The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-10
FINANCIAL FUTURE

Editor state Journal:
What is the financial future of the
Young men and women
This is a subject, in my judgment,
that is attracting both young and old
people al this time
The young man of today has a
greater opportunity to succeed IN the
business world than in the time past;
he has greater advantages as to edu-
cation and opportunities, but how rev
are succeeding in a financial way
from an economical standpoint? How
few are prepared 10 provide for
beInnate and live within their means?
Why is all this. and where is it going
TO end?
The space of time in the number of
years to live in this world are only
few, and to live to horde up money is
not the real success, but it does place
a man as he may grow older so that
the cold world cannot touch him
financially 1t certainly is one of the
incest things to have something stored
away for emergency
Do the young men and women OF
these days deny themselves of what
they might call pleasures, (many
which are costIy) as they should when
they are young? Do they figure on
the rainy day proposition; do they be-
gin at the bottom and work up; or do
they try to start where their mothers
and fathers left off? Who is to blame
for this? Are the parents, or is it the
customs, that are ASSUMING control
over the better judgment of the young
men and women 1t certainly cannot
be true that the young man does not
want to lay away something beyond
what he makes to provide for the
emergency day; it certainly is not all
a pleasure just to spend money and
live up to and ahead of ones means.
A good credit and good name is
worth riches to any person.
1t seems like these days when some
young couples get married the expense
that they Immediately create by the
house they live in and their furniture,
and wedding trips, must appear to
most all thinking young men and
women as if that would be an impos-
sibility to continue that gait of
financiering.
believe that many of the young
men and women look at this right, but
the environments around them are so
great to the extent of spending money
on the so-called immediate pleasures,
shat it is hard for them to do as they
wish or would like 70 do and econ
omize and save something so as to
provide a business and income for a
future day To SPEND all that one
makes on the 1uxuries of life, when
pay day comes it brings grief to the
household of to the individual that
lives up to and ahead of their means.
Let the young men and women give
this consideration and see if they
may not look back with regret that
hey had not gone slower in the ways
of living. economical more and if
greater pleasure and happiness would
not come from it. 1t is nice to have
all of the luXuries of life, but would
il no be better to have homer Many
1 understand. mortgage their homes
to buy automobiles. wouldn't it be
better to start in a smaller way as to
house and furniture. less expensive
trips and in few years all these
pleasures can come and will come to
those that will make and save, and at
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pleasure then it would be to look
back at the past with regrets that
more economy had not been used at the
time when it was best to do so.
My sympathies are with the young
men and women for their success.
F. E. GRIMES.
224 New England Bldg, Topeka,
Kansas.