The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10

week. At forty-eight it's the saddest
day, because if man Of that age is
still on somebody's payroll, pay day
only marks the passing of another
week-seven days away from youth
and efficiency and that much nearer
the bread-line''.
This is what we-read in little book
called GA Self-Made Failure the
other night. 1t ism t a new philosophy.
In fact the book was copyrighted way
back in 1914 and lot of people have
read il so long ago that they have
probably forgotten, but it just appear
cd 20 us hat this paragraph was worth
reading again and possibly some fellows
might find it worth remembering.
The nan isn't worth much if he
ism ( toohing at the payroll, but if he
gpends ali his time looking at pay
envelope ss ia mighty liable to get
Soior blind 10 lot Of nther things
which ~ X considerable value to him.
While ehe pay envelope IS one reason
for wOrEtag. 10 Ia only onc reason and
the FallDyv wAo looks afto- some Of the
other re4aona is the follow who is
pretty liable 70 get cut of the pay
envelope class sarlv in his working life.
Thcre iS nothing to be said against
the man @ho gets the pay envelope and
in lot Of cases he is lot better off
than the boss who has to fill the afore-
said envelope. Not all Of the pleasures
Of life come in being boss over men.
The really interesting and the really
valuable thing in life is to get to the
place where you are q boss over your
self and not q slave to the pay. en-
velope. Proper attention to the pay
envelope and what it contains along
with proper attention to the energy
which the contents pay for, is pretty
certain to put you out of the fear of
the bread.line by the time you are
forty eight. The happy little philosophy
of this Self Made Failure goes
farther For instance it suggests ~
had the wrong view point. Instead
of trying to earn more than I could
spend I should simply have spent less
than j was earning.
This last suggestion is the one we
considered important because it is the
one that is going to drive out the fear
Of the bread-line'' The man who
" simply" and that is very imports
ant part of the sentence, spends little
less than he is earning and takes that
little less and puts it away into the
right pocketyis the fellow who is 60
ing to get to the place where Saturday
night and the Saturday night pay en-
velope arc not going to worry him.
Right now the information contained
in this little book is mighty valuable
piece of information for the men Of
Kenosha. These working men and
most all of us are working men-are
getting into new era sof things. In
past months and past years we seemed
to behave that there was lot Of
money that had to be expended on
friendships, We never learned that
friendship is a mighty good thing as a
liability, but that it falls down ter
ribly when it comes to stalking up with
list Of assets.
Our friend who wrote the book had
this to say along these lines. eff
you ever make real money don I
invest it all in friendship; put some
Of it in the bank =.
Most of their life lot of the young
men and the middle aged men and some
of the old men have been investing a
lot Of money in friendship. Some one
has now just naturally kicked the legs
off the counter where these friend
ships" were accustomed to be trained
and petted. The disappearance of the
cup that was supposed to cheer, has
gone a long ways toward taking away
the traffic in friendships Money
that has been spent in this traffic is
just as good money as any that ever
came from g pay. envelope and even
though you may think that the govern
ment at Washington and the President
and all the rest of them, have been
robbers Of personal liberty and every
thing else, why not make virtue of
necessity and try banking the money
you nave been accustomed to put into
the friendship fund. You may find af-
ter all, as the bank balance grows and
that as you get more accustomed to
doing without some sorts of friend
ships developes, that maybe these
men down in Washington were your
real friends.
The Z" friendship fund hash t
brought you much interest in the past.
1t may have brought good fellowship,
and smiles and laughter at night with
an accompanying headache and dark
brown taste in the morning, but
these are not tangible assets. 1t
hasn't been an investment which left
You coupons to cut.
Right now you have the chance to
start all over again. 1t would seem
tha$ the development of certain kinds
OF friendship are no longer fashionable.
The money you were earning you are
going to continue to earn and there
isn't any reason why you should not
continue to expend it on friend. The
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