San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-18
BUSINESS MEN
GIVE IDEAS ON
THRIFT WEEK
Publicity Committee Plast-
ers City With Posters
Of Saving.
SECRET OF SUCCESS
Week Is Nationally Observed
in Cofnmemoration Of
Franklin's Birthday.

Thrift Week opened Wednesday with
the publicity committee of the San An
tonic Thrift Club plastering the city
with placards and posters.
The week, being observed nationally,
in commemoration of Franklin's birth
day is being conducted with a definite
purpose and under defined rules. Days
are set aside during which the funda.
mentals of thrift will be discussed at
various assemblies in an effort to teach
the masses of the people the secret of
accumulative saving.
There is, in the opinion of Frank
Wine ! oh of the Winerich Motor Sales
Co., a golden rule from which oil other
efforts to save must spring. That is,
Work hard and pay close attention 10
business" With that as basis TO work
on, making budgets, banking, and wise
investing are then opened up as step
ping stones to success. Young people
Of today, he said, spend fo6lishly COR
smokes and other expenditures enough
to build a fortune, were it placed in
savings banks at compound interest.
Says Make a Budget.
Men who themselves have attained
success from very meager beginnings all
agree in that the one prerequisite to
thrift is the desire to tave and the
ambition TO forge ahead.
When a man or n woman feels that
urge" Jack Burke, county clerk said,
and has the vision TO see few years
into the future then they have taken
the first step toward success" Mr..
Burke is n strong advocate OF the
budget, for which day Of Thrift Week
is being set aside. "A budget Of living
and amusement expenses he said, lis
almost IN absolute essential to success
full saving. A family is in effect
small business institution and Ike
business the family cannot succeed I'M
less it has a check on what comes IN
and what goes out" ,,
"A system such as the budget +. j..
Hillyer said, lis advisable. but It must
be backed with the determination to
grow and succeed Mr.. Hillyer who IS
i'm the lumber business, said that In hlS
wears of experience in that line he had
taken a great interest in the young man
who builds a home and pays for 1t out
of his earnings. Il have found, he sald,
that in the majority of cases when
man does this, it is safe to say that ne
has his feet firmly planted in the pain
" Should Get Married.
HI Kirkpatrick has in his own life
fonnd that there are three things that
make for success. First, he is of the
opinion that a young man should take
ont n little life insurance, not much anu
not ms an investment, but as a protec-
ton. Then he should build a home and
gpt married. He does not advocate that
n man should deny himself or his tara
ily the necessities of life or all OF the
pleasures when they are at the, high
tide of living merely for the sake Of
nuttins away a little money. lie pc,
iicyes that they should take life as II
comes. But" he said, lin this coun-
trv there is no reason why man bN
anplyinS himself cannot increase MS m
come from time to time. What ne
makes above enough TO buy the neccs-
stiles of life and n few Of the simple
measures he should save and not i've
I'm. II he does this there is an as
sured success awaiting him.
Start Saving Pennies:
Russell Hill, of the Rogers-Hill Co..
ia of the opinion that there is no excuse
for any able bodied man not saving
enough to be comfortably provided for
when he reaches old age. 1T is
habit" he said. ito save, strong in some
and weak in others. In some it is ma
turaI. but it can be acquired by all.
Once the start is made. it becomes
pride 70 add to the savings. Few real
lie 10 possibility Of modest saving.
MANY think that it is not worth the
while 10 lay aside few cents here and
few there. If they can be made 20
realize that it takes that first system
attic saving of the pennies TO get the
capital with which to start, thea they
:. IN ,,otrrolIv turn 70 thrift. "