Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-02
mo ARMISTICE
WITH ANARCHY
Governor Urges Common
wealth to Guard Against
Extravaganza and Waste

we have not signed any armis-
tice with extravaganza, waste, idle
ness, ignorance and anarchism. Our
peace offensive against this army OF
internal enemies must so on cease
lessly. To relax our vigilance, to
demobilize our habits of thrift and
to fall into the ways of the Prodigal
Son will be an unhappy way of toy
ing with our own ruin"
This was the statement of Gov
ernor William C.'Sproul, made dur
ing visit to the Government Saw
ings Division of the Philadelphia
Federal Reserve Bank, Just previous
TO his departure for Hot Springs
The Governor is intensely inter-
ested in this governmental depart
ment, an outgrowth of the War
Savings Stamp project, now incor-
porated with the Federal Reserve
Bank as permanent establish
ment for the inculcation of thrift
and the encouragement of saving by
sale of interest bearing govern
mont securities in sums of from %
cents to $1,000.
Inspecting the reorganiZed saw
'ngs division with George +. Lloyd,
Third Federal Reserve District Di-
rector of Savings. Governor Sproul
thrift organization now bound up
closely with thd States school system.
State Co-operatcs.
You may count on the fullest
cooperation of the State with the
Federal Government in your cam
paign," he told Director Lloyd,
and continued:
THE high prices of commodities,
the lack of material to meet the
demand, conservation of all the re-
sources as against wholesale waste,
the safeguarding of our institutions
and upbuilding of good and law
abiding army of citizens among both
our native and foroign-born people
are some of the fundamental prob
lens which challenge the best
thought of every public-spirted in
diVidual in this Commonwealth.
Involved though these problems
may be, the remedy for them lies
with us, and we have the power
to apply it. We must. one for all
quit living in fools paradise, and
get back to habits of thrift and in
dustry-tLose virtues which built up
this Nation and made it great and
prosperous. Our greatest weakness
at the present moment is a sort of
shiftlessness and Il disposition to quit
the job upon any excuse" .... ..-..
The future may have grim days
in store for us. We must get the
habit of putting aside part of our
daily and weekly earnings. We
must teach our children not only
how to save money and spend it
wisely, but also to train them to
become messengers of patriotism.
of Americanism to the homes Of
the foreign born.
f' TN this way we can effectively
grapple with the problem of high
cost of living, wastefulness and
shftless ways of conducting our
affairs"
Work in Schools.
With enthusiastic sanction of DR..
Thomas T.. FineSan, State Superin-
tendent of Schools, who during the
war was director of the Savings
Division of the New York Federal
Reserve, Director Lloyd and Federal
Reserve Governor Passmore are in
almost every case appointing county
superintendents of schools as
thrift chairmen. \ plan has been
put into operation whereby every
child is given official government
recognition, "a commission in the
thrift army" for distinguished serV-
ice on the field of saving.
A handsome engraved certificate,
bearing the seal of the Treasury
Department, is awarded to every
pupil in the State and private
schools who shall purchase at least
one SIS Government Saving Stamp
and join Government Savings
Society, pledged Systematically to
save each week, and invest his or
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