Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GIVE ME SOME W? MANY PERSONS HELD BY HYPNOTIC SPELL Erroneously Imagine That Value of Money Lies Within Itself and Not In Those Things lt Will Buy. Thousands of Americans are under . the hypnotic spell of money. With distorted viewpoint they have come to regard money as a great treasure in Itself whereas money has its real sig nificance only in what it buys for us. A man's reward for his work does not depend merely on what he earns. For the true reward of labor is the ser vice the worker is able to obtain with the money he earns. It is evident that a man may earn twice as much as he once did in money and yet be no better off if the goods he needs cost twice or three times what they formerly cost. But it is apparent to all that apart from increase or decrease in wages as ex pressed in money, there Is a wide dif ference in the real value earned by persons receiving the same in actual cash. What a person gets out of the world in return for what he gives it. de pends finally on the choice made in disposing of his income. One man by wire buying, careful ard consistent saving and safe and profitable invest ment in such securities as War Sav ings Stamps. Treasury Savings Certifi cates and Liberty Bonds, may trans form the reward of his labor into all the necessities and comforts of life that he requires and even its luxuries. Another, gaining exactly the same sum in actual cash, may, through was ie, extravagance and failure to save, find himself unable to secure even the ne cessities. . Whether or not a worker eurns a sum which fulfills his estimate of what should be his just reward for labor, the responsibility for the way he ?pends what he gets remains with him and with him alone and cannot bo transferred to any other person. Prices of necessities and wages may .bb and flow like the tide but the fun damental fact remains unchanged that apart from the nature and volume of his earnings every man can, within limits, determine the richness of the reward of his labor. He can accom plish this by the amount of restraint and intelligence he exercises in spend ing what he bas to spend and In sav ing and investing what he has to save. SCALPER OF WAR SAVING STAMPS ARRESTED. From every Federal Reserve Dis trict in the r*nited States information is being rec^V^d by the Treasury De partment in Washington that a deter mined war is being waged against persons, who. by preying upon the unwary, are trafficking in War Saving and Treasury Certificates. The latest Information regarding tile activity of th? "Scalpers" comes from St. Louis, where two arrests have been made by Deputy United States Marshals. Both prisoners were re leased on $5,000 bonds and are now waiting for a hearing before the Fed eral commissioner. One of the men is said to have al tered registered numbers on War Savings Certificates. It being alleged Cy St. Louis postal authorities that in the man's olfice were found $875 in War Saving Certificates from wbich ?h?? ?egistratlon numbers had been re moved. It 13 charged that the other accused man had in his posseB3ion J866.90 worth ot altered government securities. One of the suspects is employed by ?, Rt. Louis brokerage concern ; U> ether is the proprietor o? a hotel. iR SAVING STAMPS WHY CERTIFICATES ARE SO ATTRACTIVE Unusual Features Make New Govern ment Securities Splendid Medium in Which to Invest Savings. Details of the features which make sued and registered as a means of ab solute protection to the purchaser Certificates may also be issued and registered jointly to two persons and may he made payable to either of the two purchasers or to both. Rulings governing payment of cer tlficates to deceased owners are also contained In the pamphlet, with spe citl mention made for each legal re quirement according to laws of vari ous states regarding wills, etc. At discretion of the Secretary of tha Treasury, In event of no other legal obstacles, payment will be made in the following order of classes: First, husband, wife, next of kin OT other person who pays the reasonable funeral expenses of the last Illness 01 other preferred claims against tha decendents estate; second, creditor for funeral expenses, expense of last ill ness or other preferred claims; third husband or wife, child or children, father or mother, any other of the next of kin of the deceased. UNCLE SAM SAYS HERE'S LIBER TY BOND'S BROTHER. Treasury Savings Certificates are a new issue of United States govern ment securities. They are of $100 and Si,OOO denominations. They run ?or five years and bear 4 per cent in terest, compounded every ihre? months. T?ey are little brothers of the Lib erty Bond and big brothers of the Wai Savings Stamp. A $100 Savings Certificate r:ost3 $84.40 thlB month. It will be worth $100 January 1. 