Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-06-08
INDIVIDUAL THRIFT
URGED BY WILSON
Appeals to Americans to Buy
Only What Necessity Demands
MUST HELP IN WAR WORK
President Calls Upon People To Invest
Money In War Savings Stamps
And Other Government
Securities.

Washington. - To save materials
and labor for necessary war purposes,
President Wilson appealed to Ameri-
cans Ito buy only those things which
are essential to the individual health
and efficiency" and to volunteer on
or before June 2S-National Thrift
Day-to invest Systematically in War
savings and Thrift Stamps or other
government securities.
This war is one of natiOns-not OF
armies" said the President, land
all of our 100,00O,OOO people must be
economically and industrially adjusted
to war conditions if this nation is to
play its full part in the conflict. The
problem before US is not primarily a
financial problem-but rather prob
lem of increased production of war
essentials and the saving of the ma
terials and the labor necessary for the
support and equipment of our Army
and Navy. Thoughtless expenditure
of money for non-essentials uses 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 best for war purposes.
The great results which we seek
can be obtained only by the participa-
ton of every member of the nation,
young and old, in a national concerted
thrift movement, l therefore urge that
our people everywhere pledge them
selves, as suggested by the Secretary
of the Treasury, to the practice OF
thrift; to serve the Government to
their utmost in increasing production
in all fields necessary to the winning
of the war; to conserve food and fuel
and useful materials of every kind;
to devote their labor only to the most
necessary tasks, and to buy only those
things which are essential to indi-
vidual health and efficiency; and that
the people, as evidence of their loyal
ty, invest all that they can save in
Liberty Bonds and War Savings
Stamps.
THE securities issued by the Treas
ury Department are so many of them
within the reach of every one that
the door of opportunity in this mat
ter is wide open to all of us. Prac-
tically of thrift in peace time is
virtue and brings great benefit to the
;vI i1,;l ~ oil
Il appeal to all who now own either
Liberty Bonds or War Savings
Stamps to continue to practice econ
omy and thrift, and to appeal to all
who do not own Government securi-
ties to do likewise, and purchase them
to the extent of their means. The
man who buys Government securities
transfers the purchasing power of his
money to the United States Govern
ment until after this war, and to that
same degree does not buy in competi'
ton with the Government.
81 earnestly appeal to every man.
woman and child to pledge themselves
on or before the 18th of June to save
constantly and buy as regularly as
possible the securities of the Govern
ment: and to do this as far as possible
through membership in war-savings
societies. The 28th of June ends this
special period of enlistment in the
great volunteer army of production
and savings here at home. May there
be none unenlisted on that day"