Show hoarding and indiscriminate parsimony long W way a Y from real thrift by S W STRAUS president of american society for thrift it is not the aim of thrift nor the duty of men to acquire millions hoarding millions is avarice not thrift this bit of philosophy uttered some time ago by andrew carnegie can well be applied to american life at the thle present time apkor ark of a proper understanding of thrift has been responsible for a great ailt c 1 harm in america recently this has been due to false economy but people are rapidly getting around to the viewpoint that hoarding and indiscriminate parsimony are a long way from real thrift what we all must learn leam is to eliminate waste there is a great deal of difference between waste and sensible spending the most reprehensible form of waste of course course at the present time Js is in the matter of secretary Hoil houston ston has said that if only a single ounce of edible food on the ibe average is allowed to spoil or to be thrown away in each of our cur homes over 00 pounds of material would be wasted each day this would beat be at the rate of pounds of food a year think of the millions ml lions of acres of land and the thousands of people necessary essary to produce this vast amount of foidl it would be a very good idea for every american home today to adopt the flie slogan save an ounce of food a day this is blittle thing to do it really requires no amount of self sacrifice on the other hand we have all been eating a little too much downour down our ration pa a trifle will be good for our he health alth save an ounce oi of lood food a a day let every american america n homo homed do this and we will have hake gone a long lomg way I 1 towards toward the solution of our food problem |