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business.
The dairymen, who are responsible
for the production Of the milk, have
$400, ,000, 900 invested.
The city distributors gets 400 per
cent return on their investment each
year.
The farmer takes all the risk, does
most Of the work, and gets, for his
labor and interest on his investment,
25 per cent return.
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ON THE EVE OF VICTORY
Once year at Thanksgiving time
we take stock Of the things that we
have to be thankful for. On the eve
Of the Victory Loan, it is a good plan
for every man to set aside little
Thanksgiving hour in which to con-
slider the responsibilities he is about
to assume in this last big drive for
his government, and consider why he
should go into the Victory Loan with
confidence and with enthusiasm. The
Northwest is prosperous. 1t has
come through the war with moderate
sacrifices Of men and with no very
great injury to its ordinary business
activities, and with highly honor
able record of achievement. Our ad-
verse balance against tremendous
physical and moral victory is small.
A great war has been fought and
won. We backed the government in
the declaration of war. We backed
the President in the call for volun-
ters. We backed the military arms
in tremendous response to the draft
which was met with enthusiasm and
in the spirit of service. Four times
before we have bought bonds accord
ing to the injunction of the Secretary
of the Treasury "until it hurt"
Their are still men to bring home,
and there are still bills to pay. It
is unthinkable that the Ninth District
will even hesitate to pay its share of
the obligations Of its government.
When we buy bonds we pay these
out Of our savings and out of our
prospective savings. The slogan now
is, therefore, "Buy, Save, and Pay
Up"
The Ninth Districts quota will be
fair. The terms and rate Of interest,
we are sure is fair-fair to the govern
ment and fair to the subscribers. In
the last loan we proved that, even
though large, we could meet the call
of the government, not only in full,
but with q heavy over-subscription.
If we were being asked to do some
new thing, we. might hesitate, but
when we are only asked to do again
what we have done in splendid fash
ion before, there surely can be no
question as to the result.
Many thousands of our boys, thank
God, have come back safe and sound
to US, but some have not come back.
As we 60 into the Victory Loan cam
paign, let US remember that because
of those who have not come back, it
is not and could never be simply
matter Of business. It is a matter
of honor, sentiment, and of moral OBJ
legation as well. Let US keep in mind
through this drive just one phrase
from one Of our most wonderful
poems Of the war. $4,000 Americans
died in France, and left a job for US
to finish.
If We break faith
with US who die
We shall not sleep,
though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
We have not kept faith until we
bring all the boys home and have paid
every bill incurred.
Theodore Wold
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THRIFT is PATRIOTISM
Germany forced France to pay in
demnity of billion dollars after the
Franco -Prussian War.
The French people in every walk
of life practiced thrift. Every wash
erwoman, every newsboy, every truck
gardener and digger and ditcher, as
we'll as her moneyed men, great and
small, rushed to the buying of Gov
ernment bonds. @
Result: In two years, not only was
France free from her hated creditor,
but her people had formed the habit
Of thrift. This so fortified her that
in the war just ended Germany broke
her heart, her bank and her manhood
on the rock foundationed finances of
France.
Because of her thrift preparation,
France was able to check and hold
the onslaught until the forces of free
dom elsewhere rallied to crush Ger
many and make the world a proper