Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1916 — HAVE DISTRIBUTED $10,000 FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS [ARTICLE]

HAVE DISTRIBUTED $10,000 FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS

Members of First National Bank’s Landis Club Have Received Their Checks For This Amount. Santa Claus came early to a great many of dur people this year. The First National Bank of this place distributed to its patrons, members of its Landis Saving Club, checks amounting to >IO,OOO. This is a magnificent sum to be available at this Christmas time. The happiness and joy it will bring to the homes of this community cannot be imagined. We want to commend our people and the First National Bank. Having saved this large sum of money is in itself to be commended. The habit so formed is a mighty fine one. We need to instill into the life and habits of our youths this essential habit. Having this large sum of money at this opportune time of the year makes it possible to enter into the real Christmas spirit. ’What we Americans need above everything else is the habit of real giving. Not to give to and because the one w whom we give will give to us in return. Not give because we know it is expected, but because we love to give. Lowell said: “He who gives with his alms feeds three, his hungering neighbor, himself and me.” We must possess to give. What we may possess, but have had no part in the making is of little value to us. But when we can give out of the x>unty of. our own hard . earnings, then we are twice blessed, in the saving and in the giving.