The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-08-28
Talks on Thrift
NO. THE


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THIRD ANNUAL SERIES
I'VE are going to have great pros
perity in the United States. The
greatest ever known. I predict that,
when prosperity ome all the pro.
moters and swindlers who have been
less in evidence for the past several
years will again be in the field.
more active than eve If past ex-
perience is a guide, they will take
millions out of the savings of peo-
pie who are now working hard to
get the money."-Jos. Chapman.
Minneapolis banker.
One of the country's leading bank
ers issues this timely warning against
the danger of trying to get rich too
fast:
This country is filled with fake
schemes that get the peoples %
ey. The amount invested in them by
hard working people and inevitably
lost every year would run into mil
lions.
Recently l saw this matter sum-
med up impressively in the life
stories of three men all living in the
same town, each about As years CT
age, each beginning with nothing.
One was fortunate enough to make a
big killing in a mining stock when
he was a young man. Ever since
then he has been putting his money
into similar ventures, hoping to hit
it again. All he has is the house
gagged. The second is a bachelor.
Free from family responsibilities, he
has lived without the necessity for
provision against the future cor
stantly staring him in the face. He
IS now driving his fourth automobile,
but aside from his salary, his auto
mobile, membership in some clubs
and some reputation as a we'll dress
ed man he has nothing in the world.
The third man married, had a
family and was up against it had.
Provision against the future was a
live consideration with him. He had
to think about wife and children.
what would Mapped to them when
he could no longer work. He saved
all he could persistently. put it into
6 rer cent investment, neve bought
anything that was not sur to bring
hi" his money back. and at As has a
good home, all paid for and we'll
furnished. Besides he has some
money safely invested sufficient to
insure him for a long time against
DIVERSITY and loss of earning power.
bringing in an income that, II not
large enough to retire upon, is new
ertheless an item Of Importance and
one that is getting bigger every
year.
A Geary county. Kansas, farme,-
recently motored into town with 81
500 in a grain sack. 1t took bank
officials more than an hour to count
the money. which vas largely in 81
bills.
The farmer brought in the curren-
cy as a result of a savings account
campaign conducted by a local bank.
The farmer had done no business
with banks in years. OF course, this
man all that time had run the risk
of losing his money by fire or theft.
but that was not his only danSe".
If you have some money lying idle
it often becomes known, and you
are deluged with a multitude of OPP
p%ortunities to invest it in speculative
stocks or securities which it is claim
ed will yield anywhere from s to so
per cent or more per annum.
AS a prospective investor with a
limited sum available, you are apt
to feel that there is no safe invest
ment for you and therefore fail tn
take advantage of the ever present
opportunity to increase your income,
and at the same time to have your
capital available in the time of nee
essity. You will find that every
where the road is made easy for you
to invest our money. with accom-
modating guides and many sign
posts. but the way to get it back is
often a devious one, with no one in
sight TO help you
Keep your money in the bank or in
a conservative investment recom-
mended by your banker and you will
beat 90 out of every 100 investment
schemes that are offered you. Men
who have anything that is really
earning big dividends are not selling
it at bargain prices. They are not
offering it to you at all. What they
are offering to you is something that