The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-09-20
WHAT WAS SAYED2

Sunday on September 1, they saved
enough money to provide General
Pershing's army with 5000 machine
guns, costing $3.50 each.
They saved enough money to buy
food for the American Expeditionary
forces in Europe for two whole days.
They saved enough money to pro-
vide General Pershing's army with g.
100000 hand grenades.
They saved money enough to pay
for 1874 completely equipped rifles
which the American .infantryman car
ries when he goes into the conflict.
These figures were revealed in
treasury statement, appealing to the
American public to turn it's savings
from abstinence into war savings
stamps or set them aside for invest
ment in liberty bonds. The treasury
statement reminded the public that
these savings which are being effect
ed are of no value to the government
in its prosecution of the var unless
they arc made available for it's use
Tt2 feel administration reported
that TIL saving of gasoline on the sec
ond ga less Sunday amounted to five
million gallons, which, valued, at 25c
a gallon, meant saving to American
pocketbooks of S1,25O,O00 In trans
portation alone this meant a saving
of 625 tank cars for an average haul
of 90 miles.
The rubber saved by giving tires
"a days rest would be sufficient to
equip $500 motor trucks for the Am
er:can army with tires capable of run
ming five thousand miles.
The treasury reminder called atten-
ton to The fact that labor and mate
rial essential to the conduct Of the
war arise from either of these three
sources F;rst, released by abstinence
OF the people;
Second, imported from neutral coun-
tries;
Third, obtained by making inroads
on our accumulated supplies or
equipment.
To that extent with which, by saw
ing, we can carry on the war by means
Of current abstinence, we shall be bet
ter off when the war is over What
ever wei import we must ultimately
pay for through some form Of ex-
ports, which means that we must lat
err deny ourselves the things that we
fail now to deny ourselves. To the ex-
tent to which we draw on accumulated
supplies or equipment, we are putting
ourselves in q worse condition to car
ry on production when the war is over
and competition again becomes keen.
Through the effective blockade of
Germany, Germany has been compell
ed to pay for the war, to great ex-
tent, through current abstinence. At
least she has been prevented from i'm
porting commodities to any important
extent. On the other hand, Germany
has bene compelled to use up her ac-
cumulated supplies and equipment,
even after using what she has stolen
from Belgium, Poland and other in
vaded countries, Germany will be
found to have required copper from
her roofs and cutters; her machinery
and equipment will be worn out an!
run down and she must, when the war
IS over, replenish exhausted capital
before she can be properly prepared
| to turn out any considerable volume
of current production
The moral which the treasury de-
partment points out as result of the
gasless Sunday is that it is important
in our conduct of the war to pay as
we go as far as possible by abstinence
/ from current consumption and that
abstinence in itself contribute to the
winning of the war only to that de
gree with which the money saved is
made available to the government by
investment in war savings stamps or
liberty bonds.