large store to draw
upon.
As the secretary of the treasury has
so well expressed it: I'VE must work
and save as never before in our his
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and reduce our domestic consumption |
of all necessary products, in order that !
there may be great, increasing vol
ume of war materials going forward
to our armies and the allies who are
side by side with us. AS the |
people reduce their personal consump-i
ton, they will be enabled to finance
the war by lending their savings to |
the government, while at the same
time they help themselves by increas-
ing their personal resources and in |
come. In other words, it is possible !
to transmute ones economies into a /
specific obligation of the government, |
and each one who saves is able to know |
that his economy is producing a con-
crete result advantageous to himself, |
of benefit to his government, and a |
direct contribution to the winning of
the war"
War Is the Nations Business.
I have ranged the far-flung European |!
firing line that stretches from Russia |
by way of France down into Italy. I'll
have seen at first hand the hideous re-
suits of German aggression. 1t is writ |
ten in gashed landscapes, in ravaged |
cities. in despoiled churches, and in |
outraged peoples. Every quarter that
you invest in Thrift Stamp or a War
Savings Certificate is just one tiny anti |
dote for these gaping wounds of war |
just one more bit of strength for the |
right arm that will avenge them.
War has become stupendous bust
ness, and 1t is Americas business to- |
day to win the war. The price of free |
dom, as fought for on the battle fields |
of Europe. is nothing more or less than |
infinite but organized toll, knit by sac
riffce. fed by fire. and driven by a |
colossal energy. Whether dedicated to |;
war or peace, business needs capital.
When you buy a thrift Stamp you
automatically become an active share /