Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1917 — Do Not Be a Slacker in Business. [ARTICLE]

Do Not Be a Slacker in Business.

New Y«fc, May 8, IW.—“One of the greatest danger® that confront us at this moment is mragwded thrift," dedtaree a statement issued today by S. W. Straus, president of the American Society far Thrift. "In our efforts to be patriotically ecouonrical, we find ourselves going to extremes in the opposite direction, which is just as great a menace as wastefulness and extravagjance. "The point is to differentiate between destructive and constructive thrift In times of peace or war, waste is reprehensible, but indiscriminate tight-fistedness is worse, because in such conditions the provident are made to suffer with the ionprovi“Everyone can distinguish the difference between prudent living and wadteftrlnees. If a man buys a euit of cflothes, a pair of shoes or a hat, his money goes into iegitknate circulation and furnishes uw for capital and employment of labor. “Adnwiiater your expenditures in I a dean, honest, legitimate and patriotic manner. Eliminate waste of food, hearing in mind that every mouthful you save may ibe the sustenance of some starving fellow human being abroad. We should not tear down on one hand while we are trying to build up on the other. Those in business should not hesitate—be courageous and keep on going. America is still in the midst of the neatest era of malberiafl prosperity the country has ever known.' *Tn the matter of individual expenditure every man should be guided by his own necessities and the needs off his country. Let none of us be a Slacker in the (business world. This is no way for the coward or weakling. Be brave and confident. Remember, the most acute need of our nation today is intelligent, productive, constructive thrift”