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ultimate effect is the same. They have undone the good they did. It is
as if soldiers having won a trench let the Germans come back into it.

People of small means often feel that all they can save is so small
that it cannot really help and wonder if the effort to save is worth
while, but if every person in America saved 2 cents a day, it would
amount to $730,000,000 in a year, and that would find a great deal of
munitions.

Finding the money by saving finds everything, releases men for the
army, finds labour and money for munitions, finds labour for ships and
relieves the demands on tonnage, finds supplies. It is the fundamental
service of the civilian, and no good citizen wants luxuries while
soldiers and sailors need clothes and guns and ships and munitions.

Everybody, man, woman, and child, can join the great financial army
and march behind our men, and women have done with us and can do
everywhere a great work in this. Women are on our National Committee
and doing a great deal of its organization. Our men in the trenches,
in the air, at sea, endure for us what we would have said before the
war was humanly unendurable. They pay for our freedom with a great
price--and we send them out to pay it--in death, disablement,
suffering and sacrifice. To fail in our duty behind them would be the
great betrayal.

Our treasures are very small things compared with our men. Shall we
give them and not our money?

[Illustration: REVERSE OF BEFORE YOU SPEND]

[Illustration]

A BOOKMARK, ISSUED BY N.W.S.C.

[Illustration: THINK BEFORE YOU SPEND]

[Illustration: REVERSE OF HOW 15/6]

ANOTHER BOOKMARK

FOOD PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION

"The whole country ought to realise that we are a beleaguered
city."

--The President of the Board of Agriculture.

"If you have any belief in the cause for which thousands of
your fellow-countrymen have laid down their lives, you will
scrape and scrape and scrape, you will go in old clothes,
and old boots, and old ties until such a mass of treasure be
garnered into the coffers of the Government as to secure
at the end of all this tangle of misery a real and lasting
settlement for Europe."

--The President of the Board of Education.

CHAPTER X

FOOD PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION

In this great struggle the food question assumes greater and greater
importance.

The production