The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-03-29
Keep OUT CT Debt
II You Are. In Debt You Are a Fly
Glued to the Fly Fa2er.
LITTLE CHANCE TO ESCAPE.

The More You Struggle tho Tighter
You Stiek-Soon four Courage 10
Gone and You Are a Dead Fiy-1e
Wise ard Shun That Fly Paper.
More than half the lNol,e are III debt
that is to say, they ate liz, 4, beyond
;lei.. means or they are spending every
.ent.
and the man who Is spending every
eat H. gets is Actually i'll dent aud
running in debt, for he IL running in
debt to his Oil age. wien he won't be
able to make and won't Ue atle to
spel,. aud when tha Spending Of today
means debt later.
Those that are IN debt know what
debt is. There is no need to tell them
abolt it.
FIRST you awe $50 If yoa are little
n,an-ar s50,f0a If yoa are big man.
And then you owe Si0l-or 100000
if you are big.
For awhile you struggle and plan.
Yol are going to ray it off soon. 1t
g good thing to use 20. +. M."-that
is to say, other peoples money-in the
effort to get ahead,
You tell yourself that all the big
men have used their credit and ber-
Tawcl AID gone ahead rapidly,
1t ali sounds very ntce and plausible.
Eut remember that you keep getting
in deeyer.
The tly lights on the fly paper. per-
haps With only one leg at first. He
says this IL netting and pits down the
other leg to rush himself Off.
And thea lie is stuck fast.
Aod then he says to himself, Il will
fy way irum this Gy paper" so he be-
gins Tapping his wings. And both Of
his wings stiei, TO the paper.
There he is with his feet stuck and
his wings stuck a.id only his head free
That t. feels about as independent
and hearty as you do If you are in debt.
And he says: Il can get of cf this pa
per easily enough When get ready.
III inst put my head down and push
myself off,"
He buZZes for awhile Then he puts
his head down on the fly paper to- push
himself off.
Then his head sticks tight, He be-
gins to choke. ~.
By and by he rolls over on his side,
he sinks into the sticky surface land
there Ia another dead fly. x
So 1t is with men In debt. so it wiz
be with you If you stay in debt.
he only hope for the fiy the moment
he feels one foot on the fly paper is to
use both wings and hy away, not put
ting In the other foot. flying OF. ~
quickly as he can. s2rs
And q billion times wiser and better
Is the occasional rare fyiwho sees the
other flies sticking to the fly paper and
says. Il don't like the look Of those
flies; I'll stay away from them
Look at the people in debt. See their
worry. See the anxiety Of the mother,
reelected in the children.
See the lack of standing. the extrava-
gance and the poverty mixed together.
You can't mistake the human fy
stuck on the fly paper Of debt.
Since you cannot mistake him why
not keep away from that fly paper1
' Debt makes everything worthless,
II you owe $1,000 it seems rather
foolish to save ten or twenty.
You feel that you might as well
spend 1t: 1T won't make any difference.
And so it goes If you owe $4,000.
And then 1t isn't worth while to save
twenty or forty,
And you become a failure. You put
down your feet and then your wings
and then your head, which Is ambition,
and by aud by yo,i roll over and you
are dead fly.
kee., out OF dcbt;-E'rdm the New
York Evening Journal.
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