Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1919-05-02
SAVING TO STABILIZE
BUSINESS OF COUNTRY
Systematic Buying and Eiimina-
ton of Waste leadt0 Prompt
Payment Of Bills and
Happiness.


the life Of fhe world. TO bring liberty
and = make tie pursuit Of happiness
possible to oppressed humanltr PERI
odleally 10 fhe United slaics fBerr
have eoma Hmes Of dnaasiM deafes-
soH production has exceeded con
@imHlan factory doors Hafe closed ;
WORKERS Aaye found themselves - BE-
ont raucr md te ata.lers who sefFe
fhem have 5fd fire gloomy aifesno-
tive Of efaing credit aHI going cut
~ ta#0 berause 81 iaek of tsasle.
or ezlaalins ercd.t aad going TO smash
because OF laef af funds Che store
closes h doors ana immediately other
stores even those competing feel The
unwholesoma influence Panic spreads
Just as surely as when there is a run
on q bgnk and failure sfares many
merchants n the face.
Now the aore thrifty the people Of
community are the more promptly
they nay their bills. and the more
promptly bills are paid the more re-
ynote becomes the possibility Of fail
ure. # every worker Is n systematic
saver, with savings made possible by
careful intelligent. buying and the
elimination Of waste. the hard time
will be safely brIdged and will be ire
mendonsly shortened. IL is. therefore.
good business for the retailer to join
in a campaign against impulslve buy
ing aud waste. The mechanic who. IN
flush times. buys an unnecessarily
elaborate article. and who, In hard
times. repudiateS his bills. IL not as
good customer as the one who used
!. restrnint In his day Of prosperity and
had margin for the rainy day. The
Iffornier undermines -business-tine- l;st-:
;trr stnbilizes IL. go
The jndieious. buyer who exercises
care in his purchase also carefully and
eonscientiously meets his obligations,
The man. who THROWS money Away
treats his bills as "a scrap Of paper
Waste Is an enemy Of good. hpsinfss.
In certain districts or New York .inyes-
tigatars found that II per cent Of the
contents of the garbage cans was per-
fectly good foodstpff, The amount. Of
disable material abandoned in his
country every year amounts. TO, mil-
lions. The faymer iesyss the. glow TO
rust away outside the. bsra sil vim
ter; the housewife overheuts the
house. the factory wor@ser throws. good
material on the scrap heap. and all
those things make II possible that In
The United States Today there. are
LEO Oo0 people. whose warkiRg days
are over, dependent upon charity. ipdi-
: eidnsi and county. 10 the; extent OF
. <,2O DOC, 900 year. dependent because
|, 10 their earning days they cultivated
hnblts sf Waste rather than those of
thrift.
Education In thrift must be an edu-
cation In values. That education must
extend past the workers of today 70
~ workers OF tomorrow. Hereafter
aore of youths precious. sehegl
hours should be devoted to,.a coasid-
Grafton Of the principles Of how 70 live,
how TO take a helpful anil progressive
part IN tite predicting OF workaday
world. Tkl biggest lack in this ma
ton Is a denarfment4shich VIII teach
the value Of dollar.
Tire young .ndh 1iro ia. school re-
ceiyea tht 'propar'. trimming in thrift
vii taxi account Of Abe atse Of saw
H. siUingS. ls worse than. useless
Il ihe hr.1lz9afh6d. denominations are
ii.esisl q seme Of The Iuuumerable
ggld-hflkk getsfellauick schemes
5 RAlcfsfaE fa.Hless d dollaFs ouf Of
oDC eae9gn8le eacA ytae.s.
The.tfcasnrg.d tTrrtinent-is confident
+. fhat - aafer ahd more ATTRACTIVE p'Hn
has iIeesr or rod -fsf' tiie.-eiys ouas ge4
H-ent . snail systemato"iuav- oneDt
fian lhaf 81 war SAVING Stamps n
tl.e investor ean-;ay s'aae.bnt "a aents.
a'we ne has lleIs. tbe tnean-of put
ting that amount awsy is .afe 50.
esgitg u he. car 81 aside tour dol
lars and a fsgs 'aa- rents each weeli
that afHeuut begins r0rkinu-for rim
at good falrof interest. (which, with
the principal, he win receive at the
end of five years Let the necessity
OF redemption arise through illness. oT.
hard times-5he can have the ready
cash ten days after he applies for It.
=, In certain. great Industrial plant
siyhere 90 per cent of the. employees
were regular buyers Of thrift slanps
fhe Influenza eDiaeinic was met With
the. pllnimurp. of suffering The men
had the fuuds availaBleifor doctor and
medicine and proper foof. Th2y'hiet
their bills promptly and Ad66t em6ar-
rass the merchants of the COMMUNITY.
IT would be hard today 70 get. any OF
these men TO. abandon, tie tfflft Habit
which the government has. taught them:
SAVE in WAR oN.WAsTE-
Cardinal Gibbons for. Savings.
An appeal for continued support Of
the government'a war savings cam
pajgn has been issued by Cardinal Glib