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Show SPEND A DOLLAR DAY A nationwide mover'ont is on foot, beginning with February 1st, to inaugurate in-augurate a Spend A Dollar Day. Spend the dollar you are holding back; let loose of it; liquidate each day. Don't hold back. To hold back the dollar, robs the Grocer of his money, the Butcher of his in fact every creditor. This has nothing to do with a campaign cam-paign of thrift. Spend a dollar, on the liquidation of your debts, on the needful purchase you must have. Get that dollar into use. PAY YOUR BILLS. SPEND A DOLLAR. LIQUIDATE. LI-QUIDATE. But to withhold that dollar, or many more of them, to hold back on paying what you justly owe, to decline de-cline to liquidate or even to attempt to liquidate, brings in its train all the woes of a psychological stringency. strin-gency. Take a Spend a Dollar pill. It'll vork while you sleep. You'll be JurpriEXd how different to- 'o you, to your creditors, to your business associates, to all of us. Spend a Dollar Day is here to re-lieve re-lieve the pessimistic situation, pessimistic pessi-mistic only because you don't loosen up In needful spending. "Could you get along if we failed to pay you this week?" runs the slogan of the Spend a Dollar Club. "Then how will your Grocer, your Butcher, any of your Creditors get along if you fail to pay him or them? Liquidate. Be fair now pay your bills promptly and make the world move with a grin. Don't hold back." That's good dope. Liquidate at the bank; liquidate at the Con. Wagon; liquidate at the Lumber office; liquidate with the merchants: Pay on account; pay what you can; buf PAY. The person who, this year, refused to liquidate his obligations at the banks, will find that they will remember re-member it against him next year. A good credit is the greatest of assets. as-sets. "He'll pay" is the highest recommendation re-commendation for further business credit. But "He held back on us In a time of need," is a disqualification disqualifica-tion a stinging remembrance to be wary of granting another credit. One bad experience is enough. Spend a dollar. Loosen up. It will cure our psychological ills better bet-ter than an other treatment. Alliteration. Alliteration occurs sometimes In the writings of the ancients, but not, it is supposed, designedly, as they regarded regard-ed all echoing of sound as a rhetorical blemish. Cicero, in the "Offices," has this phrase: "Senslm sine sensu aetas senesclt;" and Virgil' in the "Ae-neid," "Ae-neid," has many marked alliterations. William Mathews. |