Show old 14 ta ik is 0 n th r ift 10 IU a that THE STAR OF THRIFT 9 14 be world had forgotten how to r it was ashamed to practice ft health had been increasing piously without saving the ent of machinery and the in ased on the part of men been ben creating wealth faster than bald be consumed the homely me ue of thrift had disintegrated body bad to sive when capita required it was created not by ing or cutting out waste but by it n al more of it the farmer did dill ci his land better but more it the individual who aspired to tier livin living did not economize but aked red harder the miser had bene e but flet fiction genestion genen tion or two ago every j y carried purse it was a lot bother to spend a nickel buethe but the baliet his has di disappeared and we y have a diange pocket and ir it out by frequent jour journey neis a ther ier we have been i r rice rlee lee of and hive justified oui out waste our oar power to e irn then ien came clime the war everybody was so rich that the world thought it lt could fight on stored capital why wh save a few hundred mil millions liong to pa for a war that cost billions it would be a brief struggle at best why not pay for it on borrowed money only recently has it on the people of europe that the have stopped creating new e capital t been destroying the old in suicidal amounts and only close economy and thrifty living on the part of all can call save the world from b bankrupts the governments fust borro borrowed Ned ill they could but that the would soon exhaust their bu borrowing powers guined tut tied their attention to taxation and to this process has been obeying and heroic and measures it lie e no nov v being taken ever where in europe to meet the rising cost of war by thrift plans these methods indol involve e sacrifice huffe huge taxes and a willingness willing niss to do without isit hout and involve far economic chanas 11 elating eving tving adjusted itself to thriftless conditions the ly depart on a new thrift idt i sit mth 1 I i out doing bamat for por instance if should stop going to the movies it would save a lot ot mone but disrupt and binh bink rupt bupt thousands of fil fit nib nis and cut cot down the income of other thousands rd reb ing on this industry indu str wp could do to without many man things thing but the I 1 flee would be cosil to with ro surplus income as a people the millions million 4 ol 01 eusope cannot login legin to s sive lve without distro it ing o 0 mot e than the tile save ave they cannot stinah speaking sive sie at all the cm boop spending except foi fot feces oties and spend foi fol v v ir r but th tint it is mete ly a convirs conversion ion of wealth get 11 in has been niva measures ind lias has been limiting the tion of crt it hutain liti tain lua haa tin if t impugn on and all un 1111 esai imposts will be curtil kd but habits ire not changed in a daa da ind the tile effell ts of the spend th ift 1 kitiona to tv be thrift t ire 1 pathetic pi ith e tic in f centrist with the tile plight of lu lope the U kitei cited states stites st ites 1 is the leading natum on eat eaith th no now it hiving iving surplus c it is the tile 00 coun court ti tt that can t tally ave whose thrift is not forced not be cause of our unique unive position loti bit he cluse if cultivated now will I 1 m ike us the bigbea moneyed factor in the tile chrit t tw w is never t tash ish ion lot ible but ought to bt always s eu ru ropes loss must be our g gun tin ind oui out gum gilin will be I 1 listing as we ve mak nake the habit 1 1 l fUt opt beirn le irn how low to be poor again while jille w we must ie irn how to be rich but se ft cannot afford to be too rich losing our for riches while poverty pays the bill ery dollar you can save now helps alone in tho tile good work star of thrift is nearing its zenith |