The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-01-16
ALTRU|sM ONLY
A FACTOR IN ]. THE
RECLAIM SCHEME
AMERICA REALLY SERVING SELF
WHEN SHE AIDS STRICKEN
EUROPE.
SAVINGS PLAN IS ESSENTIAL
Every Dollar Invested In Treasury
Savings Certificates Does Double
Duty Now.

Europe is strangely quiet now after
the tumult and the shouting of the past
four years.
Big shells no longer "Sw-o.o.sh"
overhead in invisible lanes of the sky.
The "zip-sirp" of the machine gun
bullets no longer shrieks over No
Mans Land. across the wheat fields
and vineyards OF North France.
The roll of the ambulance, marked
with the Cross of Red, is no longer
heard on the white, paved highways OF
the Frenchmen.
There is no longer menace in the
sky, on the earth, on the sea or under
the seas. The war has ended.
Then why invest in the Treasury
Savings Certificates and War Savings
Certificates and Thrift Stamps?
The kings and sultans and prince
lings. that held in the hollof Of their
hands the lives of their people, are
dead, or in exile or glad to be permit
ted to live.
The war was long since ended, but
the world must be put in order and
governments set up before we dare
a breath of pure relief. Civilization
has work to do. The reconstruction
work has been in progress almost Il
year, but the task is yet in its in
fancy.
These battered lands must be set up
in some sort of shape before we can
consider our work as done. Nv the peo-
pie of these devastated countries can
not bring about some sort of order
and safety for themselves, we must
do it for them.
Not because we are so altruistic, but
because it is for our own benefit. We
must do it TO keep these Unites States
in the foreground-the greatest of all
powers. All the European countries
need the manufactured articles we are
making and the raw materials we are
producing. Their resources are now
drained. They have not the money at
hand to buy our output. We must ad-
vance them this money, and they will
pay it back when they get on their
feet
And this money that we advance
must come from the savings of the
people. Every Treasury Savings Ger
tificate for 500 and $1,000 that we buy
helps TO bring about the desired re-
suits, and every War Savings Stamp
and every Thrift Stamp thrown into
The balance adds to our individual
prosperity just that much, and the
united savings guarantees our ma
lions prosperity and provides for
future.
The responsibility belongs to the
nations who have won the war and
who are trying to bring an actual
peace to the world, a peace that will
last for generations at least. We dare
not turn back on the job lest it all have
to be done over again in few years at
the most.
The obligations of this country to
do its share in this work of reconstruc-
ton are no less than those of any of
our allies. And all that takes money.
Not as much as we raised when the
war was on, but still it will require
very large sums, sums that are so
large that they cannot be raised by
the ordinary processes Of taxation.
Therefore, it must be done by issues
Of the Baby Bonds"
We cannot expect Europe to become
peaceable and prosperous if we turn
our backs on the war conditions there
and sit SNUG and self-satis,ed at home.
Our responsibility is there. We can
not be peaceable and prosperous if
there are to be new eras in Europe and
millions are to be suffering for food.