The Colorado statesman., 1917-02-24
TALKING ABOUT MONEY
Here's Pay-Up Lesson for the
Kids at Home.
Always Pay Bills Regularly, Because
It's Best to Do So-Stingy Folks
Usually Become Rusty Through
Money Doesn't.

If you don't pay too much for it,
get. Some folks forget that money
costs anybody anything and they try
to get something for nothing-which
never happens. 1t costs sweat and
brains and-but you sit down at the
table there and write down as many
things as you can think of that folks
pay for money, health, chum life with
children, the spirit of play-and things
like that.
If you don't pay too much for 1t,
Laddie, money is a good thing to
keep. Some folks forget that keep
ing money costs somebody something
all the time 1T is kept doing nothing.
Money doesn't get rusty by being kept,
even if some jokers say it does. No,
money doesn't get rusty, but folks do
who get the habit of making it act
rusty. Their joints get rusty, their
friendships get rusty, their generous
feelings get rusty, and sometimes their
bills get terribly rusty-the bills they
owe other folks. Some of them-the
folks-say they must keep all the
money they can get so that they can
have good time some other time. But
OF Getting the habit of keeping all
of ones money is very costly habit
to get-it is almost as costly as the
habit of keeping all of other folks
money one can get hold of.
If you don't pay too much for 1t,
Lassie, money is good thing to spend.
The kind of stuff you're made of is
going to come to the top plainest and
surest by the way you use money, by
what you have to show for it when
you have spent it. The best teacher
in the world said that the best way to
use money is to buy friends with it,
so that when the money fails you will
have friends to take you into their
homes. Lots of good people think the
teacher was talking through his hat.
He wasn't, no matter what they think.
Some people have TO spend money
before they get it, but of course they
have to borrow it from someone else
who will let them take 1t and spend 1t.
Sometimes they give note which says
they will get back some other money by
certain time and give it back to the
man who lets them take his money and
spend it; and they pay him for the
use of his money. That's business.
Sometimes they borrow stuff that
man has paid money for and say,
"Charge it," And he charges 1t. And
then when he wants very much to use
the money he paid for the goods and
asks the folks who borrowed the
goods to let him have his money,
some of the folks sometimes get very
angry and smite him with hard words
and tell him to go to Helena, Arkansas,
or some other seaport, and keep on
using the other mans money when he
ought to have it to use in his business.
Nobody calls that business. You will
learn when you are older what some
folks do call it. 1t is not nice for
little children to say such words.
Very many people who like to do
business have agreed to set a time
when everyone who has borrowed
books or umbrellas or groceries or
cows or furniture or china eggs, and
said, "Charge It," will come together
and have a great picnic-everybody
will pay all his bills so everybody else
can pay all of his bills, and everybody
will start in business all over again.
1t will be the jolliest picnic most of
the folks have ever gone to. Do you
like to so to picnics? Well, so does
everybody. You may now go and wash
your neck and ears.