The Secret Of Wealth

If we would bring complete prosperity to our Country we must save and then save more. As we save more, our prosperity will increase and, if each of us can save enough, everybody in our community will have everything he wants of the material things of life, which means happiness and ease and contentment for you and for us.

We will never learn to live well until we learn to save--we will never be able to live better until we learn to save more. When saving becomes a habit, the habit becomes a pleasure.

If the water of the brooks were not saved, there would never be a river or a sea.

"All habits gather, by unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.--Dryden. 

CHAPTER XIX

"It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it."--Emerson.

MOST evil deeds are the result of temptation and, until these temptations are removed or minimized, the evil can not be eliminated.

In recent years we have witnessed the greatest material prosperity the Country has ever known. Everybody had money. Nearly everybody had diamonds or fine furs or an automobile or all three.

The few that did not have these things wanted them because nearly everybody else had them. Those who did not have the ability or the opportunity to earn big money either had to content themselves with the commonest comforts of life or try to get the things they wanted in a dishonest way.

The very spirit of the times has created dishonesty and some of the rest of us are almost equally guilty with those who have done the criminal acts, because we have made these criminal acts possible.

Flaunting rich clothing, diamonds and gorgeous personal adornment in the face of unwise or unfortunate people who are unable to have these things creates a spirit of desire and unrest which too often ends in a criminal act.

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