Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-11-19
CARPENTER HAS
chance TO SAVE
EARNS GOOD WAGES WHILE
WORINNG-THRurT WOULD
HELP IN IDLE DANE.
needs PROVISION FOR AG
Contractors Formerly Used saw
Hammer and square. Bat
IloaTdcd Their Money.

And you, Mr.. Carp ntor how about
you? Are you saving the proper pro
portion Of your wages? Are lou saw
| Ing any OF them? II you are not, why
Grc you not? Are you pr pairing for
/ the two or three dun months i'm suius
when the outside work is going on
and there Is nothing for carpenters T.
| do2 Are YOU laying by store TO keep
your family when the t'me shall come
! that all the months win be dull for
IYOC-When all the work viii he out
side your home, where YOU will stay
old and helpless?
You are earning at the present time
! In Tulsa about so cents an hour for
eight hours a day for hfty-two and
| half hours a week. That means your
/ pay envelope contains about $2i.0O
every Saturday afternoon. II Is true
that you don't work all the year
around. More reason why you should
save The contractors say that you
work fairly steadily for ten months a
| year Most carpenters, as a matter Of
/ fact, work only nine months I'm the
! year and probably less than that.
}
| i'd. And II may seem as though the
/ duh week is cut into and wipes ont the
| i,tle surplus you have laid aside IN
the busy weeks, leaving You always
/ Just even or behind the game at the
end Of the year.
Tut as long as the percentage Of
working days Is so much greater than
| the percentage of idle days, you
should be ahead Of the game all the
/ time.
Contractor Saved HIS.
Your contractor, for instance, how
do you suppose he became n contrac
| tor? Was he not a carpenter once
| like yourself? And was he not earn
Ing a good deal less than you get now
under the trade union system? II Is
true II costs more to live now than ii
did then But the wages also We're
much less And are there not men
working right along with You now,
who, In spite of the high prices are
saving money and growing independ-
ent on the same salary that you are
making?
Maybe that man has not so many
children as you have Maybe he is
content TO live more cheaply than you
do. Maybe his wife Is better man
ager than yours. But whatever the
eXcuse-the fact remains that you
should be saving part OF your salary.
And the more burdens you have to
carry makes the argument that more
| forceful because where would you and
your family be without that income.
where would they be If you should he
taken away? And above all, what are
you going to do when you get old?
Did you ever really consider how
much you COULD lay aside each
week? Did YOU ever think what that
would enable you to do If laid aside
for a sufficient time?
Suppose you laid aside only two
dollars week. That sum placed reg
ularly in a Tulsa bank for period of
ten years would amount to more than
$1,000. But could you not lay aside
five dollars, or ten dollars a week dur
| ing the busy weeks? That would he
sufficient to carry you safely across
the dull periods and leave you nice
balance to begin the next years work
on.
Fruits of Saving.
And year by year you could build
on that surplus making IT larger and
| larger, until one Of these days when
It struck you that you were growing
old and that you wanted a rest. yau
could just lay down your hammer and
saw, your plane and your try-square
roll up your apron and throw II in
the corner, and with your shoulders
squared, walk out into the park or
the country and enjoy yourself. If
you liked the country you could buy
farm and spend the rest Of your
days there. If you liked the town
best, you could buy home here. and
live as you pleased. Every year that
you live adds to that desire for n
chance to get away from the work and
rest.
Don't you feel at times that If you
could get the smell of wood out of
your nostrils and the sound OF the !