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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11471, 25 February 1918, Page 6

Tru® or False Economy ? Some Wartime Truths « Personally, it would not surprise me if this ‘stop spending money ’ cry is part of the Kaiser’s German-made plans to hasten our defeat. . , . Commercial activity supports and keeps alive the home, the church, the school, the slate, the nation and the world.” Thus speaks Chas. W. Mears, a student of National Economics. (The second and final part of a marvellous article on to day’s financial problem—tbe first part appear* ed in last issue but will re appear in next.) Earning ami spending depend upon each oilier. If people earn without spending. earnings eventually stop, ii people j-peinl without, earning, tlio .'ponding ,-iipply eventually iini' out. ’j non' i* 11=1 miracle about it-. Wo sgend In an •' wo havo oarill'd, ami v.’ ,■> are able In cairn because wo spend. Through i 1 d - process xyo Eritish peeenne Ihe greatert of nations. I ait tiiis process stop, nnd wo Eha 11 ;e.eo to lie great. From these facts it t is evident- wo to! have a great; patriotic) duty to peril inn from day lo day rigid at home tin' duly" of working and living up to our accustomed standards, .-uid of buying whatever goods we innv lea d in order that, factories and stoves may be kept busy, and Fiat men, women, and moony may be given employment, whereby we shall ail have money to spend—-flap only proems by which ivo ran maintain <or soldiers and our Governnpent, i.ml make victory and peace sure. There are many plants in the country for which the Government can havo no war use, There are many workmen in this country for whom the Government can have no war me. Ybesc must be kept employed, else wo shall have economic disaster at lion in ns well ns war abroad, thereby adding to the perplexities of the Govern merit's problems. Business is constructive, whereas war is destructive, and destructive war ini.vs no rominereial profit. It is an error, therefore, to refer to war as business. Until war ends, war must bo our first necessity, our highest obligation, the one. thing wo must support and promote, but. that does not change ihe meaning of terms, nor make war a business. tine politician says wc must all spend le a s and save more! Now,_ it. is remarkably easy to say a thing tike that ; it is always easier to command a miracle than to perform one. 'To spend less nnd save more, nationally, would be a miracle. Our people have never been able to save except, when money was being freely spent. Every year when busi-ne.-.s is active, .savings deposits increase. Active business alone is the source of increased savings. Hut when people begin deliberately to stop spending, woe begins. Merchants are forced to buy less and to dismiss some of their help. The manufacturers are forced to buy less, to manufacture less, and to dismiss some of their help. Then, in no time, so many men and women arc out of employment that, if you have a heart in your bosom, you are impelled to give away in charily more than you havo saved by pinching;, and your charity helps to make beggars of men and women who would much prefer lo work for an honest living. Nor need wo worry about whether our goods interfere, with war, because as surely as there is a sun in tho sky, so surely will that matter operate automatically. If, for instance, you make and sell goods containing copper, am! war needs all tho copper that can be produced, you will eventually be unable to buy copper, No seller will supply you. War comes first, and thu Government will get tlio copper. Consider those facts: 1. War requires both men to tight and men to produce what the lighters need, 2. At the same time, those at home must bo fed, clothed, housed, and employed. 3. If a nation cannot provide both for its people at the front and its people at home, that nation will go down to defeat-, in a long war, unless some other nation comes to its rescue and supplies its necessities, 4. England and France could not both fight and produce. They wore compelled to call upon tlio United United States for help in their desperate need. 5. If the United States cannot help England and Franco and provide for her own soldiers at the front and in (raining, and for her own people at home, what oilier nation can or will lly to our help with men and money and food and guns? (Compiled by Cotlinson and Cunninghamc, Lid., of Palmerston North.)

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