Show S S Thrift S T HE example of or ens going easy going which Charles Dickens that great stu student Cl t or na 1111 S ture hIre gave g to lo us iii ill Mr 1 always Micawber always borrow horrow- in jug and never pa paying satisfied to contemplate that th the tiui world him owe oue a a. living ing and complacently waiting for something to turn up has its counterpart in n i sense in our national life lifo toda today Wo We 0 have tome come ome to he lie in mat many respects a a. nation of I careless extravagant improvident ident dent an and d irresponsible ns I Perhaps this arraignment is overdrawn as regards our own state we wo know it is but is-but but speaking nationally there is said saul to be e a wild saturnalia of in ill progress progress that is unparalleled in history S HA merchant returning from c York tells of of-a of 6 a a woman n from the time oil fields S' S going ing Tiffany's and fl ikin 3 I i to be shown diamond necklace a Sue She was acS accommodated ac ae- ac- ac S and asked the price When h n told it was she sho plunged into her handbag and ond produced the amount in crisp 1000 bills She started to lo put the tho necklace eu on and was as admonished by bO tim Iho clerk that thaL ladies in New York did not wear diamond necklaces in inthe inthe in inthe the day a time What That kind do the they wear in the da tiny day time SIlO she aske asked Pearls 1 replied d the clerk Well Vell th then give gi 1110 mo a pearl necklace she demanded She Sue put il ii aroun around herself in tho the mirror produced an another iii- iii I her h r neck looked looke 1 at tit other cither f told the thc astonished clerk she sue guessed she bhe hc n woul keep leep them both oth Tins This is but one illustration of what is is meant by bv a saturnalia a of reckless spen spending ing an and the picture is IS noL not not t uncommon in in the time overdrawn O Such scenes arc n obsessed apparently with large cities ilich people are arc the time idea that it denotes superiority not to care about money Many who canot afford to do so following ill their atrocious atrocious example In Chicago they are arc selling and amid silk shirts on the instalment plan and wage earners lien limen men of or small means arc nrc buying widel widely They se seem m to regard a silk shirt as a l badge o of luxury and aristocracy Other instances might be bo cited to 10 prove pro the time rule There is danger to the social fabric in Itis Itis It Itis I radical treatment N Waste aste is is a n is a a. disease requiring I curse to any nation whether it occurs occur in fl money time lime energy or resources A noted writer has said that the time I word Ci waste covers a n multitude of sins To 10 make supreme su sn- su- su the thc ruthless extravagance allce of the preme efforts to stop tiny day becomes the duty duLy of the time patriotic citizen Thrift I I is the antidote If f we wc could manage to lo think of self self- living lhing reckless spending as we did indulgence during the thc sacrificial days das when the nation was as in in peril from without if without if we could come to a n realization that a danger equally disastrous threatens us from front within within the the would join in iii tile the danger of national decadence wc c we new American lU slogan Thrift first last and anti all the time lime |