Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — Americans Called Upon to Serve Their Country by Saving Pennies [ARTICLE]

Americans Called Upon to Serve Their Country by Saving Pennies

By G. H. CHADBOURNE

A war savings campaign has been organized on a wide scale. The attention of every American of any age is called to the privilege, the duty, the necessity of’serving themselves and the country by saving the pennies" as we must save# crumbs —enough pennies equal a valuable War Savings stamp or a Liberty bond, as enough crumbs equal in food value a loaf of bread. ' > ' . We buy too freely; we eat too much; we serve too'large portions; we indulge our appetites and habits beyond good sense and good health; we sweep the crumbs into'the fire; we burn “rubbish” that should be suel — there’s no end of our waste, and few of us wish to or can dfeny it. Let us not only begin the every-day and every-hour practice of saving in food and drink and fuel and clothing and of putting the saving into Liberty bonds and War Savings stamps, but let us take our own personal lives in hand and be cleaner, wiser, healthier, better citizens for having discarded habits of waste and adopted saving all along the line.