The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-20
Observations
Too Free Use Of
Money Noted on
All Fronts
BY Helen Esssry


patient Griselda who saves her pen
MES and stands with brOomstiyk ia
hand waiting to keep the wolf from
the door. / don't believe Ia wolves
Nor am ! a worthy female who
hides ner money n a stocking I'M
der tn mattress or behind grand
pas COCK But IT. does worry me
10 see now money IS being spent by
the United states government. by
The slate governments. by the pao-
pie next door BY everybody BY
you and me-if We get down 10
personal cases.
Money is being spent as n il were
nothing al all rs il IT were blown
in on the brcezeS like dandeliOu
floss As II it We're as yalueless as
thiStledowu.
Nobody likes TO squander money
more Than ] do When I'm IN the
mental dumps / love 10 20 out and
Ity something ! don need Some
thing Anything \ bright red
dress that won't match up with the
red dresses Of other moods or a
piece of junk iewelry that doesn't
belong on a Fin Islanders topknot
Nor on my own pompadour and
never quite makes the brush.up
grade.
When charge accounts were
perennial legal tender. ! sometimes
went on charging sprees anu ran
up a flI bill al an expensive shop.
or course, had 10 pay the bill
But IL was fun while the running
zip lasted before that evil day ~
check writing came. other people
had It's charge account mania Bat
even such iamborees We're mild
compared with the burning MP OF 10
days easy money.
Mill ons OF people now have
more money TO spend than they
ever had before Look al the no
tells where you can't get in TO eat
or sleep Look at the trains and
buses It isn't only the service
men and their families who are
travelling and spending 1t is the
restless money-rich American pub
lie " hen you come back from a
lsult anywhere you ache in every
muscle and nerve from the physical
effort Of pushing through the
crowd
During the past summer. resorts
in the east, a. least. have been
as crowded as Coney Island on
the Fourth OF July Hotel prices
have been high Few people have
minded this For example. there
was my light-hearted friend who,
expecting TO pay s24 a day for a
room at Atlantic City. purchased
t25 hat before she started 10 the
beach She said she was afraid
she wouldn't have much money left
after her holiday so she'd better
shop drst.
In spite OF rstioning, shops are
crowded with eager customers.
A small town merchant tells me he
likes good customers as we'll as
anybody. but il makes him worry
a bout the hard times he knows
are ahead when fellows who used
10 he on relief a couple OF years
dEO NlAhN Auuul gu uolldi DllAN
down On his counter.
didn't intend this TO be a Sun
day sermon. But really the butter
flies OF today ought 10 be lodging
the chill winds OF tomorrow. We've
got TO put away some cash, some
how. War Bonds are the answer
to the squsndering menace. Let's
buy few.
used to think that war could De
prevented. Now I've given mp such
a hope. Why? Simply because
war is so much fun. oh yes il is
Men who are being shot al. who
are falling through the air n
flames. or trying to keep alive on
sinking RATS aren't having much
fun. Sor the mothers wives and
the best girls Of those poor fellows.
The rest OF us are whipped up
into frenzy OF excitement War
is a thousand-ring circus. The ac.s
change every minute: Big head
lines and loud speakers shout the
news. Every day. every hour
brings new throb And who
used % try to be pacinst am
wondering where belong in the
new mob scene
As an example OF my lack OF har-
mony with the present IL makes
Tue unhappy TO see things happen
ing to the once beautiful serene
Washington. Washington was
never serene underneath Not
with the governmental goings on
and the political plottings that fer
mented while administrations tick
ed away.
However the place looked Sc
rene On the outside There were
magnificent distances wherever you
turned. Broad avenues. big trees,
parks. leisurely looking people.
Nobody seemed in a hurry. The
outside country groaned about the
". ste OF time in Washington.
Machine guns in the deIls Uhera