| Show 75 CENTS SPENT ON FOURTH 1 DAY BY INVESTIGATOR IN HIGH COST OF LIVING TEST I I I I First day 5 45 1 Second day 65 5 Third day 30 Fourth day day 75 I Total I Allowance Behind 15 By Roy Cropper lt if ONEY isn't everything in the MONEY world but it makes u up for a alot alot AV RI-I RI lot that is lacking tacking Four days of existence on 50 fiO 50 cents a day furnishes me mo with a cl clue e as to what a a. whole months month's salary must mean to a lot of the fellows I have met Inthe in inthe inthe the last week Out of the hundreds I have met I think I am the only one following this line of living for fun fun or un- un or r. r rather for forthe forthe forthe the amusement of or a city editor At any rate I dont don't have to do this most of the fellows I have ha met do They have come to this line of ot living liv ing lug either through folly of or their own or sheer misfortune Booze and dope I In this half balt of the world are what food shelter and amusement are to toI the other othor half halt Maybe someone will tell you that there are not two halves to to the life of ot a a. city Maybe he lie will tell you humanity hu manity is just lust o one e big bg brotherhood If If you you- you are are tempted to believe elle him and you know what it is to have three good square meals a day and a warm clean place to sleep try living g on 50 cents a day in Salt Lake Maybe right now v you are arc shy a afew afew afew few of ot the seasons season's clothes maybe you are home when you would like to be at the tho theatre Your lot ma may maybe maybe be hard but it cant can't compare with that of ot the man on 50 cents a day I Mind you rou I am only trying to eat and sleep on a half dollar a day Some of the men I 1 have met have less than thau this with which to provide their clothing as well as their food and shelter Do you ou wonder that th there re Is crime in tho the world Do you wonder that they seek relief relief re re- rc- rc lief in liquor and drugs With only a little more mere Ulan than half of the time on this assignment served I can easily understand why whymen whymen whymen men lose their coats when eating In Ina Ina Ina a public place why the moocher spends the quarter you gave ga him for tor liquor rather than food But Im I'm sermonizing Perhaps you want to know about that fourth da day Right away I 1 want to tell toll you I am sorry I didn't go to the Y W W. 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A and pay pay- them thern the dime I owe them at the close of the third lay day 15 15 CENTS BEHIND I was 20 cents ahead of ot the game then Now I am 15 cents behind One extra meal in response to a thunderous thun thus derous appeal from m my stomach is responsible responsible re reo re- re 1 for tor the time setback Most lost of my disappointment lies In the fact 1 that I must pinch my rations again If It I II I am to make up the time deficit and make good on tho the assignment Chatter in cheap eating places grates on my nerves like a phonograph record It ma may harmonize harmon harmon- ize with time tho characters found there the time food and service but hut it does docs not appeal to the man who is used peed to catIn cating cat cat- In ing from a round table I That reminds reminds' me inc that the time first meal of my fourth day will linger Unger with me mc forever West Vest on Second South is a i little eating rating house that beckons to I Ithe the public under the name of Time The 11 Hero It sounds and nico I reflected that here was the opportunity for two I. I heroes to meet If It there is supremacy between heroes he lie lie- 1 roes I think I ought to win on on my I nerve Pork chops potatoes and amid coffee for 15 cents sounds reasonable enough But you have never seen the chops Oh Ob I am ani not complaining complain lug of or the size They were ere sufficient That pork may have been all aU ri right ht but it didn't smell it IL I sud suddenly enly lost my appetite at appetite at least for pork I 1 made the best of the time potatoes and coffee The man manlio who lio sat next to me in inThe inThe The Time Hero was a circus hand named Pittman lie lIc said he was on omi his way to Pocatello where he lie hoped to get work He didn't know who ho I was and amid ho Ito didn't know how he lie startled me when ho lie said I That Tha t Telegram man is going to have a h li-I li 1 of a time getting by on 50 cents a day Then he lie began to waver lIe He mapped out a a. program whereby it could be bo done He has hiis been through the tho mill himself for his program was identical with the one ono I have tried to follow tollow He figured that The Time Tele Telegram man I could do it if It f ho he limited his expend expendi i. i I I J tures to 5 cents for breal breakfast fast 15 cents for lunch 15 Hi cents for supper and 15 cents for a bed p Pittman chuckled as ho lie reflected that there would be ho one reporter that would bo ho glad glad- to get his feet teet under undera a regular table It If he lie succeeded I GOES TO I wandered over to and amid I met Scotty who swamps In saloons I there for his living Scotty ScallY knows like Uke a book I was still sun in search of a cheap bed in that part of ot tho the city cily I asked Scotty ty how it could be bo done He Ho said it I He told me ma that the best price was 25 cents I He offered to let me sh share re his bed I declined You have never seen Scotty I discovered a new wrinkle when I met a young fellow in the Albany bar He had a dime dimmie I had 15 cents For that amount one of ot us could get et a room near neal Second West Vest and andI I Second South I figured it as a good bargain asI asI as ns I I was time the one to engage tho the room That placed the time burden of a quiet I entry on the time other fellow It was hardly bedtime so 1 started I out omit in iii search of something to eat eat- I couldn't take m my newly found friend II with me mc rs ros my funds were wore short I Say Sar I was ivas t so o hungry I could uld have I eaten nails No cent 15 meal in time the I I world could appease that appetite I You iou must remember that t I was waR cut off from one meal I had hac noted a place on West South Temple They call it tavern 1 had a fine meal for 25 cents Roast beet beef mashed potatoes parsnips I baked beans bread and butter coffea corree and sago sage pudding constituted that I meal It only cost me a quarter BEDDING CLEAN I went back baek to my ray room and retire re re- ro- ro tire tired M My roommate although h he was not riot known as such to the pr proprietor pro came In a little later He Ha was not discovered and wo we passed the most comfortable night of my four foar I days' days experience The bedding was wa clean and enough to keep one warm There was no stove In the room room I and water In the pitcher was cold but aside from that tha there were Vere no I discomforts We Ve got ot up early because we didn't I want to h have ve the time proprietor discover our plot I left my companion at Second South and Vest West Temple He Ho was vas going to try to find some work t to do doto doto doto to pay for his breakfast I wasn't prepared for another breakfast on onI I doughnuts I Iliad had bad 15 cents and deI decided de de- I 1 to spend It in a w waffle house on West Vest Second South I I ordered a waffle watne and a cup of ot coffee cortee thinking that tho time corf coffee e w went nt with the waffle I almost f lost st my my appetite when the waiter dropped a check for 20 cents in front of or me I Iwas Iwas Iwas was a nickel shy and the cashier ashier didn't look so kind as the one inthe In Inthe the Y W. W C. C A. A He was vasa a man while the other oUmer was a woman I made my Initial attempt at t mooching I confided my predicament ment to the man on my right I did not ask asle him for anything merely outlined out omit lined my ply financial condition He handed me a nickel If It he will come up to tho the office some time after this detail is over Ill I'll give it back for forI I 1 am going to try to come out ev n with the game In the next three days My living today cost me 75 cents which Is riotous when y you u take 50 cents as a maximum I am m 15 cents behind schedule Heres Here's how I I spent my money Lunch Pork lunch Pork chops potatoes and coffee 15 Bed 15 15 Supper Supper Roast Roast beef baked beans bean parsnips bread and butter potatoes potatoes po po- i coffee and pudding 25 I Breakfast Breakfast Waffle Waffle fl syrup p and 4 I coffee coffee r I I Total i I n i. i 4 |
