Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1914 — Page 5

U*< I » all j For Over 30 Years Os Splendid Progress On The Broad Highway Os Life- 1 i % i We Thank the Men and Women and the Boys and Girls of Decatur and Vicinity. |

A HELPING HAND IT IS to help the people of Adam* County that the Fir*t National Bank of Decatur has established a NATIONAL Savings Department—a place where small savings are safe, under the watchful eye of the United States Government. • Whoever you may be you must save a part of what you earn—no matter haw small that part may be. And to make it very easy for you to make a beginning we allow you to open an account here with any sum from SI.OO upward. We welcome you—no matter how small your deposit may be—because it will mean that you have started to clamber up the ladder of success. Always working and never saving never puts a man ahead in the world. Work and Savings must go hand in hand. You are looking forward to owning a little home of your own some day—a home for yourself.—for that loved helpmate of yours—for the little ones who now bless your fireside—or will bless it in the coming years. You are looking forward to the day when you will need money—it comes to each one of us. It will come to you—and the man who has money tuckcu in a NATIONAL Savings Account at the First National Bank of Decatur is the man who will not be daunted when the day of need arrives. You are looking forward to accumulating something for old age—when the days of labor are over for you and when you can resc in the consciousness that you have done your full duty to yourself, to your family anti to your fellow citizens. The coming years have big things in store for you—if you will prepare yourself now to take advantage of them when they come. WHY NOT DO SO? WHY NOT MAKE THE DETERMINATION AS YOU READ THIS TO START TO SAVE FOR THESE BIGGER THINGS? REMEMBER IT ONLY TAKES SI.OO TO MAKE THAT START—AND THAT SI.OO YOU SAVE MAY BE THE SEED FROM WHICH WILL SPRINd YOUR TREE OF FORTUNE. IT HAS BEEN FOR OTHERS. WHY NOT FOR YOU? ARE YOU A BOY? The Officers and Directors of the Fiist National Bank of Decatur have a warm spot in their hearts for the boys of our city. During our time we have seen so many poor, but hard working boys, mount the Ladder of Success to become great, rich and prosperous. Frcm cne end of our great counttry to the other —in every- State —in eveiy County—in every City—in every Town—are today many poor boys, who are struggling upward and who in the course of a few years will be numbered among our great men. You can hardly point to any rich man today who has rot risen from very humble and very small beginnings. There are a lot of boys who have accounta at the First National Bank of Decatur—lots of them —and their number will constantly grow now. We have a Savings Department for them. We want you boys to feel that we are glad to have you come here. Just bring any sum from SI.OO upward wth you. You don't have to know t>ow to do banking—we attend to everything for you. And we make out a Bank Rook in YOUR OWN NAME and give It to YOU. Then after you have started to bring here your small sums as you earn them, juet as a building is built brick by brick and not alt at once, just so a bank account o io<<s dcllar by dollar from a very email bank account into a very big bent- account. The boy who has a Bank Account Is a better boy, a prouder boy, and b_-ic.-e him a bigger future than the boy who never save* his money. Here ere some boye who can save 50c a week—others save SI.OO a week, and # few $2.00 and $3.00 each week. Put atide e.-.ch pay day just the very largest amount you can spare. In a few years’ time you will have a big bank account, and then when a chance comes your way to better ycjrrelf, you have th* money in bank to take advantage of it i And the beauty about a Bank Account with us is that you can get your money any time you want it—and while you do not want It we are adding to your account interest at the rat* of 3 per cent. WON'T YOU COME AND JOIN THE OTHER BOYS WHO HAVE ACCOUNTS AT THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK?

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK DECATUR, INDIANA.

