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Show FOR A RAINY DAY It is common sense for the individual in-dividual to make personal preparation prep-aration for any economic depression de-pression which may come. Each individual can do so by the ex-ercise ex-ercise of a little self-denial for the moment. If each will put part of present day income into savings banks or government bonds, which are almost at par and still pay more than 4 per cent, there will be much less misery when the tide of prosperity pros-perity ebbs. We do not oppose the purchase of silk shirts or flivvers, or patronage of the moving pictures and similar entertainment. en-tertainment. We are for those things. The working man or woman has as much right to the luxuries he or she can buy as has any one, and more than some. In so far as they do buy these things they help maintain prosperity. - But common sense and the experience of very recent re-cent years should indicate to them that there is a path between be-tween extravagance and parsimony. |