1924. It Is caahpbla any time with accrued interest at any postoffice on ten days' notice. It ls a government obligation. A $1.000 savings certificate costs $844 this month, lt will be redeemed by Uncle Sam January 1. 1924. for $1.000. It Is cashable with accrued interest at any time at any postoffice on ten days' notice. Treasury savings certificates are registered in your name, thus insur ing against loss. BRITISH NOW SAVING LARGE SUMS OF MONEY. Tn spite of the exigencies of war, the volume of saving deposits in Eng land ha.s grown tremendously in the last five years according to the comp troller of the British Post Offce Sav ings Bank. Only twice, the comp troller states, wan the flow of savings deposita interrupted: onco by the war loan of 1915 and once by the 5 per i^ent loan of 1917. Total deposits increased despite the fact that depositors trnnsforrrd over $1.000.000.000 from their postal savings into the Various issues of the govern ment. The recent figures show con clusively, the com)?tvoller asserts, tim power of saving of the British public fo>* the amount diverted to the gov ?muxect w;ir issues has not i:e<in wast ed or dissipated hut must still 2?8 in cluded in th? sayings of tie nation. ONE GAME MR. THRI STEEL MASTER BEGAN TO SAVE WHEN YOUNG Recognized That Success Lay In Sound Investment-Safest Security in World Is Now Offered By Government. Andrew Carnegie died not long ago, leaving behind him $30,000,000. He had given away about $300,000,000 in an effort to avoid the reproach of dying rich. It is probable that the high cost of living gave the "steel master" little worry during th? latter half of his life, but it is certain that in his boy hood the prices of the necessaries of life were vital factors. And Andrew Carnegie in his early years met'the1 cost of living with the same remedy which America's leaders, headed by President Wilson, are now putting ?h as the biaic principle of the t to withstand the menace that s in the soaring prices of today, t remedy IB thrift-the practice of ng, the elimination of waste and id investment, the days when Andrew Carnegie, ?ears old, earned $1.20 a week as abbin boy in an Allegheny City on mill, and later when he earned 25 a month as a telegraph mes :er boy, the cost of living meant h to him. He had little margin for saving. But he did save. There were few opportunities for the small saver to make safe investments. Se curities were not issued in small de nominations. There were no Thrift Stamps or War Savings Stamps, backed by the government, into which the meager proceeds of the Scotch boy's thrift could be converted. But Andrew Carnegie at the age of 20 determined upon safe investment. The soundest securities that offered were 10 shares of stock in an express company worth $600. Carnegie had to borrow part of the money he paid. But he was convinced that savings ly ing idle were not performing their proper function. The American man or woman, boy or girl of today does not have to bor row to add to the savings fund in or der to find safe investment. The gov ernment makes sound security in the form of Savings Stamps, Trtasury Savings Certificates, and war bonds available to ? /ery saver who will be gin to practice thrift by the regular in vestment of sums as small as 25 cents. Every American today has a better opportunity for success than lay be fore Andrew Carnegie when he faced the world. NOW AND THEN What ie a dollar? Foolish ques tion-you say? Not at all theae days of H. C. L. and profiteering. Certainly a dollar isn't what It was ten years ago. Ii isn't what it will be five years from now. A dollar is what you can get for it in beans, butterflies or bunk-no more, no less. A dollar wouldn't be worth anything if you couldn't get anything for it. Ten years ago you bought, say, bunk at one dollar a portion. Now bunk costs two dollars. That doesn't mean it has doubled in val ue. It means that your dollar is worth half what lt was ten years ago. This is, therefore, not the time to spend too many of your dollars. They will bring you only half of what they are worth. This is the time to ave them. They will bring more later on. That is the history of dollars. Val ues run In cycles. As surely ai you live five years a dollar will be worth more than it is now. Maybe twice as muh. So when you save a dollar now you are perhaps saving two dollars. Treat dollars as you would any other commodity. Buy them when they are cheap. Stick every dollar you can into War Savings Stamps. Carrying 4 per cent interest compounded quarterly, a War Savings Stamp bought this month for $4.22 will be worth $5 January 1, 1924. By 1924 if the -lollar is worth twice as much as ii now you will really have ten dollars for the $4.22. FTLESS CAST PLAY SAVING GROWS EASIER AS HABIT