Show WE IVE MUST PRACTICE there is a parallel between our resent present economic condition and that which followed the civil war the same conditions ol of extravagance arid and big prices which resulted in a great panic and yea years rs of hard times says herbert hoover in an article of 0 helpful hints thrift and american women in the ladles ladies home journal mr air hoover explains that we may hope to avoid financial disaster which followed the civil war because we believe our economic position much stronger than it was in those early days but lie he warns that we are confronted with world conditions of upset chien were unknown half a century ago and lie he comments this is not hot just something for statesmen and professors to borr worry y over but it reaches into the american home and affects every family fal Tilly and every individual suggesting a remedy for the present tendency towards extravagance mr air hoover says it is as imperative today as it was during the war even more so that we should practice thrift in al all its is forms livery every one of us s bould culot cut out extravagance arid and waste we should nave have every possible five cent piece oven even though it were worth no more than llian a postage stamp we should put our savings into savings banks or government or other securities or into homes or farms money that is wasted Is 11 destroyed as if cast into a fire and the evil results are not confined to the individuals vi Ni duals waste and his or her family hut but are in tact fact spread throughout society this is the crime and dain age done by waste mr hoover admits that it is difficult and sometimes almost im possible possible to define waste much lias has been said writes mr hoover silk shirts and about and written condemn 1 stockings I 1 will not silk articles but it those the hie use of 0 these ailiese could see stockings akings wear silk sto who the millions of people in europe who stockings at all and indeed have no take loss satisfaction they would shoes no in ill the sheen arid and pa pattern attern of their hose the article directed dimete d attention to nes capable individual responsibility thrift la is first a and nd sets bets forth that of principle arid and secondly of our in that there Is no chance effort in the right direction the action ot of oth belair nullified by erg arid and adds about one third of our people responsible lor for most of 0 the et el are arc and waste in athla country that they res responsibility it Is heavy convert this one could bear it if we third to 10 simple living the problem would he be solved it la is the one third who are guilty eating and drinking 0 of extravagant spend 2 00 they in 11 public places every night in ili new kaity alone on oil restaurant rest attract slippers sappers the nation natio spends at least lea st a million dollars don a day a year in ili arid and i restaurants es nl at hotels super flukus eating tau rants again it Is the one on 0 third who are lik mostly responsible for tho the waste involved in ill the like lise of jewelry on which so many millions wil lions are being spent we are n re now obtaining a great many diamonds other precious stones and articles of 0 ornament from drope america sends to europe of useful commodities foodstuffs food stuffs machinery maC hillery cotton she gets back a wheelbarrow load 0 of diamonds and jewelry people think that diamonds are ia good investment tit at a time when liberty bonds and other securities and money itself are depreciating in value but ehli Is a childish fallacy It If persisted in a lot of people will find ON owning ailing a handful of pro pre clous stones as worthless as are the titles or of many former monarchs of europe F urther further illustrating his point mr ir hoover cites the sale of perfume nl 65 a bottle and deplores the widespread purchase of furs ile he says the instalment installment system S of credit for clothes and furniture I 1 is a direct cause of a great deal of i gance tor for it lures its victims with the idea of small email occasional payments of which the total is almost never comprehended ended it Is somewhat as if you had a small cut in your pocketbook pocket book arid and through it the lesser coins were constantly dropping out to make a direct appeal to american women is characterized by mr hoover as a high compliment to I 1 them as indicating that they are very largely the guardians of the american pocketbook pocket book it if the women of america see their opportunity and their duty and act upon them civilization will be their debtor concludes mr hoover |