The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-01-20
HOME OWNING IS
TODAYSDEMAND
Workers in National Thrift
Week Campaign Urge More
People to Own Homes.
CAMPAIGN GOING WELL
Hunter Brown Is Chairman of
Today'S Drive-TalkS to Be
Given in Theatres

Own your own home, is the demand
today, and the workers in the national
thrift week campaign, are urging that
more Pensacola folks own their own
homes. Hunter Brown is chairman of
today's drive and he will have speakers
in the various theatres tonight to ex-
plain the various ways by which the
wage Garner may become the owner
of a home.
Posters have been placed in various
public buildings, calling attention 70
the thrift drive and the campaign is
having excellent results so far, it is
believed. The Y. NJ. c. A. is instru-
mental in putting on the thrift cam
paign, but nearly every civic and com
mercial organization is backing the
movement and it has the earnest CO.
operation of merchants, bankers and
business men generally.
Concerning the subject Of owning
your own home, James c. Watson, sec
retary of the Mutual Loan & Savings
Association says:
Thrift is the firm cornerstone and
owning your own home the safe
superstructure of a freedom loving
American.
This day. which is known as Gown
Your Own Home Day" should inspire
young and old to formulate a plan Of
saving in order that they might gain
the position of self independence and
by toll, honesty. resolution and in
dustry lay aside a small amount
weekly or monthly in the determina-
ton to own a Home
only through toll and perseverance
can habit of thrift be formed. and
the saving habit" once formed viii
enable you to own a home and give
to those who are dear to you the COM
forts of a home of your own.
IF one enters upon an undertaking
with a spirit of determination to sue
ceed. he is sure to win, and during this
week which is known throughout our
land as National Thrift Week. every
one should resolve to turn the dollar
which would probably be spent fool
ishly. into a savings account and to
add to that account Systematically
until it has enabled him to turn the
accumulations into a home.
Numerous savings plans are offered
you locally; the Building and Savings
Association plan being commended to
those who may resolve to lay aside
small amount, weekly or monthly, out
of their earnings, and by laying aside
25 cents weekly or 81 monthly, for
period of about seven years, you will
be returned 500 in cash.
"Other methods of saving are also
offered such as the postal savings,
operated by the u. S. government, and
the savings accounts offered by the
state and national banks, both Of which
are most successfully operated, and
return to you an earning on the
amounts placed with them.
$50 often in the recent past have
you read of the signal s. O. s. being
flashed by a vessel in distress. Wei
may this signal be applied to those
who do not own a home. Savet Oh,
Save! applied to the nickels and
dimes and quarters of the individuals.
young and old, are the best antidote
to the discomfort, and will bring to you
the relief you are seeking, but which
will never reach you, unless you be-
gin now!
"It would surprise you to know how
many homes have been owned in Pen
sacola out of the systematic savings
plan, and you are urged to form the
habit of thrift yourself and instill this
habit in your children. Own Your own
Home no matter how humble it may
be or how elegant, and remember that
it does not depend upon how much
YOU earn. but how much you save. |
that makes a good citizen Of you, and /
If YOU own one dollar which earns
interest for you, you have put the foot
on the ladder which leads you upward |
TO the position of self independence