Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-12-02
How to Get an Automobile


automobiles flashing by on their way
to the park. 1t certainly is Won
der how so many people get the mon
ey to buy them.
Graft, said Bill, who is some
thing of a cynic. Graft and easy
I'll blow you off to drink. l feel
reckless. Besides, it's dead cinch
that poor man can't get rich nova
days by saving it up
This is not to deny that there is
plenty of graft in the world or that
plenty of people do get hold of what
looks like easy money. But-after
you have had drink on Bill and have
bought ''round" yourself-suppose
you put this load in your pipe and
smoke il.
Saving is the only chance nine out
of ten men will ever have to make
even start on getting rich.
What is more to the point, there
are a whole lot of people-alive to-
day and not much older than you are
who, by taking advantages of that
only chance, are well on the way to-
wards modest degree of wealth.
They didn't have any better start
than you had. They had no better ed
ucation either. And don't for good
ness sake, admit that they have any
the better Of you in grit or courage
or will power. Take a single in
stance:
About twenty years ago a certain
I teamster died, leaving a widow and
three children, the oldest a boy of
thirteen. He also left insurance TO
the amount of $500.
What was left of the insurance
money, after the funeral expenses
were paid, was loaned out to u neigh
Dor at per cent interest. The fami
ly made a start by agreeing that
they would never touch that money
until they absolutely had to.
The mother got work to do in the
day time; the eldest son got one job
delivering papers in the early MORN
ing at So a week and another as
Office boy at So. So they got along
for two years. Then Johnny got an
offer to clerk in little coal office at
| $40 n month.
After office hours he canvassed the
people on the street where the family
lived and got customers for the coal
dealer, who was only too glad TO pay
him $50 month the second year.
At the end of two years more he
had saved enough money to go out
west and take up a government home
stead claim of 16O acres. By that
time the second boy was old enough
TO go to work, and Johns mother
told him to go ahead, they'd get
along all right.
n The first year on his claim John
had lot of hard luck. He raised
several hundred bushels of potatoes,
but the price was so low that he de-
cided to hold them for raise. He
buried them in pits in the ground by
way Of storage, but moisture got
them and when he was ready to sell
almost all the crop was badly rotted.
He had to have money and the Goa
dealer he used to work for was per
suaded TO loan him 5000. 1t took him
three years more to pay off that loar
and get the ranch in good running or
der. Then, what with small fruit:
and the first of his apples and the
regular crops he was able to send fol
his mother and the two other children
Today John IS owner of 600 acres
of good ground. He is down in Brad
street as good for $50, 600. And ther'
isn't cent of graft or easy money il
the lot of it
On Sunday afternoon and on weel
day evenings after dinner John take
the old lady out riding in his auto
He got that machine by saving an
working for it. He sent his siste
throuhg college too. And now he
\ married and has q dauhgter of hi
own. Working and saving hash
I made John mean. He spends his mon
ey as easily as the next man. On
= beauty about 1t is that now he has
\ to spend and, just by way of keepin
his hand in he still manages to put b
z little every month.
! A majority of the automobiles ths
Y rush by the boarding house these fir
I autumn evenings are owned by me
: who worked and saved for them an
y can now afford to ride in them, will
Z out suffering from palpitation of IL
! heart every time tire happens
4 pop.
For some of them, of course, gra
and easy money and mortgages al
! unpaid grocery bills are responsible
n but that make of car isn't the XIII
that good fellows, like you and Bill
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