The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-11-06
n. W. HARLLEE'S TWO-MINUTE
DAILY TALK FOR BOYS AND
GIRLS.
THE SCHOOL THAT Is MORE
THAN A SCH00L-A PUBLIC
SCHOOL WITH A BANKING SYS-
TEM-THE PUPILS ARE THE
CHIEF DEPOSIT0RS.
A Dollar is Worth More than One
Hundred Cents. Get Inc Habit
BOYS.
(By N. W. Harllee.)

(By N. W. Hartley
A school that is more than a
school. The lessons in the book, and
the pages are not the chief things,
such a school is in the city of Dali
las. This time it is school for
wh.'e boys and girls, conducted by
wide awake and active teachers who
do not believe in theory alone, but
in affairs that have the real essence
of every day transactions in the self
ACTIVITY inspired.
The Banking System in the School.
This school, be it said to its hon
or, and it deserves the highest COM
mendation, operates banking system
in which The pupils of the school
are taught the habit of saving. This
bank opens every day for ten min
utes, and for the usual transactions
as are carried on in the real up
to-da.e bank having commercial re-
lations. The pupils of the school
are the chief depositors, however,
both pupils and teachers make daily
deposits of small sums. Every child
in this school is taught The habit
of thrift, and this habit 1t is claimed,
is growing and is creating an in
terest and school pride in the pupils.
The Purpose of The Bank.
Of course, the highest and best
lesson to be taught the pupils is
thrift and economy. There is no
contract stipulating thatsthe teachers
of this school shall teach thrift and
economy to their pupils. and neither
do these wide awake teachers re-
ceive any compensation for their
extra services, EW, they are to re-
ceive that higher reward of salts
faction to know that to help others
is a greater pay renumeraions than.
are heard in the gingle Of dollars.
The purpose is to have the pupil
to save their pennies and to buy
thrift stamps and exchange them for
,he higher denominations Of War
Saving Stamps, An ideal school.
All the wisdom is not in books;
some of it is in common sense, in
every day activity. No lesson is so
helpful as a practical lesson, les
sen reaching out and tapping into
the practical relations of life. All
schools should look to this end, all
ether things considered. | consider
the banking system in this school
the high point in teaching CHER les
sons, this is what we consider pro-
ject in training the young that brings
tc bear many phases of real infor-
maion.
The Weak Point In The Negro Boy
And Girl.
What do you consider the weak
point in the Negro boy and the Ne
gro girl? Dress. The want of econ
omy. They need guide. They are
to re taught, not so much books
as by examples both in the home
and in the public schools. II the
whites teach their children rigid
economy and thrift what are we as
parents and teachers to do? As
, ,aaohers. we are to study the weak
points and apply the remedy in ex-
amplary conduct in this respect
We initiate in dress parade, why not
in the imitation of economy and
thrift? In talking with white boys
between the ages of twelve and tif-
teen years of age they tell me that
they have saved up from $25 to fifty
dollars by selling papers and doing
odd jobs. save some of all they make.
One Colored boy ten years old shows
his tank book which has forty dol
lars to his credit and twenty white
Toys have similar amounts. twenty
to one Let us, boys, get the hab'f.
It costs little self RENAL, but will
nay back two-fold.
The Example Set by This White
school should Re Universal.
WHY not every Colored school in
this city open a bank for their pu-
pills for ten minutes every day in
order to save the pennies? A penny
saved is a penny made. Our power
to rise is not in he big things that
we do. hut in the little deeds. the
copper cents saved. BOYS. count iha'
dollar lest in which a part is not
saved. Just now boys and girls are
returning from the cotton fields,
where some have made from five to
eight dollars a day when cotton
picking was paying $3.50 per hun
bred. Now is your time to save.
No other time is like this time.
Boast not that YOU can dress better
than some one else, but rather boast
that ycu can save more. can make
greater self-denial. Divide your
dollar into enc hundred parts, and
save one penny, if no omre, save a
nickle for you can, be sure you save
some of it. DO you know thai, dol
lar is worth more than one hun
bred cents? If you do not know this.
ask the man who has to borrow a
dollar at the bank. and he will toll
you that to get the dollar at the
bank that Is, will cost him one dollar
and the usual discount; so when you
have dollar saved up. you have
more than a hundred cents, for the
bank will pay you four per cent on
YOUR dollar Get the habiH of saw
ing. Be a young banker rather than
spendthrift. Get the habit, boys.
and STAR on the way to your first
800, then your first $500, then your
first $1,000. Get the habit. There
lies your fortune.