Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1918 — ONLY NEED TO CURB WASTE [ARTICLE]

ONLY NEED TO CURB WASTE

Writer Points Out Reasons Why It Is Not Hard for American People to Save. I do not know of a thing which evevryone of us needs to keep closer to his consciousness than saving wherever and whenever possible. What most of us are prone to forget our greatest asset at this time —the amount and extent of what we can save. As a people and as Individuals we have been necessarily and disgracefully wasteful, have spent money, food, energy, productivity, simply because we were too lazy and Indifferent to get no more than we needed to satisfy our reasonable desires. Seriously, that past wastefulness is just now about our greatest asset. We can save what we must without involving a degree of real sacrifice which the French, Belgian, and English people had at once to face. As I look upon it, saving at a real cost to one’s comfort, ideals, and perhaps health is not an easy thing, though a very fine one. But saving for such easy-going reckless-spending people as we have been, means so little sacrifice of anything necessary or worth while that a man or woman will be some sort of a yellow cur or nameless pup not to do his or her utmost every day and every hour to save, save,save —and win.—By Roland G. Usher of she Vigilantes, Author of Pan-Amer-ican. o