The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-05
WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE.
TELLS HOW BRIDGEPORT
PEOPLE MAY RENDER HELP.

The vast majority Of cur people
don't realize what war means 1t is
the job of the War Savings Commit
tee to bring home to the people of
Bridgeport a recognition Of the fact
that we are at war with the greatest
military power the world has ever
known: also to show our people what
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MEMS. what sacrifices It entails, and
how the war may be paid for with
out serious injury to our financial
status.
Now it must be obvious to everyone
that vast Stores Of our national wealth
are going to vanish in this war.
Wealth doesn't mean money alone.
Wealth means all those useful things
which have value; which men have
la5ored to produce; which are used to
produce more wealth, A countTy's
man power Is perhaps it's greatest
item of wealth, We are going to lose
thousands of our men and vast accu-
mutations of material wealth, which
is now being produced in our national
workshops,
The destruction of all this wealth
reduces bv tust as much the sum OF
our national property We are like
the farmer who has had one of his
haystaclxs burned; he is Just so much
poorer, The nations productive pow
err. which is its chief item of wealth,
has gone into ammunition, cannons,
clothing. all OF which will be de-
stroyed. Just the same way the far
ner's work and capital had gone into
the making Of his haystacks.
This shrinkage in national wealth
must affect every one of US, The loss
will he spread over US all. With less
wealth we shall produce less. Goods
will be scarcer, and prices higher.
But the sum of the naticnzal wealth
that is going to be destroyed is start
ling. Congress has appropriated Nine
teen Billion Dollars for next years
military and naval program. Can
anyone realize the vastness of this
sum? 1t means one and one-half bill
lions of production every month in
tho Tee-. IN ADDITION p the normal
production of our factories, so for
November, 1917, after much effort in
speedir,r I'D our factories. their total
lions. or one-third Of the added bur
den which has been thrown upon
them t-''
The sum total Of our governmental
expenditures for all purposes from
the foundation of the nation to date
has been twenty-six billion dollars;
now we are going to spend seventy
per cent of it in one year.
How are we going to pay this vasi
sum? a'r
We are going to pay it by sacrifice
and s,eaf-denial Seif-sacrifice and
self-denial are qualities which make
men great We are going TO become
great through the exercise of these
qualities
Taxes are going to raise great parts
of this sum. Loans, bonds, are going
to raise part; but the savings Of the
people are going to raise a great share
also. When I say Savings of the
N people" 1 mean all the people-the
rich as we'll as the poor.
This war is every mans war. Thost
who are here. instead OF in the
trenches. are just as much in it as th'
soldier. We Just happen to be to'
old. or too young, or too PHYSICAL!
or our misfortune, as you look at it.
Anyway, the government has clea1
right TO say to YOU. ''Give up you
n money: bear your share. II you can
Il go across come across
Now this war Savings movement i
| rust the perfect plan for allowing 70
making, If YOU please) everyone t
pay his part It is based on saving
Saving breeds thrift. Thrift produce
capital. Capital brings forth wealth
Wealth will win the war.
Savings can be made only by de
nying one's self and putting by SINAI
sums from time to time. You buy
thrift stamp for quarter. When yol
get sixteen. costing you four dollars
yyu exchange for a War Saving
Stamp, by merely adding twelve cent
in January. or thirteen in February
and so on This War Savings STAN
the government will give you Ffv
Dollars for in January, 1923. Tha
means four per cent compound inter
est on the money it cost you. Prett
fair, isn't It? And somewhat bette
than being in the trenches? Why, W
ought almost to be ashamed to tall
it. And yet how much more ashame
we ought to be not to take itl Grea
Heavens. what will the boys abroa
think of as IL we don't cut to tn
bone, and deny ourselves to the lfmi
and roll in our monev to the Treasur
in barrels full. so that we may nc
go down to feat in this war, an
that as few of our brave boys as pos
sibie may be sacrificed? .-.
Tho country has got to raise tw
billion dollars by this method in 191
That means twenty dollars per pc
son-nen. women. children. Thu
means three million and a quarts
dollars from Bridgeport in 1918. ~
I'm Can we do it? Of course.
How shah we do it? Merely by pu