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Chinese Premier & Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, instead of dashing to his office at Hankow in a limousine with motorcycle escort, last week was whisked to work in a rickshaw escorted by guards on bicycles. Other Chinese bigwigs were warned to follow the Premier's example of thrift. The Government even discouraged the buying of silk and drinking of tea "as these products should be conserved for export." In a fervent, patriotic convention at Hankow, Chinese political leaders of all factions again pledged unanimous loyalty to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. This game but losing commander prepared for the probable...
...Third, abandon this economy of scarcity and go in for production work and thrift...
Said Benjamin Franklin: "Mechanical thrift for a mechanical age is an essential. The best safeguard for national investments is a nation of investment-minded people. At present, the opportunities for thrift are restricted by the time factor." He was speaking to the Manhattan convention of the Thrift and Security Foundation. He is a descendant of a brother of Patriot Benjamin ("A penny saved . . ."). Franklin, an industrial engineer and business counselor, has a grandson to carry on the name...
...Howe, 84, eternally disgruntled Kansas editor; of old age and paralysis; in Atchison, Kans. Since he started the Atchison Globe in 1877, Editor Howe framed catchy, pungent aphorisms about those world figures and affairs that did not conform to his Middle Western philosophy of industry, honesty, temperance and thrift; became the kindly, grouchy "Sage of Potato Hill." In 1911 he sold the Globe to his staff, continued to champion the cause of the common people through the unique E. W. Howe's Monthly...
...Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pioneer virtues are thrift, diligence, discipline. Last year a "security program" was launched to take 85,000 Mormons off Federal relief, to Mormon leaders a distasteful institution (TIME, June 8, 1936). Since then, jobs have been found for some 23,000 Mormons, the Church has taken over the support of 30,000. Most of the idle were given agricultural work and 24 big regional warehouses have been built to store produce which is the result of redoubled Mormon husbandry. In and around Salt Lake City, 125,000 Mormons were urged last...