The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-01-07
THRIFT WEEK WILL
LOOM WELL HERE
GENERAL OBSERVANCE
THROUGHOUT COUNTY
Extensive Programs Have Been Ar
ranged by Every County School,
and Prizes VIII Be. Offered for
Essays and Posters.

with the passage OF Cne freeman
Bill, Thrift education in the schools
of Oh:o.is compulsory. This, however,
is only one reason why the teachers
and school boards throughout Medina
county are anxious to make the most
possible out of the National Thrift
Week, Jan. 17-24.
The details of the Thrift Week pro-
gram for the schools have been care
fully worked out by County Superin-
tendent Ulery and the heartiest CO.
operation is anticipated on all sides
from the largest centralized school to
the most remote one-room center. None
of these smaller schools viii be slight
ed in the opportunities of either the
exhibits or the, contests.
The schools will observe the daily
program Of Thrift Week. Before
Jan. II each school will have had a
chance to study the comprehensive set
Of exhibit charts which have been pro-
yided by the County Thrift committee.
Then beginning with the 18th, Monday
there will be special assembly periods
each day in the centralized schools and
special period each day in the small
er schools, given over entirely to the
specific thrift subject, on the national
week program. The thrift talks Civ
en- by teachers or others appointed by
them each day will be as follows:
Monday-The value Of Bank Ac-
count. s
Tuesday-Why make Budget and
keep an Expense Account?
Wednesday-The value of Life In
surance. w
Thursday The Advantage of Own
ing your Home.
Friday-Pay your Bills Promptly.
Special time on Friday afternoon,
Jan. 2d. will be set aside in all schools
for the writing Of essays on Thrift
subjects. Each pupil may select any
subject in keeping with the Thrift
Week messages. The essays will be
limited to a maximum Of two hundred
words. The County Thrift Week com
,,mittee has, provided a five-dollar gold
piece as an award for the best essay
ii each Of the four years Of high school
and the seventh and eighth grades By
awarding the prizes in this way the
pupils in each year of school are COM
peting with those in all schools of the
county in the same year Of school, and
the smaller schools have an equal
chance with the larger. In every case
if the prize is used to open savings
account, it will be credited as $500 by
the bank in which the account is OPEN
ed.
Another unique feature of the school
program is the contest in original
Thrift posters. Under the direction
of the drawing teachers, where there
are such, the best original poster de-
signs on any phase Of the Thrift pro-
gram, will be submitted to the judges.
This contest of course is open to any
student in the schools of Medina coun-
ty.
The judges for both the essays and
posters will be authorized by the coun-
ty Board Of Education and will work
with Mr.. Ulery in the consideration of
the awards. No school can submit
more than three essays from each Of
the grades involved. This will insure
the county judges getting the best one
in each case, but will avoid the neces-
sity of their considering all of the two
to three thousand papers which will be
written in the interests of Thrift.
One Of the most lasting features of
Thrift Week in the schools will be the,
inauguration Of school banking sys-
tenn in each school throughout the
county. Pass books, stamps and all
details are in readiness for the promo
tion Of an effective savings system for
all pupils who are wise enough to
avail themselves Of the opportunity.
In each case this will be supervised by
the teacher and in centralized schools
the bank will afford valuable business
experience to those students who are
fortunate enought to work with the
savings system.
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