The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 5, 1918, Page 10

THE SEATTLE STAR Is Your Money Winning the War? Have You a Hoarded or Buried Dollar? Then That Dollar Is Not Doing Its Share Your dollars can go into Liberty Bonds, Thrift Stamps or Red Cross Work, and give Giant help. Your dollars paid direct to the Government in this time of need will give virile strength to the fighting programs. Put all your savings, and more and more be- sides, into the Government’s hands. Your dollars can go for things you need —enabling workers, factories and raw ma- terials not yet needed for war, to be at work, creating new value and power—and money, which the Government will need and can call for any time. Business must not, can not, be as usual. It must be most unusual. Business must take account of the War. It must be quick to sacrifice whenever the call comes. It must put Freedom above profits, but from busi- ness profits will come Freedom’s greatest . supporting force. Economy must be considered. Waste and extravagance must be eliminated. But econ- omy does not mean hoarding. Uncle Sam must depend upon business— farming, mining, manufacturing, selling and all the rest, to continue. He will call for all there is of certain things; he will call for part of other things. We must honor on sight his requests. This war is to be a long war; it can’t be won by one grand effort. It must be won by readiness for years of sacrifice, and care- ful, sound, economic thinking. To win it we must put billions each year into the United States treasury. Wecan’t give enough out of hand—we haven’t enough to give. Then we must strain every effort to make it as fast as the Government needs it. This means that those things the Govern- ment does not want for war we must turn and turn again in trade and business, to turn them into money power available for war. We should feel perfectly free to buy, spend sanely and wisely for any of our needs. Buy for health, buy for intrinsic value—yes, buy sometimes for recrea- tion. Put quality first always; never buy, if you can help it, for cheapness. We believe it is our duty to provide for you all merchandise suited to your needs. We intend to keep our stocks full, excepting for merchandise taken from the market by the Government, and excepting merchandise which becomes too high in price for you to want it. When Uncle Sam needs anything it is the duty of all of us to do without or use substitutes, and give him all he wants. Constantly it will be our aim to devise and offer acceptable substitutes. Seattle retail stores all have merchandise which you need; merchandise which you want and can use—merchandise made by people whom the Government has not yet asked for—merchandise, in many cases, which is already only a part of the former outputs, because Uncle Sam has taken of it what he wants. This merchandise means profitable employment for millions of people in thous- ands of factories. Its sale means profitable and constant employment to thousands of clerks and workers in your city. To lend and give to Uncle Sam is necessary and your duty. To buy what you ought to buy is to do your part with your dollars to keep industries productive and actively at work making money power for the common service. It Is Your Duty Not to Have a Hoarded Dollar! THE BON MARCHE SEATTLE