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Show Daulton Hicks Wins More Honors To interest school children in the Thrift Stamp campaign, the Government Govern-ment offered an Honorary Certificate to the student who gave the best four-minute talk on that subject. A representative was chosen from each class. Clair Nichols represented the 7th grade; Daulton Hicks, 8th grade; Alta Edwards, the 9th grade; Howard Gosplll, 10th grade, and Mabel Davidson, 11th and 12th grades. The talks were judged on content and appeal. Daulton Hicks was awarded the Honorary Certificate. Certifi-cate. Alta Edwards and Clair Nichols Nich-ols received honorable mention. The result of the contest was forwarded to Wm. M. Blair, Washington, D. C. Below is the winning talk: Thrift as Character Builder Thrift defined means, the power to hold what we have and to grasp opportunities. op-portunities. One of the primary elements of thrift Is to spend lesB than we earn. It applies to carefulness, care-fulness, economy, as opposed to waste and extravagance. ! We might compare some people to 1 squirrels. Millions of people in the ,j United States go through life living i in the present, never thinking of what might happen. Then when poverty or old age or illness comes to them they have nothing to fall I back on, nothing in reserve, and thes 3 finish their lives In misery. The ? suirrel knows that it will not always r'be summer, and he stores food foi winter. Mr. Field, the richest and most successful merchant in the world, when asked what he considered the swered: "Saving the first $5,000 I ever had, when I might just as well have spent the modest salary I made. Possession of that sum, once I had it, gabe me the ability to meet opportunities. op-portunities. That, I consider, the turning point." Savings is the turning point in many a young man's career, but too many men realize this too late. Extravagance Ex-travagance is the vice of our country. coun-try. Andrew Carnegie says: "The first thing that a man should do it to save his money .By saving money he promotes thrift the most valued of all habits. " Thrift Is the treat fortune maker. It draws the lino between the savage and the civilized man." Let me emphasize that point. "Thrift draws the line between the savage and the clblllzed man." Mr. Carnegie also says: "Thrift not only develops the fortune but it develops also the man's character." Many people who are downcast and poor, look at a rich, successful man and speak of him as being "lucky." There is practically no such thing as luck In business, and the boy or girl who depends on it to bring him through the rough places, will seldom get through. Prof. Marshall, Mar-shall, the noted English economist, declares that five hundred million ' dollars is spent annually by the British Brit-ish working forces for things that i do not better their condition In the I least. Mr. Armour, when asked to what ; he attributed his success, answered: ) "Thrift and economy had much to do with It; also thrifty Scottish ancestors." There Is a statement in the Gospel story of the Prodigal Son: "He wasted his substance In riotous living." liv-ing." It means more than that he wasted his funds; it Implies that he wasted himself, and the most serious of all things Is the waste of one's self, one's energy, capital, and lowering low-ering of morals and the undermining of character, which thrift encourages and promotes. |