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Show FRANKLIN'S PART IN AMERICAN LIFE Public honors to the memory of Benjamin Franklin markcrl the begin nlng of "thrift week" in New York, .and one of the papers of that city, In commenting on the attention given to! 'Franklin's maxim? uf thrift paid thla tribute to the American philosopher: j But the maxims arc at most only ', ! a small part of Franklin's contribu ; tious of his coumrv's stock of wis ! '. dom. If the United States observes B philosophy week or diplomacy ! ' week or an authors' or editors' - ' ' week or an electrical week or an i . inventors' week or a stovf makers' week or an optical goods week or an educational week or an Insur- I unci week or a week of general j all around American progress, j ' .--hall not Franklin's see I be at or I j near the head of the tabli ' ; Why stop at thrift in holding ' Fianklin up to emulation? He in- vented the lightning rod, the hoax : and the republic." said Balzac, ' and these were only a part of the perfoimances of the "great Phila- dclphian, Ben Fianklin of Boston." 18 Rufus Choate termed him in a i sarcastic toast About the only j Yankee attribute he seems io have derived irom his birlhpla j was thrift. In his tolerance, his j Statesmanship, his philosophy, his patriotism, his broad grasp of the j principles of lite, he was one of ' - the great Americans ui all time. i Having given one day of a week iH to Franklin's memory. voun? IKIitHliLiist' i'BHc 1 Americans may be advised that i t they can profitably devote a full vear to the study of Franklin, be-' be-' (Inning with his rare autoblojgra pin. It will advantage them a ; whole lot more than an equal ,i mount of time spent in the study of bolshevlsru or free verse or tin- . oo |