Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-06

This gives the average increase, based upon an apportiOnment of these respective items in the family budgt of 50 to 55 pr cnt.
 Nearly Half the Income for Food.
 All these ftigures are given, how ever, without consideration of the in- creased size of the dollar. To be ac- curate, this should be measured by the number of days that a man has to work to pay his bills. Statistics based on the study of 12,000 families by the United States department of labor sta tistics show that 43 per cent of the family income goes for food, IS per cent for rent, 13 per cent for clothing and per cent for fuel and light This leaves a balance of 20 per cent for in- surance, savings. taxes, doctors bills, gifts and charity, lodge and club dues, vacations, recreatiOns and invest ments.
 It must be remembered that this balance of 20 per cent has risen in the same proportion that wages have in- creased insofar as income is concern ed. but not where expenditures are concerned. Taxes have gone up in but few instances, and, as a matter of fact, 'n many instances the curtailment Of expenditure has brought taxes down Insurance earned in less than two thirds of the time will now buy just as much insurance as it would in 1914, which insurance. when it becomes due, will pay a normal dollar at the valua- tion of a normal dollar. The unfor- tunate man is he who collects his in surance now.
 Outside of war charities, there has been a general curtailment of charita- ble enterprises, and while the amount expended for this purpose may be larger than usual, it is being expended in one direction and does not represent the same percentage increase as does the cost of living. Tn economy move ment has reached the giving of pres ents, and much less of this is being done, or useful gifts given, which merely represent something that will not have to be included in the family expenditures. Club dues and recrea- tiOn have maintained their normal standard, and if more is spent for them.
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 The size of a dollar in its compari- son to the value of-a dollar is the all-important thing in the analysis of the financial situation of the working man. In the mining camps the cost of living has risen in about the same proportion as elsewhere, but the size Of the dollar has enormously increas- ed In Bisbee, for instance, the rec ords of the Copper Queen show that the average wage for underground men in 1914 was S3.79 per day. This rose to $411 in 1915, to S5.32 in 1916, 10 $5.43 in 1917 and to S5.53 the first half of 1918. With the 50-cent increase of July and the later 25-cent increase of Aug. l, the average per shift for the last half of 1918 will be S6.23.
 The rise from S3.79 in 1914 to S623 in 1918 makes a wage increase of 64 per cent. This is a 64 per cent in- crease on the so per cent of a mans earnings, which make up his real liy- ing costs and also the same increase on the 20 per cent balance which makes up his savings, investments and extras Investments are as good now as at any time. Bonds and mortgag ges can be obtained on as good terms as five years ago. Many standard stocks are higher because they are paying higher rates, but many are lower. Saw ings represent the greatest difference. A dollar earned in two-thirds the time, rut away now when 1t will buy half as much, will m later years under normal conditions, be worth it's full value or twice as much as now.
 FRANCE. Oct 3. 5 D. m. .(-By the As sociated Press. )-Wide gains of great importance have been mad etoday hv the fighting British armies. In the north the line of the Haute Deule canal has been reached and the Ger mans ere hurriedly evaeuating Lille.