Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cervus, Celer et Dexter SP Of Bp ft \ "Trade in all lines which reflect consumpton is excellent, the only light busi ness being in the lines related to constuction and investment. The people north and south, east and west, have continued to buy goods at the greatest rate ever known. We conclude that the great body of the American people are disposed to go along in the normal way, whatever the rest of the world might do, and as their bujdng capacity is about equal to that of all the rest of the world put together, they can do fairly well all by thmselvs if they try.55 ?, 1 '^MS^m^^^^^^m^M "Money is getting cheaper In more senses than one. Not only will it buy less than it did before, but its accumulation now yeilds less satisfaction than in former years. Time was when people gaped when a "millionaire" was pointed out to them. Today not even a multi-millionaire -excites admiration?unless he has done some thing more than merely pile up millions. We used to envy inteusely men of gigantic wealth. Today we are inclined to pity quite a few of them. UiJess a man has earn ed a reputation for having done something worthy for his fellow men, we are inclin ed to believe that not only are we not obliged to admire him, but that his gold will do about as little for him as he has done for others. The rolling up of abnormal wealth used to br the chief ambition of the majority of business giants. Today our fore most business leaders are more anxious to win public approval than win additional millions* Money is no longer the yardstick of a man's worth. I do not believe there are half ? dozen millionaires under fifty years of age who would not rather reco gnized as benefactors of the human race thai, follow a purely mercenary course cal culated merely to swell inordinately their bank accounts, although, alas, they are not all capable of becoming benefactors* And assuredly there are many veteran mul ti-millionaires who hav led selfish, self-centered lives who would gladly exchange three-fourths of their fortune for the deserved good will of the people. On this sub ject I know whereof I spak. There are among our Croesuses some of the most un happy, worm-eaten5 cankered souls in the whole land, in their hearts they know that, despite their mountains of gold, they have lost out in the game of life; that they . f are failures; that they have missed most of what makes life genuinely worth while. Some day I hope to analyze the wills left by the richest men America has produced i My impression from a cursory glance over the records is that vanity and selfishness dictated the majority of them/' About June 1st we will be able to boy or sell for you, Advertise or Clean, Dye or Make your Clothes ? we mean stuff like Rugheimer, Mehrtens, Kohn, Men delsohn, Epstein, Bornett, Stern, Price, or what's the difference just so its cloth. : We have always got what we went after, "Watch Sumter Grow"" Ask Dad He Knows