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Thie is no charity plea. It is a eound bueinees propoeition that vitally eoncerne the present and future welfare of your company' your employeee, and Yourself.

During the poet war period of readjusment, you may be faced with the unpleaeant neceeaity of turning employeee out into a confused and cheerleee worlil. But your as an employer, can do aomething nou) to help shape the destiniee of your people' Score, oi bueineee heade have adopted the Vohntary Pay'roll Allotment Plan as a simple and eaey way for every worker in the land to start a systematic a'dld continuous Defenee Bond savings program.

Mant benefits . . . preEent and' future. rt ig ,oo." ih* a eeneible step toward reducing'the ranks of tho poEt-war needy. It will help spread linancial participation in National Defenee o-ong all of America's wage earners.

Tho widespread uee of this plan will materially retsrd infa' tion. It will *gtore" psrt of our pyramiding national income that would otherwiee be spent as fast as it's earned, increasing the demand for our diminishing supply of consumer goods.

And ilon't overlook the immeiliate benefit . noney for defenee materials, quickly, continuouely, willingly.

Letts d,o it the Atnerican usay! America'e talent for working out emergency problems, democratically, is being tested today. As alwaye, we will work it out, without preEEure or coercion in that old American way; each busineseman etrengthening hie own housel not waiting for hie neigbbor to do iL That cuEtom hag throughout history, enabled America to get thinge done of its oum lree uill.'

ln etnergencies, America doesn't do tlfings

"hit-or.tniss." Wo woultl get tbere ertentually it we just left it to everybodyts whim to buy Defense Bonde when they thought of it But we're a nation of businessmen who unden stand that the way to get a thing done is to systematize the oper' ation. That ie why eo many employera are getting back of this Yoluntary Savings Plan

Like moet efrcient Bysteme' it ie amazingly simple. All you have to do is ofrer your employeee the convenience of having a fixed sum allotte4 from each pay envelope, to the purchase of Defenee Bonde. The employer holds theee funde in a separate bank account, and delivers a Bond to the employee each time his qllotnents accumulate to a sufficient amount.

Each employee who chooeee to start this savings plan decidea for himeelf the denomination of the Bonds to be purchaeed and tho ernount to be allotted from his wages each pay day.

Hou bis d,oes a cornwny lunte to be? From three empl6yeet on up. Size [ae nothing to do witb it. It worke equally well in storee, schoola, publishing houeee, lactorieg or banke. This whole idea of pay*oll allohent bag been evolved by businessmen in cooperation with tho Treaeury Departmenl Each organization adopte ite own simplg efrcient application of the idea in accordsnce with rhe needs of itE own Eet up No chore at all. Tho system is so simple that -{- T. & T. uees exactly the eame easy card systen that ie being ugetl by hundretls of companies having fewer than 25 employees! It ie simple enough to be handled by a checkmark on a card each pay day.

Plenty ol hclp aoailable. Although tLie ia yozr plan when you put it into efrecg the Treaeury Deparhent ia ready and willing to give you all liinde of help. Local civilian committees in 48 Statee are 8et up to have experienced men woik with you juet as much as you want them to, and no more.

Truly, about all. you have to do is to indicate your willingness to get your organization gtarted. \[o will eupply moet of the necessary material and no end of help.

The first step is to take a closer look. Sending in the coupon in no way obligatee you to lnstall the Plan. It will simply give you a chance to ecrutinize the available material and gee what other companiee are already doing. It will bring you samplee of literature explaining the beneffts to employeee and describing the various denominations of Defenso Savinga Bonde that can be purchased through the Plan.

Sending the coupon does nothing more than signify that you are anxioug to do something to help keep your people ofi relief when defense production eloughe ofr; something to enable all wage earners to participate in financing Defense; something to provide tomorrods bunog power for your productei something to get money right now for guns and tankg and planea and ehips.

France left it to "hit or-miee" and nrissed. Noro ie the time lor you to act! Mail the coupon or write Treaeury Departmen! Section A5 ?09 Twelfth St NV. Waehington, D. C.

709 Trrolfth St NW., WsrhiDglolt

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'Savinga Pay-Roll Allotmcnt Plan.

