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Show 1 TtfE AMEKICAN WAY i A LITTLE CHILD g. J SHALL LEAD THEM I !i- By Georie Peck,, , fflOJ ;( "And a little child shall lead JthJn" (Isaiah 12:6) That is just M of the thousands of wise and 1 true observations to be found in A the Greatest of All Books. Editor Clyde Al Eckman of the - Casa Grande (Arizona), Dispatch v weekly, tells a simple story on : his editorial page of a colored V bov in his employ. This young l lad in all probobility unaware : of how he is setting an example '1 of how to win confidence and es-; es-; ta Wish credit, displays a degree L of dividend-paying honesty that t many a nation and many an in- dividual would do well to emu-! emu-! late. s At this particular time when many foreign nations are belea-j belea-j curing Washington, seeking to I tap the supposedly bottomless ' treasury of Uncle Sam, it might be a good idea to ponder upon the lesson in "how to keep one's credit good," as exemplified by this part-time employee of the Casa Grande Dispatch. Honest dealings between nations na-tions are just as essential as i s integrity between i n d i -viduals. The individual who borrows and makes no serious ser-ious effort to repay, sooner or later finds himself in the embarrassing embar-rassing and uncomfortable position posi-tion of having cut himself off from all sources of borrowing. Likewise a nation that repudiates its foreign obligations eventually winds up broke and with no banker friends in the community of nations, willing to advance badly needed money or credit. Once again is proven the truth of "And a little child shall lead them", as Editor Eckman points out the moral,to be learned from the youngest of his employees, in his home-spun editorial which I now quote: Great nations, which seek large scale financial aid from this country, while memories of their failure to pay debts incurred after the first World War still rankle in American minds, could profit by scrutinizing the borrowing borrow-ing habits of a young Dispatch employee. Edward, 14 years old and dark of hue, folds papers for a few hours each Thursday evening, and sometimes finds himself short of the necessary funds with which to view the two movies he encompasses into a single night's entertainment. When that happens, Edward applies for and gets, an advance of "fo' bits," against his next pay check. Promptly on Saturday morning Edward returns the fifty cent piece, thus restoring his credit rating against the following follow-ing week's emergency. Had England, in the years following fol-lowing the first World War, exhibited ex-hibited the financial acumen shown by the young local Negro boy, there would now be no question of granting the three and three-quarter billion dollar loan she now seeks. Fundamental difference between be-tween the nation and the boy, it seems to us, is that of simple honesty in their business transactions. |