| Show PAYING FOR THINGS by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK dean of men university of illinois Illi noi C W 7 HAT a wonderful man tuan george vv newton IN in an acquaintance of lillne said to me when 1 was as in california this summer jer I 1 had known george vell half a dozen bears a or so ago and so I 1 mis uns nt crested ye year a I 1 enid said inquiringly what wonderful ond erful thins thing IH its lie doing now bowl ue he has uch such hoe hes al ways pushing something and then lie went on to tell me of a scheme in which 1 george was interested and the tile expenditure of ninny thousands of dollars how bucl Is george cutting into fill iti asked well Y dont know that he lie has invested anything was uns th the reply bea he lust promoting file scheme I 1 recalled that in college he aej was n sort of social and political promoter if there way nii a n tance anac to he be riven oven or loot to bo ile he always anna managed ed to ret get onto the e committee m 11 he lie nas keen for every enter lip 1 lens saw to it that someone else elge paid patti the bills no one wa uni more eager than ne ile to send the tile band to columbu hu tir r madison or to put glut on a monster ellebr pt tit homecoming lut but it t was tie tile faculty facility or the tile merchants of the tile tonn or the alumni of si or th the array army who iio in his mind should hould assume the responsibility for payment not a george als shekels wore were reser ed for the promotion of his oun personal plea pleasure ure lie ile never timer chipped in he lie never planked down the tile cold cash to further the worthy enterprises which he advocated t L he the enthusiasm the wind as it were and he expected the other man to shill shell out the money I 1 ians interested to see that long after he was out of college he held to the same nine theory mr father used to say that bell believed eved in and what we belona d to we e ought to be willing to pay for it Is 1 a long time since he first preached the doctrine to roe me but I 1 I 1 have come to bellevo he ie to right education religion ideals are worth alt all that they cost and the more we pay for them the more they mean to us un what we ve pay little for we are likely to value lightly any enterprise which we support rises in our estimation the more we give ive the more we sacrifice the more we love the thing for which we have d Q 1924 mcclure newspaper syndicate 8 |
