Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1918 — HERE’S THE RIGHT PRINCIPLE [ARTICLE]

HERE’S THE RIGHT PRINCIPLE

Enunciated by Englishman Who Evb dently Has His Heart Set on Winning the War. “Yes, I know all about it! You are going to tell me that you’ve been doing it ever since the war started,” remarked an Englishman to a London newspaper writer. “You’re going to draw my attention to the price of bread and boot leather, and the fact that you are reduced to taking the kiddies to a cheaper part of the cinema these ‘do without* days. “And you utter the immortal complaint that you are blessed if you know where all the money goes, since you have nothing to show for it. “I sympathize with you there. I used to have that feeling. “I ration my salary now. I spend it only on necessities. Each of my children has a War Savings certificate book, for, I figure out, they are not too young to learn the secret of limiting their wants. “It’s not an easy lesson to learn, J grant you. “But I tell them: ‘Better a War Savings certificate now than a broken and useless toy next week. Better a War Savings certificate and its interest five years hence than a good time today? “And that’s the spirit of my family at the present time. We are going without and yet not going without “The only things we have given up are frivolities and superfluities. “My wife and I no longer wonder where all the money goes.”