The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
TALKS ON THRIFT
Examples Of Successful Men

Teach economy, that Is one of the first
and highest virtues. 1t begins with saving
money. y.'-Abrahafn Lincoln.
1t is remarkable with what unanimity
men of prominence and success say that
they got their start by saving money.
And every one of these men has advised
young persons to go and do likewise.
Some of the foremost men in every walk
of life have gone on record as to the great
benefits of systematic thrift-W washington,
Lincoln, Gladstone Bismarck, Roosevelt,
Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Carnegie, John
Wanamaker, John d. Rockefeller, James
]. Hill and scores of others of equal prom
inence and successful attainments have
preached and practiced industry and
thrift.
Read the experience tested words of the
great Chicago merchant, the late Marshall
Field, a man who began life as a poor
clerk.
IF you would succeed in business never
spend a cent more than you earn. No
matter now small your earnings. you
should master this art l use the word
| art advisedly, as so many young men
appear to fritter away, without SO much
as thought, all their earnings
John Wanamaker the merchant prince,
| who started with a very small job in
| Philadelphia 80 years ago, and now owns
mammoth stores in Philadelphia New
York and Paris, knows what it means
| TO have to save money, and this is his tes-
| timony:
THE difference between the clerk who
| spends all his salary and the clerk who
saves part of it is the difference-in 10
| years-between the owner of a business
| and the man out of a job
| The business career of John ID. Rookie
feller. generally believed to be the richest
| man in the world, had very humble be-
ginning in a rural section of New York
state. This is what he says about saw
| ing:
How can one be ready for the glorious
opportunities ahead of him unless he has
cultivated the habit of economy and
prudence? He must save all he can in
season and out of season."
There is a vertable palace on River
side Drive, New York city, the residence
of Charles M. Schwab, former president
of the United States Steel corporation.
over On Fifth avenue an even more mag
nifcent house is being built for Henry
c. Frick at a cost of millions of dollars,
while nearby on the same famous thor
oughfare, is the New York residence of
the canny Laird of Skibo," Mr.. Car
negie, who has been the making of his
two neighbors just mentioned, to say
nothing of about 20 other millionaires
whose early industry and thrift was re-
warded by this famous steel magnate--a
very poor boy himself i'm the beginning.
! starting his gainful work as a bobbin boy
| in cotton factory.
| James ]. Hill, the railroad president and
empire builder, who was a farmers boy
| in Canada and New York state; Frederick
| Weyerhauser, the multi-millionaire lum-
ber man; II. l.. Doherty, the Columbus
o., newsboy; who became a New York
| banker; Edwin Hawley, who died in con-
troll of several railroads, although his
! first job paid him only 81 week: Frank
| Woolworth the jefferson county, New
York. farmers boy, who got married on
$50. and now owns 600 stores and the
| highest building in the world; Frank A.
| Nanderlip, the Illinois farm boy, who is
| now president of the biggest bank in the
country; e. III. Hartman, A. II. Wiggn
| and c. ID. Norton, three sons of poor
| clergymen, who became, respectively. the
greatest railroad magnate and presidents
of two of New Yorll's largest financial in
| stitutions-these are only a few of the
great cloud of witnesses to the wisdom OF
thrift and saving from income for future
neews and opportunities.
! But. after alr, il is not the testimony OF
| the millionaires that counts so much as
| IL is the consensus of opinion of the great
number of modestly successful people in
| every community who owe their success
| TO steady saving.
| Every man. woman and child ought to
save. That is the earnest and repeated
exhortation of practically all the good and
wise men who have ever lived. To learn
to save is really one of the most i'm
l.ortant lessons OF life. Have you learned
III vet?