South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-10
lLR. RORDENS EDITORIAL.

lih. BO6DElN > Ell Oiti<1L.
superintendent Borden or the pubic schools has
sent 10 the News-Times what ne labelled sugses-
ton for an editorial lie was wrong It IS the very
finest and most complete editorials because # is
p human story OF fact with the most clearly drawn
differences
II lacks bu, one essential statement When you
lead this editorial school suPerin-
isndeot remember that before this wonderful result
was obtained some very and women, the
teachers OF the thrifty scholars first caught the
vision of what thrift might and inspired these
growing minds and characters with this ideal
BY w w. BORDEN.
we invite the attention Of congenlal optimsts to
news from schools
In sixteen weeks the school children Of South
Bend have saved twenty-four thousand dollars-an
astonishing accumulation OF pennies. niekeis and
dimes that seems eloquently TO confirm the con-
structive potendaities of thrift education and the
wisdom OF the school authorities in adopting IT,
When school banking was inaugurated last Feb
r7iary az an elective addition TO the curricuh Of
South Bends schools. it became necessarily an
optional subject-left wholly to the choice and
initiative Of the 121s4 children enrolled The re-
Spouse OF these boys and girls is sgDihcant-for'
today. 9.s5s Of them derositors
Certainly. a sig1Ihcant showing-for 1t is impos-
sfble to triumphant WILL to save by far greater
among their parents.
Ours IL a VIGOROUSLY improvdent nation and
while South Bend is unquestionaby exception TO
that rule which declares that but in FIVE families
OF the average American community saves money
yet we enjoy no immunity from the great American
frailty Of improvidence.
No comment here emberish the testimony.
submitted in the nconrovertible language of dollars
and cents which the school children of South Bend
offer in proof thrift their prompt arprecia-
ton OF the habit of saving. their precocious common
sense about money.
It is interesting nevertheless thus to speculate
upon the influence Of their achievement upon those
to whom they take home their buoyant gospel of
saving To those OF us who have put aside for
inevitable tomorrow none Of our yesterdays
ings, the better judgement of young Johnny and
little Mary IS perhaps bit disconcerting Yet,
Why? 1t seems reasonable enough, while we
congratulating our children uron virtue all too
infrequent among ourselves. TO congratulate our
selves upon having begotten such good examples!
It is refreshing. at any rate. to observe in what
we are lately asked to believe otherwise
alarming generation this tendency Of the little child
to lead us-to the ways OF thrift
AS for those ubiquitous irreconciables most Of
them chndless. whose pleasure 1t is to bewail the
absence OF all the old-fashioned virtues i'm the
modern chrd-refer them, if you please. to our
school Saving Bank. TO its depositors. If chill
dren decadent these platform pessimists
would insist they are at least thrifty And thrift
IS poor start toward failures!
May we not indeed forget most of these recently
fashionable alarms about our succeeding genera
ton? our children, in fact. seem bc doing very
well with themselves perhaps in spite us. it
appears at all unlikely that shall ultimately
discover this generation of South Bend citizens
as good and probably little better than its parents