The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-02-20
WILL AMERICAN WOMEN
DO PART IN SPREADING
THE LESSON OF THRIFT?
By IsMA DoOLY

SoA WOiliSA LudhS al uOticSC cHOTC TO
do their part toward making this
saving, thrifty nation? That is the
question which stands out in electri-
fed letters when the fact is known
that 80 per cent of the buyers of the
nation are women, and therefore up
on them falls the responsibility of
establishing standards and habits
which would popularize saving and
make thrift a national virtue.
Though the loan department of the
United States Treasury the move
ment to establish a thrift circle in
every home is being pushed by men
and women leaders in every state.
Accompanying this plan was the
January duty of keeping accounts in
household affairs, saving in February
and making an investment of the
saving in March.
Now comes the department of JUS
tice to reinforce the savings and
thrift with a new movement to handle
in a scientific way the reduction of
the High Cost of Living, and thus
accentuating feature of the savings
and thrift principles.
The government is giving substan-
tial aid to the people who, them
selves, must create the new spirit
which, in the new era of civilization,
must be one to construct, build up
and make lasting our national pros
perity, rather than to undermine the
props supporting it, by abusive and
reckless extravaganza.
Whereas, the organizations of wo-
men can be great carriers of the mes
sage Of savings and thrift, and the
reduction of the High Cost of Living.
and the getting of that message to
the average woman, difficult to reach.
1T is upon the practice of the indivi-
dual woman that the foundation will
finally be laid, and the ten millions
are called into service.
At a conference of southern wo-
men, called in progressive city this
week, the destructive influences of
the present revel of luxury in this
! country was discussed, and the COM
plexltles of our present peace prob
lens exploited.
The unprecedented prices of living
were discussed, and the great respon-
slbllltles of women in these conditions
discussed with astounding proofs,
But that incident which brought
the zoo or more women to their feet
was when big man, with an earnest
lace, held up two pairs of baby shoes,
describing one pair as costing 75c
and the other pair costing $2.75, and
both having been bought from differ
ent shoe stores on the some street,
Where did the cheaper ones come
from?" asked a dozen or more wo.
men.
The individual had been reached
ana the women were ready to act
not from the higher motive probably
OF aiding in the great fight for ma
tlonal prosperity, but to find out
where they could assure their babies
oelng shod comfortably at a fair
price.
NO" said the man, 81 am not
gong to tell you where the 75c ones
came from, because I believe the ma
Jority Of you would go and patronize
the man selling for $2.75."
Now, that is the, direct charge
oelng made in broader almost ma
tlonal, way that women are directly
responsible for the higher cost of
living; that they are the ones-ten
million of individuals-who can Law
the foundation and build permanently
through thrift and savings for a ma.
tlonal prosperity.
believe the keynote of this wo-
mans conference was sounded when
a woman who came late, but who
mad evidently weighed the subject
well, said: Madame Chairman. let
US De IN earnest about this and really
act upon the facts which have been
iald before US, and then we will be-.
gin to accomplish"
When women are in earnest and
really honest with themselves in their
desire to be patriotic in RESPONSE r.
Inls government call, coming in the
aftermath of war as basic principle
OF peace, then woman's part in this
national new era will have begun.
Women's. organizations are being
tested as the great carriers of the
message to the average woman who
must be reached, and we find our
selves asking again and again: "Will
our American women make an honest
eHort to do their part toward making
TINS a saving, thrifty nation?"