The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-28
LET'S SAVE SOME MONEY THIS FALL.

While this years cotton crop is short, it with
the seed will doubtless bring the South a billion
dollars-probably more, in fact, than any previous
crop has brought us. Tobacco prices, too, are ex-
ceptionally high; wheat, corn, oats, and all KINDS
of live stock are bringing record prices. SO, DE-
spite storms and floods that have meant disaster
locally, the average Southern farmer will this fall
be in better condition financially than for many
moons, says the Progressive Farmer.
Ali this means that we have the opportunity of
our lives to save some money-the golden oppor-
tunity to break away from the bondage OF time
prices, put some money in the bank, and get our
selves on a cash basis. For two or three years
prices have not been good; now that they are the
highest in many years, foolish indeed is the man
who. does not put some money in the bank against
the rainy days that are sure to come.
To the ambitious tenant farmer especially
would we appeal to make use of this great oppor-
tunity. Home-ownership should be the ideal of
every tenant, and wise is the man who this fall,
instead of wasting the profits from the years
work on .senseless, extravagant ~luxuries, uses
them to give himself a mighty boost toward eco
nomic freedom. Every year, as land values go
higher and higher, the tenant is going to find it
increasingly difficult to, become a landowner and
home.owner We know the temptation to spend
il great, but the man with real grit, the man who
means to do or die in his fight for a home for him
self and his family, will pass them all by and put
some money in the bank, into live stock, or into
equipment that will help him to still further in
crease, his earning capacity.
Likewise the landowner who looks forward to
Z greater degree of economic freedom will not
wastafully squander the profits from this years
crops. Comparatively few farmers have been
able to avail themselves of the savings that come
from paying cash. What would it be worth to us,
for instance, to buy for cash all fertilizers in car
lots? What would it mean to us if we had enough
ready cash to enable us to hold cotton, cotton seed
and other products until prices suit us? And aside
from the great savings thus affected, the very
fact that a man has money in the bank makes
him a more outstanding, self-respecting citizen.
If you doubt it, try it!
When the South becomes a land of thrift it
will become a land Of wealth and plenty. The
really great countries Of the world are peopled by
thrifty, hard-headed- sensible folks who are not
ashamed to save, and a large part of the destitu-
tion. and misery Of this world are traceable to
somebody's lack of thrift-somebody's unwilling
ness to give up present pleasures for future pros
perity. The boy and the girl who fail to get the
schooling. they should; the mother, broken by
haid, unending toll the foreclosed mortgage, the
broken-up home-how often do these come from
somebody's failure to save.
It we have not already done so, let us, now,
learn the glorious lesson of thrift; let US Join the
bank line and be our own masters, rather than the
bread line of dependent supplicants. Let's save
some money.