The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-10-13
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4 MOTHER illustration Of the fact that raising
"A prices does not always increase revenues is
seen in the recent increase of letter postage
from two to three cents. In fact this been
in numerous postal rate increases in recent years.
The new rate has caused marked decrease in
first class mail and postal authorities now advocate
return to the two cent rate.
For example, firm which formerly sent out
thousands bills each month under two cent postage
has arranged for customers to pay their bills by
deposits in convenient banks instead of mailing
checks, with this esult:
Formerly the government received two cents as
postage the mailed bill and another two cents
the envelope containing the customers check If the
scheme had worked out it would have received
three cents postage the mailed BILL another three
the envelope with the RENTED check and
cents the check itself, total of eight cents.
But under the arrangement devised by the patron it
receives nothing. Many bills formerly mailed
delivered by employees of various firms at
less than postage cost.
In another case, bank which formerly returned
customers Cancelled checks by mail, which would cost
from three to Is cents for each batch returned at the
present rate, holds these Cancelled checks and
has patrons call at the bank for them.
Former increases in newspaper postal rates caused
many large publishers to adopt truck delivery
wide areas saving to them and at consequent
loss to the government. And
Even a government monopoly loses when it tries
to impose higher rates than the traffic will bear.
Thrift and Crime
r. ENCOURAGEMENT of thrift as means of re-
r. ducing crime is suggested by wel-known pub
Hcist, who declares that extravagant habits in
many are the direct Of banditry.
Aside from financial gains possible through econ
omy and thrift the habit of saving has stabilizing
effect upon ones character The person who laying
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idea of ultimately securing financial independence is
dependable than who spends his money
fast faster than he makes it.
Many who have resorted to dishonesty in order to
obtain needed funds quickly those who have been
first led into extravagant living Allowing themselves
to indulge in luxures in of what their earnings
warrant, they easily yield to temptation to dis
honesty in its various forms.
Habits of thrift should be inculcated early, and
should be encouraged at every turn. Those who have
acquired such habits generally Industrious am
bilious and honest
Facts About Fire
During 1881 fire destroyed approximately 10000
Nearly one-thrd of these were children under ten
years of age. lay
Two-thirds of the total were burned to death in
homes.
The total economic loss was $464, 633 PCS.
In order to visualize these facts, compare them
with the following:
The annual fire bill is about equal to rs per cent
of the interest national debt.
The excise and miscellaneous taxes recently
imposed will produce in a year little than
the annual fire bill.
Over 80 per cent of all fire easily preventable
Fire is the great destroyer-not only of lives and
property but of employment, business opportunities
community and industrial progress. Of every hun
dred industrial establishments burned in the last five
and absolute
The conquest of fire is simply the conquest of
public ignorance laxness and Indifference Each of
US owes the community duty-to eliminate the
hazards property. We cannot afford the "lux-
ury" of fire.
We pay tax when turn on the electric light,
when we drive car when light a match, when
we purchase pack of cards. when go to theatre,
well, the list could be continued indefinitely. AL
most everything we do means that have been in
directly taxed That is the thing think Of and to
remember. Indirect taxes take far greater percent
age of the average income than most of us realize
They hidden" item in the cost of living that
must be brought into the light
observation-disclosures hungry and rioting. Fact
cries and shops closed and closing Relief funds
exhaustion. City launches big drive to maintain SYM
phony orchestra.