Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-11-29
AN ERA OF EXTRAVAGANCE

Listen the startling words of B. F Irvine, the blind
editor of 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 a mad
financial spree Normal business principles dead.
Thoughts OF thrift forgotten mans hat $40 has
become a commonplace Portland dealers placed them on
sale and the supply exhausted The dealers
plunged into wonderment and They buy
ing hats that will be sold at SIS and $50
Nothing is staple. New York manufacturers and
jobbers longer quote prices OF goods deliv
cry They tell you the price and say that the price
future orders will be controlled by the market then
Meanwhile operatives in the factories demand higher and
higher wages and operators grant them. Operatives
have found that price ASKED will be paid and the adj
vanced wage is granted 49, cd with increased profit
to the price at which the good 60 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 shipyads the munon factories the machine
works the camps and all the other great works of
production In all the history of the world money was
never poured into industry with such prodiga hand.
The spirit of those days has become epidemic Though
the great supply force that the government maintained
during hostilites is off, the spending goes on 1t is
without end shape or limit The shopworker's $500
automobile, and Madys $1,000 fur, the hosemads $3.50
tailor suit the stenographers $500 coat womans hand
bag at $3.50 lady's gown displayed in San Francisco
shop window at the price of house and lot These
parts of the long array of avshnes in this extravaganza
of expenditure.
DO you realize what havoc habits of unthrif are work
ing in American In Portland in 1918, with of
$4,000 in population, built 200 dwelling houses We
bought o5OO automobiles We spent half million
for houses; than million for automobiles The
mortgage indebtedness placed homes purchase
of automobiles was &OOOOOO
Listen: Sixty six of every hundred persons who
die in the United Staet leave estate whatever and of
the remaining thirty four only leave larger than
5000 At the age OF Is, ninety per dependent
upon relatives friends the public for their daily bread
for their clothing and for roof under which to sleep
Ninety eight per of the American people are living
from day to day on their and loss OF employment
would mean paupersm for all but per cent
Poverty means dirt. Cleanliness is luxury 1t de-
mands leisure peace of mind hot water SOAP bath tub
and good plumbing The very poor cannot be clean and
filth and dirt ill health consumption paupers
grave.
There is only one movement in America to encourage
thrift 1t is the Governments plan the sale OF Thrift and
War Saving Stamps and Treasury Savings Certificates
There is no nobler endeavo 1t stimulates the individual
to have socude about the future 1t makes the citizen
who owns War Savings Stamps Certificates partner
III the Government makes him part in the coun-
try, 1t gives him interest in the flag
Teach the people thrift Teach them to Law aside
part Oh their earnings Teach them have thought OF
the morrow. Teach them eschew SIS hats $50 shoes
and S2o0 coats off wages that cannot warrert these
things
Golden slippers. diamond rings and toe rings will
have to take back the annals of cxtravaoance
Inc Chamber OF Commerce OF Divide, Nye county are
having silver cradle made. 1t will be presented to
Mrs ber Thompson who is the mother of the first child
born III the Divide Camp And silver is quoted today
at Sl.SS per ounce
Mexico ignores Nilsson proclans the San Francisco
Nhronce III firstpage scare head. And yet Mexco's
Ignoring IS not nearly humiating as the d;sgrace,l
insults thrown at the President by Messrs Lodge Johnson
Sherman and other tin horn politicians