Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-03
"A COMMUTERS VIEWS ON
CASH-AND-C GARRY SYSTEM
Man OF Large Family Who Has to
DO Much Shopping for House.
hold Relates Experience.
PENNIES SAVED MAKE DOLLARS
Time for Close Trimming Is at Hand,
and 1t Will Be With Us for
Some Time Yet to Come.

The commuters train which leaves
keysville in the cary morning hours
Tor Richmond and reaches this city
densely crowded at $40 a. NJ. daily
except Sundays, and then starts back
at $3.50 in the afternoon. always car
ries batch of the ablest statesmen,
straieEists and military critics to be
found anywhere in the land. In the
smoking apartment of the daily Tex
cept sunday "pudskow." able discus
sions arc to be heard morning and eve
ming and there some OF the most mo-
mcntous problems of the day are solved
One day last week one CT the able
statesmen commuters observed that he
had learned from The Times Dispatch
that the Richmond Produce Exchange
had gone on record as being heartily
In favor OF the CASH nd-carry system
system that he had already nut IN
vogue. SO far as he and his family were
concerned, and then lie proceeded to
relate his experiences somewhat as fol-
lows 81 do all of my trading in Rich
mond. as nay business is there and
spend six days OF every week there,
For years have kept IL regular ac-
count at drug store. Il tobacco store
grocery store, and market stand
anu OF course my wife KEEP: one at
one OF more QrN goods and department
stores. The bills came in regularly
every month and we scarcely ever knew
or cared just what wa paid for things
until the bills told us.
six months ago we adopted the
cash-and-carry system that is we nav
the money down for everything lust
: We buy Il and tote it 10 the train
instead of having 1t delivered there
Care of Ella. We have saved enough
money by this system to go a long ways
~ dc Ttrv
cost of living. In the first place we
have found that we do not need as
many things as we thought we did
when II was so easy to have them
charged and so little trouble to get
them delivered. and we dc not buy
near as much. In the second place we
have TO know the price of everything
when We buy. because we pay down
then and there. This has made me
take more notice OF high prices and
reasoning. when fellow asked more
for an article than he did when last
purchased thai maybe his competitor
had not advanced yet. Furthermore
thought that maybe little bargaining
would accomplish results. then
adopted a method that saved a few
cents here and there nearly every day.
often call on two or more shops for
the article may he in search of before
/ buy. and nearly always get Il cheaper
as soon as a higher rice than I have
been paying is named I quietly re-
mark, too rich for my blood and
start out Al least three times out Of
five I am called back ard get the
goods for less than the first price
named. 1t is only 2 little saved on
each transaction, sometimes not more
than cents, but TO man with large
family who comes TO business every
day with 4 memorandum OF little things
10 buy. those saved pennies count up
into dollars mighty quickly"
The conmuter statesman. after de-
liverine himself as above. proceeded
20 moralize further. Said he: We've
got 20 come to it. In my opinion this
war has just started, and for long
time this country has got to feed and
clothe vast army of its own and
the vaster armies of our allies. and
20 enable Uncle Sam to do that the
people. from the humblcst and poor-
est Up TO the proudest and richest. have
got TO wear patched trousers, darned
socks. old hats. haN-soled shoes and
ing, we've got TO eat less and raise
raising pigs and fat;eninE them on
that soldiers and other people don't
K we have a mind to-"
The cormutcr statesman would have
gone further and said more, but the
reached Main Street station, and this
Of, probably to be resumed another