The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-06-26
AMERICANS ASKED
TO ECONOMIC
PRESIDENT APPEALS TO PEOPLE
TO BUY ONLY ESSENTIALS TO
HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY.
ThoughtIess and Needless Expenditure
Of Money for Non.EssentiaIs Means
Gripping Of Resources in
Worlds Crisis.

WasllingtOn.-TO save materials and
labor for necessary war purposes,
President Wilson on May 20 appealed
to Americans ito buy only those things
which are essential to the individual
health and efficiency" and to volun-
teer on or before June 20, National
Thrift day, to invest Systematically in
war savings and thrift stamps or other
government securities.
His statement reads:
This war is one of natiOns-not of
armies-and all of our 100000 peo-
pie must be economically and indus
trially adjusted to war conditions, if
this nation Is to play its full part in
the conflict. The problem before us
is not primarily financial problem,
but rather problem of increased pro-
ductiOn Of war essentials and the saw
ing of the materials and the labor
necessary for the support and equip
ment of our army and navy. Thought
less expenditure Of money for non-es-
sentials uses up the labor Of men, the
products of the farms, mines and fac
tories, and Overburdens transportation
all of which must be used to the ut.
most and at their best for war pur.
poses.
Thrift Practices Urged.
The great results which we seek can
be obtained only by the participation
of every member of the nation, young
and old, in a national concerted thrift
movement. I therefore urge that oul
people everywhere pledge themselves
as suggested by the secretary of the
treasury, to the practice Of thrift, tt
serve the government to their utmOs
in increasing production in all fields
necessary to the winning of the war
to conserve food and fuel and usefu
materials Of every kind; to devot
their labor only to the most necessar,
tasks, and to buy only those thing
which are essential to individual healt
and efficiency; and that the people, a
evidence of their loyalty, invest al
that they can save in Liberty bond
and war savings Clamps. The secur
ties issued by the treasury department
are so many of them within the reac
of every one that the door of oppol
tunity in this matter is wide open t
all of us. To practice thrift in peac
times is a virtue and brings great ben,
fit to the individual at all times; wit
the desperate need of the civilize
world today for materials and labC
with which to end the war, the pra
tice of individual thrift is a patriot
duty and necessity.
Buy Bonds or Stamps.
l appeal to all who now own eitht
Liberty bonds or war savings stamI
to continue to practice economy an
thrift and to appeal to all who do n,
own government securities to do Xix
wise and purchase them to the extel
of their means. The man who bu,
government securities transfers Il
purchasing power of his money to Il
United States government until aft
the war and to that same degree do
not buy In competition with the 60
eminent.
woman and child to pledge themselve
on or before the 2Sth of June, to sa'
constantly and to buy as regular
as possible the securities of the 60
eminent, and to do this as far as pc
sible through membership In war sa
ings societies. The 2Sth of June en-
this special period of enlistment in Il
great volunteer army of product,
: and savings here ut home. May the
: be none unenlisted on that day.
. (Signed)
= WOODROW WILSON.