The Detroit times., 1916-01-14
MONEY MAKERS
BY DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. b. Frank Cranel

An you have to do. to save money. is
to spend less than you get And any
human being that is healthy and compos
mentis can live on, say, nine-tenths of
what he is now living on and put by the
other tenth There may be exceptions
TO this rule; we must grant that for the
severely accurate, but they are scarce
as hens teeth. It is safe to say that
those who say they need every cent of
what they make. and that it is impos-
sihIe TO save anything at all, are vic
TINS of sif-pity, weak will, and bad
management.
And saving money is about all that
most Of rs can do. And that makes few
rich.
If I make SO week ! can lay aside
81. Ii | make 81, 900 a week may bank
5000 of it Though | certainly would
noO. But in either case / wouldn't get
rich.
Rich people are not those who earn
large salaries. They are those who
handle money who make money earn
money
OF course in this argument we ex-
clude two classes-those who have mon
ey given them by inheritance or other
wise, and those who get money by
chance. These two classes merely step
into money some one else has made.
But very few people get rich, for the
simple reason that money making re-
quires a certain order Of genius. Money
makers are born. They have a natural
gift
They are like poets. mechanicians.
orators, artists, in that they are endow-
ed by their Creator with a peculiar ca
pacity.
The money makers are the real kings
Of modern life, because vulgarly we mea-
sure all things, including human worth,
by dollars
If you make $4,000 year at your
job il is only because your employer is
making more than that amount out Of
your services. lie is the player; you are
the chess-man He is the general; you
are the private
The best thing for us workers to do
is To let money making alone. Nine
times out Of ten when we go into that
game we arc stung
Wall-st Is strewn with the corpses Of
lambs who thought they could outwit the
cunning old wolves that hunt there.
Many shop keeper has been ruined
trying to get rich, not realizing that he
is not a money maker but a money
Garner.
And many and many a widow has lost
al her insurance money by imagining
that being possessed Of a tidy lump sum,
she could increase it rapidly by shrewd
investment. She does not understand
that in speculating in real estate or buy
ing stocks she is pitting her inexperience
against genius and trained ability.
Let the natural born money makers
make money let US, you and me, con-
I tent ourselves with the only thing where
i'm we have a prospect Of sure success
i. e., saving money.
Sometimes the money-maldng faculty
is q racial heritage as among the He
brcws. Sometimes il runs in a family.
and sometimes it appears sporadically,
and money-making genius crops out in
bc most expected place, just as Lin
coin, Napoleon. or a Leonardo comes
from a commonplace environment.
The thing for US to remember IS that
getting rich is but one small way in
(which human endeavor succeeds that
those who achieve riches are by no means
certainly happy, and that their power
/ TO acquire luxuries is usually destructive
/ TO character
And to remember also that the money
saver, if he be intelligent and if he have
common sense and philosophy, is prac-
/ tically assured of contentment.
Also. the great achievements of life,
in learning, science, art, literature and
Ian creative work, are much more worth
striving for, and produce vastly more
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