GUARD THE STATE’S WEALTH
Well, we’ve raised the dust with a serious campaign…
A fight for thrift, reduction in spending and economy…
So that each and every copeck is spent wisely, so that the nation’s wealth is not squandered, so that people no longer point at a cooperative chairman or some such and say:
“Whistled it away, the sonofabitch! Blew all our money!”
Yes, that’s the sort of campaign we’ve embarked upon…
What does it mean, this campaign?
Well, it’s like this…
You’ve probably heard about such great perks in our economic institutions as ‘shrinkage’, ‘shortage’, ‘wastage’, travelling allowance, overtime, advance and so on.
You buy, for example, some leather or sugar for the village store…
You buy a thousand pounds, but by the time you get it to the store and it has lain abo
