The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-18
FOLLOW THESE RULES CLOSELY
 TO BEAT E. C.LL, National Committee of Bankers Issues New Set of Ten Commandments. DRIVE AGAINST HIGH PRICES STARTS JAN. IT Elaborate Program Is Out
 lined For Intensive
 Campaign.

St. Louis, Oct. 1S.-Ten command ments for the guidance of a mans life have been drawn up by a Ma uonal Committee of bankers and others to aid in the great drive of 1920 against the cohorts Of High Cos, of Living.
 This deca!ogue for the frugal man to stffen his morale in Q battle to save something from the protiteers and rent raisers is part of the pro- gram for the National Thrift Week to begin January IT, next.
 Plans for raIlying the armies of money savers for the 1920 drive by holding this thrift week were approv- ed by the American Bankers Assocta- ton in it's recent convention in this city. The idea already had the en- dorsement of the United States League of Building and Loan Associa- ton. National Federation of Con strction Industries, Retail Credit Mems Association, National Associa- ton Of Life Insurance Underwriters, National Credit Mems Association, and the American Life Convention and other national bodies.
 The ten commandments recom- mended by Walter w. Head, of Oma- ha, vice-president of the National Bank section of the American Bankers Association, are:
 1.-NIake q budget.
 2.-Keep an intelligent record of expenditures.
 S.-Have a bank account
 4.-Carry life insurance.
 5.-Make a will
 Gown your own home eventual Iy.
 Play your bills promptly S.-Invest in war savings stamps and other government securities. 9.-Spend less than you earn. 1O.-Share with others. Thrift without benevolence is a doubtful blessing.
 The eight days of the National thrift week have been named after some points of the financial creed as follows:
 Saturday, Jan. 17-'.Bank Day" or National Thrift Day" to emphasize the need for individual thrift and the service a bank renders a community. Sunday, Jan. 1S.-'Thrift Sunday with sermons in all American puIpits on the relation of economic life to religious well being and the need of sharing with others.
 Monday, Jan. 19.-''NationaI Insur- ance Day" to stress the need of pro- tecting one family.
 Tuesday, Ian. 20 - 'Own Your Own Home Day." to show why it is desirable and how it is possible to own your own home.
 Wednesday, Jan. 21. Make a Will Day to urge men to make wills.
 Thursday, Jan. Thrift in In dustry Day. to advocate factory thrift and cooperation between capital and labor. Friday. Jan. 23.-"Family Budget Day"
 Saturday, Jan. 24. - Pay Your Bills Day"
 Supporting this movement in ad dress to the bankers in their conven- ton here, Arthur M. East, of New York, national director of the thrift week movement, said: "Financial and industrial leaders are interested in the increased cost of living because they know that in most cases the bill for the increased cost is handed by the worker to the employer Tor Iigui- dation. The bill for the cost result ing from the inefficiency of the aver age man and housewife in the spend ing of money and their failure to get full value for money received is also handed to the employer for payment either in increased demands for wages or in increased dissatisfaction and industrial unrest.
 "So, many employers are learning that, along with plans for stimulat- ing the interest of the worker in his job, there must go hand in hand with it an education of employees in fund amental economics and in the use and value of money"