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Show A Few Helpful Moments Withthe "Get-There" Club f2&$P ' 1 1 "mi of us, Horace, a good An way to savo our money Is to a spend It, And that Isn't by any y meant as foolish as it sounds. Oft n it Is the only way wc can save. Ol course, Horace, such a system Is not suitable to every young chap who SPENDING TO SAVE BY XED PADGETT. j Is trying to "get-there." Lots of them would make a grave mistake in attempting at-tempting to follow it for. after all, it'Si I pretty much of a "kill-or-cure" system, j ! And, again, many chaps do not need .such a desperate remedy for any spendthrift tendencies that may be latent lat-ent within them. But there's a large class of young : 1 fellows today who simply can't open ja bank account and make tholr deposits de-posits stick. They mean to save but. , somehow, money Just slips through their fingers after a surprisingly brief sojourn there. Always, it seems, something some-thing comes up and smashes that bank i account into smithereens. 1 Now here is a caee in point, A certain young chap let's call him Alec because he wasn't a "smart" ono and because that wasn't his name had been "making good money" for a number of years. Having no responsibilities except h Is j own needs, he spent, freely so freely i that there was never even the suspicion suspi-cion of a balance on the right side of his ledger. To Alec, all money meant 1 was what it would buy. One day, along came a real estate-agent estate-agent who stood Alec up in a corner Where do couldn't escape or even answer an-swer bak effectively. And he didn't let him out until Alec had sat himself down at his desk and affixed his John Hancock to a formidable paper which showed that "for and In consideration 1 of" and "wherefore" and "where-as" "where-as" the "party of the second part" Cwhioh was Alec) was now the owner of a certain lot (unimproved) just be-, yond the jumping off part of the city! limits. That is, he was the owner of said I lot, subject to a monthly payment of; so much, which included ail interest, I taxcw and payment on principal. The next month and for many months thereafter Alec found it pret- i ty hard sledding to make the required j payments. But he consoled himself I with the thought that if he didn't j i spend the money that way he would1! either throw it away or give it to some i other bill collector and he "came i across" on time. After twelve months j had skipped by, Alec woke up to the 1 1 fact that he had a really healthy : i equity In that lot. Then, a while later, along came an-1 1 other real estate agont who dared Alec ! to refuse to sell him said lot at a cor- i ,Uin jprice, which was several hundred c simoleons more than Alec had paid for it. Of course Alec succumbed to the thought of getting that much cash In his hands all at once. Why, it was just like getting money back which he thought had said "good-bye" to him forever! When tho unavoidable "to wit" and "whereas" and "for and In consideration considera-tion of" had been disposed of with Vftixed His John Hancock i. n I or-midablc or-midablc Paper. Alec now "the party of tho first part" he was sorely tempted to go out and celebrate with his "easy money." But, being a chap who could see a thing without having to have It beaten Into his noodle, he sat down to think it over. And he presently discovered that he had been up against a pretty good game; that If he hadn't been compelled com-pelled to make his monthly payments x the lot those same payments would M-have M-have gone into taxi meters, head-wait- ' srs bank accounts and- other bourns" from which no coin ever re-:urns; re-:urns; and. further, that the best and he only way for him to save was to issume obligations which he had to eet regularly or lose what he had Hready put up. So. thereafter. Alec put himself un-ler un-ler obligations to such investment w more lots, newly organized com- aii 7 w?n lhe insnt plan: f ,Aa11I,Wh,ch' Horac. 'y contain k aluable suggestion for vou if per- :hance. you arc another Aloe: ' i i |