The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-03-17
LOOKING FORWARD


disappointment, failure and loss, il
can do no good TO brood over it's
hard experiences, says Country Cen
leman. John Billings said: "Sucksess
duZ not konsist of not maxim mis-
takes but of not making the same
mlstaik tweed" In looking forward q
TO achievements in 1921 it is folly to
waste energy brooGlng over disap-
pointments of last year but il is the
part of wisdom to think over the past
enough TO be reminded OF its costly
errors, If We would accept seriously
the homely philosophy of Josh Bill
ings and avoid making 1.-The same
n,istaik tweed"
While we were insanely drunk of
extravaganza last spring We took
plunge into the inviting sea of specu-
lation and went adrift into stagnant
waters. We are going to get cut aft
er while but it will require time to
recover. Whether we like it or not,
we are going back to simpler and
more economic standards of living.
Those who fail to read the handwrit-
ing on the wall and persist IN re-
naming in the whirlpool of extrava-
gances must inevitably suffer the
penalties of their own folly.
While the sudden panic has
brought financial disastei that has
caused losses aggreg eating billions of
dollars, we might as well look
through the cloud in search for silver
Innings. We could not have gone on
. through the orgy of eXtravagances
without bringing worse disaster to
the race. Heads of families who in
, former years had knownethe full
, meaning of the word thrift" had
: been down more or less into the
, whirlpool of fast living, but it is the
generation now coming to maturity
that were being made prodigal weak
lings by the breakneck standards of
living. 1t is well known fact that
comparatively few young men and
women regardless of big wages and
2 salaries were saving anything and
many of them were not only spend
Z ing their own incomes but in addi-
S tion were making still further drafts
upon indulgent parents In his speech
L at Monroe some months ago Senator
Joe Brown made the remarkable
4 statement that it had been the OBJ
servation of himself and others that
e the most of the crops were produced
4 last year by older men, women and
children and that the young bucks
2 were riding around In automobiles"
In this country young spendthrifts
2 blew in" as much as SIS a month
in barber shop "eXtras" and wore
SIS silk shirts, and there seemed to
= be sentiment among them that un-
less young man spent his money
: freely and foolishly he was condemn
ed as 'chinchy'' fellow. A genera
, tion that had acquired that sort of
conception of things was no more
capable of running a business sue
cessfully than blind mule is capa-
; bic f understanding astronomy. The
continuation of a standard of that
sort OF insane eXtravagances would
net have produced enough men and
women of thrift TO save our whole
business superstructure from COL
lapse.
We are going to recover from this.
panic by the sober sensible efforts of
thrifty and practical men and in the
reconstruction we will develop
enough real men and women TO save
re country. Under hard and difficult
conditions stronger race of men
ami women is always produced. I'm
der extremely easy" conditions we
usually acquire a topheavy over
production of prodigal spendthrifts.
Alter all ii is better to produce a
sirong race OF people than it is to
I've under an orgy of reckless ex-
trayagances.
What we need now in everv town
an q throughout the country is a big
crop OF "chinchy" boys and girls
II the adoption of plain and simple
standards of living and economy is
the element that makes fellow
mat are gong TO pull us through this
panic, if we get through
Twenty-Five years ago several
young men were working i'm stores
at Marshville at salaries ranging
from $40 to $50 per month. Out OF
tE"Sa salaries they paid board and
finally saved up enough money to
start in business. One young ladv
worked under one of theso small
salaries and saved enough money to
pay off the Indebtedness of her faith
lcrs lam. Six of these young men
are principal owners of firms of
hlghest commercial ratings in Marsh
vile. These were hard conditions but
thcy produced a crop of capable and
letilclent men and women.