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Show SAYS THRIFT IS CUREFORH.C.L Wells Fargo Nevada Bank, in Review of Conditions, Shows Remedy Lies in Nation San Francisco People should ihop for lower prices, reduce their :onsumptlon, practice thrift, utilize for their savings Liberty Donds, War Savings Stamps and Treasury Savings Certificates, sag the Wells Fargo Nevada-National Hank, In Its monthly review, annexing the bight cost of living. High prices are. due to the following cauies, the bank review points out: "Personal extravagance on the part of those who have been receiving re-ceiving unaccustomed profits or unusual un-usual wages. "Profiteering, tho seizing by business bus-iness men of tho opportunity offered by n heavy demand to manipulate the Biipply so as to yield unduo profits. "High rates of wages, which Increase In-crease tho cost ot commodities nt every stage. "General Inflation or r-ellts and circulation, Including bank dayoslts. "What wo may look and ho;,: fi' ns tho main effect of this Governmental Govern-mental nctlon Is an awnkcnlng of tho nation" to moro ot n naturnl reaction against pnjlng high pricaB "I'eoplo should tnko pains to avoid paying tljeni by shopping for lower prlcos, by reducing their consump-Ion, consump-Ion, practicing tt-rlft, utilizing for their sa;iig8 Liberty Bonds, Wnr Savings Stamps and other oppnrtun-ties oppnrtun-ties for gllt-edgo Investment now )pcn to them. "This .ittltutle will constlluto n 'ttrong Inlliionco, In lowering prices, down tv t lio point nt least noceml-intod noceml-intod by basic cmi'Utlons, nnd, ios? latter conaltions b"lng fundamental, mttrt '.io left to work themselves out " TlioxAmrlenn Notional Hank hrils monthly lrttr .mnkea tho following stntement regarding tho eoft of living: "There nro rcvoral remedies that may bo applied, and gradually will bo applied, to rcduco tho cost ot living, but the most essential fs to gt down to business, work full time, waste nothing anil do wtllinut a lot of unnereFsary tilings which conutm? in their iiiaking much valuable inn-tcrlal inn-tcrlal nnd human energy." |