Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-02
MONEY THROWN AWAY
BY J. HAMPTON MOORE
Member of Congress from Pennsylvania

and since then this item has gone into hundreds of mil
lions
These are but few of the cost-of-vng figures that
brought to me in the cod-storage investigation,
and by business who accurately informed con-
corning that of which they spoke The general showing
indicates that Americans ready to adorn the wind
with banknotes and gold dollars. We fling our money
away for pleasure amusement and luxury tor the non
necessities of life
Of course discussion of the money spent for such
pleasures and uxures do not lose sight of the fact
employment to hundreds of thousands of men and
women. cite them merely to show that the American
people do not hesitate to fling their money every d
rection in pursuit of the things they like.
Naturally, the merchant the salesman, seeing this
readiness part from money says to himself they'll
throw it away for things they don't have to have. If
that's true, they'll stand raise on the commodities
WITH extravaganza, as have already pointed out,
W travels self indulgence,-that vague something
which leads the the woman to say, when confronted
with task, "Oh, let George do it. Don't bother me.
Take the automobile habit. The statistics auto
mobiles show that patheticaly large number of people
have bought machines when they could not afford the
luxury, and have finally had to give them up 1t is
almost safe assumption that out of ten able
to buy automobile will do whether they live on
farm in Kansas reside in big city. need not
be close observer of human nature to realize that the
taxcab habit is spreading beyond the limit OF many
sight of young fellow surrounded in flying wreath of
cigarette smoke dasng and down the streets taxi
And the self indulgence of the young and the old in
automobiles and taxcabs is recurrent countless other
ways. We have come to the time when we must
hire messenger boys and porters to carry bundles
There are few who mend a chair or fix the
plumbing keep the front yard in good condition 1t
is always case of, "Give the quarter, dollar,
whatever it may be, for the job" We longer do
for ourselves as the older generation did.
1t is natural condition. view of other conditions.
We are perpetualy too busy making money because
we are anxious to get out and throw it away Our
mode of eating has changed. There hundreds
of thousands of people who no longer dine at home.
They prefer the dining of fashionable hotels
the gay atmosphere of cafes They do not pay for the
food alone When they settle for the bill, they contrib
the support of the orchestra behind the banks of
ferns and palms. the huge clusters of electric lights and
the WATERS and in addition to this they also chip in
the high rental of the building.
In nutshell, throw away money for the things
do not need and do not get for ourselves the things
do need Consequently, pay many times over
for the things have to have.
THAT is where the great problem of cold storage
in. Realizing, as | do, the habits of Americans
nowadays, l sometimes wonder to what should be
reduced without cold storage and realize most keeny
how the institution has been forced into being. Take
beef, a commodity all need Beef on the hoof does
not cost much than it formerly did. But do
raise it in the East any apprecabe quantity and
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