Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-19

III al dpdIIllSHJ Wnlcn cOStS nlll
$1,000 a year-on Broadway-keeps
an automobile and spends $4,000 a
year. From him the cabbage goes to
the retailer, who lives in a $500
apartment on a side street, has q cor
ner store for which he pays 1925 a
month rent, keeps two delivery wag-
ons at a cost of $14O a month, and
spends $2,500 a year on his living.
Finally the cabbage gets to the con-
sumer. He lives in an apartment for
which he pays $40 month. He
rides in the trolly car or the subway,
he spends all he can make or little
more to live, and he pays 13 cents
for that head of cabbage.
Many solutions have been offered
for the cause of the present high cost
of living from time to time. The
tariff, our currency system, the trend
of population toward the cities and
many others are the favorite topics
when the cost of living question is
being discussed. In the meanwhile
the consumer and housewife continue
in their pursuit of the elusive penny.
At no time so far has the question
been put into cold figures. The fol-
lowing computation shows graphic
ally why the penny is so elusive.
Here perfectly good Lincoln penny
is made to obliterate itself by the
simple restatement of a proposition.
Two boys have 60 apples which they
divide. The first sells his 80 at 3 for
l cent. The second sells his 80 at 9
for | cent The first gets 10 cents
and the second Is cents. Their'total
for selling so apples at ) for 2 cents
i % cents. Another boy has so ap-
pies and sells them for for cents
and receives only "a cents The
question is, what becomes of the 9TH
er cent? In both instances the num-
Der Of apples sold for cents is the
same, yet the total amount received
for the 60 apples differs by l cent.
Why? When you can solve this ques-
ton to the satisfaction of Yourself
and friends YOU may nominate your
self as a member Of the committee
to solve the high cost Of living,
If the price of shoes goes to $40,
as predicted, a good many people will
see no alternative but to wear boots
It is officially estimated that the
promoters of get-rich-uUick schemes
and other fraudulent enterprises US
ing the mails have robbed the Ameri-
can public of 1929, ,OO0,O0 in two
years. 1t is the declared intention
of the postal authorities to enforce
with increased rigor the present reg
ulations that are designed to exclude
the swindler from the privilege OF
the mails.
\ Missouri newspaper has a report
from fellow who can drink or let
it alone to the effect that he is still
drinking.
A Springfield, H., man go up early
the other morning to build the fire
and dropped dead before he had ac.
complished his purpose No wife
who really loves her husband will
permit him to incur such a risk.
A western editor remarks: "If the
world would be so unfortunate as t
lose me, intend to have it under
stood before | so that the lodges tC
which belong shall not publish reso
mtions in each of the papers, nor fur
nish copy to the bereaved famil!
Informing the public and my beloved
ones that it has pleased the Allwis'
Ruler of the universe to interfer,
with my terrestrial career; that
have. in fact, been removed from ou
midst Neither will | have black
bordered handbill distributed abou