The Washington times., 1923-05-22
Poverty The Great Curse
Poverty Is Slavery. Fight 1t.

the great widespread curse
Not wealth necessary to happiness but freedom from
poverty grnd poverty that worries poverty that makes
the slave Of any who has dolarTHAT is neces
sary to happiness.
You have seen pictures rushing through
African forests and poor blacks fleeing before them
What the slave catcher to the black the Gold
Coast, poverty is to you today.
you young the dollars slip through your fingers
and you feel that the future win take of itself think
about it for a while.
The gaspng hand of poverty every man. every
danger this powerful clutch reg
lated with wsdom-and actually today such
way will make it impossible for poveys grip to seize him
The word mortgage" which death pledge is
upon many homes and many lives. It makes men,
and children homeless It turns old age into the streets
It is mercss and cruel in the DID, primitive times when
death itself could be made the penalty for failure the
death pledge.
Death in thousands of cases would be more mercu less
painful mortgage against fight year
year. paying out interest struggling hoping and at last giving
Keep out Of poverty-keep out of debt.
The dollar you spend quickly today, the other dollar
tomorrow and the day after might later independent
manhood power control your time direct your
Money enough-though be but day than
you spendmeans freedom independence the right look
any in the eye his equal.
And poverty, debt the spending of little than
you actually have slavery now anxiety humiliation in
the future.
AND SO TT MEANS IGNORANCE.
POVERTY DEPRIvEs CHILDREN OF CARE AND
GOOD FooD-AND so IT MEANS DISEASE.
POVERTY TAKES AWAY MEMS COURAGE DRIVES
THEM TO DESPAIR, MAKES THEM SEEK RELIEF
WHEREVER IT CAN BE FoUND-AND so POVERTY
MEANS DRUNKENNESS.
Whenever you find miserable poor and underpad you
viii find ignorance and drunkenness.
Wherever you conditions and the weight of
poverty drunkenness and ignorance diminish
Whatever habits, condition two
things you dobetter yourself, make things
is absolutely in your power make your life dgnfied
independent and satisfied
However old you may be- discouraged late
to fight against the that weighs Millions the of
present poverty and that other almost great DREAD
OF POVERTY in the future.
is in your power be free if you WILL Spend than
make and you will find that spending MEANS almost
every case, earning more
puts into learning and thinking the hours and
vitality formerly devoted to frivolous spending he will soon
find his power to earn increased.
the majority of worried hard up living along
from day day. because going debt easy keeping
ont of it difficult
Every day temptation to spend this and that
On certain day everybody must have new hat and gets
he thinks he must spend much anybody else does
there goes one chance of saving
Each man thinks he must dress as well somebody else
million young fools think they must drink when it is
offered thealso that they must buy drink in their
Tens of thousands of married kept poor because
they imagine that they do well somebody does
too often their wives help them to keep poor.
few years from now it won't make much difference to
you whether got hat May 1, 1929 not-but
1t will make big difference whether you have few thousand
dollar saved up or few dozen trying to collect bills
from you
When you can say truly that you dollar,
people always like the way you look They find fault with
your dressing.
All the varnsh fine clothing, hats Shoes can
90 you bit OF good when and everybody else know that
you can't afford those things
isn't easy and be independent If it were everv
one would be independent But it is possible keep poverty
away. '
1t possible to be free afraid of one controlled
and bossed by nobody.
Few live happy independents great majority live with
this pair of hands always above fear of the future
pnched and anxious in the present.
But be free you will It is your power to saw
to yourself Il not be rich, but shall never be poor