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...income from securities he may own, or of an allowance from his parents. By reducing expenditures for unessential or extravagant purchases and investing the resulting savings in bonds, he materially aids in war production. Again, as Mr. Clark has said, his accomplishment is two-fold. He discourages the non-essential industries, which are competing against the Government, creating a rise in prices and scarcity of labor, and he contributes funds with which the Government may finance...
...keeping with the athletic policy of the University, the nine will meet no colleges except Yale and Princeton, and will confine its other engagements to the various service teams of the neighborhood. Portland Naval Reserve, Commonwealth Pier, Camp Devens, and the Second Naval District will furnish the four non-intercollegiate contests...
...under the added stimulus of profits so abnormal as to be the cause of public indignation. Dean Gay admitted this failing when he recently advocated unrestricted profiteering. We have business men who persistently oppose schemes for national saving on a large scale,-such as discontinuance of the purchase of non-essentials,-because it would injure their particular business. We have employers who refuse to give their workmen enough wages to maintain a decent standard of living. We have various over-rich persons in the community ignoring completely our government's plea for conservation. We have lawyers, politicians, and other...
...thought is neither more nor less than a call to take a sensible middle course. Spiritual development of personality must depend on material opportunities; and therefore we should recognize, as a sine qua non for a progressive human being, a frank striving for money--and the time and things it can buy. And the goal of the terrestrial experiment seems to be the progress of the group as a group, even if for no other purpose than to shelter the specimens; and therefore the aim of life outside the ego should be, not service or sacrifice or any such personal...
This resentfulness is shown by individuals of all classes who are unfavorably affected. Manufacturers of and dealers in non-essentials have been very active in obstructing much-needed regulation and in opposing economics which are absolutely necessary. Advertising sheets, commonly called newspapers, have persistently fostered the vicious idea that there are no non-essential industries, and have successfully defended a "laissez faire" policy with respect to their own profiteering. There have also been strikes and threats of strikes on the part of various labor organizations, even against the better wisdom and advice of their national organizations...