Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-09
A. & M. College Bulletin
THRIFT AND THINKING. 8.
[By CT Howerton Prof Business Practice
A. Nm. COLLEGE.

is mother either good or bad, bui
thinking makes it So" Hood tells
US, Evil is wrought by want o.
thought. Jane Taylor says,
''The man a thinking being is defined
Few have this grand prerogative Of
mind.
Here in the south where our eli
mate is SO hospital, and our soil Sd
fertile. there has been much need OF
sober. serious, continuous, concen-
trated, positive and productive
THINKING. We have sat under on
vine and tig tree, we have ,'smoked
pipe of clay" we have deceived our.
selves by the thuoght that all educa
tion IS book learning, we have been
self-centered and self satisfied, W.
have been taught That the SOUTH Il
the finest country in the world and
that our own people we're the
possessors of all the valuable vr.
tues of humanity, and shutting our
eyes to the outside influences we have
dosed ourselves on the 'aristocrary
of the Anglo-Saxon, and permit
ted the meanest foreigner, uneducat-
ed and washed, to beat us and our
children in the game of THINKING
for FEBIFT. Think hight and their
thought shall a HARVEST be, I" NAV be
materialized now in athousand ways
in our own country. We face new
vital problems. Thegreat men and |
the great measures Of the past will |
will never suffice to solve our pres
ent day problems. The present is
full of problem and things to awaken
our thinking powers. Just inpro-
portion as our present day probems
awaken mird to thinking will we
grow in thrift. Our schools mast
turn their attention to this problu
of thrift and thinking, our childen
must have some time left from thir
books to learn how TO think ad
thrive, and we must learn some VI
liable lesson from every foreiger
and every yankee who Goes
among us. 1t is fine thing to lFn
and recite some beautiful poem Wit
ten IN England or New Englandout
it is far more interesting tbg to
BUILD our present waste placentu |
into poem and song by link
ing on these til ngs, and soaink-
ing that the power of the tugh, |
will send us heroically to hitg the |
hard places With great Joy. Il
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THRIFT ANDGEADNES 9. i
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Poverty is sad thing. dness /
produces proverty. Gladnemakes l
thrift, and thrift ma&es dness. i
Just be glad" is a might've doc |
trine. Pollyanna and herd book I
are putting dollars in bank.
The very JOY OF earning written
in the face of the good eler. A :
young man leaves here fohe vaca.
ton, and returns when SOL opens
with money to pay his ere years &
expenses. Gladness is ltten al z
over his face. if this Dney was z
earned by his efforts has beer
noticed by every teach where d ,
school savings bank wasened that 3
her pupils who have hey ia the Z
bank are a much gladdet than be z
fore, especially If thEARN the &
money on their own aunt. The Q
spirit of the west is thpirt of jol- 3A
lily and jov, fun apfrolic, and y
their gladness is a mNre Of their
thrift. Many a teacf eau solve
some of her most veXimhool prob z
lens and see the smile satisfaction z
and gladness come to faces DINA 2
nv of her dull boys brganizlap a
THRIFT CLUB, ana owing each 3
youngster how to card save some ~
good money for each ! TIE mer-
riest- and 'meanest' lid is full of MO-
desire and eactivityhich may be q
converted into dol and manIi- tion
ness by making in (sehool an or ms
ganized effort to lkhn0s which 49,
will have amoney y, and to show Sale
tha ras,lts nc oa,til ing
WY 'iio"os F"iue Mis-,
Ior uoing. Ihere pdneSs on the Feb
face and music in thistle of many SEM
solo., ,hA; trsci
:" wy saio' ''an Npis piiOqrs 4d Stat
tunate(I) neighoorfrowling over Com
lessons in schoolkt ne hag;p "a 1915