TAKES HOLD Young People Must Be Brought to Realization of What Future Means to Those Who Spend Wisely. It ls easier to spend money than tt ls to save. It is also more fun-at first. But money that is spent does not work for you. It is gone, and ls working for somebody else. It is as hard to make young people r?alit? the necessity of saving as it is to make them realize that they are not always going to be young. It ia so easy to be young and reckless. But habits of thrift have to be taught. They also have to be formed by practice. That means that the ris ing generation must be taught to cap italize its youth, and in childhood shown how to distribute and allot such income as it may have. That indeed, is a large part of civ iliiation. The savage lives today. The civilized man lives today with an eye upon tomorrow In order that tomor row may be as secure as today he saves some of today'? goods for to morrow's use. The war taught many people how to save; lt taught other people how to spend. The wise spender ls the wise saver, but the emphasis is on th? "wise", and not on the "spending." Education in thrift ls an education in good citizenship and in good mor als. The person who is being taught to eave is also being taught to fore cast the future and to make tomorrow better because of wise living today. The government of the United States ls offering to men, women and chil dren the opportunity to invest saving! in safe and profitable securities. ARE YOU A CAPITALIST? The dictionary defines a "capital ist" as one who has a "pecuniary surplus." The dictionary is wrong. A capitalist ls one who has a pecu niary surplus "which ii invested." Are you a capitalist? Ton ar? if you are buying Wai Savings Stamps or Treasury Savings Certificates. They represent "pecu niary surplus" or, In simple English, "savings," and they make your money work by bringing to you 4 per cent in terest, compounded quarterly. Are you a capitaist? Secretary of Commerce Redfield re cently said to the Cleveland advertis ing men, "There are 64,000,000 sub scribers to our Liberty Loans. I sus pect that many a factory is manned, AS I know some government services are. by a force from top to bottom of capitalists, in varying degrees, but not the less really." Don't kick about the high cost of living. Beat it by trimming your sails and buying War Savings Stamps. The capitalists are not kicking about the high cost of living. Why? Because they have money at work. Cut your expenses to the bone. In vest in War Savings Stamps. Be a capitalist. SCOTCH SONGS TO DATE If a body meet a body Coming through the rye: If a body save a dollar Why, then, bye and bye, When the shiftless people holler "Money's Scarce and tight!" He who saves the nimble dollar, Will come through all right! Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never come to mind? Why, no!-unless he is a sot And better left behind. But one thing you must not forget, A thing more true than funny: "When your mind on saving's set It's easy saving money!" Knowing War Savings Stamps ar? a good investment won't do you any good unless you back up the knowl edge with your money. Follow the example of rich men if you would be rich. They make their money work for ttom. You can do it by buying War Savings Stamp?. i The Brunswick is frankly a combination ci the best :rT lire building. There is ons tread that's supremo beyond question. And that is now on Brunswicks. There is one side-wall construction, which, hy every test, holds the summit place fer endurance. Arid that cae was adopted fer Brunswicks. Fabrics differ - up to 30 per cent -.. *n their strength tests. On Brunswicks the maximum long-fiber is '..he sv::r.dard. There are certain additions, each one expensive, which add vastly to tir? mileage. The Brunswick embodies ali these extras. There are no patents, no secret formulas to prevent any maker from building the best. It is simply a ""question o? knowledge and skill-cost p?as care. Brunswick standards arc known the world ever. The very name certifies an extraordinary tire. Yet Brunswicks cost no more than like-type tires. y Buy ONE Brunswick, li will pro\Te that a better tire can not be bought, regardless of price. THE BRUNSWICK-BALKE-COLLENDER CO. Atlanta Headquarters: 38 Luckie St. Sold On An Unlimited Mileage Guarantee Basis J. D. H0LST0N, Jr., Edgefield, S. C. RELIABLE MOTOR & SALES COMPANY JOHNSON, S. C. IBAE1ET? & CC IF i Y (INCORPORATED) COTTON FACTORS Augusta.Georgia ARRINGTON BROS. & CO. Wholesale Grocers and Dealers in Corn, Oats, Hay and all Kinds of Seeds Corner Cumming and Fenwick Streets On Georgia R. R. Tracks Augusta, Ga. Distributors of Marathon Tires and Tubes. None better, but our price is less. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED See our repr?sentative, C. E. May.