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Page 9 - This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte; Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte; And this figure he added eek ther-to, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?
Page 183 - ... to rely on the parish for relief. The former are generally comparatively cleanly, orderly, and sober, and consequently happy and good members of society...
Page 5 - ... would have been no better for his emotion if his conception of what money is had not got beyond the belief that it is a commodity to hold. The value to him of his bank was that he was learning that money is more useful at one time than at another, and that by depositing it in some safe place, free from the allurements of the candy or the cigarette shop, he was reserving it for a more profitable use. The whole secret of right thrift lies in the formula: Save wisely, so as to be able to spend judiciously...
Page 183 - ... the parish for relief. The former are generally comparatively cleanly, orderly, and sober, and consequently happy and good members of society, whilst the latter are living in filth and wretchedness, and are often, from the pressure of...
Page 5 - Capital can only be created by saving, and, where people have not saved themselves, can only be honestly obtained by offering to those who have saved an adequate inducement in the form of security and interest to prevail on them to part with it. If, then, the laborer is to emerge from his present position and become a sharer in the gains of capital, he must in the first instance learn to save.
Page 176 - ... Coast Line Railroad and its members voted to strike to prevent the hiring of any additional Negro locomotive firemen on that carrier. This strike threat remained over the head of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad until the fall of 1948. In 1928 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and the Order of Railroad Conductors made a joint agreement with the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. providing that thereafter...