Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-02-02

ohasized that school children who al ready have savings accounts in banks of the city. shall continue those ac- counts, as the school bank does not desire to interfere with the regular banking business. The principals and teachers will stress this to the pupils and will bring out plainly the point that the school bank is intended primarily for those children who have no savings accounts, that they may begin such accounts in the schools and thus learn the value of thrift.
 Prof. J. R. Allen, principal cf the high school. has been elected presl- dent of the school bank, and Prof. E. Garland May, principal of the Lake side school. is first vice president Vice presidents from the other schools have not yet been elected. The cen tral headouarters of the, bank will be al the high school. The children ol inc ward schools will make their deposits with the assistant cash1ers at those schools, and the assistant cashiers in turn will make the de- posits with the cashier, at the hlgh school. The cashier will place the funds in the depository, the directors of the bank having yesterday deslg- mated the Merchants X Planters, pahk of Pine Bluff as the depository for the ensuing year.
 Directors Are Chosen.
 Each school will have one director for stock subscribed up to S23. and an additional director for each S25 taken in stock. although no school nav have more than three directors. Only one school. the Sixth Avenue school, is entitled so far to more than one director Directors already elect ed are Monroe Perdue, from the high school: Leland Kientz. from the Lakeside school. Fred Fox Benton, from the Pine Street school; w. T. Seawell Jr. and Bennett Wright. from the Sixth Avenue school. and Edwina Mallev. from the First Ward school, Miss Malley being the only girl on the directorate. Gwen Lippard is cashier and Isabel Woodland is as- sistant cashier at the high school. while Rufus Martin. assistant cashier for the Lakeside school. is the only one of the ward school cashiers yet named.
 The school at Altheimer, which started bank when the present school session opened, has already made great headway. and the belief is held here that the organization and operation of the school bank will not only mean the saving of consider able sum by the school children. but will work for even greater good by causing many of the children to ln- stinctively grasp the idea that thrift is a valuable habit, a habit which once taken on, will continue through life, to the advantage of the individual and the community, this being the primary purpose for which the insti- tuition was established.
 Thrift Day Observance.
 The thrift campaign is steadily growing in extent and force. More and more are people preaching and practicins thrift-warring on waste whether :n the home, the store or the factory. Nowhere is there disposi- ton to advocate miserliness, bat everywhere are folk who are urgina that full value of money be obtained that articles be used economically and that whatever is purchased o' produced shall be made to yield fa!' return in service. benefit or profit.
 Church and school leaders in Pine Bluff and Jeffersons county are very active in the thrift khmpaign. and al ready the results offthis activity arc becoming apparent in increased say ings deposits; less dredit and more cash business. and the effort to pro duce on the farms more of the nee essaries of life All this is thrift effecting economy today that there may be more wealth to enjoy tomor. row, as one of The Graphic's core spondents aptly expressed the idea.
 Rev. John J. Albert, rector of St Peters Catholic church. writes, 1T response to letter from The Graphic regarding the Thrift Day observance
 "We will do all the cooperating we can in placing thrift before the mind: of our people, and, especially in ac cordance with program mapped or by the promoters. Happily this yea we have the Feast of the Purified tion' falling on this Friday, and thi, will give us an opportunity of instill ing thrift into the hearts of the schoo children during the religious cero mony customary on that feast. Father Albert expresses the hoot that "thriftiness will Le persistent, preached and taught until it be comes an American characteristic, and comments "The Graphic for tn fine work it is doing for the uplif of our city and state.'
 Sam Taylor School in Line.
 Miss Lula Davis. principal of tn Sam Taylor school. says:
 Thrift Day will be observed at San Taylor school. In the primary room there will be stories and memor. gems. In the fourth grade talks o1 moral and intellectual conservation by the Rev. J. R. Dic'kerson, pasto of Hawley Memorial church."
 At the Arkansas-Haywood Indus trial college fer negroes, Thrift Da exercises will be held on the third according to c. c. Neal. A. B., presi dent of the institution. This schoo is doing a great work among tn