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, iii - . . . n i . iv -. - -How Meclli Momey Do 1 Youn Garry -in Youir V 'r -:m "Pocket? II FOR YOUR OWN GOOD AND FOR THE GOOD OF'THE COUNTRY YOU SHOULD CARRY AS LITTLE CASH IN YOUR POCKET AS POS SIBLE. WHY? WELL, IN THE FIRST PLACE, THERE IS THE DANGER OF THEFT. "STICK-UP" MEN ARE ABLE TO GET SURPRIS INGLY LARGE HAULS BECAUSE OF THE CARELESS AMERICAN HABIT OF CARRYING LARGE SUMS OF MONEY. IF FOLKS HAD WITH THEM AN AVERAGE OF ONLY FIVE OR TEN DOLLARS, THE HIGHWAYMAN WOULD FIND THE PROSPECT MUCH LESS ALLURING. ALSO, MONEY IN THE POCKET IS EASILY AND THOUGHTLESSLY SPENT. A QUARTER JIERE ANP A DIME THERE FOR IDLE,.UN NECESSARY THINGS AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT FD7E OR TEN DOLLARS ARE THROWN AWAY FOR USELESS PURPOSES. M You Can B ore WJieij money is deposited in the bank it goes to work for your" community and for American industries. The idle dollars in your pocket draw no interest for you, nor do they serve the needs of commerce: i Make America V fosperous If every person in the United States carried an average of only one dollar more than was necessary, their pockets.would con tain a total of more than $100,000,000 in idle money. Think how far this sum would go toward financing wheat, cot ton, rice and other crop! Think how this hundred million would speed up the industries of the country! v Theo. Price, noted economist and editor of Commerce and Finance, recently addressed an audience of business men. He asked the men present to report the amount of cash in their A pockets. In, an audience of less than six hundred men, there was 1 over $17,000 in cash. Join in the Thrift Campa Open a Savings Account in a local savings bank and let your idle "money draw 4 per cent interest, compounded quarterly. Make pay-day your bankings day. Deposit all except your actual cash requirements. Thus you will not only find your savings accumulating in a surprising way, but you will be doing your part toward making the country prosperous and progressive. deposits Any of the following banks will be glad to accept your One dollar or more opens a 4 interest-bearing account. TheWilmingto n Savings American Bank and and Trust Company TrustCompany Peoples Savings Bank Liberty S; ank Citizens Bank and Trust . . . . "Company . . ' - -V v Home Savings Bank lit 3ivV. ("VH ',1V .r-' l-ii .i -'i vi ' f T ! f v!rfr.iJ Ml :l, it : L- A f 1 'L? i' i 'is ;, 't :'( V.'---'! Vlli 11 V 'f HyM-Vfr, ! '"ly Hi.' it- ,n :'y-, :1..f: mtr In ;' i-fifvf'.-WJ-'i 'J'.-;. -r. - . Ml . I ft . ' .1 . 1 I vy ;lh Ife
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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