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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.
1920. Lippincott's Thrift Text Series. This is an inspirational
volume on thrift and the many ways in which it can be applied in
its broadest senses to the use of money, health, living, time and
energy; thrift in the home, in business and society and in national
and individual development. So clearly did the author bring before
the members of the National Education Association and other
associations, his enlarged point of view, and so thoroughly did he
persuade members of the Committee on Thrift Education of the
necessity for introduction into the schools of proper instruction
in thrift, that the efforts of the previous few years resulted in
an awakening such as was created by no similar movement in a
century. Illustrated.
Sheer lack of thrift has caused more financial failures than
anything else. How many men there are to-day who might have become
wealthy had they only known how to save money During the course of
their careers they have earned large sums, but these have slipped
from their fingers from day to day. They had the natural gift of
making money, just as their successful rivals, but they lacked the
quality of permanent success-which is thrift. -from "Money-Making
and Money-Saving" The United States in the late 1910s was a nation
reeling economically from the cost of fighting World War I, a cost
that was ultimately borne-according to Simon William Straus,
president of the American Society for Thrift-through a prudent
parsimony. Here, he entreats the nation not to forget this vital
lesson of the war, and to begin a new battle against the "crime of
wastefulness." No mere matter of simply saving money, thrift is,
Straus explains, the strength of character to spend wisely and with
a thought toward the future, toward conserving natural resources,
and toward freedom from the shackles of mindless
consumerism-Straus' wise and sensible philosophy positions thrift
as a necessary cornerstone of morality and patriotism. As startling
relevant today as it was in 1920, when Straus laid out his plan for
a frugal America, this is a book to make us reconsider, as
individuals and as a nation, our financial strategies and
priorities.
Lippincott's Thrift Text Series. This is an inspirational volume on
thrift and the many ways in which it can be applied in its broadest
senses to the use of money, health, living, time and energy; thrift
in the home, in business and society and in national and individual
development. So clearly did the author bring before the members of
the National Education Association and other associations, his
enlarged point of view, and so thoroughly did he persuade members
of the Committee on Thrift Education of the necessity for
introduction into the schools of proper instruction in thrift, that
the efforts of the previous few years resulted in an awakening such
as was created by no similar movement in a century. Illustrated.
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