The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-03-07
HOW SCHOOL CHILDREN MAY
SAVE

HOW SCHOOL CHILDREN MAY
SAVE .
published by request of county
superintendent
Children, there is an old proverb
which says, "One cannot eat his cake
and keep it, too" This means that
when you have used up some food, or
clothing, or fuel, or money, it is gone.
You cannot use up these things and
Keep them, too.
Thrifty people, that is, people who
chink carefully about what they use,
ind that they can use food enough and
clothes enough and fuel enough and
money enough to do their work well
and still keep some of the food and
some of the clothing and some of the
fuel and some of the money that
might very easily have been used up,
too, if they had been careless about it.
In this time Of great national dam
ger our country is asking every man,
every woman, every boy and every
girl to think carefully every time he
eats meal, every time he puts on his
clothes, every time he fixes the fire
and every time he spends any money,
now he may save little. Uncle Sam
wants us to think every day how we
can save a little food, how we may
best take care of our clothing for the
lay, how we may best save little
fuel, and how we may best save a
part of our money. These little saw
.ngs of food, clothing, fuel and money
on the part of every man, woman and
child all taken together form a most
powerful aid to Uncle Sam in winning
the war.
Let us all in this school beginning
with myself as teacher and all the way
down to the smallest pupil resolve
chat from now on we will form the
habit of saving all the food, all the
clothing, all the fuel, and all the
honey we can 10 neip WIN the war.
The children of country school in
Nebraska have just written their
itate food conservation leader that
hey pledge themselves not to waste
even a crdmb from their dinner pals
Let US lend the money we save to
Uncle Sam by buying Thrift stamps
With it. 1t will then come back to us
after the war and bring some more
money with it for interest. A little
-year-old girl at Cedar Heights said
he other day as she shook the coins
her bark, 81 am going to lend my
money to Uncle Sam to help win the
war and when the war is over he will
glve it all bank to me and some more,
90, and then | am gong to buy a
pony"
Let us not only buy Thrift stamps
rrith the money we save but let US
also invest in Thrift stamps an
amount of money equal to the value
of the food and clothing and fuel we
have saved by being careful and
thoughtful. This money which rep
resents the amount of food, clothing
and fuel we have saved will have
double value to Uncle Sam, as it rep
PRESENTS a double saving, that of ma
terials as well as money. Every
25-cent Thrift stamp saved in this
way will have a value of so cents in
helping to win the war.
Let lis talk with our parents about
how we can best save food, clothing,
fuel and money. Then we will each
write on the board tomorrow one way
in which we can help save to win the
war, The children Of The Marshall
town schools recently thought of
eighty-one ways in which they could
help to save. Some of them were:
81 can do mothers work so she can
knit"
81 can sell papers and buy my own
clothes"
~ can send pictures to soldiers"
II can care for pen of chickens
TO conserve beef and pork"
II can kill rats and mice because
they eat food"
Il can feed my dog nothing but VIII
at would be thrown away"
Il can eat less syrup on my cakes"
Uncle Sam is asking us to help win
the war by eating coarser, palmer
foods without wasting one bit, by
taking the very best care of the
clothes we have and by wearing
coarser, palmer clothes, by saving
fuel carefully and by not spending any
money for the things we can do with
out.
Remember that men like Benjamin
Franklin, Daniel Webster and Abra-
ham Lincoln did not go hungry or cold
but that they ate plain, coarse food
and wore plain coarse clothing and
found in these source of power,
which enabled them to grow up to be
among our greatest Americans.
MACY CAMPBELL,
State Teachers College, Cedar Falls.