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Show THRIFT DAY FEB. 3RD & THE HEOH COSTJF LIVING What tho OliM-ivnnto of Thrill Really .Menus to tho Individual. In-dividual. Tho big Idea back of a national Thrift Day Is to focu3 tho thought of ono hundred million pooplo upon practical ways and means of not only adjustment to tho high cost of living but action. It is to start something. Wo aro all creatures of natural tendencies, and theso usually result In habits. Wo establish tho habit of spending an averago amount of monoy for certain cer-tain things and whon that sourco of supply (s changed or some other fact (Contlnuod on Potfa Bight) "THBIFf'DAY- (Continued From Pago Ono) or enters In to supply that causes the cost of production to Increase, It does not necessarily follow that our wages Increase. Will tho constantly lncreasod cost of living, wo aro confronted with the necessity for an adjustment. Every individual's adjustment In necessarily necessar-ily diiferent. Thrift Day Is n day to reduce waste, thereby Increasing efficiency. Actually taking n stop In tho direction di-rection of thrift has been described as n combination of mental and phjslcnl action both aro essential to the nccomplishiuont. Putting truo thrift action Into effect ef-fect on Thrift Day Is not only represented re-presented by placing an addod deposit de-posit to that ne3t-egg being built up in tho savings account to tako caro of tho futuro, but con bo practiced In n thousand different ways, depending de-pending upon tho environment nnd bnbits of tho liuUWdual. Tho main and big Idea fulfilled on Thrift Day by man, womnn or child Includes mart lug a thrift habit or pinctlco that hnd boon decided upon nml then put off, or ono that bus Just been suggested as tho result of an ONohnngo of Ideas on this subject It may Include n greater thrift of tlmo. A young man or woman conies to n realization that n dli proportionate amount of tlmo fias boon ependod In so-called Hoclety or amusement, ovory evening being given up to comparatively idlo as soclntlou nnd idlo talk. That individual in-dividual decides upon a courso of Instructs o reading c a night-school class of ono or moro evenings each wook. Having tho tlmo sot Is Important. Im-portant. Starting n courso of btudv on tho ovonlng of Thrift Day with this end In view, thorobv pi noticing greater thrift of time, Is In effect sotting tho wheels in motion toward tho goal of topnotch efficiency and Individual success. Ono of tho greatest objocts of tho proper conception of Thrift Day which is to bo obsorved Poburary 3, 1917, is to recognlzo tho turo meaning of thrift and that moaning moan-ing Is nono other than Increased efficiency. Preston G. Peterson, brother of Dr. E. G. Petorson, is In I.ogun visiting visit-ing President Peterson and Hugh, another brother, who was oporato'd on at tho hospital recently, Tho City Board of Education yesterday yes-terday deslgnntcd Thatcher Dros, Banking company depository for tho school funds. Their bid being most favorable, i i G. W. Thatchor, writing from Now York to his brother, D. G Bays nil is well with ho and family in tho big city. |