The immortal words of Rupert Brooke have been so frequently quoted and misquoted of late in war stuff, that they are reproduced here at the request of a friend: ***

"If I should die tonight, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In tfiat rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave once her fowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English'air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal Mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts of England given: Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter learnt of friends, and gentleness, In hearts at peace under an English heaven.', **rs -i{ot only the grandeur of the philosophy and the splendor of the words and phrases, help to make this poem immortal, but likewise the fact that it proved to be his own great epitaph. For Rupert Brooke, a youthful English soldier-poet, was killed only a short time after these words were written, while on his way with his contingent of the British army traveling from Egypt to the Dardanelles. So millions of thinking people quote his words as exemplifying in words of glory the thoughts of a patriotic young soldier with regard to his own prospective death in battle.

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And so they do. And while they were the words and thoughts of Rupert Brooke who soon was to make the supreme sacrifice for his country, they might as well have been the thoughts of some grand American boy about his beloved home. What the soldier boy thinks of his sacrifice in going out to face death for his country, has long been proclaimed in song and story. And Rupert Brooke, in the stanza quoted above, expresses it perhaps better than anyone has ever done before or since. And he wrote still another short poem of the same sort, not so well known or so frequently used, but perhaps just as beautiful. Here it is:

"Blow out, you bugles, over the rich dead!

There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be l Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene

That men call age; and those who wquld have been Their sons, they gave their immortdity."

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So the words that Rupert Brooke wrote have crowned his brow with fadeless lau.rel, and given to his native land, and to every other land where men are found willing to lay down their precious lives for the liberty of their country,-a priceless heritage. **!F

Yet, while I get a terrific thrill out of the story of Rupert Brooke, the man who wrote inspiringly of his own death as though he saw it coming and still was unafraid, I am still enough of a roughneck to get perhaps a greater thrilt out of stories of men who face death with a laugh on their lips, and a joke at the grim reaper. Already many such stories have come back to us from the Philippines, where heroes are finding the way to immortality every day. During the first World War there were innumerable stories told and retold of men who laughed at death. One of them that I recall so well was of a regiment that had been given notice that they were going over the top at the first crack of dawn. They slept in a barracks, and were awakened a half hour before dawn, to get ready. All was darkness inside the barjacks, and men spoke only in low tone of voice. Suddenly some boy at one end of the big room was heard to say-"My God! What a headache f've got!" And down the line another boy answered'What do you care? You'll soon be dead!" And they say that the laughter almost raised the roof of that bar. racks, as every man jack of them roared at the gag. ***

And that was exactly the spirit that pervaded the entire American army throughout the first World War. And who is there to doubt that it is fully as strong in our army of today? Sure it is! That's the American way of fighting. You know I actually heard a group of people the other day debating seriously whether or not it is necessary for us io work up a terrific feeling of hatred for the Japs and the Germans in order to defeat them. Surely it isn't. As a matter of fact the fighter who hates too hard is undoubtedly at a disadvantage, just as is the fighter who lets his temper run away with him. Sergeant York didn't have time or inclination to hate the Huns he killed in the first World War. Killing them was just a job he had to do, and he did it. The great air aces that this war has produced thus far, in relating their experiences in downing scores of enemy planes, speak nothing of hatred. It is probable that the Japs hate us, since we so frankly look upon them as an inferior and barbarous race. Our soldiers don't need to hate the Japs in order to destroy them. As a matter of fact hating the Japs would be showing more respect for them than they deserve. We have simply got to treat them like a pack of sheep-killing dogs.***

And speaking of barbarians, what a difference there is between the barbarians of today, and of the past ! Pericles, who believed stoutly in the old gods of heathen Greece yet was so great that they named an age of man after him -*1g "ags of Pericles"-said at the close of his stupendous career: t'I have caused no one to wear crep€." Doesn't sound like Hitler or Hirohito, does it? *{€*

The great Englishman, Dr. Johnson, once remarked to Boswell, his biographer: "Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a'soldier, or been at sea." ***

Barbarians cannot understand men fighting and dying for a principle. When Xerxes the Great, of Persia, invaded Greece, he asked what was the prize for which men strove at the famous Grecian athletic contests, and was told it was but a wreath of wild olive. A Persian general exclaimed to his master: "Good heavens, Mardonious! What manner of men are these you have brought us to fight against-men who do not contend for money, but forhonor!"

National pride, intelligently applied, makes a people great. Misapplied, it destroys it. It was misplaced national pride that brought the downfall of Judea, of Greece, of Rome, and that has sent Germany and Japan out to give the world a blood-bath. That it will likewise destroy them, is our hoPe and aim'

Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States during the first World \il'ar, now and then uttered some swell humorous thought. When he sent a delegation to treat with Russia, he headed it by the late Elihu Root, and explained that appointment by saying that the Russians were a nation of "glooms," and that Elihu Root just suited them; he hadn't laughed in thirty years.