El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-07-03
CHEAPER TO BUY THAN BUILD
AND NOW IS GOOD TIME TO SAVE

ONE HEARS and reads much these days about thrift
y Everywhere prophets rise to the for al
our present economic and social ills: Produce and
save they tell Only there be any replace
meut Of capital destroyed in war any accumulation 81
capital necessary for the restoration and upbuidng OF
industry.
an true. Only question how to apply the good advice
N each persons lie The average woman working
Tor wages thinks he IS working enough and producing
all he is paid to produce The average man in business for
himself or holding responsible saaried position big
organization knows he is at least putting in long hours
and thinks he is earning all he receives in the way Of
profits OF salary The farmer how he can do
any different from what he is doing. The mother Of
family finds the days too short to do what she thinks
necessary to be DONE and wonders sometimes what meant
by the slogan, Produce more and save more.
Talk Of this sort coming from financiers students Of
economics politicians seems rather vague to ths tens
response from the average newspaper reader it is cynical
smile The idea Of doing any work for the wages be-
ing paid the idea Of saving anything Of the weekly pay
envelope with sugar at 26 cents pound (nobody fur
gets to mention SUGAR. such ideas funny to the average
man and woman, when not annoying preng to anger
yet the facts are that there is OF disposition to
he help TO buy things instead of make them to indulge
oneself than to go without There disposition through
the days and through the hours Of the DAYS to take things
easier, to slip off much possible to postpone TIE
spirit Of getting by prevalent, the idea of doing
Job right and doing it promptly for the sake of ones own
self satisfaction is not any too Then too there
IS less care for the small coins less disposition to accumu
late savings. less thought for the future.
More members Of families work out" than ever before
The old days when the father Of the family the Garner
while the mother kept and the children went TO
SCHOOL SOUND uke romance Everybody wants
salaries Father and mother sisters brothers.
half grown boys and girls eveTybodys doing it. The fam
y income longer measured by the fathers wage OF
salary. There may Be SIX wage ezrners In family
now and the combined income amounts figure that not
many years ago would have been deemed good living
for highly efficient executive IN business industry OF
the proprietor Of large business the skilled and
perenoed professional man. the valued technical super
intendent manager.
Men and women nowadays can command high wages
without much preparation skill experience. The de-
mand for help IN all lines, special and common head work
and hand work. IS great, the supply far below the
demand, and the average efficiency moderate, that
school boys and gs In their vacations wages that
few years ago would have acceptable head Of
family, and women with q brief apprenticeship IN
trade profession able to set their wages and
g then almost anywhere and the rowing class Of workers
has LONE larger than before Men and hav
ing knowledge Of speciality have found that they
quit j5 move to another town. and get employment
Nobod SEED be out Of work than the
tine necessary 10 walk ride from place another
This very Independence makes for instability, and the
turnover" number Of changes in employment IS greater
than ever before
People nowadays seldom take hold Of q job with the
intention staying They generally have the feeling that
they are only stopping for the time being to loo around
as ashley begin to feel little Discontinued they
viii up and moving Thus there IS little nduceHeat
for employers TO plan with them for the future, and en-