Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-01-10
SCATTERING

rev lDth D~sNAGt "AO GSiti NTH
drew iFu4.4 .h- 4ssAdSaA4@i.J ol ms
vast private interests IS devote his
time and talent to tie service of his
country during the war, getting there
for the munificent salary Of one dol
lar a year, has aroused a measure
of criticism on 53e part of the press
beeouse Of certain s%erai-pubtic utter
ances and because he rides about in
a private car.
1t is held by his critics that conser-
walton applies to energy as well as
to foodstutfs, and that, consequently,
he should occupy Il seat in the reg
ular day coach instead of having a
whole coach unto himself.
Replying thereto, he says that his
private car is his Office, and that he
believes economy and conservation
are subserved by taking his Office with
him rather than to be compelled tn
visit it frequently in some distant
city. His logic appears to be sound.
What he offers in defense of his
statement, referring to the distinctive
ly social functions which some of the
celebrated 400 persist in observing,
that people who give entertainments
and layishly decorate their homes for
them are allies of the kaiser" we are
not informed.
But it would seem to be more com
mendable to expend one'sv cash not
otherwise needed for lavish decora-
tions--which keeps the money a-going
than to hoard it in old stockings or
to put ii TO soak in private boxes in
vault banks.
However, lest it be suspicioned that
our defense implies that we come
within the list of those wEJm Mr..
Vanderlip classed as the social elite,
let US say that if our guests are for
tunate enough to get each a sardine
sandwich and a cup of cold water,
without embellishments, they are JUS
titled in considering themselves lucky
dogs.
Those who have surplus cash that
they wish to scatter about where it
viii do the most good are hereby re
minded that investment in Liberty
Bonds isn't at all a bad idea.
Next to these bonds comes the war
saving fund, involving the purchase
of f%ive-dollar promises to pay-that is
to say, an investment of $4.12 any
time during January of this year,
brings Uncle Sans promise to re-
deem the obligation on January 1, 1925
at five dollars, fiat, affording a profit
of seventy-eight cents.
While purchases are limited to a
certain sum to each person, there is
lno objection to investing to the limit
for each member of the family, in
GLIDING the babes in arms, all the
cousins and uncles and aunts, all the
second cousins and prospective sec
ond cousins, etcetera, and sc forth,
and so On, ad libitum, ad infinitum.
Next in line come the industrial en-
terprises. Loans to those needing
additional capital to increase produc-
ton or output are commended to the
thoughtful consideration of people
having capital enough and to spare.
1t would help to provide means for
Furnishing employment to those will
ing to earn an honest living by the
sweat of their faces.
After these things shall have been
provided for, and a surplus of cash
still remains unexpended, the judi
cious scattering of a little wealth in
the aid of the poor and the needy
might tend to enhance the value of a
passport through the pearly gates.
Lastly but by no means leastly,
there is still another avenue of es-
cape from the criticism which Mr..
Eanderlip hurls at the idle rich. Mod
esty almost forbids us to mention it,
but in justice to mankind and for the
benefit of those having more wealth
than they know what to do with we
are going to suggest that investment
therein would serve a double pur-
pose: help the poor and needy and at
the same time scatter enlightenment
and sunshine abroad in the land. We
refer to subscriptions to The Satur-
day News, universally acknowledged
to be the very best weekly newspaper
published in this office.