The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 10, 1919, Image 6
WONDERFUL STEPPING STONES
MISER SAVER BIG SUM
BUT ONLY TO LOSE IT
Man Did Not Follow Principles of
Thrift? -80I0 Ida* W11 to Hoard
HI# Money, Spending Nothing.
A modorn Midas of Chicago, who
*ad accumulated $300,000 by never
?pending anything, recently whh de
clared Incapable of handling his af
fai r.H. Mo became Incapable not be
cause he amassed $.'100,000 but because
of the way- ho accumulated It. He es
tranged his family, went to bod with
the chickens to avoid spending money
on lighla and lived on $f?& a year. -
. Then he ran afoul of tlx; puzzling in
come tax law and now bin children are
to handle his beloved savings. This
modern Mi<la.s whs not a thrifty man.
He wan a miser. True 'thrift enhances
and increase* the wealth of the world.
Hoarding money benefits neither the
miser nor his fellows. Wise spending
is as essential as wiae Having, and
wine investment is as Imp.Ji'laut as
either; wise spending for tin* comforts
and pleasures of life as well as the
necessities makes for the thriftiest
life and stimulates production. Wise
investment makes possible the c.rea
tlon of new wealth.
The miser savins but spends noth
ing. He secures only the meager sat
isfacti on of watching his pile of money
grow. The wise exponent of thrift
and sound investment has the com
forts and pleasures of life and saves
at the same time. The foolish man
spends his money for what he neither
needs nor really wants; does not at
tain the comforts and lasting pleas
ures of life and saves nothing.
If the modern miser of Chicago had
spent wisely he would have had years
of comfort and happiness instead of
years of nqualor and want. If he had
saved wisely hn would have had the
love and respect of his family and as
sociates. If he had Invested wisely
ha would have beon competent to han
dle his own affairs.
"WaBte not ? want not" is still the
modern axiom of thrift but "want not"
must not be Interpreted to mean not
wanting the things that make life
worth the living. Don't be a modern
Midas.
PICKING UP THAT PIN
? A story of K. H. Harrtman, who died
leaving an estate of $75,000,000, cred
its him with one day picking up a
small steel letter clip dropped on the
floor by a careless employee.
"I'd like to have as my aonual In
come," said Mr. Harrlman. "the value
of material thrown away every year
?>y Indifferent workers In the offices
?nd factories of America In a few
yeara I'd be the richest man In the
world "
"LIKE UM" and "LICK UM
Prom faraway TuIhr, Okla . comes
the story that War Ravings Stamp*
are trem?ndou?ly popular among
the Indiana wly) hav? uruwn rich
from oil wellr discovered on their
proper t M*s
"fHlck em on" competitions arc
popular among the Indian Rocke
fellers. who buy the Jf> Mtampn in
sheet*, arrange tbmr cards neatly
and start licking and sticking at a
prearranged biKnal
Aftor all the stamps had been
stuck on during * recent ciMitest
the Indians capped the field meet
by lining up and racing to the post
office to get the atamprf registered
H 1 u ft Nose 3 m e 1 1 s No Mast won th ?
race and had h in <tamp? registered
flrst He had pasted on $4ttr> worth
of War riaT'.ngs Stamps In h i :nin
ut<*x and fourteen second- H.s
lime to the postnfTice a 1 ?< f>f. ?>><?
on do flat
Hjit voiir !!? w it will <tn
double dut\ fnr in War S?T;nfi
Stamp*
Mone? . avi'd ciniiih (n
? estP?J in War Hkvi:.k? Sfam^c It
gTows da? and nitthi
In a multitude of thrift* th?r? 1*
wmfrtr from worry Buy wl*??ly.
lntelllfantly, and inT?*t In Thrift
Stamp* and War Snrlnfa Stamp*
FIVE DEPARTMENTS
ARE AIDING THRIFT
?
Government Bureau* Are Co-operating
to Promote Widespread Saving*
Among All Classes of Peopla.
Cooperation and coordination of
government departments in aid of the
national movement to promote regular
Having. wIhh buying, sound Investment
and reinvestment are ahown In a r??
j cent report to tho Treasury Depart
1 ment.
