The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-15
THRIFT THE ONLY WAY
Prosperity Can Be Gained Only by
Saving

Prosperity van ~ 0a''NH OffJ ~
Saving
"There seems to be an increasing
tendency in our life for people to live
ND TO the limit of their income. The
rainy day which our fathers had
always in mind has no terrOrs for our
generation. With sublime faith that
the evil of each day is sufficient to
itself, and that each emergency can
be cared for as it comes, we go our
way and enjoy ourselves to the limit.
1t is even becoming customary for
those who are in public employ TO
ask that the public will take care OF
them, when their working days are
about past so that they can live to-
day with no thought for the morrow.
The same advice given to all young
people is to cut down their eXtravag
ances and divert money to profitable
ends. But what many of them actu-
ally do is to ,cut down their necessit-
ties and enlarge their luxuries. Thrift
is a virtue OF yesterday and of to-
morrow, but not of today. Lynn
News.
One of the scores of excellent floats
in the peace celebration parade here
on the Fourth undertook to visualize
the lesson of thrift to those before
whose eyes ii passed The float
was divided into two parts; the one
representing well furnished room
in which sat prosperous looking
couple well along in years; the other
the common living room Of family
which was in a constant state of con
flict with the wolf at the door.
On this float the contrast between
prosperity and want was presented.
Under the room showing the prosper
GUS couple was sign which said In
effect, I'VE began saving when we
were young" while the squalid room
OF the destitute man and wife was
tagged, I'VE wish we had In many
ways it was a striking picture and II
was most favorably commented upon
by no less a parsonage than the Hon.
Mackenzie King. who at one time
was minister of labor in the Cana.
dian cabinet and whose mind is keen
to grasp the necessities of the work
ingman.
One can find national ex-
ample of what thrift means and ac
comphshes. Take France. Thrift
abounds there and what is the result?
Well, only the other day a govern
ment loan was over-subscribed forty
times. the amazing total OF S7,00O.000,
600 being offered And was It sub
scribed by the bankers and the
wealthy? Hardly. The news dis
patches tell us that the crowd which
was cage to take up the loan 'inclnd
I'd all classes OF society, from the
prosperous RENTER to the hatless
working woman bringing her hus-
bands savings carefully hidden away
under her shawl. One saw workihen
with baggy velveteen bseeches. over
allied engineers, soldiers in Uniform,
old women clutoiIing reticules, and
cooks with market baskets"
And they had the money to sub
scribe the loan forty times over!
That is the example OF thrift France
presents, with her traditional stock
ing lined with gold. II is probable
that there are many in this country
who are so near the margin of bare
existence that they cannot save. but
the number cannot be great In com
parison, for we are a remarkably pros
porous country in the long run. and
industry receives its reward. But we
do live a little too fast, and we do
forget the rainy day too often. We
should learn the lesson of thrift and
anyone or anything that helps to
teach IL to us is to be commended
st. Adams Messenger.