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Show Gocd Habits Mean Financial Success Say Manager C. W. Busard. manager of the local J. C. Penney company store believes that the 1930 Thrift Week . is ushering in a new era of prosperity. pros-perity. Business is good and is Improving. Im-proving. People are working more seriously than ever to maintain their standard of living and this standard is set to a safe and sane program of spending. As an important factor of the Thrift Week program each one 'of us should take a personal inventory inven-tory of stock on hand. Mr. Busard points out that J. C. Penney, founder of the organization organiza-tion that bears his name and which does a nation-wide business, is an excellent illustration of what thrifty thrif-ty habits can do for an individual. Starting out at the age of eight with a capital of two dollars "in pennies and silver which he had saved, little James, who lived on a farm, bought a pig which he fattened fat-tened and sold at a profit. Part of this profit went to buy some clothes and part went into the bank. Later ventures into the world of business netted more money until at the age of twenty odd $500 had been gat'h- ereo together which Mr. Penney paid on his partnership purchase in a store. This was at Kemmerer Wyoming. ' In his January message to his more, than twenty thousand associates asso-ciates and employees, Mr. Pennev stressed the principles that started him on the road to fame and for-i for-i tune. He said: "It is relatively easy now for a a man to acquire financial independence. inde-pendence. This is accomplished by the constant use of those qualities which wc have proved essential m our own organization honesty diligence, thrift and industry" |