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Show "Where Has My Year's I Income Gone"? I In these days of modern conveniences, v M no one questions the part of the utilities M have played in the progress of the na- M tion. Perhaps no other line of endeavor M has contributed so much to the elimina- t ANNUAL INCOMES 1 tion of drudgery and the establishment B r - . tu, H , , lint VM Isw, H of comforts. Few people, however, real- $, ,j, & H ize how little of the income of the aver- iTru (HS BE2S3 Pl ITTSnf H age family is expended for utility service. Utility 1 LEBa WW. Hh ?$$ I H It is strikingly shown in a chart prepared " Services l36""01"" & & ffisl H by S. S. Wyer, consulting engineer of 1 Columbus, Ohio, from exhaustive studies l f Era? M made by Dr. Ellen H. Richards of the . H IB fl Hi . Massachusetts Institute of Technology Higher Living, fjl w and himself. Insurance, Books, S w lip 'it I H For all utility service, including tele- Savings, Religious B ft B lw I phone, electricity, gas, water, street car ixi g f BKji M and railroad, the family with an income h jS 1 Ke M of $1,000 to $2,000 per annum spends 9 B fll I about .ten per cent of the income. The P MM 3 Hw M percentage is reduced in the greater ... .. .1111 IE Rj &!& H income of $2,000 to $4,000 to approxi- Jw?601!! .H K IP pl H mately seven per cent. Food, the first Operating -H gy llpl H demand of the nation in war, claims the HM p p ipil? M largest part of the income of the aver- $M p pf $l ! H age family, taking twenty-five per cent M 2of )Ml of the incomes cited. Rent comes second Clothing - ?5 iSl $$ H : on the list with twenty per cent, while g$& f fcifpS $11;' lf clothing claims twenty and fifteen per jj ?ml 0 w$ k H cent respectively.' The other classifica- -,-,. ' iB J& iSU H tions in Mr. Wyer's chart are betterment, f i S gf $! 5 expenditures made in the interest of bet- ; ,,V m?l ffiffl !0V- 1 I ter living, and miscellaneous operating, '- ru ,p 1 I covering the emergencies which arise in " ' "R Mo ifoi W& I every household. ' .ftjp $$& fjjfy 1 H In times of war, prices increase, with jMt 'M IJ7 H . the result that the family pays more for w fW I H its clothing, its food and its rent. In j V&b 1 most cases this advance is met by wage P J L- fU vS$ v- H increases, so that a greater volume of rood WKCi Uie M income is represented in one hundred largest part of $$ $c $i per cent. As a result we find that where your annual income, S ,5 H utilities have not been provided with in- Dnn't Weh If! So 5 ics H creased rates or other financial relief, the . ; s$ 1 percentage of income expended for utility $ $$ M service, becomes even smaller than in $$$fc S$ 1. The dollar of 1918 buys less food, less y Af, g H clothing, less rent and less fuel than the u n. H dollar of 1914, but in many localities it ' 'v M buys just as much utility service as it i M ever did. Utilities must endure for the M general welfare of the nation, and to do M this they must have a just part of the M new capital which has been given fam- T Trf-l, Trfir-TJi-M Jfc- T xigt4- C H ilies in order that they may meet the dif- Uian JTUVVtpr OC Jlgnt KO. m wioS bankru;:' -Ut SUffering PMi S" I t H ' i M |