Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-11-29
AN ERA OF EXTRAVAGANCE

Listen to the startling words OF B. F. Irvine the blind
editor the Portland Oregon) Journal delivered before
the California Press association in San Francisco the
other day:
1t is doubtful if America has been confronted
with conditions precarious. There never was a
PHYSIOLOGY extraordinary.
Expenditures terrific. The people are on mad
financial spree. Normal business principles dead.
Thoughts of thrift forgotten. mans hat at $50 has
become commonplace Portland dealers placed them
sale and the supply exhausted The dealers were
plunged into wonderment and awe. They are now buy
ing hats that will be sold at SIS and $50
Nothing is staple New York manufacturers and
obbers longer quote prices of goods future delv
cry They tell you the price and that the price
future orders will be controlled by the market then
Meanwhile operatives i'll the factories demand higher and
higher wages and operators grant them Operatives
have found that any price asked will be paid and the adj
vanced wage granted and added with increased profit
to the price at which the goods go to the retailer The
public comes along and pays whatever is asked
And SO the pyramiding goes People excited
during the 1t the great told off in billions
that fed the shpyard the muition factories the machine
works. the spruce camps and all the other great of
production. In all the history Of the woril money
poured into industry with such proGga, hand
The spirit of those days has become epidemic Though
the great supply force that the maintained
during hosttes cut Off the spending goes 1t is
without end shape limit The shopworkers $1,000
automobile and Miladys $1,000 fur the housemaids $3.50
tailor suit the stenographers $500 coat, wonans hand
bag at $3.50, ladys gown displayed in San Francisco
shop window at the price of house and lot. These
parts OF the long array of lavhness in this extravaganza
of expenditure.
Do you realize what havoc habits OF untrft are work
ing in America? In Portland in 1918 with increase of
AOO0 in population built 200 dwelling houses We
bought $500 automobiles. We spent half million
tor houses more than ten million for automobiles. The
mortgage Indebtedness placed homes for the purchase
of automobiles 100000
Listen: Sixty six OF every hundred persons who
die IN the United Staets leave estate whatever and
the remaining thirty four only larger than
$1,000 At the age OF g. ninety per dependent
upon relatives, friends the public for their daily bread
tor their clothing and for roof under which sleep
Ninety eight per OF the American people are living
from day to day on their wages and loss OF employment
would mean paupersm for all but two per
Poverty means dirt. Cleanliness is a luxury. 1t de-
mands leisure, OF mind hot water SOAP bath tub
and good plumbing The very poor cannot be clean and
filth and dirt i'll health consumption and paupers
grave.
There is only movement in America to encourage
tn is the Governments plan for the sale of Thrift and
war Saving Stamps an Treasury Savings Certificates
There nober endeavor 1t stimulates the individual
to have socitude about the future 1t makes the citizen
who owns War Savings Stamps Certificates partner
IN the Government, makes him part owner in the coun
try 1t gives him new interest in the flag.
Teach the people thrift. Teach them to lay aside
part OF their earnings. Teach them have thought of
the morrow Teach them to eschew SIS hats $50 shoes
and SzOO coats off wages that cannot warrert these
things.
Our old friend Dave williamson editorial writer on the
Keno Gazette, reads lecture the New York printers
VINO recently went on strike thus deprvng the magazine
readers OF their accustomed diet sensible literature and
forcing them to read books filled with Sentimental ro
mances and detective thrilers' Mr. williamson forgets
nat the dotora columns of the Reno Journal were always
accessible and that no HARM if no good world resr,+
from their perusal.
Golden slippers, diamond rings and toe rings will
nave 70 take back seat in the annals of extravaganza
-, -" CHAMBER o. commerce OF Divide, Nye county are
having silver cradle made II will he rran.1 }.
MIS- Bert Thompson who the mother of the first child
born in the Divide C,,,, "iiu