The Washington times., 1933-03-10


77S1@ their chance It was q good change
GILBERT sEIDEs too and they cried "Woe!" steadily
and ghoulishly for considerable time We have had
woe enough it wasn't always the special brand OF
woe the prophets threatened with but the chance Tor
the great joke still with the joke the doomsters
if everything doesn't to pieces and we nave relapse
into moderate prosperity.
Blind as Bats to Sunlight
What have against these men is not that they fright
ened u.s. because little fright after the soothing syrup OF
1880 was good thing is that they shut their eyes
to facts as bndy as the bindest optimist and when
they had shut out the facts they MANAGED easily to shut
out something else-the endless possibilities of human
beings. Everything evil they predicted was hanoea ouC
with the tag as neTsbe 1 SS eeo eacep he Stupidity
of the prophets. You can count on that
see no rainbows in the sky and only few tangible
signs that we have got hold of the right stick with
which to beat the depression. But know from little
of civilization is long process and that most people,
when they talk about disasters on this cosmc SCALE mean
only that something is going to happen whcn tney tnem
selves do not like To the Russian grand dukes living
on the Riviera driving taxs in Paris 1917 was the
end of civilization. But it was only the beginning for
several million Russians whose Judgment on civilization
was just as good.
We Can Change!
More particularly you can find in the record of
nation long periods of difficulty not always ending IN
miondolar yachts for everybody and in those periods
you discover unexpected flexlblllty in human Delngs
They and do adjust themselves to hardships Cir
cumstances change around them and they change too
They are not as learned as the prophets and DO not
imagine that anything is inevitable.
Merely by living from day to day. and managing, they
create fresh circumstances And turn the joke the
prophets who, usually, not there to take bow.
Why One Price?
On the back wall of country store I few days
ago fypecked and ragged cardboard sign which read
"Strcty One Price,, and was reminded that twenty or
thirty years you could signs like that everywhere
The idea became common largely through the sale of
nationally advertised articles that the signs Disappeared
We take it for granted that when pay II cents
paying more and no less than anyone else. 1t
would be insult to merchant to suggest that he bar
gains.
The matter is of no great Importance to me, but
suddenly had unreasonable desire to haggle. (The
opportunity limited, as wanted package of
cigarettes recently reduced in price anyhow It
Cured to that the one-prce ideal wasn't as logical
and desirable it seemed, and that we had been
taking it for granted with thousands of other ideas
without the slightest examination. thought OF dozens
of why good grocer ought to have dozens of
prices for every article in his store.
Private Triumph
The first that price doesn't consider the in
dividual and his capacity to pay. Why should pay
much as millionaire and why should beggar
have to pay as much as I do? Why should passer-
by, dropping in for package of cigarettes, pay no
more than regular customer who ought to be en-
or the clerk make a quick guess at what the traffic
will and then go through the exciting business OF
hagglng and bargaining? Shopping would be hum
dred times more exciting if you could feel when you
got home that you had defeated dozen raids your
purse and had conquered set of sharp scouDdrels.
Actually our one-prce system is limited. 1t only
means that you pay the price shown on the tag. 1t
does not mean that the price remains the same after
YOU leave or the day. The $25 radio sets of three
months ago have hit every price between $2462 and
S1l.91. Those steel rowing machines 60 up and down
like active stocks. And triangular pillows have wan
dered from $3.50 to about dollar. Yet there is no
pride merely in waiting for desired object to come
down in price. Haggling IS what we Want-ano
triumph.
-n1McNVES ANN CHICKEN POSTS LIQUOR BOND