The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-09-15
SOME or. The REASONS.


lecture to his grand jury on the cos
of living-we don't know what he OF
the jury had to do with it, but it wal
evident that the judge was getting Of
a crouch before he had gone very far
and that may have made the subse
quent proceedings pleasanter. He
said people bought automobiles who
wouldn't have shoes if their debts
we're paid, and we suppose he wanted
the jury to recommend that the state
or Mr.. Rockefeller to supply them with
shoes, but he didn't say SO, and we
take it for granted that some tar
heels will continue to lack shoes until
they cease to buy automobiles.
Then he condemned the telephone
and said it was responsible for 80 per
cent of the rise in prices and so per
cent. of neighborhood quarrels and loo
per cent. Of all our stillness-again we
fail to follow his honor to the limit
but will let his charges go for what
they are worth.
Now we don't know what We have
to do with the matter in h2nd any
more than this judge or his jury had
but we have an opinion as well as
they. And we insist that an automo.
hfJa IL on owl nuIxy u,bao ~ 10 oh,,c,d
and telephone attachment to a house
may serve many good purposes when
rightly used-courts are not bad when
confined to their legitimate functions,
but they do much more to increase
the costs of living than automobiles
or telephones or some other things we
might mention-if we started out to
exterminate all the nuisances we
could find we are by no means certain
that courts and lawyers would be safe
but they are nuisances when rnisused
and not when properly used.
We are responsible for the cost of
living and If we want to get back to
the old prices we can do SO by get
ting back to our old habits. Once the
wife and mother took a basket and
went to the market--she chose what
seemed best worth the money, paid
for 1t and came home one man could
Keep a market for a thousand custom
ers. Now she picks up the receiver,
calls the market and orders her meat.
Her order is charged, the cuts are sent
and she requires that they be wrapped
in oiled paper for which she pays as
meat, because the package is weighed,
string and all, with perhaps wooden
saucer thrown in. She Is not there to
choose the cut, and the man puts in all
he bone, possible, while keeping the
ends that have been paid for.
Now to do business In this way the
merchant must keep boy to answer
! he phone, trusty man to make de-
livery, a horse and wagon, book.
keeper to enter the order and j collec-
or to send after his money. Each Gus.
toner must pay his share of all these
expenses and something for those
who fail to pay, as well as interest on
money the merchant must have to
conduct business on credit.
Thus we see the household pays for
J lot that cannot be eaten, aid the
meat costs double without regard to
the, scarcity of cattle or the costs of
transportation; these items are neces-
rupt, and he who asks credit should
the manner OF doing business. The
merchant who gave credit without pro-
viding for some defense against bad
customers would soon become bank
rupt and he WHO'D asks credit should
know that this provision is made in
the bill-the public opinion that for
bids the market basket or the package
In hand requires the telephone, and
necessitlates higher prices because
more than the goods is demanded.
Once YOU bought your five pounds OF
crackers and carried them home In a
paper bag--now You must have them
sent you by man In livery who may
come in mobile truck and show the
crackers in highly colored box OF
line pasteboard with several wrap.
pings OF oiled paper--the whole pack.
age being paid for as crackers and the
delivery made on time!
To reduce the cost of living. Go
back to the former standard of living.