School Economies

From the INTRODUCTION. "There is that scattereth and yet increaseth," said the wise King Solomon. "There is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty." Being a wise old monarch, Solomon was not to be taken in by the kind of economy that pinches the sheckel till it spoils the inscription, and then has to let the battered metal go as scrap. Economy is not the art of spending less, but of realizing more; not of reducing investments, but of enlarging dividends. It is not get...