Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-27
THINKING AHEAD' IS BEST RULE TO
 OBTAIN SUCCESS
Make a Beginning on Ma tional Thrift Day, if You
 Haven't Started.

One of Harry Iauder's count1ymen was asked to define success. Us nae rememberain's 'mooch." said the Scotsman. It's thinkin' ahead.'
 Certainly that phrase t; worth re- membering. It may not exactly de- fine success but it does dewne what products success-Thrift.
 Maybe you are not very favorably, impressed with that word '"Thrift.' You have heard it enough these war days, but somehow it has always sig nified cheese-paring and tightfisted ness. You are surprised to hear folks talg of thrift as a form of patriotism. Suppose you consult the dictionary. "'Thrift'--the state of one who thriv- es; success prosperity, core in the management of ones resources" you read. The idea of success and pros perity being connected with thrift strikes you as samethins old. There is no disputing it, howevef.
 Think for one minute of the great nations that have come and gone in the vanished centuries. Assyria, Babylonia, Greece, Rome-eacn went the way to dusty death when luxury and ease and splendcr took the place of thrift, frugality and simple living among the people.
 Consider the lives of our greatest men. Thrift shines out through their careers like vein of gold in the rock. Their words are noteworthy. "Economy,' said Abraham Lincoln, 'is one of the first and highest vir- tues. It begins with saving eff you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting,' declared Benjamin Franklin. eff you would be sure that you are beginning right ayers Roosevelt, begin to save.' Thrift is the foundation of success in busi- ness, of contentment in the home. of standing in society" remarked Rus sell Sage. "The man who does not and cannot save money, counsels Andrew Carnegie, cannot and will not do anything else worth while.'' Thrift, you will perhaps agree. is much more than stintins and scraping ,, to have. It is savinG and spending wisely with an eye to the future as we'll as the present; it is common sense and care in the management Of one's resources.
 Possibly you are not aware that on the average no less than eighty-five persons in one hundred die leaving estates below $500 in value. Will you l1eave an estate to the wife or family who may survive you? That is an important question. If you wish to insure their protection, you know that thinking and acting ahead is essent. ial. On National Thrift day, which will be celebrated in many thousands of cities and towns and villages of the United States on February next, you will have a splendid opportunity to start. That day will find hundreds of thousands of persons beginning new thrift habit-saving time, money. en' ergy, food and other things. Some
 will open or add to a bank account. Whatever their action, it will be thrif- ty-anotner step in the direction of progress.
 You can help yourself and your family to better things by planning to have something, to buy where you
 can get the best value, to provide fol the future-to practice thrift. Talk if over with someone today. And
 when National Thrift day comes, act I-after the beginning, the rest is easy
 Thrift will become your key to sue
 cess. You will be glad that like the !scotsman, you started "thinkin iahead." 1 To promote individual and collect i've thrift in Pine Bluff, bankers and merchants of Pine Bluff, cooperating with The Graphic, are giving prizes ] for cash. The cash prizes are to be lawarded for the best letter of "HoV IT was Successful in Practicins Thrift" of not more than 800 words
 Fujl details of the offer are are givel
 in an announcement elsewhere in thl' issue of The Graphis.
 Sergt. Sam Cook is spendlng to