Show LIVING TOO CHEAPLY guntous Gun tons magazine which holds a high place in discussing economic econom io questions quo scions to la its latest issue takes up the proposition ot of semi charitable organizations to establish ton ten cent v ing houses bouses and five cent restaurants the magazine insists that such eions are in the long run injurious to the very people they are supposed to benefit because they induce the estate flehme nt of lower standards of living and an inferior estimate of social life there to Is much force in mr gunton tons s argument on this subject pau pan per izing the physical and social life of the citizen always results la in depravity and if as mr gunton claim clai DIP the in tro of such institutions would tend to lower the general standard 0 of living the evils be deplete as following ot of necessity are not difficult to to retell while economy to is to be strongly urged lu in its superiority as to moral intellectual and physical effects over habits babits of extravagance the other extreme of niggardliness niggard iness of living is to be carefully guarded against people can become too stingy in the quantity and quality of that which sustains austal ns life and when they do the effect Js is disastrous it is a aeu we demonstrated principle that thai the loer loar the standard of aby physical steal 11 ting living the lesa lei the deedre to rise out of it and a tand ard of living jiving below tho the actual needs obedi of the body commonly gives mental and social octal inferiority frequently attended by moral debasement the effort to supply model tenements and stimulate tim the homemaking home making spirit which rests on family life does doea not come under mr huntone Gun tone tons criticism he be rather commends com mendi it but he be sees only disaster dia aBter to the nation in encouraging cheap lodging houses and restaurants that are not of family life and that develop a lower standard of living than should exist in a country full of indue trial opportunities in his hie antagonism to ultra cheapness in ID living the new york economist will have many sympathizers in ID thin part of the country who feel much as did a well known salt bait laker when approached pro ached by an equally well known local philanthropist with the remark brother john I 1 have learned how bow to live jive on OD six aix cents a day these flauree fl guree 01 at this point the con vt was abruptly ended by the other brother george I 1 doni donat want to know 11 |