| Show PARABLE OF THE TALENTS the daily papers last week carried a news article about a man mail 80 years of ago whose ufa 11 ja savings went up in smoke literally because he kept it in tin cans about his home which was burned to the ground as the result of an overheated over heated stove his poor wife who had skimped and saved with him over this long period of years succeeded in rescuing from the fire but this is all that the aged couple have to take care of them during their declining years this story of real life reminds us of the biblical parable of the talents which is so aptly adapted to this modern age in a recent editorial in the atlanta georgia journal as follows the man who went and hid his hia talent in the earth and thereby became his torys most famular familiar example of unfaithfulness and folly must have lived in times like our 0 own his country we take it was emerging from one of those depressions which off and on have visited every people under the sun since business began so fearful he was waa that he fell into worse trouble than that he be was trying to avoid and tragically missed his hia lifes greatest ja eunity entrusted witha certain J amount of cash he hoarded it instead of using it he could have bought the best of goods at bargain prices he could have made investments more advantageous than any which had been or ever again would be in his day he could have done his part toward providing jobs for hungry men toward quickening sluggish streams of trade toward restoring confidence and prosperity but lie he was afraid and went and hid his talent in the earth wherefore as a matter of economic and social justice it was taken from him and given to those who had the courage the loyalty and enterprise to use it the old parable is now hitrik strikingly new its truth rings afresh in the following lines from a current advertisement dont say you c cant ant help dont say youre too little to help cure a big national crisis you can help have you hidden your money away buried it in the ground put in a sock locked it up in a safety vault then bring it out if you want to help this depression help your state and your nation and your fellow man and help yourself every dollar you put back into use helps it helps make a market for the things you grow and it helps you your money is worth more now in terms of what it will buy than its been in many many years there is a feast of bargains spread out before you prices will go up the value of your money in terms of what it will buy will shrink it will shrivel if it remains hoarded bring it into the sunlight let it sprout and grow you a new crop of dollars not in wild speculation not in wildcat schemes no need to lose it that way the best securities the best lands the vest investments of all kinds are waiting for you on the bargain table did you know that the biggest fortunes were not founded in periods of prosperity they were founded in times of adversity like these by men who had cash and courage those words are worth every mans pondering they are arc words of common sense as well as common patriotism they are approved by all ages of the past and they will be verified by history now in the making who hides his talent today will find himself at last ashamed and empty hand ed who uses it will be numbered among the fortunate the faithful and the good atlanta georgia journal |
