Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-11-16

Inc Nau Street Jonrnm recently
printed the following interesting editor
la:
In one OF the Sunday papers, it does
moi matter which and it might have
appeared III any, appears n two-column
article on the folly OF saving pennies.
The following conclusive instances OF
spending them freely with good results
arrpiver. One mar buys IN automobile
which lie admits he cannot afford. mad
makes s20o,000 ont OF n casual guest.
Another spends IS ceuts Tor extra
Pullman accommodation and secures m
interview accidentally FOR which he
receives SO. A young man in Kansas
City INDUCES himself in n ueedlessly
expensive restaurant and 10 lam cbed
or a land speculation out ~ which he
makes s60G a month The son nf u New
York lawyer becomes so worthless that,
his father sends him away west with
$4,000 and he makes $1,000 more in a
gamble in sheep. There Ia more Of the
uLiV ninbl put Vic llIothtlCtn lIc " DiCul
Of our new Sunday literature.
What pernicious rubbish is this? In
no cne OF the cuses specified did the
extravagnnce justify itself. there is n
complete confusion between an cxperdi.
iture justified by an calculated results
and money needed for legitimate uscs
wasted upon self .n%dulgence. Ii nny nf
the !onng men Gamei lraa taken q
nearest pool room or gambling house hc
would have had a better chance i"r his
money ut the mathematical odia.
A business man pointed ont The other
day that when he was having his hair
cut two OF his employees, earning re-.
spectiyely Sl2 and Sl5 a week, came IN.
They each had u 10 cent shave, II l0-cont
shine for their shoes, a 10 cent cigar ana
gave 10 cents to tho bar beT's assistant.
Here were 40 cents wasted on VIVA,
their employer was accustomed to DO
for himself. They should nave been
able to shave themselves and they were
surely not too important TO polish thu ir
W. shoes, while their taste III tobacco
was FMS too expensive for their income.
Is there II OF ttese yonng men who
could not rely with absolute certainty
on thrift and industry bringing him an
ultimate competenceY Il there ono OF
these free sponders who iocs not DO.
come a burden upon his friends at the
first accidental illness or when the first
lull IN business throws him ont OF his
employment? Do they, moi rcprcsen,
the meanest weed TINT a false system of
education has produced? Could there
be a more detrstablG compound OF the
spendthrift and tho suob?
Our wdste is had enough without
teaching it as II business principle
Our servants believe there in something
to be ashamed Of in ordinary careful.
ness. Orr cooks waste enough in The
garbage pail to feed IL family Of better
people thnn tie mselves. The inuompc.
tent who mal.reatp our furnaces in the
winter and lives from hand 10 mouth in
the sumn,er wastes 60 per cent uf our
fuel because he tbinl;s il wonld be
despicable 10 screen tile ashes. Can we
wonder at rrhit mud extravaganza mid
folly in the administration Of our public
departments ami the government OF our
mnnicipalitics when we are teaching
such lesson us the 70 to our Youth?
Tie two thoughts which uny careful
foreign observer would carry AWAY frum
q tnur Of the United States would be:
Wiih, splendid resouccs!
What shameful extravaganza!