Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-13
WHAT WOMEN Gan
DO To CUT COST
Of LIVING HERE
NOTED WRITER TELLS SOME
WHOLESOME FACTS ABOUT
NATIONS EXTRAvAGANCE.
BUYERS ARE NOW ROUsINc
Remedy Is to Work and Save, In
crease Production and Get
Moneys Worth.

/ In his comment on current events,
/ Richard Spillane, in Commerce and
Finance. has the following to say con-
corning the work of the women OF
America in their organized campaign
4 for thrift and saving and against high
prices:
"A wall is going up from the women
these days owing to the poor quality
i of goods they get in the department
stores and speciality shops and the low
grade of workmanship.
Stuff that ordinarily would not be
handled by high class, reputable estab-
: liShments now is put on the counters
ard price is put on it that is little
short Of robbery. Sales persons arc
just as contemptuous and supercilious
in their treatment of persons who are
shocked over the cheap, poorly made
articles put on sale at ouJrG geOusly
high prices as if it were a favor to
permit a person to buy anything these
4 times at any price.
/ The truth of the matter seems to
be that in most staple articles. either
textiles or furniture or anything else,
there is carelessness and profiteering
or worse all along the line. Labor is
slipshod and manufacturers skimp in
every possible way.
1.-THE clothing people are particular
offenders. They may not be RESPONSE.
BILE for the poorer quality OF cloths.
but they are responsible for poer work.
manship on garments. They charge
the poor quality of cloths to the mill
men, and then excuse themselves for
the poor quality of cloth to the mill
saying labor is out of hand, and the
employer who protests against any
thing is in danger OF having a strike
or new demand for increased pay, so
they have to bear the ills they meet
and try to wait in patience for time
to adjust conditions.
But if you are friend, the cloth
ing manufacturer will tell you in con.
( fidenee he is having a very profitable
year, the hest in fact of his whole
! business career. Honesty in manufac.
turing and merchandising seems to be
at a pronounced discount, more of a
discount than the dollar is today.
Here's something worth while.
Four hundred thousand women of
Pennsylvania, members of organiza.
tons affiliated with the National Fed.
Grafton of Women's Clubs, have
pledged themselves to earnest econ
omy in household and other expenses
in the first three months of the new
year.
Every woman is to keep a detailed
account Of her daily expenses and
study for every reasonable reduction
in expenditures. Every woman will
strive to conserve food, fuel and
clothes and eliminate waste of ma
terial and goods and labor. Every
woman will keep track of every cent
that is saved. Every woman will in
vest every dollar saved in G overnment!
Savings Stamps paying APT per cent.
INTEREST and report to her state and
city chairma as to the saving.
That's business. More power to-
those good women, and all honor to-
them.
IF the men Of the nation would fol-;
low suit many of the ills from which:
we are suffering would end.
There is d specific for the woes of
the work. 1t is simple and known to-
all men, but few accept it.
what is it? Simply this: Work
and save. We do tor little of each,
and never was this SO true as today"
Commerce and Finance also makes
the following editorial comment:
I'm q letter to Mrs. w. H. Winslow.
president OF the Chicago Woman's1
Clubs. Mrs. Cyrus H. Mccormack asks
the women not to forget that there is1
still an important responsibility upon
them as women to continue wartime
conservation and exercise their in
fuence and their self-control to stem
the tide of extravaganza and help to
avert national crisis. We hope this
appeal will be needed. The women's
clubs OF the United States exert wide
influence. IL they will use it to make
economy the fashion they will do q
great service"
Money invested now in Liberty
Bonds. which are little below par
OF the market, is very much better
than buying expensive clothing. fur
niture. jewelry and Injuries of all
kinds. that command prices away
above their actual worth.