The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-03-01
TALKS ON THRIFT
WASTING A SHEET OF PAPER

there may be the wasting of much. For
instance, a certain bank president draw
ing a goodly salary, spends great deal OF
time cutting envelopes for use as scratch
paper. He is wasting his time, for ii ne
is worthy of being president OF bank,
his brain value is of so much greater worth
than the paper value he is trying to save,
that he is penny wise and pound foolish.
He should be thinking out the problems
of his bank, not trying to save 1t lew
sheets of paper. On the other hand, 1t
would be good economy for large de-
partment store, burning hundreds OF lights
daily, to pay man ten dollars week TO
watch for needless waste of light and turn
out those not in use.
A certain man dropped a nickel at
railroad station. In his endeavor to find
it. he lost his train, lost his temper, missed
a bushes engagement that held up four
other men. and caused confusion all round,
and had to spend quarter for telegram
to hold the engagement for his late arrl-
villa. That was poor economy.
The point to be emphasized IN all such
endeavors is to impress upon the lndlvld-
ual who wastes that if all were to do as
he does, the loss would be enormous; and
if all were to do as he should, the saving
would be great We are both careless and
thoughtless. We leave our lights burning
when thew do no one any good. We leave
the water running forgetting that the
meter is on it's job all the time, and every
turn of the wheel means money to some
one, if not to u.s. It is all very we'll to say:
cts included in the rent, yes, but the
landlord has probably figured that out
when he fixed his rental. You pay not
he, for every hour you burn useless
| light, or let the water run to waste.
A certain school teacher, wide awake to
impress these things upon her pupils, got
her great chance one day. A little girl
made few figures on sheet OF paper and
threw it away The teacher asked why
she wasted that sheet of paper, and the
pupil replied that lit was only a sheet OF
naper. and besides. it was furnished by
the Board of Education Free Calling the
class to order, she asked them to take out
their pads and count the number OF sheets.
Then she told them what the pad cost and
asked them to calculate the cost OF one
sheet-a fraction Of a fraction OF cent.
She then told them how many pupils at
tended the schools of the city on an aver
age of 100 days year and asked them to
figure the cost if each pupil wasted but
one sheet day. The total was surprise.
It's not the cost of a single 81 eet OF pa
per, a single hour of useless light, match,
a cent or two, that counts-it's the cumu-
lative totals that make the astonishing
losses.
There is such thing as being mean and
niggardly with yourself, eating only
enough to keep body and soul together,
wearing clothes until they are mass OF
patches, and living life of strict denial
to all the bodily comforts. That is not the
point; you ought to live we'll, dress de-
Gently, and have wholesome pleasures, but
be careful in your wasting, lest you be
one of great army, wasting it may be
but match a day, but if million others
are doing the same thing, we burn up, a
lot of wood to no useful purpose. Light
your pipe with one match "A. B. A.