HOW TO REPAY DEBTS
When Herbert Hoover was a student at Stanford University, he was a poor boy and had to work his way through college by selling newspapers, running a laundry service, and doing a score of other menial chores. One of them was that of running a concert and lecture course in the college. One day he engaged the great pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski to give a piano concert. He was to pay the famous pianist a certain amount. It rained on the night of his appearance, and there was not enough money in the treasury to pay the famous pianist. The Polish musician heard about young Herbert Hoover’s dilemma and said to him: “Don’t worry! I don’t want you to lose any money, so we’ll just forget my fee.” Years later — a quarter of a century — Mr. Paderewski was premier of the Polish nation when Herbert Hoover was sent to its starving children with millions of dollars worth of…
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