The Penn's Grove record., 1921-04-15
LEADING EDUCATORS
KEEN FOR THRIFT
School and College Heads in
Favor Making il Definite
Course Of Study.

The cornerstone of future national
thrift will be thrift study in the
schools and colleges of America. The
government is requesting all educa-
tional institutions to include thrift as
a definite part of the curriculum n
educational leaders are supporting
this plan.
Four largely attended conferences
were recently held in Pennsylvania
at which school and college heads
pledged cooperation. Regular studies
in thrift and the providing of facili-
ties in the schools for the purchase
by students of government thrift Sc
curities were advocated. New Jersey
has already put thrift study into prac-
tice and Delaware has sanctioned 1t.
Such leading educators as j. George
Becht, Deputy Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction; DIR. Henry FL. Apple,
President Of Franklin n Marshall
College, and city and county school
superintendents of At Pennsylvania
counties attended the recent confer
ences. Orrin Lester, Associate Ma
tiOnal Director of Wal Savings, Wash
ington, D. c., addressed the school
men at Altoona, W~illiamsport, Scran.
ton and Lancaster. Parochial as well
as public schools were represented.
DR.. Becht, as representative of the
Pennsylvania Department of Public
J,n%u,o+;n, va assurance that the
department would cooperate in every
helpful way in promoting national
thrift, DR.. Thomas E. Finegan, the
new State Superintendent, has beer
urged by the Treasury Department to
introduce thrift studies HS a regular
part of the Pennsylvania curriculum.
The plan is to have thrift taught In
graded courses Of from one-half to
one hour each week. Text books for
teachers use have been prepared by
the government.
Associate National Director Lester
In outlining the thrift plan for schools
declared that they now have their
greatest opportunity for rendering
national service. Regarding the scope
OF the thrift movement. he said:
Thrift is the peoples campaign
The government is not simply trying
to sell stamps and treasury savings
certificates to raise funds. II 1t were
only a question of raising money tina
could be done more quickly and witt
less trouble in other ways. The gov
eminent is aiming to stamp thrift as
a permanent habit into the lives OF
the American people. 1t is in the In
terest of and for the lasting benefit OF
the people.
"If we can teach thrift through ouI
schools and colleges ws will improve
the financial condition Of the Amerl
can people and go far toward estab'
fishing permanent national prosperity
The government plan Of teaching the
American people the use Of money
how to spend it-save it-invest It's
NOT a narrow thing. 1t Is NJ bound
down to the mere selling Of govern
ment securities.
There are two things for which
We are arguing. First, thrift in its
broadest principles ought to be laugh
in every school in America. 1t Is fol
you to say how that teaching shoult
be introduced, whether in the arith
metic course, in history, in English OIL
in civics. But don't make the mis-
take of introducing it as an incidenta
course. Make it a positive course.
Second, facilities ought to be pro
vided in every school and college fol
the purchase of Thrift and Savings
Stamps. And the aim in selling should
be to create a normal demand fol
them, a desire of ownership, just like
the desire for any other article pur
chased