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won, and won it shall be, no matter what the cost. It 

 requires no great perspicacity to realize that our total 

 national debt will be a sum which rolls so easily on its 

 ciphers that it eludes the grasp of the average mind. 

 It is going to cost a lot even to keep the wheels greased f 



at five and one-half per cent, from year to year. Every- j\ 



body knows it. Win the War! .ijr 



When the lamp went out and the oldL worLLwe had.> 

 known blew up away back in 1914 we spagged about 

 anxiously, calling to each other : " Business as Usual !" 

 Since then factory production has gone up fifty per 

 cent.; export trade a hundred; profits on capital all 

 the way up to the billion-and-a-quarter mark. We have 

 got so used to things in four years that there is danger 

 of forgetting that War has driven a sap beneath these 

 ironical gifts of Mars and it is full time Business 

 looked around for a place to light and got ready to dig 

 itself in. 



Mobilization, co-operation of every interest, the full 

 grapple of every individual national effort, in short 

 these the State demands. The coverlet has been thrown 

 back upon the realization that the State has claims 

 upon each citizen which transcend his individual for- 

 tunes that individual prosperity, in fact, is entirely 

 dependent upon the prosperity of the national whole. 



Not all by himself can the Man Behind The Gun win 

 a war like this. At his heels must stand the munition 

 workers, the Man Back of The Desk, the people them- 

 selves, each guarding against waste and each con- 

 tributing his or her part, great or small, for that 

 national economy which alone can hope to sustain the 

 terrific pace that victory demands. Finally, out in the 

 great open spaces, faithful and unassuming and back- 

 ing his country to the limit, must plod the Man Behind 

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