The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-03-27
KEEP OUT OF DEBT
If You Are In Debt You Are a Fly
Glued to the Fly Paper.
LITTLE CHANCE TO ESCAPE.
The More You Struggle the Fighter
You stiok-soon Your Courage 10
Gone and You Are a Dead FIy-se
Wise and shun That Fly Paper.

the more you struggle xhe Ii9nteF
You stick--soon Your Courage 10
Gone and You Are a Dead FIy-1e
Wise and shun That Fly Paper.
More than half the people are in debt
that Is 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 and
running In debt, for he is running In
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 today
means debt later.
Those that are In debt know what
debt is. There is no need TO tell them
about It.
First you owe $50 IL you are little
manor $4,000 IL you are big man.
And then you owe $100-or 500. 900
II you are big.
For awhile you struggle and plan
You are going to pay it OF soon- 1t
Is good thing to use 20. P. 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 Dor
roWed and gone ahead rapidly.
It 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, Il VIII
fiy away from this fly paper so he be
gins Tapping his wings. And both OF
his wings stick to the paper.
There he 10 with his feet stuck and
his wings stuck and only his head free.
That dy feels about as independent
and hearty as you do II you are In debt.
And be says: II can get OF Of this pa
per easily enough when get ready.
III Just put my head down and push
myself Oh. :"
He buzzes for awhile. Then he puts
his head down on the fly paper to push
himself OF.
Then his head sticks tight. He be-
gins to choke.
BY and by be rolls over on his side,
be sinks Into the sticky surface and
there IL another dead fly.
So It is with men In debt. 50 It win
be with You II 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 or as
quickly as he can
And billion times wiser and better
is the occasional rare hy 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 fy paper OF debt.
Since you cannot mistake him why
not keep away from that ay paper7
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 it: 1t won't make any difference.
And SO 1t goes II you owe $1,000.
And then It 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 and by you roll over and you
are dead fly
Keep out of debt.--From the New
York Evening Journal.
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