SOME QUALIFICATIONS OF THE WOMAN COUNTY AGENT 



promote their own activities. They line up bankers, mer- 

 chants and public-spirited men and women generally to con- 

 tribute their money to help with prizes, scholarships and 

 equipment. These are all worth while, but the lessons of thrift 

 and economy they have been impressing upon the members of 

 the clubs, who have saved money from the sale of their prod- 

 ucts, and who have started their bank accounts, is an even 

 greater achievement in finance. There are many cases of 

 club members who save four or five hundred dollars each in 

 their four years of club work. It is excellent for the county 

 agent to show them that, by careful management and good 

 stewardship, they can double this money every few years. 

 Under the interest rates that have been prevailing in the 

 country recently it would double itself in ten or twelve years. 

 With good management it should double itself in half that 

 time. If these club members use their accumulations of four 

 years in such a way as to double it in every six years by com- 

 pound interest, until they are fifty years of age, they will be 

 worth more than twenty-five thousand dollars each by that 

 time. A great many people live to be fifty years of age with- 

 out being worth that much. It is quite necessary to impress 

 lessons of thrift and economy upon these club members at the 

 time in life when it will be worth most to them. Of course the 

 training, and the ability to earn and achieve, is worth more 

 than compounding finances, but at the same time, there are 

 some important lessons, about the saving of money, and the 

 proper stewardship of it, which have been sadly neglected in 

 certain sections. A thousand women working along these lines 

 will not only change sentiment, but will change practices Such 

 work emphasizes the meaning of the word economics. In the 

 early days of Greece the men were warriors and the women 

 managed the homesteads and made the living for the families. 



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