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nome, their tasks zone.
And this brings me to Benjamin
Franklin-you will see how, in a
moment-to Franklin, one of the
greatest men who ever lived, the man
whose likeness is on the 1919 War
Savings Stamps.
1 want to ask you to win the rest
of the war as Benjamin Franklin
would have you win it. But first,
| what sort of man was he whose adj
vice am asking you to take?
He was wonderful man! He
was a favorite with the courtiers of
the court of France, with the phil
osophers, the savants, the jewelled
ladies, the ruff1ed and sworded gen.
tlemen-of the most luxurious and
the jolliest court in the world. He
courtesy and his manners, and he
commanded their respect for his
great ability. He was their equal on
their own ground, and their superiors
on every other ground, so he was
the first link in the chain of friend
ship which binds the United States
to France-the last link of which
was welded in the awful fires of
Chateau Thierry, of Belleau Wood,
of St. Mihiel, of the Argonne Forest
last summer and autumn--by those
boys in khaki who must be fed and
clothed, and made happy-brought
back.
! And yet this man Franklin was
the same person who as a raw youth
walked up the streets of Philadelphia
knawing a loaf of bread because he
could not afford to sit down to
better meal
He gave to the French Revolution
,"Ca ira!"-and (note the contrast!
he practiced saving and thrift so sue
cessfully that. beginning as jour
neyman printer in a strange city,
even as early as the French and In
dian War, he was rich enough that
the Pennsylvania farmers were will
| ing to sell to Benjamin Franklin the
horses and wagons for Braddock's
expedition, even though they would
not u usg tie Dxisis1 oorsrnzacatt-
He had that grip on himself which
every American must have now. He
knew century and half before the
medical profession knew it, that cold
is an infectious disease; and he not
only said, Liberty is still the birth
right of all men," but also, 1.-THE
way to wealth is as plain as the way
to market" And again. he said,
'The noblest question in the world
is, What good may I do in it?' -
the very question the answer to
which was sought by our soldier
boys on the bloody battlefields of
France! And then, said Franklin,
"a penny saved is two-pence clear.
A pin day is groat a year; save
and have"
And that last bit of philosophy to-
! day must be the common. ordinary
American answer to Franklin's great
question, What good may l do in
the world?" "A penny saved is two
pence clear; save and have"
He proved the identity of cleo
tricity and ightning-before he
drew the lightning out of the cloud
by means of kite. People thought
they were different things. He
spoke, and the philosophers listened
land he invented the Franklin
stove so as to economic fuel. He is
the great apostle of War Savings
Stamps. "He that spends a groat a
day idly" says Franklin, spends
idly about six pounds a year. which
is the price of using hundred
pounds"
Franklin is in a large degree the
founder of the American army. The
troops of which George Washington
took command in 1875 had no sup
plies, were almost naked, and were
starving. Franklin was a leader in
devising plans for feeding. shelter
ing and clothing the army-just as,
if he were with us now, he would
lead in the great national thrift move
ment which will not only win the
rest of the war, but will pay our
war debt. The times for the easy
going spending of money should be
over in this country. The world
needs everything we can save. Ev-
erywhere is nakedness, hunger, and
lack of shelter. "Silks and satins,"
said Franklin, put out the kitchen
fire." They stand for the things
which make it hard to win the rest
of the war "a fat kitchen, lean
WILL" said Franklin, and we may
say "a fat kitchen a lean treasury"
wish we had Franklin for lead
er now-but why can't we make him
he lived in Washington today. Fol-
low his teaching. Save and have.
The government must have your saw
ings II you save and buy interest
! DedrluS SeCuIlIt-S VI tue 6ofciuIu0At
you will still have the government,
you will be prouder of your govern
ment. you will feel more interest in
your government-andy your govern
ment will pay you interest every
year.
! "Save and have"-and win the
rest of the war!
| Misery may love company, but our
experience has been that mighty few
folks wan to associate with misery