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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1794, 26 February 1918, Page 1

MaKe More Money—Spend More Money—Save More Money Not a person in this country but is ready, with brothers risking their lives and limbs, to handle their money as the common cause dictates. This will be a minor sacrifice. But how does it dictate? That is the question. The answer is now given in this article—balance appears in next issue. ' , • ' (Part o( a remarkable article full ol tabloid thoughts for busy folkthoughts that will materially help in the present crisis when all are anxious to know what is true and what is false economy. The article will be concluded in next issue.) .-a If we spend less in order to save more, wo may undermine the commercial foundation upon which our prosperity is reared. If we spend normally and save only normally, we probably won’t meet our obligations to the Government. Then let's make more money —so that wo can spend more and save more, too. It means harder work. And isn t that what war always means, and logically should mean, for both soldier and civilian? War is so. new to us that, ns a natural result, a groat deal of harmful talk has been utcrod about economy. Now, there are two kinds of economy. There is an economy that moans prosperity and suet-ess in war. There is another kind of economy that means poverty and defeat. The only economy we need is the products of nature. \\ hen you throw away an uneaten piece of bread or an uneaten potato, you a r c wasting something that nature has given ydU and that cannot bo restored. We must not waste food products. But money is quite 1 a different thing. You may spend yoilr money for whatever you like,' whenever you like, as you like, and it has not been destroyed. It is intact. It has passed on to other hands, and by those hands will be passed on to still other hands. And it is precisely this process of passing money from hand to hand that, puls life blood into commerce. And commerce in turn is the Ihintr—and the only thing—that gives employment to men and women, and enables them to buy bread and the necessities of life Sit tigiit on your money, get the close-listed habit with money, and you arc guilty of deadening the world. You are* withholding from'someone a chance to earn a living, a chance to live. When you close your purse and refuse to spend, you murder the power of that money to buy not only for you, but for every other person to whom that money might, pass, were you to give it a start. To live, you must let live. You must do your share. You cannot sit tight and still expect lo have everything coming your way. It will not come. You have a totally mistaken idea of the nation’s need if in this hour you interpret its need to mean hoarding pennies. You need not concern yourself that the steel in a now bed “ might have been used for munitions ” or that benzine used in your motor-car “ might have driven a war truck.” Let’s not bn silly. The Government is fully_ able to control all supplies. If it needs steel, it will take steel; /if it needs benzine, it will take benzine. Arid so long us steel bods and motor benzine are on the market, you are the best) kind of a Now Zealander when you buy them, bccan?>e you arc giving life to the market, which means prosperity to the nation and the power f o prosecute the war to victory. Q Our Government will need we know not how many millions of pounds. That money will bo readily forthcoming if we keep commerce going full steam ahead We can keep commerce going prosperously only by living as nearly as possible on our normal planes, by working faithfully at our business, by eating all that we require to keep us in good health, hv wearing the kind of clothing to which wo are accustomed. by building and furnishing the homes we need—in short, by earning and spending. Who. may, we ask, would bo considered the greater patriot that, “ wicked and slothful ” servant who hid his one talent in the ground, or he that, receiving five talents, “ wont and traded with them, and made other tiie talents?” [Compiled by Collinson and Cunninghame, Lid., of Palmerston North.) %

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