Five departments? ^.Treasury, l^ibor,
j Commerce, Agriculture and the Inter
ior are always carrying out plans
characteristic of their special domains
of work designed to accomplish the
general aim ? thrift. Not only are
the same principles held irt common,
but ideas and material are interchang
ed and employed to further the par
ticular lines of each department's
work.
In the Treasury Department tho
Savings Division is endeavoring to
bring home the value of sensible
, economy us a principle of living^ to
?interpret thrift, not as miserliness,
but as. the wise management of oqe's
affairs, taking heed of present and fu
ture njpeds and. steadily saving for
worthwhile purchases, tcr. $ake advant
age of an opportunity or against a
rainy day. The Savings Division of
tfers the Thrift Stamps and War Sav
ings Stamps a practical inducement
: to acquring the power of a financial
: reserve.
Realizing that saving is greatly
stimulated by having a definite object
in view, the Department of Labor has
launched an OWN YOUR HOME
movement.
The Department of Commerce, In
conjunction with the Council of Na
tlonal Defense, is engaged in a BUY
NOW. BUT ONIjY WHAT YOU
NKRD. campaign.
The Department of Agriculture has
undertaken to have its county agents
and home demonstration agents.
! numbering several thousand men and
women, include the message of thrift
In all their work.
Tn the Department of the Interior
the Bureau of Education Is making
thrift an important part of its Ameri
canization program and of its schools
and library work. The Indian Bureau
has issued material and called on all
agent* to**asslat in bringing home the
.value of. intelligent saving end safe
j investment to the Indian servlc*.
Thrift Stamen will utick wh?n a fel
low needs a frt?nd.
Make Thrift a happr habit through
War Saving! fltampa
THRIFT TABLE
2fi Pennies? >1 Thrift fltamp,
16 Thrift Stamp??-1 W S. S.
20 W. S. fi? >1 Hundred Dollai
Starap
R Hundred Dollar Btatnpe? Ftrsl
Inst ailment on T?Mr home.
INTEREST
Hare in what one man did If you j
don't know htrn jou know soma on?
)u?< like hlra tn your community
Twanty yaars ago ha ownad the !
< lothes he stood tn and that *raa about '
all
He sara<1 fifty dollar* tha first your,
tha next yaar. with n little hatter
waiter seventy Ave
One thing with anothPr^ -a vrlfo and
family included ? hp has saved an
average of At* dollar* a week for
twenty vear?
What ha sarad in twenty years whs
about At* thousand dollars What ho
baa is twlae tiva thousand ? like the
man ;n tha parable
Hn delist* working for ktm now
bring him mora than h>* yearly sarin* j
M.ike Thrift * happy habit through
War Sarin** Stump#
_ _
i V4o?ey gpant Is nooay ro?* ; Inraat
*d In War Raring* ?tanapa U lUyi
j-'Tltfc fou.
NEW LIFE FOR HOLY UNO
With M>undar>t Supply of Water, the
D?m rt Promise* Again to Bio*
?om Like the Roto.
"Tlip desert Khali r?*j0lco and bios
mini Ilk* the roHe," old Ihh In h prophe
sied.
I The reclamation of Palestine hy the
British has at lit Ht opened the Holy
land to the enterprise of the West, rfr
, marks the Journal of the Americun
Medical Association.
Captain ('arson of the American Rod
Cross votnmissJon, which followed Gen*
oral Allenby. tells us that the first
problem of improvement encountered
was that of water supply. That part
of Palestine south of HeersjjLjehu has
he en piped .with water from t i?e Nils
hy British engineers with American
equipment? the realization. It l? said,
| of a dream thou Hands of years old,
I Several million gallons a dav are
pumped from the csnal near Kantara
across the Suez canal Into Pah'stlne.
At Kantara rapid sand Altera are used.
The pipes are ia'd at least eighteen
Inches deep In the noil or sand of the
desert In order to protect them nod
: the water' from heat. North of lteer<
sheba there Is plenty of water under
the surface, though very little, owing
to the geologic formation and meteoro?
logic conditions of Palestine, remains
easily available. On the western slopes
however, the valleys .form excellent
reservoir sites for collecting tlw? win
1 ter rains, though they would often
J have to be treated to prevent loss by
' percolation. v
The problem of the water supply of
Jerusalem has been attacked by such
noted men as Hezeklah ? who con
structed a tunnel which Is today ajn al
most unexplalnahle engineering feat ? ?'
