Excerpt from Thrift: Demonstrating How to Develop Character, Efficiency and Success
The student should learn how to guide, control and develop these wonderful engines of dynamic force and power.
Great, things have been accomplished through special training and education, at a great expenditure of time and money.
We assume, therefore, that the result is a finished product - a man proficient, well skilled, possibly a genius in his line, as the reward of many years* toil and training.
Then what happens Nine times out of Ten? We are then made to realize that "The Greatest Thief of all" has been slyly working his way in and robbing the student of much of his efficiency, possibly ruined him.
Would you know the name of this Thief? It is Vice.
All of our boys must run the gauntlet of Vice. It. is, as it were, a deep chasm over which they must pass, that is bestrewn and hidden by lovely flowers, whose charm and subtle fragrance intoxicate the senses and capture the will, while few danger signals warn him of the cruel fate that threatens him. Consequently, our most capable citizen often becomes greatly crippled if not entirely despoiled.
The boy under this stress and strain may become a drunkard, criminal, syphilitic, gambler, thief or drug fiend, etc. I ask, is this treating him fairly? Educators witness their pupils being daily stricken or destroyed, while they stand helpless to Avert the catastrophe.
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