Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-29
ENABLES
 PEOPLE TO GET
 REAL PLEASURE
Saving Does Not Mean Self Denial Always, But Course
 to Real Enjoyment.

Bankers, ministers, educators and citizens generally of Pine Bluff and CtAer oommunities are receiving in vitations tc participate in the observ-
 ance of February as Thrift Day. and
 to set aside this, special day on which the attention If the people will
 be called to, the individual, neigh
 Lorhccd and national benefits that will flew from a more intense culti- vation of ths thrift habit. Indica- tions presage that the subject of thrift-nct miserless-will receive tHore attention in Pine Bluff during the next week than it has ever been accorded in similar period.
 Everybody appealed to is showing a disposition to aid in the movement. and there is reason to believe that great individual and community benefit will cnsue from the turning of the thoughts df the people to subject in which each is so vitally irtere sted, the practice of which
 means so much to the individual.
 Probably a movement of this char acter could accomplish much good 1T it's proponents would pay little mere attention than they have here tcfore done to making their pro- gram palatabls. Most of the preach ing and teaching dcno en this line begins and ends with the same ad- vlce-save your money instead of spending it. A good many people do not appreciate Or evsn und. rstand advice of this character. Moreover, as 2 practical matter, they find that they get the greatest amcunt of good out of money when they spend it. And their view is right enough. Saw ing as an object in itself is not praiseworthy, but quite the contrary.
 Save Today; Enjcy Tomorrow.
 The cnly real purpose of saving of any kind is that it may enable one to have larger and better use of his income. For instance, if che should wish to have the pleasure of owning his home or an automobile, he must, | Of course, save and for certain period forego sC1e enjoyments for the greater enj 2yment which the home or automobile may afford In sarly life one may save by keeping | dawn expenditure in order that as life advances and he rises in the 1 social scale his style of living may be raised proporti nately. On the c her hand. ono who had been ac- customed to living well would be ] moved by the dictates of prudence syste1 atically to save something so that his standard of comfort be not reduced through the diminished earn ! ing power liable to be experienced as the years go by; or, in extreme cases l that ono should not encounter the l danger of becoming public charge.
 Probably, as matter of fact. the average psrsGn does not like to be told that he is extravagant, nor can he be much frightened by holding up l to him the sad fate that besets those | who neglect to save ? part of their | incsme. Horrible examples are not | much to the purpose. But if men in 1 m dest circumstances, and who are dependent upon others for employ ment and wages. can he shown that by the exercise of thrift-that is, by | the prudent expenditure of so much of their inecrre as is necessary 70 maintain themselves and families in comfcrt and the> laying | aside of the remainder-thsy may i flee themselves from this dependence and step frsm the ranks of employees into the employers class; or that this saving will enable them, by care- full investing, to add t. their own scale of comfort, here will be argu-