The Meeker herald., 1917-07-07
KEEP OUT OF DEBT
n You Are In Debt You Are a Fly
Glued to the Fly Paper.
LITTLE CHANCE TO ESCAPE.
The More You Struggle the Tighter
You stiek-seon Your Courage 10
Gone and You Are q Dead Fty-es
Wise and shur That Fly Paper.

More than half the people are In DEBT
that Ia to say, they are living beyond
their means or they are spending every
cent .-.
And the man who is spending every
cent he gets is actually In debt ND
running In debt, for he IL running n
debt to his old age, when he won't be
| able to make and won't be able to
spend and when the spending OF To-Day
means debt later.
Those that are in debt know what
debt In. There Is no need to tell them
about it.
First you owe $50 II you are little
manor $4,000 IL you are big man.
And then you owe $10O-or 100000
IL you are big.
For awhile you struggle and plan.
You are going to pay 1t of soon. 1t
Is good thing to use 20. p. M."-that
ia to say, other peoples money-in the
effort to get ahead.
You tell yourself that all the big
men have used their credit and Dor
rowed and gone ahead rapidly.
| 1t all sounds very nice and plausible.
But remember that you keep getting
| In deeper.
The fly lights on the fly paper. per-
haps with only one leg at first. He
says this is nothing and puts down the
other leg to push himself of.
| And then he is stuck fast.
And then he says to himself, II will
| fly away from this fly paper" so he be-
gins Tapping his wings. And both Of
his wings stick to the paper
There he is with his feet stuck and
his wings stuck and only his head free
That fly feels about us Independent
and hearty as you do II you are In debt.
And he says: 81 can get OF of this pa
per easily enough when. get ready.
| I'll just put my head down and push
myself off,"
He buzzes for awhile. Then he puts
his head down OH the fly paper to push
| himself of.
Then his head sticks tight. He be-
gins to choke.
By and by he rolls over on his side.
he sinks into the sticky surtace-and
there is another dead fly.
So 1t Is with men In debt. So 1t will
be with you If you stay in debt
The only hope for the fly the moment
he feels one foot on the fly paper Is to
use both wings and fly away. not put
ting in the other foot, flying of IS
quickly as he can.
And billion times wiser and better
IL the occasional rare fly who sees the
other flies sticking to the fly paper and
says. II 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,
reflected in the children.
See the lack Of standing. the extrava-
gance and the poverty mixed together
You can't mistake the human fly
stuck on the fly paper of debt.
Since you cannot mistake him why
not keep away from that fly paper7
Debt makes everything worthless.
If you owe $1,000 1t seems rather
foolish to save ten or twenty.
You feel that you might as well
spend 1t; 1t won't make any difference.
And 30 1t goes If you owe $1,000
And then 1t isn't worth while to save
twenty or forty.
And you become failure. You put
down your feet and then your wings
and then your head, which is ambition,
and by and by you roll over and you
are dead ny.
Keep out of debt.-From the New
York Evening Journal
Copyright by the Star Company