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Show BUDGET SYSTEiVi FAR FAMILY IS GROWING N POPULARITY Salary Plus Budget Equals Savings Reads Formula by Woman Head of Home Economics Bureau in Cleveland BUDGET FOR $200 A MONTH INCOME Number In family (2) (3) (4) (5) Savings $35 00 $22 00 $20.00 $20.00 Food 42.00 50.00 58 00 63.00 Shelter N 50.00 50 00 50.00 50.00 j Clothing 30.00 35.00 35.00 35.00 Operating 18.00 18.00 18 00 18 00 Advancement ... 25.00 2500 19 HO 14.00 BUDGET FOR NEWLY MARRIED COUPLES Monthly Income $125 $150 $200 $250 $300 $400 Savings $17 00 $20.00 $35.00 $50 00 $60.00 $100 00 Food 35.00 40.00 42 00 45.00 50.00 5500 Rent 30.00 38.00 50 00 60.00 75 CO 100.00 Clothing 20.00 25.00 30.00 35.00 45.00 5'.00 Operating 12.00 15.00 18.00 25.00 30.00 45.00 Advancement 11.00 12 00 25.00 35.00 40.00 50.00 ( . I . BtAff s,Kv!al ) CLSTBLA14D, Nov. C. Housewives, attention Are you budgi-icerinK .' r. are you just haphazard!;, bending', thinking family finance Will take can- of Itself It-self I We'll save what's left," say many wive itnil they find at the end uf the month nothing is left. That's the common com-mon way households are run. Bu; there' a scientific way to run a. horn and It's the "budget" s- tern and It's gt owing in popularity and usefulness Most people are agreed Uncle Sam spends too much that the national OM-rnm'nt ought to have a budget yetem. And m.in are elao finding- out that a family budget means 1 Any Income can be made to yield a better living;. 2 Better and wiser spending. S Regular and persistent s.ilnK Cleveland Is a plone-r In tlu famii budget sst,ni ThroDgli the Soclet fer Havings, of which Myron 1 Hen former ainbeaaadoi I r' I r'' i i preel d-nt. a Hftrpe Economics Bureau was established two yean " Mitm Baral J. MacLeod is head of the bureau. Let her explain the work. "We found if aa. ing was to be made' a permanent and worthwhile thinr v. muel do something oni rete to heiti folkfl v"e got out our budget system 1 I'or more than a year we hae been adding cadi month more than 800 jamlMes to th plan.'' The budget sntem v.n so popular In Cleveland that it has been promoted iin Fittshurif, , h he 1'eoples 8a-I 8a-I Ings Trust comptnv. It i also bp- Ing used with BUCCesg in Bridgeport, Conn , and in Boston. The budget Mitss MacLeod has work-! ed out includes six divisions as follows: fol-lows: Savings Savings account, invent-, menta, and life Insurance; Food Meat j md fish, groccrtea, dairy products Ice, and meala outside. Shelter iteni. taxes, fire insurance, and repairs and light, telephone, cleaning .-upplies and household equipment; clothing Wearing apparel and sewing supplies and Advancement BSduCatton, travel.' amusement. entertainment, papers, books, inaga.ines, church and bfeni yol-enceB) yol-enceB) gift. cafefare. postage, .station-1 cry. toilet articles, physician, dentist! and medicine. "Housewives will find it is really, worth while to plan their spending" says Miss MacLeod. "EJven If at flrnt you do riot account for all your income1 at the end of the month. It's far better bet-ter to know where !0 or 95 per cent of th" money went than to simply j know it's gone. I "From studying hundred of cages' we have worked out budgets for various var-ious incomes. Thes. range from a month to $400 a month Above that: we found it lies almost wholly a matter, of individual desires such as more servants or a more expensive car We consider 12& a month the "dangsr' mark for two. "Th name sounds big but It's slmplv plan for spending. And to get results it must be earned out faithfully. faith-fully. What about It. housewives? Will you become a bndgeteer'' If no bunk In our town is pushing home economy through the budget plan, your librarian librar-ian can furnish you with a sample hud-get hud-get and you can buy the home budget' tOoks at the hookMo |