OUR CHILDREN
Patri, Angelo
Our Children By Angelo Patri MONEY is power. With money one can buy everything but the most precious thing on earth, love, and what comes, through love. Young people know little of spiritual...
...That boy, and many like him, is going to need that money badly before many years pass over his head...
...We must tell the children the truth about it, warn them, help them if possible to save themselves great suffering in years to come...
...That is easily understood when you remember that spiritual values are the last to be appreciated by age and experience...
...With the loss of his money went the loss of his power...
...Never in our history did boys and girls win so much money for their services...
...He will be without a job, without a penny in his pockets, and without the respect of the same folk who took his money so politely...
...Young folk are a far cry from that place...
...For the first time in all their, lives they can command the attention and respect of salespeople, waiters, shopkeepers, and showmen...
...Everybody loves power and the more youthful the more eager for it...
...Foolish About Money The first thought is to buy things: clothes, jewelry, food, and entertainment...
...The material things fill their eyes and their stomachs...
...Young people know little of spiritual values...
...Just now our young people are handling a great sum of money...
...Only when life has disciplined men and women into some understanding of their relationship to each other and to the rest of humankind do they glimpse the spiritual kingdom that is their rightful home...
...There are some who listen, who save their wages, buy bonds, and plan for their further education, but too many by far use it for the power its spending gives them...
...More where that came from," said one when his girl remonstrated with him for the tip he had given a waiter...
...That power goes to their heads and they are giddy and foolish and toss this money about with the freest gesture in the world...
...Tell Them The Truth We cannot stop this wage earning by children and young folk, and we seem to be able to do little toward teaching them how to manage the money and the power it gives them...
...Their ambitions are limited by them, and their conduct...
...I cannot say earn it because few of them can, or could, earn the money they now receive...
...They are getting men's wages, often the wages of skilled men, and they rarely know what to do with the money they have...
Vol. 8 • November 1944 • No. 48
