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Show COMPULSORY THRIFT In Kansas s group of power and telephone companies is trying a compulsory com-pulsory thrift plan, which affects about 1.200 employees and applies to every member of the organization from the president to the humblest day laborer. The plan requires that each shall save and Invest monthly at least 10 per cent of his Income. Every month each employee must make a report to the general office of how much he has saved, and in what he has Invested it. The Investment must be approved by a committee competent to advise. Government securities, se-curities, savings bank accounts, build- j Ing and loan stock, payment on a i home, even payments on furniture are allowed. If debts have been Incurred, these must be listed anil payments may bo nrrunged on them, but no more are to be assumed. The Idea is to make the omployee live within his j means and also lay aside something ' In a definite fonn. j Reports for the first nine months show that about 13 per cent of the j wages have been saved, no single employee em-ployee falling below 1C per cent. This amounla to over tloo.mio. Failure to report or to save brings dismissal, but 1 in only two Instances anion; the I.IL'OO 1 employees was such action needed, j Iludget book Hie distributed and ' their use explained us ;t heljul method In establishing a working scab) of living that wKl alluw for thrift I i |