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Show The Moral, Folks, Is Sad A prominent local citizen, complaining com-plaining about business conditions, was recently asked why he didn't get another job, and his answer was, "pride." Getting down to raw meat, the gentleman explained a lot of trouble in the present era. Citizens Citi-zens who talk about the inability of men and women to make a living liv-ing seldom realize that most of it has been brought about because of the collective pride that makes men and women keep up with their neighbors and associates. There are few people in Mt. Pleasant today who could not have saved money during some years of the past decade. However, like the rest of us, they concluded that good years were here to stay, that they "rated" more and better things, and they spent their cash and pledged their credit. It is easy to do in prosperous times, but when the day of reckoning reck-oning comes, as come it will, the price to be paid hangs over the debtor and is a constant threat of extinction from a financial point of view. The man who makes $100 a month has his eye on his friend who makes $200, and he thinks of all that he could do with that much money. The $200 a month man looks at the $300 man, and thinks the same thing. The samo applies to the $20 a week employe, the S30 and $40 man. Now, what is the point? Wei' frankness compels the admission that most of us live beyond our Incomes, expecting to catch up the slack out of the next boost iv our incomes. When, instead of e boost, we get a fall, the burden v too much and the lessened income cannot be stretched to meet the situation. The advice is: Live within you'' income, whatever it may be, be-cavst. be-cavst. some da, you will have to live on less than your income -,ou den t |
