Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1915 — What $10 Will Do. [ARTICLE]

What $10 Will Do.

A sort of paradox is the fact that thousands of people who make no effort to Save a dollar when times are highly prosperous, wiil develop and practice economy when work and opportunity are less plentiful, the best way, of course, is to try and save at least a little all the time, putting by a larger ahiount when earnings are at their height. As a nation we are not taught that economy which makes France the banker of the world, and whose accumulations come not from vast exports of natural resources, but from the combined small savings, consistently continued year after year, by the French people as a whole. If the people of this country would save during the year 1915 an average of $lO per capita the grand total at the end of the first |2 months would be the magnificent sum of $1,000,000,000. The French save, partly because it has become hereditary, and chiefly because the children are brought up that* way and are taught the dignity of acumulation. We, on the contrary, in a spirit of false pride, are iiiclined to scorn the necessity of saving, as though it. were something of which «to be ashamed. If our own present experiences shall teach us thj-ift, it will be a strengthening of a great national weakness.—Popular Mechanics. - / I