The Washington times., 1917-10-10
The Rich Poor and the Poor Rich
That Englands Condition 1t Will Be the United States
Condition Soon. Business Men Take Notice,
Prepare Wisely.

ito big business busy stores large purchases and fair
:rofts
What has happened in England is going to happen
sra, it is happening here now.
The rich feels poor and will feel poorer-as taxes
lie up, and the horizon gets cloudy
The poor will feel rich and will feel richer as the
LIoNS that the Government is spending and will spend
md their into the pockets of the little people in the
>iape of HIGH WAGES.
Pay attention to sraws blowing in the wind of pros
)erity for the moment
This writer has employed in the country plumber who
Hitherto has worked quite cheerfuy in his dull for
I've dollars and half per day and his board and lodging
This plumbers helper who had been learning plumb
ng for few months last summer sent this postal card
last week his former teacher-the card was sent from
one Of the big camps now building:
Dear Friend:
''This is some place Drop whatever YOU are doing
and come at once am making over eleven dollars day
with overtime Your Friend"
''It is quite favor" said the experienced plumber
60 worth at aH Od
day can get eleven dollars day. what could get down
That is one straw in prosperity's wind Here is an
other.
big corporation advertises for boys YOUNG boys
mind you, interested in making three dollars day.
These are boys that only little while ago were interested
IN making five dollars week-and often not making
much.
One more straw. A handy man." able to drive
nail and board, worked for years, contented for
fifty dollars month and his board BE told that ex
perenced carpenters were needed camp work He is
making nifty dollars week IAN experienced
peuter," working for contractors building camp.
You have a boy promoted from five dollars a week to
three dollars day.
You have country plumbers helper changing sud
denly from two dollars day to eleven dollars day.
And you have handy man changing from fifty dol
ALL THAT MONEY Is GOING TO BE SPENT AND
SPENT QUICKLY.
Those that have little as everybody knows are those
that spend most rapidly careessy and eagerly what little
they have.
Those that used to make twelve dollars a week and
make fifty will SPEND the fifty Multiply the handy
man. the plumbers helper and the little boy by million
and then by another million and then another which you
can easily doand you have people eagerly spending on an
average g seven dollars day eachITWENTY EIGHT
MILLION DOLLARS DAY IN ALL and all Of this is
Ne oOah money that burns the pocket and must be spent
In year this makes of over eight thousand six
hundred millions of dollars
If you ask 'Where are the billions the Government
borrows going toy? there is your Those billions
going into the pockets of the people, and into the pock
cts of working people big and little muscle workers. brain
workers And the billions going travel rapidly
possibly into the pockets of storekeepers aor butchers
bakers moving picture gentlemen, and all the rest
Uncle Sam is spending and will be spending money in
handing it his children and THEY the little people, the
so-caed poor people, will also be spending money in
manner that this world has never seen
Sefridge the big American merchant transplanted to
London keeping his American brain active under his nice
London hat, what it meant when the British govern
ment began pouring out billions He got readyAND HE
He didn't think or moan about hard times the ter
rble effect of He said to himself substantially this
The is going to make the rich poor It going
make the poor RICH. will have ready in my store for
sale the kind of things that rich poor people like to buy
he produced in quantity extremely pretty and attrac
tive things for and for girls and for and for
boys, at reasonable prices
He said: "I will think of the who spends hun
dred gunea of course but will think also of the
who for the first time in her life has hundred shings"
Go into his big London store and you will find stand
ing room at premium
Here Is advice for the business man. Don't moan
BUY AND LAY IN GOOD, BIG STOCKS OF GOODS.
Ask yourself "What will please the plumbers helper
with eleven dollars day in place Of dollar and half
day? and have it ready to sell to him when he comes
around with the money
Ask yourself What does the mother of the little boy
who delivers messages and makes three dollars day want
of fIAsxC