Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-24


happiness.
Keep out of po,erty-1eep Of debt
Remembe that dollar you spend quickly today, and
and the day after might later in
dependent manhood power 10 control your time direct your
own career
Money euoug0-tbougb be but day than
YOU pend-ncaus freedom Independence the right look any
in the eye his equal
poverty. debt the spending Of little than
actually have means slavery anxiety humiliation in the
future
Poverty dopyes children of education and igno-
rance
Poverty deoryes children of care and good food-and so it
disease
Poverty takes away courage, despair
makes them seek relief wherever it can be foundand poverty
drunkenness
Wherever You find men miserable poor and undergrad you
will find ignorance and drunkenness.
Wherever YOU better conditions and lift weight o pow
ert9, drunkenness and ignorance diminish.
Whatever your age or habits condition there two
things that you doyou better yourself you
make things
If you young starting life
young enough have many good years of you is abso
mtey in your make life dignfed Independent
and satisfied
you may be- discouraged it too late to
fight against the that weighs millions of the
Of present poverty and that other almost the dread
o poverty the future
is in your power to be free if you will do it. Spend less
than make and you win find that spending less al
most every earning
If puts learning thinking the hours and the
vitality formerly devoted frivolous spending he will find
his power increased.
You remember however that if the majority of
worried up along day day going
in debt is very easy and keeping of it is difficult.
Every day the temptation 10 spend this and spend
that
On day everybody have hat and he gets
ihe thinks he must spend much anybody else doesero
chance of saving
Each thinks that he dress well somebody
And million young fools think they must take drink
is offered themand that they buy drink
their which is idiotic.
Aud tens of thousands Of married kept because
they imagine that they well somebody else
TOO often their wives help them to keep poor.
Try bear in mind that few years from
difference !ou whether you got September
Is 1913, or not-but will make big difference that
whether You few dollars up or few
dozen trying to collect bills from you,
Remember that you well off You say truly
that you dollar people always like the way you
They find ne fault with your dressing.
Remember se varnish all clothing new hats
shoes can't do You bit of good when YOU everybody
know that YOU can afford those things
1t isn't easy to save and be independents If it were every one
would be prosperous and independent But possible keep
ispossbe 10 be free man afraid of no one controlled and
bossed by nobody
Many will article today vino if he could see
again twenty years from would wish with
heart that he had paid attention to it aud realized that it
tended for him.
Few live happy independent from control of other
en-and majority live with poverty of hands always
above them in fear Of the future puched and anxious the
But YOU be YOU viii 1t is in your power to say to
yourself II may not be rich but win be poor III
all thai can in the present and II much of every dollar
+}s. flay.4 It,t