The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1920-05-27
Emulate the Squirrel
In His Habit of Saving

Emulate the squirrel
In His Habit of Saving
Savings Division, Treasury Department. :.
:. Things can't go on this way-wllat
is going to haplen!"
You have heard 1t many times Of late.
Flour or some other commodity scars Il
little closer to the moon. a little farther
away from the consumer and then YOU
promptly comment: Il don't know
what we are coming to"
Yet few of ns really are discouraged.
Generally speaking while the air may
l,e surcllarged with ominous mutter-
ings, the American people as whole
are far from tile Serbonian boys Of
despair.
We have the money. let's spend it
before 1t gets cold.'' sings the money
nladlened multitude. Landlords. crazed
by avarice. take a look ut the homeless
horde and UP goes the rent another peg.
IrOfiteers In other lines. without cause
or reason. have changed the golden rule
to read, Get a plenty while the get
ting is good Artisans finding them
selves In the possession of undreamed
power, crowd onto the merry -go-round
| with gold sprinkling the circle as they
spin the wild whirl of extravagance.
Spectators are in ecstacy. Artificial
prosperity has dragged in by the ears
an artificial millennium. Oilless stocks
| float down upon us like SNOW flakes
| from heaven.
1t is beautiful dream or night
nmre-;lnd above the din YOU hear 1t !:
What is going to happen?"
In the calm Of midsummer day.
cattle sometimes cease browsing: their
ears prick UP. their llostrils dilate: out
of the strange silence of the sunshine
they have senses the coming tornado.
and away they 60 to the nearest shell
ter. Perhaps the wind demon fails to
arrive or passes to one side. but the
herd has needed the warming.
| There is talk of an impending tinan-
cial storm. 1t may not come and it
could not come If the public awakened
| to its dangers. Tile jeopardy of the
situation seems crystallized i'll the all
too popular assumption that no matter
bow little we produce or how recklessly
we spend : good times are to last
forevermore.
For eight years the rOrtrero del
Lk,no oil well in the Mexican Eagle
fields gashed out annually its sixteen
million gallons of petroleum. One night
Il few weeks ago. suddenly and without
warning. the oil of this well had turned
to salt water.
1 Many persons have no mis.ivinys o.
the MORROW. If they had Ill oil we'll
they would expect it to eternally flow
AS lowly a creature as the squirrel il
wise enough to put by subsistence. The
slentltl,rift human usually Is scarce six
silk SHIRTS away from the poor house.
| You may say what you wish of John
ID. Rockefeller hut his dollars are sood
dollars and he has something Ike two
poor New York farmer. At sixteen
John d. had a job Mt So month
Three years later he was a hookkeepel
at 800 a year and had saved $500
Because he had that $500 he was able
to form partnership with a man wht
had $2OUl. and thus success came hi
way. You may howl Mt and about JOIN
d. Rockefeller until you shake til,
eternal hills and the fact remains tina
it was the habit Of thrift that started
him on the way to colossal wealth.
What's going to happen! Az vel
ask. How old Is Ann?
Only one thing Is certaill-sonlethin;
unpleasant will happen to the inlivid
ual who lacks common squirrel sense
We may hay long and loud becans
bread costs Il penny more and we ma!
find iniquities enough In our body pOli
tic but the grand and glorious fac
remains that never have we had -
good chance to save money as now.
The Government, through It's Saving
Division of the Treasury Department
pleads with the public for Thrift. l
: offers every assistance and has pro
videtl such safe and sound saving sec,l
: rifles as the 2.,-cent thrift stamp. wa
. savings stamps and registered treasur
savings certificates. each Il wonderful
security and an inspiration to financial
. independence. and when bought u
hanks or postoffices is simplicity Itself
| .