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DECATUR, INDIANA, HAS OPEN ED A NATIONAL SAVINGS DEPARTMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF ADAMS COUNTY. AN ACCOUNT CAN BE OPENED HERE WITH ANY SUM FROM $1 UPWARDS. A REGULAR SAVINGS BANK BOOK IS GIVEN TO EVERY DEPOSITOR SHOWING THE AMOUNT OF YOUR DEPOSIT. YOUR MONEY IN OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT EARNS YOU 3 PER CENT INTEREST. TWO TIMES A YEAR WE ADD THAT INTER EST TO YOUR ACOUNT AND COMPOUND IT. YOUR SAVINGS HERE ARE AFFORDED THE SAME PROTECTION AS ALL MONEYS DEPOSITED IN A NATIONAL BANK. WE ATE OPEN FROM S:3O TO 3:30. YOU CAN BANK WITH US BY MAIL AT ANY TIME. IT IS WITH A FEELING OF DEEP GRATITUDE TO OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS THAT THE FIR ST NATIONAL BANK OF DECATUR. INDIANA, REPRODUCES BELOW ITS GROWTH. WE REALIZE THAT WE ARE HERE TO SERVE YOU. THE MEN AND WOMEN OF DECATUR. WE HAVE ADHERED TO THE PRACTICE THAT THERE IS A SERVICE THAT GOFS WITH THE BANK ACCOUNT—A SERVICE OF COURTESY. THOUCHTULNE3S AND INTER EST IN YOUR WELFARE. FOR THIS INCREASE WE THANK YOU AND WE SHALL ENDEAVOR TO GIVE YCU EVEN BETTER SERVICE DURING THE YEAP NOW OPENED BEFORE US. ’'ft 1 s 3 — LO S — LO — o O 8 £3 o S & 3 LO g {? g °o BETTER THAN ANY WORDS OR FIGURES DO THESE LINES CONVEY TO YOU THE CROWTH OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DECATUR. IN 1883 OUR RESOURCES AMOUNTED TO $38,173. AT THE CLOSE OF 1913 THEY AMOUNTED TO $354,-ICu. WE THANK YOU!

THE MOTHERS OF DECATUR In the hoilow of your hand rests the future of your children. Your training of the babies begins at the cradle's side. Your influence over your children extends beyond the grave. It is better to teach your children to plant tame oats than to sow wild oats. Both will bring forth a bounteouc harvest—the one of joy and gladness. the other of tears and sorrow. Commence that training with a NATIONAL Savings Account with us fore ach of your children. It onlytakes SI.OO to open a Savings Account with us. As this world is constituted, none of us can get very far without money. When they are old enough to understand, explain to them that you have opened a Bank Account with us for them. Show them how it grows —grows by small deposits and by the accumulation of interest and interest piled on interest. Make saving a custom with your children—not a rarity. Custom is a wonderful thing. It is stronger than any law to keep your children in the right road. There it no reason why your children should not be rich and successful. How rich and successful they will be depends on your training while their characters are forming. You can train the sapling to grow in any way you wisn, but if you leave it until it has attained its maturity, it will break in the process. And that is true of children. Successful men largely owe their success in life to the habits of thrift and saving their mothers taught them in their childhood. AND JUST ONE MORE WORD ESPECIALLY TO THE MOTHERS OF DECATUR. START THAT ACCOUNT NOW—DON'T WAIT. THE THING YOU WAIT TO DO IS SELDOM DONE. As we write this there comes to our mind a Moslem saying: "The hours behind this are God's, the hours after this are His Secret. This hour alone it yours. Waste not your hour!" Waste not your hour! ARE YOU A SAVER OR A SPENDER? Your answer to this will show whether you are a successful, or an unsuccessful man or woman. It is just as easy to save money as it is to spend it. Both come by habit. You can learn the habit of saving just as cosily as you can learn the habit of spending. Both of these habits are learned while you are MAKING Money. When you are no longer able to make money, if you have been a spender all your life what will become of you? If you have been a saver you oo not have to aek that question. You know that when you can no longer make money the money that you have and’banked in’a NATIONAL Savings Account at the First National Bank of Decatur, will take care of you. Thi sthi* over—net lighty—but seriouely. Upon your decision will de pend your entire life—whether your lit* will be a failure, or whether it will be a success —whether the future will be filled with heart-achee and vain regrets,, or with all the comforts and most of the luxuries of life. If you decide to save, put your decieien into effect at once. Many men intend to save—but "Words withoutdeeds are a* rushes and reeds.” DO IT NOW. Saving money is not like spending it. You may regret having spent it, because the money will be gone without recall. You cannot re gret having saved it. because you still have the money at any time. When you receive your wages on Pay-day lay aaide first of all a certain sum—no matter how amall and AT ONCE, without delay, open your Bank Account at the First National Bank ol Decatur. The size of the amount you save is not wnat count* —it is the fact that you regard some certain amount a* a sacred sum to be deposited each week in your Bank Account. REMEMBER IT IS NOT THE AMOUNT THAT COUNTS! ANY NUMBER OF MEN HAVE 6TARTEO WITH SI.OO AND HAVE BUILT UP BIG BANK ACCOUNTS—HAVE BECOME RICH AND INDEPENDENT. SO CAN YOU! WHY NOT TODAY?