The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-12-12

leaCh the people thrift. Teach
them to lay aside a part of their saw
ings. Teach them to have a thought
of the morrow. Teach them to eschew
$25 hats, $50 shoes and 5000 coats off
wages that cannot warrant these
things.
Teach them not to be spendthrifts
and wasters for the ultimate lot of
the spendthrift and the waster is to
be at 50 years of age one of that 81
GU of every 100, in part or in whole,
dependent upon kindred, friends or
the public for the bread they eat, foc
the clothing they wear, for the roof
under which they find shelter. Pow
erty is ignorance, and ignorance is
poverty. They are twin calamities.
They mea poverty handed down from
father to son. Combined they mean
crime and criminality. Go to the
p~enitentiaries and there study the in
mates. There you will find the havoc
that ignorance and poverty work upon
mankind.
Poverty peoples the pauper asylums,
the poor houses, the insane asylums,
the houses Of correction, the refor-
matories and other places of public
detention.
More than S,500,000 people, over ten
years of age, in America cannot read
the daily newspaper. There is still
with us the astounding 24.6 percent of
American drafted men in the late war
who were illiterate. There is the eli
max in the terrifying story of the i'll
iterate young men between q and 81
all directly attributable to the de-
structive habit of non-thrift in Am
erica.
Lack of thrift is the blight of chill
dren. Statistics from the health
bureau in the City of Portland are
that 5000 out of 10000 school children
go to school without having enough
to eat. This is in a city with a per
capita wealth exceeded by but one or
two cities in America. The facts are
confirmed by statistics from health
bureaus in other large cities. A
starved body produces a starved brain.
1t destroys the power to struggle. 1t
undermines the ability to think. 1t
kills the power of initiative. 1t
stunts lives and hurries on i'll health.
The insuficiently nourished child has
not the strength to resist disease.
We have here from our lack of thrift
in America these things:
LIST. Ill health, wasting disease, and
a grave in the potter's field.
End. Stunted lives, inefficient men,
lack of initiative, failure and a grow
ing army of the submerged, which
more and more increases ferment and
social unrest.
Bird. Increased numbers of peniten-
~tiaries, pauper asylums, poor farms,
insane asylums, houses of correction,
reformatories and other places of pub.
lie detention.
And to these we may add the re-
port of the Illinois Survey which de-
clares that the chief cause of immor-
ality among ONE is poverty and it's
ally, ignorance. The Survey found
that 76 percent of fallen girls had not
passed the grammar grade in schools
because of poverty, and that there was
a very low per cent of immortality
among high school and college girls.
Here we have directly traceable to
the one great cause, viz, lack of thrift,
the chief danger that besets America
today. Lack of thrift with its attend
ant products of poverty and ignor-
ance give us al army of disappointed,
discouraged and dependent men and
women. If there is unemployment,
they are, of necessity, first among the
jobless. Their first thought is to find
fault with the Government and the
country. They are fit and fertile sub
jects for the l. W. w, the Bolshevist,
the agitator and the demagogue.
There is only n movement in Am
erica to encourage thrift. 1t is the
Governments plan for the sale of
Thrift and War Savings Stamps and
Treasury Savings Certificates. There
is no nobler endeavor. 1t stimulates
the individual to have a solicitude
abnut tho futura II makes tho off
zen who owns War Savings Stamps
or Certificates a partner in the Gov
eminent, makes him a part owner in
his country, it gives him a new inter-
est in the flag.
Thrift enables families to own their
own homes. Russia joined Bolshevism