The Monte Vista journal., 1917-01-27
THRIFT DAY WILL
SOON BE HERE
Are You Making Preparations?
Febry. Sd Is Day for Action
BY G. Y. CLEMENT

Maybe you have been thinking of
Thrift Day and planning to take adj
vantage of it.. How far have you
gone?
Possibly you have noticed that
when the neighbor's ashes next door
are hauled away, there are only cind-
ers and ashes in the can; and you
have decided that, starting on the
| morning of February Sd, your ash
can henceforth will contain only
cinders and ashes intead of that
large proportion of "black dia-
monds" that you have been wasting
for such a long time. You have just
been putting the matter off, but now
you have decided that Thrift Day
will start future in which the
alarm clock is going to be set for
fifteen minutes earlier so as to save
that coal.
On the other hand, your decision
to start a thrift habit On Thrift Day
may be that of being more thrifty
with your health, and taking that
exercise in the morning before you
start the period of confinement at
your desk for the long day.
Your thoughts of Thrift Day may
include thrift for others. You have
come to realization that one should
start young the practice of thrift.
Knowing that Thrift Day is soon
to be here, you have been encourag-
ing that little fellJw in your home
to sequester ten cents out of his 25-
cent allowance each week so that on
Thrift Day he is going to have a Gel
ebration by starting a savings ac-
count of his own. He has been busy
with his planning. 1t has been all
figured out.
You have determined that you are
going to carefully nourish his mind
early in life with practical thrift-a
thrift influence the benefit of which
you failed to receive.
Yes-and your wife has become
interested through reading the pa
pers and listening to the thrift plans
of others. Mother" has decided
that on Thrift Day, February Cd, she
is going to start that household cost
accounting book that she has put off
for these several years. She says
she is going to know "just where
the money goes"
You know, and everybody knows
that there are thousand ways to
practice thrift. In every direction
that one turns, there is opportunity
for greater efficiency, and that's just
what thrift is.
Thrift brings people together in a
better understanding; and if better
understandings are the result of
Thrift Day, what wonderful insti-
tuition it is.
When everybody registers one lit
tie action in the way of thrift habit
in the aggregate for our whole coun-
try it runs into such stupendous
| figures that we all stand aghast.
For every American to start on
| Thrift Day a thrift habit that might
| represent only one dollar saved
either through the reduction of
waste, increased cons rvation, saw
| ing of time or what-not, it would
mean an aggregate of at least one
hundred million dollars added to our
resources.
There is a lot of inspiration in
| Joining the multitude, especially If
all are going to benefit.
Have you decided on your thrift
action for Thrift Day?
1t viii make every day thereafter
more thrifty. The best habits we
| ever form have small beginnings.
Thrift Day will stand out as a red
letter day in the lives of many indi-
viduals.
Thrift Day is a day for thought
and action.