54 A Gentleman's Agreement ... are we keeping it? WE MAKE NO APOLOGY for reminding you that the peace we are now working for was bought with the lives of men and women you knew and loved. IT WAS UNDERSTOOD that we should not let them down. THERE ARE SIGNS that some people are forgetting this. With prosperity and security as yet only half won, there is a loosening of the purse-strings and a letting up on savings. THE TIME FOR THAT has not yet come. Savings are an indispensable weapon in the battle for production on which our nation's future depends.