The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-11-06
START A BANK
ACCOUNT THIS FALL


The following article from the Pro-
gressive IN. c. Farmer is timely and
full of good common sense and the
Star takes pleasure in reproducing. it:
Along with its campaign for big
ger crops per acre and better selling
methods, the Progressive Farmer ex-
poets to hammer increasingly the
overwhelming need for saving as well
as making. We believe that every
farmer in the South should have a
bank account, however small, and
there viii never be better time than
right now to begin. How will it help
you to put your money in the bank :?
Here are some of the ways:
A bank is the safest place to keep
money, and it is actually dangerous
to keep any considerable sum of mon
ey about the home. Doing so is simply
an invitation to burglars and muir
derers. Of course it is important
that you put your money in a sound
bank, manned by officials in whom You
have confidence; but there is now
hardly a section of the South without
such banks, and 90 per cent of all our
banks are far, far safer than the prac-
tice of keeping money at home
1t is good business. Farming is a
business; why not conduct it as such
Other business men have their banks
in which they regularly deposit their
surplus funds, with which they estab-
lish their credit and obtain loans at
fair interest rates. Is there any par
ticular reason why we should not run
our business in the same way? On
the other hand there are dozens and
dozens Of reasons why we should
why, as a matter of fact, it is the
only sensible way in which it can be
conducted.
1t encourages thrift, that splendid
attribute that we usually associate
with strength and character. We all
admire the man who, with tempta-
tions to spend wastefully all about
him, can resolutely say no to them
all; we know that any nation blessed
with men of such breed has in it
elements of strength and power that
will make it great. One of the finest
things you can hope for for your boy
is that he be thrifty and strong in
self-denial, and you yourself can do
few better things than set him an ex-
ample.
1t is insurance against a destitute
old age. There is no more pathetic
thing in the world than an old couple,
broken by toll and poverty, their
children gone, little to hope and live
for, condemned to fight on year after
year for their very bread. Let US in
the summer of life and Strength so
work and save that when the winds
of life's winter blow dpon us, we can
face them without fear.
1t promotes buying on a cash basis
So long as. we are dragged down by
the credit system milestone that
curses the cotton country, we must
not expect any great progress, indi-
vidual or collective. There is just one
way to get away from this evil, and
that is to put your business on cash
basis and keep it there. This is GO
ing to mean self-denial and possibly
some actual hardships, but it is better
for year to do without many actual
necessities than to go on forever pay
ing tribute to system that grinds
men and women and children down
into the dust of hopeless poverty. Put
some money in the bank, and when
you buy, buy for cash, at cash prices.
Then, if you haven't enough money to
buy all you need, do without it, we
say, rather than ego into bondage
again.
Get in touch with the banker in
your town, and do it now; very often
he's a mighty good man to know.