Show I I F Money AT WOR WOKS Brief but Important Ills lessons on in I finance markets stocks bonds and andI investments I y LE ai THERe i 15 s sNO NO NOT T THE f LUMBER BASIS IN THIS HOUSE I COST BUT v FOR FOR COMPARISON t I j The price of or raw material should hould not Ix- Ix compared com d with the finished tJ article articles If It you ou were trying drying to sell your house for ten hn thousand dollars you would consider It ridiculous for forthe forthe the prospective buyer buer to argue that th the lumber In the house houle could be bought at the lumber yard ard for Tor two thousand dollars and thus tho tiro trice you OU were asking was unreasonable It would still be worse worlie to argue that the lumber at the Die forest would cost only five hundred dollars Similar comparisons comparison however are heard constantly relative to Agricultural products What Wha the farmers farmer get out of or bread prices what the growers get fet out of or cottor cottor cot- cot tor cloth prices and similar comparisons corn com familiar Just as It na arc aro labor hardware took hauling labor hardware paint and numerous Items of or expense expense ex ex- pense to build the house hOUlt so itI it takes alu transportation build labor and nd the bread make I man many supplies to from the wheat and the cloth from fromI I the cotton otton Comparisons which I cleave axe ic-axe e a out these things are misleading mIslead mIslead- ing 1 Copyright right 1239 Associated Editors EdItor Inc |