Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-19

Makes you feel as If you're breaking
into the big league when the First
National bank sends you blotter.
doesn't it?
Maybe, of course, it's merely to re-
mind you, every time you blot let
ter, of the notes coming due on the
LIST proX., and to set your wits to
work gathering wool for the sacfifice
N c.
Or maybe it's just to give you a hint
that you are not feeding up your de-
post account as a man of your al
legged or assumed standing should feed
it, and that you ought to quit buying
siX-cylinder cars and 85-cent butter
n eggs and save some money.
N c.
| don't know exactly what my First
National bank had in mind when it
mailed me this New Years blotter
now already blotted past recognition
as such on its business side; but just
now | happened to read the legend on
the advertising side. And this is
what it says-set UP just like poetry,
and maybe it's free verse.
"YotTr money will get In the bank
Whether you put it there or not.
If YOU spend all your income
Some one else will deposit It,"
N c.
After reading that legend over
three or four times | fail to find any
trace of the divine afflatus therein;
but I do find something / never hap
pened to think of before in just that
light That rhymeless and rhythmless
quatrain is a mighty fine bit o hut
man wisdom, brothers.
m c.
Lots of us may read a valuable les
son out of those four lines of prosy
common sense. Did it ever occur to
you to think of the matterin just that
way? Figure up. if possibly you can,
how much of your money some one
elsa great many others in the ag-
gregate-has put in the bank. Include
all the money you have spent fooiishly
or unnecessarily in the past ten,
twenty or thirty years.
Then figure up the compound in
terest on the same, at, say, six per
cent. A dollar at six per cent
doubles itself in dozen years. How
many of your dollars have doubled
themselves without your effort beyond
depositing them In the bank and loan
ing them out at six per cents Cor
eight when you had a hefty hand
full ahead?
1t sort o. makes fellow mad-like
to feel that some other fellow---a lot
of other fellows, in fact--are deposit
ing his money in the bank. Ii you've
been anything of a sspepdthrift, tight
en- up your memory-belt few holes
and compute the amount of your cash
the other fellows have deposited in
the bank in their names--not in yours,
mind you.
The money you have spent for
booze, for instance. That's all in the
bank The deposit slips were made
out, however, by the saloonkeeper, or
the bootlegger. or the distiller, not by
you. And very likely 1t is that those
fellows have laughed gurgiingly-at
you--as they made out the slips and
got the receipts or had the deposits
marked down neatly in their little
books.
IN C.
Take another hitch in your belt and
figure up how much money you have
spent for clothes YOU didn't need
Recall, if YOU can. the suits and hats
and silk shirts and pointy-toed shoes
you have bought with your money
garments YOU really didn't need in
such quantities--and then sit back
and see in your vivid and versatile
Imagination the merchants marching
UP to the bank in single file and de-
posting your little old dollars to their
credit.
IN c.
Makes YOU sort q hate yotirselsi
some. hey? Feel kind o like going
out behind the smokehouse and Kick