Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-15 | Page 12 | You Never Really Know the Value of Money until You Pay--and Pay

Ruth Millett Says: You Never Really Know The Value of Money Until You Pay-And Pay "That boy doesn't have any idea of the value of money," fathers fath-ers are always complaining about their high school and college-age sons. But few Dads take the trouble to do anything about the matter, mat-ter, but complain to Mama. jL One father, who did figure I out a scheme for teaching his high-school-age son where a family , pay check goes, has not been troubled trou-bled since by tompli ints bout the. all ef the son's allowance. al-lowance. For a month that dad turned over his weekly pay check to his on giving him Ruth Millett a list of bills to be paid each week and of the money needed to put aside out of each pay check to meet monthly bills. The boy took care of everything. every-thing. He gave Mama her household house-hold and personal spending money. He paid the maid. He paid for the groceries, laundry, cleaning, for the upkeep of the family car (which he used more than any member of the family). Jle even paid himself the allowance allow-ance he had been kicking about being too small. The plan was that Dad would get everything that was left ever. That, the son thought enviously, en-viously, would be a nice hunk. But he found out differently the first week. When he had paid all the bills and paid out a the family allowances, there was leas for Pop than Son had already al-ready drawn for his allowance. The story wasn't very differ-. differ-. ent next week or the next. When the month was up, theon . had a new picture of his dad. Instead of seeing him as a man who made a good salary, but was tight with it, he saw him ,, as a guy who worked hard to . earn a good pay check out of . which he received even less than his high school aged son. This is a true story, so It doesn't end with the Son's of-, of-, fering to take a cut in his own , allowance. But he never did . kick again because he didn't have enough spending money. Maybe other fathers could borrow bor-row the Idea. There's just one drawback to It. It is likely to make the young men of the country wonder If Dads ' aren't M giving their families an awful lot for what they get in return. m And If young men become that M akeptlcal, girls may have a little M more trouble getting them to the altar.