Show A LITTLE I A V TV THRIFT LITTLE JA Li FILE TALK ON THRIFT j I jI By S. S W. W STRAUS President American Socie Society r Thrift He Ic Is a thrifty man He le knows how to save the pennies pennies' Not one hears some such statement as this i It reflects the views of many with retard regard to thrift But thrift means much more than saving pennies and an any statement attempting to limit it to such sueh narrow narrow narrow nar nar- row confines is a dangerous half- half truth Too much encouragement has been given to the false do doctrine that thrift only In saving pennies As a result a harmful re- re reSistance I to thrift has been created It Is true that saving pennies is isone isone one of the rudiments of ot thrift But I it is jUl just t as thrifty to save moments moments moments mo mo- ments to save ones one's health to save one ones one's s energy Thrift Is efficiency Thrift is is eliminating waste Thrift Is spending spending spend spend- ing wisely as well as saving Many a successful career and many a great business enterprise was as founded on penny saving But Butto to say that thrift c consists of ot saving savIng saying sav say ing pennies is as far from the tho truth as to say that the alphabet t Is literature or that those who know the multiplIcation table have mastered mastered mas nina mathematics Let us have more penny savers saver both literal and figurative Let us usall usall usall all learn more and more of the value of little things Let us do all alt we can to encourage the thought that a penny lenny saved means a great deal more than a penny earned But let us not foster miserliness nor encourage the belief bellet already too prevalent that there is nothing to thrift but the hoarding of pes- pes nies Sa Save vc the pennies but do o not stop wealth but It is not the sym symbol ol of wealth but it isn Ian ot the s symbol Of ot human progress The value of at thrift as a's as an n essential clement element oi or in individual In- In development cannot rightly be measured from the standpoint of or saving pennies |