Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-09-05
SILK SHIRTS AND STRAY
STRAWS
BY ALLEN Il. EATON.
Director of War Savings.

Now a silk shirt may not look like a
straw to you, but ii is just as sure as
you are born. When you see one on
the back OF working man--and every
man worth his salt is a working man
You behold a weather vane showing
the wind to be IL the direction of
thoughtlessness and extravaganza.
A young fellow comes down out OF
the woods or out of the mines or from
pitching hay on the farm and hits him
straight 10 the emporium of the haber-
dasher or gents furnisher and buys
himself silk shirt. The first one he
buys costs perhaps six or eight dollars.
J the next one ten to fifteen, and in it's
glory IL puts to shame natures modest
rainbow. and Joseph's coat OF many
colors. He knows that the everyday
garden variety OF shirt costing from
one 10 two nifty looks just as we'll
and more appropriate--and lasts twice
as long What do we care for OK
penses--we have lots OF them.
The Game Of Passing the Buck.
Now the next thing TO do is to have
real whirl at one of the great Ameri-
can games-no, we are not referring to
poker or pool. but to the great game of
Passing the Buck" II is impossi-
bic to save or get ahead In these stir
ring times. The high cost of living
keeps a fellow ground down to a point
where he cannot get ahead. Everyone
is spending money as II he were locoed
and why shouldn't we.
Why would il not be a wholesome
little experience for a change. to be
honest with ourselves: why not ack-
nowlcdge that we are getting more
than we ever did before. and that with
the exercise of reasonable amount of
Judgment and horse sense we could
save more than has ever been possible
in the past,
There Is work for everyone and The
wages are high. In fact some jobs
calling for nothing but a strong back
and reasonable amount of intelli-
gence are Just naturally beg
sing US to come and take them. Ii we
are getting S. day and are docscd
si.s5 for board and room. what about
the $3.75 per day clear? Were you
ever rs much in the clear before? IT is
mighty queer IL slO5 month or $1,000
a year-allowing for two months lonf-
ing-wlll not clothe a man and give
him reasonable amusement and enable
him to save handsome amount
Unmarried Should Save Most. ......
The married man working for these
wages Is getting none too much and is
having TO do some mighty close tgur-
ing to get along. The high cost OF liv-
ing Is a corSing real problem to hirn
and the wife and the kiddies. hut tho
unmarried man is simply playing the
game OF Passing the Buck" when ne
yowis about the II. c. l.. He does the
same amount of work as the married
man and so perforcc gets the same
wages. but he has oaly himself to sup
port and has no sympathy coming to
him. but rather contempt II he is not
saving for the future when he or his
prospective family win need It.
Make hay while the sun shin =, l;uN
each month $500 Savings Certificate,
OF as big a part of one as yon can and
in the future you will be safe and hap
py when Your chum Is being cared for
at public expense or has Joined the
I. w. WIS because the world owes him
living and Is not giving him fair
shake. Go to the straw, thou unoh-
serving one, and not whittier the wind
Il bloVinc