Pocahontas star herald., 1926-12-09
A Truck Load Of New Dimes


fame, has a peculiar little hobby. 1t
is the giving away of clean new dimes
to those with whom he may happen to
engage in conversation. His servants
are instructed to always keep his
pockets well supplied with those shiny
little souvenirs, and each one given
away is generally accompanied by
short lesson on Thrift.
Now If John ID. should drive into
your school yard with a truck load Of
new dimes and extend the invitation
to every pupil to come and help them
selves to all they could carry home,
just how many of you would turn
down the invitation in order to go rab-
bit hunting or to join a gang Of loaf
ers where questionable stories are be-
ing told or for other pleasures or past
time?
Yet, there are boys and girls in near
ly every district who are turning down
better offers every day.
The district is doing what 1t can
to fit you for the responsibilities that
are going to fall on your shoulders in
very short time. What they offer
you will he worth more than your
share of a truck load OF new dimes in
the years that are shortly to follow.
They lay before you the accumulated
wisdom and knowledge of the ages and
ask you to help yourselves. The sup
ply is unlimited. 1t opens the avenue
to wealth, to fame, to positions Of
power and responsibility. 1t gives you
that which enables you to become a
good citizen and a power for good
in your community and to fulfill the
mission for which you were created
to contribute your mite toward max
ing this old world better place in
which to live.
Above all, don't get the idea that
education is solely for the wealthy or
for the accumulation of wealth. Some
very ignorant men are quite wealthy
and some highly educated men are
quite poor in this worlds goods, but
the educated man is far richer than
the ignorant wealthy, for he can come
nearer fulfilling his mission In life.
He has o consolation the ignorant can
never have for he has the great and
good-the master minds of the world
both living and dead to cheer him,
console him, amuse and entertain him.
He may be sick or in prison-he may
be reduced to poverty and deserted by
all his so-called friends, but his mind
can bring to his bedside such as Moses,
Solomon, David and Jesus of Naza-
reth, Socrates, Plato and DemOsthe-
mes, Emerson and Ruskin, Huxley,
Spencer, voltaire, Parker, Prescott, Ban
croft, Ridpath and Wells, Shake
speare, Byron, Shelley, Riley, Long
fellow, Scott, Dickens, Cooper and lr-
wing, Mark Twain, Bill Nye and Arte-
mes Ward, and so on without number.
He is never alone nor lonely. He is
always being entertained by celebri-
dirt floor and an empty larder And
while money is a secondary matter,
education will also help you get your
truck load of dimes and replenish the
pantry in a comfortable home unless
some misfortune overtakes you.
But what l have been trying to ex-
plain to you is that even If such mis-
fortune should overtake you the know
ledge and philosophy of life that vou
have acquired will still be worth for
tune to you. If it does not occur you
will be doubly rich.
see the grand jury has been ask
ed to take some action to see that Won
come and get what is coming to you.
You ought to be ashamed of that.
This truck load of new dimes is
still at the school house. 1t beats
Aladdin's lamp all hollow, the more
you take away, the more there is eft
If you take enough of it we will have
bigger and better graded schools and
a more prosperous community, a more
intelligent and patriotic citizenry, and
soon we will have a state free from the
blemish Of illiteracy.
Come on, fellows, and load up Don't
give the grand jury occasion to ever
mention such a thing again.
Think Of paying taxes to furnish you
an education and then paying more
taxes to county officers to force it 1own
you when it is all for your benefit in