Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-02
STATE DIRECTOR CHENEY
 ISSUES STATEMENT
Outlines. Work of War Savings Com
 mittee in Connecticut.

That money represents the power to command the absolutely necessary ma teriais with which the war, may, be prosecuted and the government cannot secure the necessary $19, ,000, ,000, ,00a worth of war materials unless inti!- viduals in all parts of the country arc willing to forego certain propagation of the purchasing power represented thereby, was asserted Tuesday in a statement issued by Howell Cheney state director of the National War as follows:
 ''The initiation of the work. of the National War Savings Committee has met with an almost universal response from individuals. Many requests have been received from persons asking | that they be assigned to work so tha. | they may participate in the. thrift | movement. On the other hand there | has been opposition initiated by those | who foresee in this movement to pro-
 mote thrift an effort to- curtail the 1 sales of non essentials. Their vision
 is clear that it is going to affect their l business, and they. are voioing a jus: protest, in so far. as there is a proba-
 bility of a misunderstanding as. to i what are essential or nom essential in- | ] the more essential or the. less essen tial.
 1 Obviously the more essential indus
 tries are rot only those necessary for 1 the production of war supplies and ] munitions. Even greater than. these
 are the normal demands of our coun 1 try for the supplies necessary to sup port it's ciric population and to cor 1 tinue it in a state of productive eff
 ciency. It should be equally clear l that in the readjustment we must l strive to curtail our resources and our 1 invested capital. thereby presenting 8 1 deteNoration which would be de- l structive 10 our. ability to enter the 1 world competition for trade at the con | clusion of the war. ,.-f 1 ufacturerz, that there are certain l classes of employees who would be valueless if transferred from one in- 1 dustry to another, The n1anufac- l turers know that his his greatest man. ufacturing problem, on it's human side, is the mobility of labor the tre. mendous numbers he must employ tc maintain q force at a certain level. t.
 say nothing of increasing it s. Sine: the war, began .theres4are few nlanu- lecturers who have escaped the expert
 ence Of ratio of employees double the number Of rositions to be maintained. It is much easier. to outline the e. sential industries as above than the 1 hon. essential. It may he said how ever that the non- esse ntiar are thcs: not en@a.yed in the making of nluni tions, the support of our eli popuia
 tion. those not required in preparing
 or maintaining us for trade competi- tion after the war, and those whicl are not a0a ptable to. war orar. tione It is therefore clear that the countrt has only one business and that is th"
 making of war. It is tra1e relatively rather than absolutely. that if all tlls manufacturers, merchants. and :, e1n-
 ployers observe this "one business ir
 the spirit. and to the degree that. .thei
 consciences dictate, the, public will fillj no fault, The florists. candy makers
 jewellers, and silk manufacturers alikt
 have the riGbt to ask the public to b,
 patient with their efforts to. brin: about the e.iustnent, wl1iell--wi hell
 them to do their. utmost to concert th' hon essential into essential war pro tduction. No one appreciates nor, than these the difficulty of doing tbi
 task, but if we approach the proole1 I with the determination to do our ut
 most, we are sure of the -operatio, of the public and the government. I this problem is approached only iron
 the viewpoint of conserving profias, til offenders have no right place at tn
 bar of justice at the present time
 l All that the government is asking a
 present is to face this problem hon estly and ioyally. We must rennembe . that the business of this country must during the coming year, go as far to
 wards doubling its capicity as possi
 ble. The feeling that eurtailment i , the production and distribution of tn less essentials is going to so distur credits as to produce a financial pani and stringer cy has no bearing when t'is realized. that it is not the shut
 ting off of any industry or con1merc
 as q whole. but results in only the di !: verting of a small proportion of it to
 wards the war necessities
 T Finally let us approach this prob tenn from an unselfish point of<cview ELet us. assume that our neighbors ar going to flo their best rather than thei
 least in supporting our armies and i
 assuming the economic burden at. hona by producing amounts nearly doubl :. the normal capacity of our country i peace times.