Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-25

If YOU talk to a man who has $50 week salary, he
will say to you:
II can inst manage to lice on H-fdirly aCeU-BUT
CAN'T SAVE n CENT. l see no hope ahead for
the future.'
The man with salary of 800 week will say, in
exactly the same tones
~ II can Just manage to Hve on It, and keep my family
half decently BUT CAN'T SAVE 4 CENT.
DON'T huoo achat wouzd become of my children If any
thing should happen to me-
And it is always the same story no matter what the
salary or the full is always spent
it is difficult to make ends meet and there is nothing
left over to show for long years of work.
To the man of small salary it may seem absurd to
talk of the with ten twenty thirty thousand
dollars annual salary spending every cent and being
always behind hand-yet that is what happens almost
Invariably
This writer knows one individual with salaried in
come about the that of the President of the
United Statesand that foolish person is always
rying about meeting bills the the with
$40 or $15 week.
- The president of great railroad man whom every
inhabitant in this country knows by name drew an
enormous salary for great many years Yet when
his employer-a hundred-tme millionaire died, this
salaried man. with more than $4,000 year. had moth
ing to show for his years of work He was an old man.
and the of his late employer combined together to
provide for him. HE could tell very good story of
the extravagant habits that come of fixed salary.
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The purpose of this editorial is not to make the sal
aried man feel foolish merely to convince him that
he is extravagant. Unless useful suggestion
were made, much white paper would be utterly wasted
Let consider, therefore, why it is that the salared
man, with steady, regular income, is nearly always
the man who has nothing saved up against rainy day
Why is it that the rich in telling his life story
nearly always describes some business venture some
enterprise, that he went into his account the
basis of his success and fortune?
In the first place, do not appreciate that which
comes without any especial effort. What do
easily and regularly, we take a matter of course
The man working for himself with the element of
uncertainty in his work, is COMPELLED to realize the
possibility of future difficulties. Constant change fuc
uations in profit keep him out of rut and alive to
actual conditions The with salary simply looks
upon that as minimum. He arranges promptly to
spend all of it, no matter what it may be. He knows
that he will have it this week, and next week. He usu-
ally thinks he ought to have great deal more-some-
times he ought to- and sometimes he deceves himself
If he had house and sold it, if he had horse
and wagon and sold them, he would look upon the pur
chase money CAPITAL. He would feel that he
ought to keep that money, at least of it, for
a future day
But not salaried man in a thousand realizes that
as he draws his weekly salary he is selling HIMSELF,
his youth, his strength and his future prospects ON
THE INSTALMENT PLAN.
AT the end of week. when man draws his salary,
he has SOLD ONE WEEK OF HIS LIFE, and one of
the best weeks. 1t is strange that in nation where
great majority of working men and women work for
salary, few realize what the salary means 1t
means dscounting the future, and selling yourself for
weekly payments.
great many men and women who work for salary