Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-20
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most unspeakable crime Of which hui
mankind Is guilty, war.
"nopeRA1E ,ncomep" FOLKS.

The family with a moderate in
| come complains of the cost OF living
! in Shenandoah. This family will, II
contradicted, angerly say 1t Is an
contradicted, angrily say 1t is an
After electric bills, gas bills. furnace
bills. plumbing bills, delicacies-out-
Of season bills, up to- the minute cloth
ing bills, keep-u up INSTRUMENTATION
| bills and hundred other similar bills
have been paid the family starts out
to economize. After all the luxuries
! they regard as necessities have been
/, paid for it is time to talk economy.
which is only the old fossil story about
| locking the barn after the mare is
stolen. Fully half the moderate-in-
coined families in town can cut their
monthly living expenses in two and
! still live better than the average mod
! erate-incomed family did eleven years
/ ago.-Shenandoah World.
Some of which is true and much of
which is pure, unadulterated balder-
dash. 1t is plain bunk to assert that
fully half the moderate incomed fam
/, lilies in town can cut their monthly
living expenses in two and live better
than the average moderate incomed
family did eleven years ago In short
h it isn't SO. AS regards the competition
with the neig hbors it is true and al
WAYS has been. 1t was as true eleven
with the up to- the minute clothes that
aspiration isn't any stronger today than
it was eleven years ago. There's a
suggestion of crouch and meddlesome-
ness in the Worlds diatrihe.
AS to those electric light bills: They
are less than the cost of Kerosene to
light the home. The gas bill for the
gas stove is an economy in summer
time as every one who uses gas at an
honest rate knows. II the gas and
electric rates in Shenandoah are at
ia point that make their use luxury
the sooner the city sets about reduc
ing the rates the quicker 1t will be do
ing its duty 10 its inhabitants II tie
house is to be heated the tarrace is
the economical and comfortable fashion
10 do il in. Il the family is 10 gr,up
around the cookstove in the kitchen
thru the winter evenings and the other
rooms of the home be devoted to re-
frigeratlng purposes some saving may
be made that way.
Eat we have learned better. those CT
Us who are in receipt OF even less than
moderate incomes. We have learned
that furnace and electric lights and
omies rather than Injuries, that they
generally cost less than three stoves and
gasolene and that their saving Of la
Dor for the woman of the house IS
matter not only Of comfort but Of econ
omy. There will be no return to the
old style of living which failed tc take
mother into consideration Nor shail
we return TO the idea that four months
schooling in the winter months is
enough for anybodys children"
Certainly there Is extravaganza.
Plenty of it. Always was. Always Will
be- But one-half the moderate in
comtd people in this country are no.
spendthrifts or fools. On the contrary.
they get more for their money, spend
II with more Judgment and raise bet
ter children than they ever did in any
period of the world. Those moderate
incorned people are the salt of the
earth. They are the ones who build
homes thru the building and loan com
panies, who save little by little for a
rainy day. They are not the specu
la tors and Operators" in this and that
Nine tenths of the real wealth which
accumulates are the savings OF the
moderate incomed. Certainly, some OF
them play the fool and swelling like
the frog in emulation OF the OK, burst.
But these are the exception. They are
not one-h half nor one-tenth of the mod
crate incomed people.
If the World were to take census
OF the moderate incomed of its own
town it would find that most OF the
prosperity and thrift which abounds
there is due to those moderate incomcd
folks il fails to appreciate.