Show TO VENTURE OR TO SAVE A valued in chicago writes us warningly or 0 the vast burden of public and private debt under which as a nation and people we labor and as a remedy lie ho would grind out more pale green paper and call it money and this noney honey would pay all As if the token could ever create the human labor and human thrift for which the debt stands it Is a dream that has haunted millions of 0 active and earnest minds yet debt so long as there is tree free commerce in labor and its products will always exist and in ever growing degree because human nature is at it is some are aio born to venture ven luie some to save the is the great winner but also tile the groat great loser for there are few who win nin steadily it is through these that eliat as we say tife the world gets on but without the saver iver the could not exist ho rarely uses his own resources ile iio borrows from thrift of course there is another class of borrowers who neither save nor venture they are just spenders always paying out a little more than they gaall we should have to devise a new kind of 0 world to make this class happy debt i is s not evil in itself always the greater the nation the greater the debt public and private primitive folk savages have no such worries credit and debt are a division of labov which only the modern state maats possible pa hiob ob ably more than halt half tile the farms ot of the I 1 united states have been made on oil borrowings borrow ings of 0 accumulated thrift their owners rarely larely had enough to go it alone our valued correspondent and countless others fail to realize that ours is the first era ot of any widely distributed surplus this is the first time in human history that any large population has continuously had enough to eat famine is still a recurrent specter to two thirds of the human race few have the forehanded instinct to abstain ahen hunger calls and there are many kinds of hunger it if everyone lived within ills his maans means this would be a saner and happier world but it Is not our characteristic te as a people we spend madly until it is a all 11 gone bono anathon And thon ruefully sober up more money merely makes us spend more furiously that is what is happening now Coll colliers lers |