The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-02-27
SAVINGS BANK SYSTEM.
It's introduction Into schools to EneOur-
age Thrift Among Pupils


age Thrift Among Pupils
The practical benefits and valuable
educational features Of the school saw
ings bank system in public schools
should be known to every parent and
guardian of children.
Waste is rather indigenous TO a new
country. Pioneers are reckless rather
than frugal The general tendency is
to ignore provident thought Of the fu-
ture. Somebody says, 'The masses know
better how to earn than to save" The
habit Of saving is an essential part Of an
education. Good principles ard good
habits are in themselves a fortune.
If every child were taught the value Of
industry, frugality and the care of its re-
wards, guided in saving little amounts
Of money, given the pleasure Of individ
ual ownership and trained in wise dis
tribution, our prosperity would be vastly
and effectually increased.
France has this thrift teaching
through the school savings bank system
in all her public schools and the nation
acknowledges its rich benefits.
The system Is used in about 1,5OO
schools Of the United States. The week
" penny savings of the children of these
schools has already amounted to hun
dreds Of thousands Of dollars. Our com
missiOners of public education, state
superintendent of public instruction
and other leading educators heartily en-
dOrse the system.
1t is briefly this: On Monday Of each
week the children bring their pennies;
as the teacher calls the roll the child re-
spends, ayes, five cents, Tor whatever am
cunt he may have) and takes the money to
the teachers desk. She marks the
amount on a school savings bank card
opposite the proper date, filing out the
card in the child's name, places the sum
also on her roll book to his credit and
gives the card back to the child. When
the teacher has completed the roll call
the money is placed in an envelope
marked with the amount, sealed and con
veyed to the principal who acts as tenn
pOrary treasurer and deposits the mon
ey IN the bank. A deposit list cop
led from the teachers roll book must
be sent monthly to the bank in order
that the accounts of the scholars may
be individualized. When a child has de-
posted 81 he is given a bank book and
becomes, through the school, a regular
patron of the bank. The pupils are al
/ lowed to take their bank books home for
day or two at the close Of every month.
The family interest aroused in the
monthly examinations Of these bank &C.
counts has IN many instances telling eff
feet and older persons have learned les
sons in thrift through their children.
/ The child may deposit or withdraw mon
ey directly from the bank during vaca-
ton, the withdrawal requiring the sigma
ture of parent or guardian.
A school principal who has had this
! system il use in his school for ten years
says that many of his pupils had two or
three hundred dollars to their credit by
the time they had finished their school
life, a very convenient sum with which
! to further increase their education or to
begin business life.
Every year the system is extending
and one Of the great agencies Of its prop
Uganda is the WOman's Christian
Temperance Union. They believe that
there is no educational sdjunctO OF reform
force that has such important bearing
upon the formation Of character IN the
individual, and therefore upon social re-
generation as the school savings banks.
The local W. c. 7. U. stands ready to
assist in introducing this system in our
schools.
Moved Back to sherman County.
III Lee Hartzlar has rnoral InacL- f-nrn s.