While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
"Gather up the Fragments that nothing be lost." Jesus.
Savings Or Wages
It is a matter of great importance to every
one to learn early in life the difference
between monthly or yearly savings and wages;
and also the difference between personal
expenses and profitable investments.
When a boy works on the railroad and has to
supply all his daily wants, he knows what
his wages are and answers the question
quickly, stating what he receives by the day
when he makes a full day's work. But when he
is asked, "What are your monthly savings?"
he is bothered and frankly confesses he
cannot tell. Before the end of the second
month the wages of his first month have
slowly passed through his hands for personal
expenses and little or nothing has been
saved for profitable investment.
When a boy works for a farmer, who receives
him into his home, providing for him a
furnished room, fuel, light, boarding and
washing, he does not seem to receive more
than half what the other boy receives who
works for the railroad. When he is asked the
same question, "What are your monthly wages
and what your monthly savings?" he makes
reply by stating the balance in the farmer's
hand as his savings, and that is correct;
but he cannot tell what his wages are, by
way of comparison with the other boy. The
first boy at the end of the month has
received wages the other boy his savings,
save for his clothing. The latter at the end
of the year has ordinarily saved more than
the former, though all the time he may have
imagined he was not receiving sufficient
wages, merely because the monthly allowance
of the farmer is commonly called "wages,"
instead of by the right name, "monthly
savings."
That which the farmer does for his boy, in
providing him a home and helping him to save
his earnings, this Industrial Academy is now
doing for every boy, that is received into
the membership of the Oak Hill Family and
makes his home there during the summer
season.
At the Academy he not only finds steady
employment, but is removed from the places
that call for worse than useless daily
expenditures; and the monthly allowance,
made by the Superintendent, represents not
his wages but his monthly savings, in the
deposit bank of the institution.
When a parent or boy makes the discovery,
that the boys who remain at the Academy
during the summer months have more funds to
their credit in the Bank of the institution
in the fall of the year, than many of those
who receive a higher daily wage elsewhere,
and that they also make the most rapid
progress in their studies, they begin to see
the difference between working for savings
and working for wages; and how much better
off is the boy, who takes the training and
grows up under the stimulating and elevating
influence of a good educational institution.
Investments
A personal expense is an expenditure of
money for some article that may indeed be
necessary, as a pair of shoes, but it begins
to depreciate in value as soon as the
expenditure has been made. A profitable
investment is an expenditure of money, time
or talents, that is expected to increase in
value or yield an income. If a lamb is
purchased it will grow into a sheep and its
value is doubled. If an acre of good land is
purchased it is sure to increase in value
according to its quality and location.
The ability to avoid personal expenses and
to make profitable investments is one of the
things that determines our good or ill
success in life. The education of a
thoughtful, earnest boy or girl is
ordinarily a good and profitable investment,
for their value or usefulness may be
increased many times more than that of the
lamb or the acre of land. If they are
gratefully responsive to their training no
better investment can be made, than that
which has for its object the intellectual,
moral and religious training of our boys and
girls.
A Christian educational institution is an
investment for producing manhood and
character, things that money will not buy.
One may invest in bonds or stocks, and make
or lose money; but he who aids in the
production of Christian men and women,
trained for service, increases their
usefulness and continues to live through
their consecrated lives and achievements.
This institution makes its appeal to the
friends who have money and who would make a
profitable investment; and also to the
thoughtful boys and girls, who would greatly
increase their value to society, the Church
and the world, by obtaining a good education
in their youth.
Going To School
The Orchestra-1912
Youthful Sweepers
Holding and using the broom aright
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Choctaw Freedmen and Oak Hill Industrial
Academy, 1914, Robert Elliott Flickinger
