Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-05-02
the East or in the West;
Just install her as it's mistress, and
with joy she'll do the rest.

the East or in the West;
Just install her as it's mistress, and
with JOY she'll do the rest.
Get a home of your own.
Now, the policy Of saving is a very
simple art
Get a home of your own.
From your weekly sum of earnings set
a little bit apart
Get a home of your own.
It will 500 become a habit, and you'll
wonder when you learn
How your dollars keep increasing by
the interest they earn
Why from former ways Of wasteful-
ness you sooner didn't turn.
Get a home Of your own.
Joia a Loan Association on co-opera-
tive plan,
To get a home Of Jul own.
You will find it very helpful, and it
welcomes any man;
To get a home of his own.
When you have a little due-book, YOU
may think you've just begun;
You're mistaken, for in starting, why
the battle half is won,
And you'll wake up some fine morning
and will find your house is done.
Get a home of your own
Happy memories Of childhood are a
thing one ne'er outgrows-
Get a home of your own.
Ger your doorway train the ivy or a
handsome climbing rose
Get a home of your wv
Sweetest thoughts around the birth
place Of your family will twine,
Which will fill the rarest fragrance all
the days till life's decline,
And inspire deep affection hat is next
to love divine.
Get a home Of your own
And now, my friends, [ have en-
deavored to the best Of my ability to
lay before o a scheme, not from a
theoretical standpoint, have not paint
ed bright roseate hues, inspired by the
imagination, but every point l made
or ~endeavored to make, was the fruit
of nearly a quarter of a century's
practical eXperience-if | have uc-
ceeded in inspiring you with a hun
dreth part of the zeal which my Co
workers and in the good cause feel
my efforts here will not have been in
vain-and at this point let me advise
and caution you, that not every one
coming to you in the garb of a Build
ing and Loan-are to be trusted. There
have in the las twenty years sprung
up many fraudulent institutions mas
querading as Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION concerns, who have robbed
the people of their hard earned money
by promising them SOMETHING for
NOTHING. Hear me-and heed me,
my good friends, whenever any one
comes to you with a scheme that
promises unusually large returns,
spurn him as you would a viper-that
man is trying to swindle you.
Ladies and gentlemen: There are
other and far higher and nobler prin-
ciDles underlying this scheme han
the cold statistical figures given. They
are but as ajewel casket which, though
beautiful by itself, contains within
Jewels of far more priceless value, Or
as the outer crust of the earth con
tanning within priceless treasures.
Underlying the figures given are the
influences these institutions give to
mar in his social sphere-in the de-
velopment of the hitherto "NOMAD,"
ties-the incentive they give in the
development Of a community spirit,
in the new direction they give to the
aspirations of the masses, in the max
ing of them happy home owners,
in the e%nnobling, e~levating, self-re-
speeding, contented, patriotic, law
abiding citizenship.
Their aim is to enable men of mod
crate means to acquire and own their
homes. 1t enables men who by NO
OTHER SYSTEM YET DEVISED so
readily, SO cheaply, and soSURELY can
acquire their own homes. Nay, more:
It teaches, and to some extent
FORCES him to ave his hard earn
ings little by little, and while a fellow
workman toiling by his side from Mon
day morning until Saturday evening
may perhaps (and it is too often IN
fortunately the case) spend his earn
ings in gambling and riotOus hilarity,
ending by going to his home, where
fellow citizens follow him in magma
ton, and see him in his drunken orgy
enter his howell with tottering steps
and disappearing lips, and see his
poor emaciated wife, who, toe well
knows that tottering step c%rouching
in a corner, and the poor innocent
little children, who only partly realize
their unfortunate position, in fear and
trembling, crouching in another, and
the none which was to have bought
them food and raiment spent in de
bauchery. Whereas the stakeholder
on the other hand goes with reso-
lutte step and proud mien to the Sec
~retary's office, and there with hands