Solomon! Pontius Pilate and Herod.
Tn the spring of lOiA the British, us
ing much of tlie Roman work, installed
a six-Inch line from the springs of
Wady-ebArab, about sixteen miles
south of Jerusalem, through which
more than -<XUMX) gallons n day are
now (lowing into the city.
Tt is said that Jerusalem could he
furnishe.d with more than L'(>,o<k),(km?
gallons a day of pure water. Almost
every house In the city has its rain*
wilier cistern, and fhtVse, with proper
Inspection by the newly organized
health department, are being tilled
with safe water.
? 14-4k? be? expect e< I that ? tire drsap*
pea ranee of the picturesque water ven
. ders of Jerusalem will be aceomi?anied
by I lie passing of tiie terrible water
' borne diseases prevalent Minder Turk
ish rule. ,, ?
Seeing Rome From the Air.
American tourists limy herea fter vis
It Koiiian ruins ? the Coliseum, For
uni, Pantheon. Canicalla bat lis and tin*
basilica of Constant hie. St. I'eter's
and other Koine geius, not in anti
quated horsedrawn carriages, but In
airships. The Italian navy has es
tablished a commercial dirigible serv
ice for visiting Kotne and Its en
virons from the air. The venture has
met with complete success, for dally
the aircraft are tilled to rapacity.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press viewed Koine from the Italian
navy's dirigible M-l. On board were
diplomatic representatives of all the
allied countries to the number of 34.
the capacity of the craft. The United
States representative was Colonel
Buckey, military attache there.
Those In the party of long residence
stated that looking at Rome from the
dirigible brought out features of U
which went unpercelved to the observ
er on the ground.
Get Neceaaary Knowledge.
Most of life's great mistakes are due
to insuftlcient knowledge. In the early
days of the great war battles raged
on the eastern front. There are the
great lakes and marshes. Victory as
a rule came to the man who knew the
ground best. One of the great gener
als made it his program to lure hlH
opponents into the lake region and then
deliver swift blows In the time of his
foes' bewilderment. The difference be
tween grades of mental power Is not
so great, but It's the training and the
knowledge and application that makes
the great differences between men.
When a man's ready to do his own
rough work he Isn't likely to have
things "put across on him." The ten
derfoot has always been u Joke among
his fellow*. He Is common halt. Let
him show a little aggressiveness and
the regulars will respect him more.
Blunders he will make, but ho will re
deem them and himself by his at
tempts.
Twin Brides.
The strangest wedding ceremony I
ever witnessed was a double wedding
of twin sisters. It was not only out
of the ordinary but a little uncanny
to see the father walking up the aisle
of tht? church with two brides, one on
each arm. both dressed exactly alike
in white satin trading robes. They
were so much nllk that In the excite
ment of the mom. .t the future hus
bands could not t l them apart and
claimed the wrote, brides at the foot
of the altar where hey stood with the
father. The two voung women nl
lowed their fntur husbands to be
fooled until the preacher nsked the
fatal question, and then the mistake
was made known. ? un h to the embar
rassment of the men Chicago Trib
une.
How They Rank in Thrift.
Ttiese figures represent the number
of ?a\ings bank doj osltors a thousand
of population: Switzerland, .V>2 ; Den
mark. W2 ; Norway. 42fl ; Sweden, 404;
Belglru*. 301 ; France, 362 , Germany,
Kngland. 320; Italy, 23 2. aa4
United States lift.
Diamond Construction Makes
This Fighting Mast Strong
Like
the
The fighting mast is strong because it is sup
ported in every direction by sturdy diagonal braces that
form diamonds everywhere.
The battery is strong because its plates,
like the fighting mast, are built on the Dia
mond principle.
That is why the plates do not buckle
nor lose their active material. That is why
the battery can be guaranteed for
eighteen months.
That is why we are the official Phila
delphia Service Station.
Expert battery re-charging and repairing.
Free inspection * ? any?-battery ? any
make, any car, any time. Drbp in to-day and
let us look at the condition of your battery.
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