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Show LIVE AND LEARN It's been a long time since most of us were getting get-ting a little hilarious about the depression and swapping swap-ping stories with the next door neighbor about who suffered the most. But that's about the way a lot of us acted when the '29 prosperity bubble broke and took all our pretty paper profits away. We've learned plenty since then. We've learned that if we ever get another chance, we'll save. Boy, how we'll save! No more stocks on margin. No more automobiles for everyone in the family. If the kids can't use papa's car they can do without. We'll buy no more houses in the hope of paying for them when our truck-load of money pulls up to the door next week. We'll go easy on fur coats, and diamond rings, and all the little trinkets we brought home as a little "before supper" sup-per" surprise for ma. We're all going to save for that rainy day that's going to come. For if we haven't learned anything else, we've learned that the rainy day stretches into a long, monotonous drizzle, with mighty few clouds breaking through. The clouds are scattering now. Every time a new defense order barges out of Washington, another an-other cloud breaks and lets a little more sun through. There's a boom on its way, and it's going to hit here any day now. Already, some of the industrial towns have the look of a good, healthy gold rush on the loose and the boom is spreading. spread-ing. ' Well, when it gets here, we'll welcome the little stranger welcome him with a few minor reservations. reserva-tions. We've seen his kind before. He's nice company, very entertaining, the life of the party. But when he goes, he leaves the world's worst hangover. We're ready for this boom fellow. We've been toughened by too many long, bitter years not to know what to do when he gets here. They call us "Scrooge" or "Midas," "Miser" or "Stingy," "Stin-gy," but when this fellow leaves, we're going to be sitting pretty. We'll save every cent that comes along, because we know that a dollar in the sock is worth ten on paper. And how we know it! But while we're waiting, we've been looking around. And there are a few little things we want to buy. And "Consolidated Mazuma" looks like it's due for a rise we might take a flier on that. And ma's been talking about a couple of new dresses. And maybe may-be the kids do need a car of their own why everybody every-body used to have a horse. But after that, we'll put our foot down. We're going to save, save, save ! |