Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-18 | Page 12 | People's Corner

I I PEOPLES PEOPLE'S CORNER ne eople's Column 11 li f I. I on of 0 public Interest on religion sr Dr r of Df It I hould be bo on on anC see tide I of ot the paper iper ami mi limited to lo word ord ird mei mu mutt mull he e I nd a Pit us in nn Indication of It rood cod fail hut but wilt lit 1 IM from publication on request Live Within Your Your- Income Is Urged Editor Tho The Telegram I am ant reminded by reading your our paper tonight that hat Thrift week track Is with us again Now whilst 1 I am urn amIn amIn In full rull s sympathy with the tho inv t ment to encourage the purchase of tf life Uto insurance somo Borne o of the tho objects object of ot Thrift week arc uro not 80 so praiseworthy praise worthy For or instance the Own Your Own Home movement move mue ment meat which will bo be boosted one une day Is la not only out of harmony harmon with my ray idea of thrift but poi pod mischievous when tho the object Is f. to tu get all ail or nearly all nU the iwo iwo- plo io to lu buy their own dwellings dwelling There are lar far too man many homo home owners own own- era ers In Halt Salt Lake City today to tomake tomake tomake make homo home own owning In goon good from Irom the tho standpoint of ot thrift What we wo HeLd Is I. more homes home built for lor renting purposes and if It a person could bo be found round to help such uch a IL movement In Ina ina a substantial way he ho would be bo a aral areal areal real ral benefactor to his hla fellow citizens citi zens Hns and worthy of a a. a monument when ho dies die alt all the bunk lunk about lh the desirability of ot 01 more oro home homeowners homeowners homeowners owners here notwithstanding r. Then eo someone ne Is I. to tu boost boott during Jone day th the tho home budget bud move move- taut ment lies Has anyone ever s seen Hen n a really sound hunts hum budget budt 7 I J have hare reed read many in m my time I but ut not one that was s worth the slightest t consideration consideration con con- and I J doubt If ft the earn oam- Ian this hie time will have hay any practical value hut But sir Mr fr Editor FAilor what a a. wonderful wonder wonder- ful rul opportunity Thrift week affords afford fur teaching the m. m messes masses great ec economic eco ceo truths But Hut the greaf coo non scenic c truth truths will not be to taught The American people IP have hav gone economic mad raving ravIne mad macJ in tact but there thero Is ta no one em to help them llam out These Thrift weeks at as a means neona of bringing about economic sanity remind me hie of a mountebank prescribing for a dangerous disease dis II e. e ease asic What hat I Is I. needed In Is someone to Lu tet teI tie u. the blunt truth that r- r n e mu mut l ll I live e within our income whatever whatever what what- hat ever It ma may be that Ine Incomes Income m. m dither differ In this country as a. much aa as anywhere any my- w where In the world and nd that It l la is I. isa a ft crime against our fellow II to 10 try to keep kp up with lIh our neighbors neigh neigh- bars bors regardless of the fact tact that they may have hae an en Income three or j four tour times as aa large vu our own I aay say It Is a Q crime crimo against against our v fellow citizens to do this because when II we are on the rocks the tho tendency is I. isto isto to squeal qu al and squawk an antI and beg borrow or steal from Irom them tho the thoI begging being done directly or through somo some organization such lIuch as I the tho charity chest If Jf our thrift would do- do ote vote their time to making u IL survey survey sur sur- vey of ot economic conditions here and then shout their findings from I the housetops they would do some come good nut But ut no nu they spend a Q lot of timo talking about things that if not Hot positively harmful as I L contend con coil I tend the encouragement of ot more mor homo home owners hero at the tile present time is III are arc certainly e not Ilot calculated to do du on any real good Hut But let mo me again say lIay I nm ant not Knocking the Insurance feature though I J am not selling Insurance insurance ance anee for I 1 believe It Is sound and andI I wish I could say lIay as much for the theother theother theother other Il items Hems ms on the tho program mCK J.