OUR CHILDREN
Patri, Angelo
Our Children By ANGELO PATRE WE, as a nation, are spending money as though it were like rain from the skies. We have to, because we must buy our precious freedom once more. This time we hope it is...
...Discipline yourselves to save, to mend, to make do, and do without, as the wise folk are begging you to do...
...as something precious...
...Boys and girls, save now...
...Little Real Saving We all say of course: "Aren't we teaching the children to buy war saving stamps, bonds, and to save them for the future...
...We are not doing enough to teach children and youth to save, use, economize, and do without...
...We will have to do as the pioneers did, make do with what we can scrape up at the time and save for needs to come...
...Aren't we saving paper and clothes and making collections for the needy of other lands...
...If I can persuade some of the young people to put their money in bonds and keep it there until the day comes when they need it for something essential like" an education, a home, a share in a business, a business of their own, I don't mind being called anything anybody chooses to call me...
...We are doing something in those directions but we are not doing it as to necessity...
...That lesson will have to be thoroughly learned by the children and youth now in school and college if this nation is to survive...
...Save that you may not find yourself obliged to go to those who have saved for your daily bread...
...How many pass the ice cream sodas up and put the price in the bank and keep it there ? Money Not Always Plentiful Anybody who suggests such drastic self-denial i<*o-ing to be called a Creep, a Droop, a Dud, an Old Woman, (meaning a Victorian), and laughed out of hearing...
...We save what we can easily spare, but beyond that I can see little of the true spirit of saving...
...By that I mean doing without things we can do without and saving the money...
...How many children go without the weekly movie show to save the price ? How many wash and mend the old sweater and wear it cheerfully, as a matter of course, so as to save the cost of a new one...
...something that represents s< nie-body's labor, somebody's self-sacrifice, which it always is and always will be...
...Money is not going to be as plentiful as it is today...
...Meanwhile we are spending our substance, truly our substance, for with our money goes our labor, our future, our children, Knowing the waste that we are creating, we know the need of conservation and saving...
...Before long we are all going to feel the pinch of the war debt...
...This time we hope it is for 1,000 years, but we do not know...
...I don't mind being called anything at all, if my word can make itself heard and be registered sharply en- >; U to set some young folk to looking at their mono...
Vol. 8 • July 1944 • No. 27
