Arizona republican., 1919-12-18
MORNING, DECEMBER IS, 1919
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot either be initiated or acquired.
 Madame de Giradin.
The True Way

The True Way
 Attorney General Palmer who has been casting about for plans reduce the high cost of living has at last hit upon a very sensible and most effective one, though he has not been the first to discover it. It is economy, individual economy. That is not, of course, all that is necessary bring down prices hat all may be benefited normal conditions re- stored. There must be increased production before hat can be brought about. And there must be piled dp supplies equal the volume that existed before the before things can be as cheap as they were then.
 There is great deal of misunderstanding about the high cost of living There is really as much of it have heard there was. We know of several persons who have not spent much in the year just closing they did in 1914 or any other year before the prices began to in consequence of the world It is true that everything is higher twice as high it to be-flour meats butter clothing shoes, rents etc. But many people have found that their former wants were extravagant not actual needs Wages have been generally so increased as the higher of necessities purchased on proper, needful scale
 Many people have found that they do need all the necessities that they thought they did. They getting along with much less bread by saving much from the garbage In pinch they have made pound of butter go far two formerly went. They have found that they eating meat than necessary and, perhaps than good for them. They have found, also that they can buy clothing, but not quite fine clothing they had habituated themselves to wear, at about the price they used to pay for the best cloth ing; that is, the most expensive clothing.
 So. all along the line they find that by cutting down they hold their expenses to former figures without inconvenience, And after they have prac- ticed this economy for awhile they come to like it. They feel proud of the achievement and go around telling their neighbors about it. There is many a who exhibits his coarse clothing and coarse shoes with pride. He feels that they give him an air of distinction and surround him with an aura of thrift
 The people who are practicing this sort of econ omy for the most folks who do not need to do They not stingy but it gives them pleasure to practice it. Many of them formerly spenders with good or fair incomes. They now take the same pleasure in watching their expense accounts cut to the bone that they formerly took in watching their mounting bank balances
 Most of the people who are complaining about prices thrftless folk who wasted while prices were lower and unwilling to abandon their waste full methods They bought the best they could afford buy then now they find that what they bought then costs twice much now Others who complaining were not used to handling money be- yond their then meager wages. Now. with higher wages which would then have seemed affluence to them, they do not understand that money is worth only about half much it was then. Even their higher wages will not go very far when it runs against silk shirts and high grade shoes and cloth ing of which formerly they had only dreamed. They blame that elusive criminal, the profeer for their disappointment
 And if the complaners wait until some patent way has been found to bring prices down. and do nothing themselves to help, they will be complaining for a long time-for some years think.
 We are unmindful that the present high prices a real hardship to many persons who can not, by the rigid economy help themselves Their incomes small They had always lived economically that there little margin foi further cutting Their incomes had been in creased in proportion to the prices of absolute sities. There others with the uncertain n- comes. Among people of both these classes there is inevitable suffering.
 And 1t is for them, than for any other class that more fortunate people should exercise thrift and observe the most rigid economy.