Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-01

| of hearts: NOtnlnB thaL SdSoiS VI
any dishonor is worth while, no mat
ter how great or alluring the advan'
tages may seem to be-" When some
opportunity to do an unworthy thing
when some temptation to make false
statement, presents itself to boy o'
principle, he doesn't have to argue
with himself about it. He doesn't have
to inquire whether the seeming ad
yantages outweigh the disadvantages
He is boss Of himself. He is real ru'
Ter and king by eternal principles
and not cringing, cowardly slave Of
seeming temporary advantage, driver
this way or that by every wind thai
blows.
What 1 have said so far has beer
simply for the purpose of emphasizing
the idea that there are just four kinds
of capital you can use in getting
ahead in the world:
Cd A. sound body.
(2) A trained mind.
90 A disciplined spirit.
(4) Money or property.
The fourth item, which some people
secm to think most important, is really
least important; but 1t is nevertheless
important enough to deserve mlghtS
serious consideration.
Do YOU remember that phrase IL
Tennyson's poem, "The Brook" apou'
"how money breeds" Well anyhow the
phrase suggests an idea which a DO!
who expects to get ahead in the worlo
had better keep in mind.
Money breeds. Money multlplies
Iron doesn't. Brass doesn't. A roch
doesn't. A yilver or gold nugge'
doesn't. But money does. Consequent
". If YOU wish to have competence
in YOUR old age, you had better sci
some money breeding pretty early IN
life.
And remember when you spend
dollar needlessly now you are throw
ing away not only the dollar, but also
throwing away the interest on tha'
money every year as long as you liVe
Suppose you could invest your wasteo
dollar so it would bring In only o pei
cent a year compounded. Very well;
before YOU are an old man your 81
would be $40. Before you are seventy
vear. old, assuming that you are ye'
in your teens, your 81 would have be-
come SIG. Or in other words, II you
before YOU are twenty years old, waste
500 that you might have saved, you
have wasted what would have become
$1,000 to you in your old age. or $l'-
OoO saved now would become $5,ooU
IN vour forties, or $4,000 before you
are seventy.
Whenever you are tempted to waste
a dollar, therefore, remember that you
are wasting not only 81, but the nVe'
ten or fifteen additional dollars whicn
that one dollar would make you II you
on,v gave it q chance-if yor let II
breed. A boys money Is his seed corn
money. If you have only lust enoasn
seed corn to plant in your cornneiu
Won take care of every grain. Plant IT,
and YOU will have more corn next year
In the same way, If you have JUST
enough money to equip yourself 1or
life take care of every penny. Invest
them wisely, and you will have more
next wear and every year thereafter
Money breeds.
don't mean, of course, that you
ought to be a miser. 1 pity the man
who doesn't cultivate 1.-The grace OF
giving" I am sorry for the man VINO
isn't willing to give to worthy causes
and to spend money for things that
enrich life-books and music ana
beautv and e reasonable degree OF
wholesome recreation.
But what you, as boy, ought 10 lrS
to do is to save money from useless
exnenditures and useless habits-cigar-
cites, tobacco, the soft drink habit ex-
'travagant showing Off" and all spend
ing of money just because somebody
else is spending it, or because some
slick-tongued agent with some new
tangled proposition expresses a VIII
lingness to separate your money from
YOU. In all such cases just call 70
mind the wise, wise saying OF old John
Ploughman's: Learn to say, NO. IL
will be of more use to you than to De
ohio to read Latin" Resolve that, no
matter how much courage 1t may take
you will save money from all such
foolish expenditures and set 1t 10
"bree ding" until you have the begin
ming of your future fortune.
The question of how to invest your
savirgs-how best to make your mon
ev breed-is one we shall discuss IN
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