Show ersson 83 OF THE GOOD F 0 there is one essential in all eco life it Is the lesson taught us prima irly by the good farmer the wise producer does not consume or waste or sell all of his products he ile keeps his best seed for the next year a planting and it if there is any doubt about his needs for the winter he maintains a surplus against mis misi i fortune or untoward circumstances the trouble or one trouble with the people of the united states during the tat fat years of the war and im mediately succeeding was that they spent all of their earnings or most of them in riotous living As this tills term comes from the bible it Is ap parent that human nature has not changed very much in six thousand years yeats it is no exaggeration to say that during the war in any city hundreds of young men spent from 10 to 20 for silk shirts and these particular evidences of extravagance are now rarely seen it if the entire country had observe ed as faithfully a nation wide money saving program from 1917 to jan 1 1921 as it observed food saving under mr hoover s direction in 1917 and 1918 there would be little or no complaint of hard times and close I 1 money |