Show the boy who takes his hat off when he ha enters the house is the one who usually has his hair combed and his face cleaned and the girl who says please and thank you is always prettier than the one who forgets these little things you look around and see if this is not true A movement is on foot to make this year 1916 a thrift year that is a year in which the people may be taught to save bankers in all parts of the coun try are taking it up and endeavor ing to get their patrons to put all the money they can into savings deposits they believe that I 1 a time is coming within a few years when a great many who pre are not in the savings habit lor or have nothing laid up for a rainy day will be troubled to get money for their needs and for the purpose of getting them to lay a few dollars aside they are using every possible means to induce the saving habit they say that if every one of our hundred millions of people could be induced to save fifty cents a week each for a year it would add to the capital of the country five hundred million dollars and now many times that amount is frittered fritt ered away on things that never do the purchasers any good in any way A committee of prominent bankers and financiers has taken this matter up and is arranging to have a certain dav set adart all over the coti country as thrift day in which its ob i I 1 ats may be explained and the hildren children encouraged to start sayings savings accounts some day the man who feels himself too important or too busy to speak to reporters may find it necessary to rush up to the reporter and cry for mercy and ask that a legitimate item be suppressed says an exchange and it is by no means an idle dream |