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Show ANCHOR YOUR SAVINGS By John Anderson Jayne. A great many people have the faculty or saving ! something from their earnings up to a certain point. They are like a young friend of the i preacher's, who has no trouble in denying himself through a long-continued period of sacrifice until he has $500 saved. He has saved this amount at least four times in the last six years. But the moment he gets this amount in the bank, that moment he begins relaxing re-laxing his sacrifices, and then begins blowing in his hardly saved money for foolishness and things that are 'worthless. Once he spent $500 for a ring for a girl who, he knew, was engaged to another man. Another time he bought mining stock and dreamed of wealth, only to wake and discover I that he had only helped enrich a mining shark. j Again he bought land in far-away sections of the country, in the vain hope of raising unplanted crops that would yield him a tremendous return. ) Once he spent $500 in a trip to Europe, which i would have been a wise thing for him to have I done had he ever been farther west than Steuben-ville, Steuben-ville, Ohio. At the present time he has another $500 saved, and, having learned the lesson of his past mistakes, he has consulted with the president of the savings bank in which his money is Invested, t and has tied up his money in a good bond triit matures In ten years, meantime drawing four and a half per cent interest, and has started in to save u another $500. I And he will save it, too. K He has anchored his savings in a sure place. I He has not gone about this anchoring of his I money without careful consideration of what Hob J before him. J When he went to the president of the bank, ' who, by the way, was unknown to him, he found i him to be a very affable, pleasant gentleman. , Busy? Of course, he was busy, but not too busy L to advise a young man who has been able to save Ij $2,000 'in six years. To the president he briefly told his story as I outlined above, how he had no trouble in saving n $500, but when he reached that figure the money II seemed to burn his pockets and scorch his fingers jf until it was all gone. "What you need," said the president to him, jj "Is to learn to anchor your money In a safe place." Then he went on to telFhlm how to anchor his 1 money, with the result that the bond has been purchased. That young man belongs to a class of people that is largely represented in this country today. People who can save to a certain amount and then fall back. They are the people who might be the future capitalists of the country in a small way, if they only had the moral backbone and financial stamina to continue the work and sacrifice sac-rifice they have so nobly begun. ' It is a well recognized fact that all great fortunes for-tunes are founded first of all on a careful recognition recog-nition of the real value of money, then systematic saving, then anchoring that money In a safe place where It will bring in a just and equitable return. Rarely do men who play the stock markot over come to a competence, or to positions, where they are factors in the business of the city in which they live. Rarely do gamblers save money. With them, for the most part, It is come easy, go easy. Living Liv-ing on High street today and occupying the best , room at Prosperity hotel, they are found trudging I on Low street and eating at some "quick and u dirty." Systematic savers, who continue their savings 1 and anchor them in a safe place, come with un- a i failing regularity to the position where they are well cared for in their old age, and able to care for others as well. ' There are times when a man must go in debt. When ho must spend more than ho earns, but for a young man with a fair salary and no family expense, it is positively criminal for him not to save something each -pay day and anchor those savings in a safe place. The young man who forms the habit of saving, is the man who in the years to come will fulfill the adage of John G. Saxe, "Blessed is the man who can go it alone." Today, not tomorrow, begin your savings, being be-ing sure to anchor them in a safe place. |