“The way to wealth is us plain as the way to market–it depends on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money but make the best of both.” —Franklin.

SOME merchants, manufacturers and other business men have argued that full prosperity is only possible when people stop saving and spend their money freely. Merchants sometime feel that the banks and the thrift organi­zations are likely to hurt business through urging people to save their money.

The only saver who hurts business through accumulating too much money is the miser who hides away his money.

Saving money and putting it in the bank where it resumes its place as part of the circulating medium never hurts or hinders business.

To whom would the real estate man sell a home or a vacant lot if no one saved money and no one accumulated funds?

For whom would the building contractor build a house if no one saved money? More