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NOME, ALASKA, JUNE 13, 1917.
THRIFT—REASONABLE WAY OF
LIVING.
One of the most valuable lessons
that will be Impressed upon the Am
erican people by the entrance of their
country Into the great European wai
ls the necessity for a more thrifty
manner of living.
At the present time and for years
tlie people of America are and have
been the most extravagant in their
manner of living of nil earth inhabi
tants No nation has been so reckless
In its expenditures or more wasteful In
the conduct of the domestic establish
ment.
Time and again it has been pointed
out by foreign students of economics
that the average family of Europe
could and docs subsist on a far smaller
allowance of comestibles while the in
dividual expenditure for items not in
cluded in the household menu, such
as clothes, shoes, etc., are much less
than those of the average American
family Rene Bache, the famous
French writer, years ago declares
that the average French family could
easily subsist on the foodstuffs that
are thrown into the waste barrel by
the average American family.
A startling example of the effects of |
tliis national lack of economy is fur
nished by the statement of S. W
Strauss, head of the American Society
of Thrift, the organization primarily
responsible for the introduction of
"thrift teaching" in the public schools,
that eighty two out of every hundred
men who die in America leave no
income producing assets and 1,250,000
former wager earners who failed 1o
provide for the future are now being
publicly supported at a cost of about
$220,000,000 per year.
Additional evidence of this national
disregard of economy is indicated in
the statement of another famous Am
erican economist that: "The most val
uable lesson that can be taught to
ttie American people is thrift.”
The reason for this characteristic
absence of thrift is obvious. Until
very recent years the American
household has seldom felt the neces
sity for stringent economy. Wages
have been high and money "easy” to
employ the colloquialism of the stock
market. Until a few years ago the
"high cost of living” seldom obtruded
itsjlf into the domestic councils. The
average American, lived better, was
clothed better and secured more money
for his labor than the citizens of
other nations, with the result that he
and Ms family were led into a way or
manner of living in which disregard of
economy was the most prominent fea
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ture.
And tlie result has been that today
we are classed throughout the world
ns the most extravagant of nations
and noted far and wide for our utter
disregard of everything pertaining to
thrift, both in the household and
abroad.
During the past few years, how-1
ever, conditions have greatly changed. !
TJvlng costs have advanced to a de
gree approximating nearly two hun
dred per cent during the past decade.
Wages have increased In a degree,
though hardly proportionate lo the
general advance of food and other
commodities.
But all the while the average Am
erican continued his reckless extra
vagances, living up to the full extent
of his income and gratifying every
whim and inclination regardless of
its cost so long as he had the price,
with the result that when conditions
became such that the necessity for
economy was impreaed upon him by
rapid rise of the commodities of
life, he finds himself sorely pressed
through never having Learned the les
son of economy. Neither he nor his
family, if he chances to have one,
really know how to economize. Waste
has been the rule by which they have
lived and the saving tendencies neces
sary to true economy are things un
known.
Thrift Is now being taught in many
schools and, needless to say, it is a
very good thing Massachusetts and
several other states have made its
teaching compulsory, and the topic is
taking hold all over the land, though
the methods of instruction and Incal
culatiou vary widely.
The school savings bank is becoming
an institution—a practical part ofi
school life. Nearly 105,000 school
children have been taught the thrift
habit in these school banks to an ex
tent that enabled them to transfer
quite respectable accounts to the reg
ular savings institutions. Already
nearly one pupil in every twenty has
a bank account. But the lesson of
thrift must be carried even farther
than the school for it is in the homo
that the greater part of our wasteful
ness develops. The parents as well
is the children need to learn thrift.
Thrift docs not mean merely hoard
ing money or refusing to spend it in
a normal way. But it does mean
temperance in all things and tends to
sane and simple living.
SAYS AMERICA RULED BY CON
VENTION.
"The American woman has the suf
frage in some states, from a child
she ‘is accustomed to appearing in
public and does so more easily than
we do, but she has not half the free
dom of movement of the Dutch wo
man," declared Holland's first woman
professor, Dr. Johanna Westerdyk, to
an interviewer. Dr. Westerdyk re
cently was appointed extraordinary
professor of plant pathology at the
state university in Utrecht. The re
mark was made ns the result of a
tour she undertook through the Uni
ted States.
Dr. Westerdyk was disappointed
with the position of the American
woman. "In speaking of America,” she
sa'al, “we are accustomed to imagine
that conditions everywhere there re
semble those in New York But New
York is much more Puropean. In
the small university towns in the west
and the east things wear quite a dif
ferent aspect. It is true that the
married woman is less bound by do
mestic life. She does not have to be
at home in the afternoon to get din
ner ready. But, on the other hand,
a professor’s wife has a very busy
Fife without a servant in the house.
For all have their own house, and
many their own car, which they drive
themselv but they dont’ keep n
maid because servants are too trouble
some, /
"The American woman sees to it
that she does not become a house
drudge, neither Is she the slave’ of
her children. Further, she gets some
help, from her husband. But one has
i he feeling In dining with her that
one is giving her extra work.”
But what had struck Dr. Westerdyk
most of all was that the serial Inter
course between the sexes was far from
being so free and unfettered as in
Holland. Her men colleagues, for In
stance, thought that she might not
lodge In the same hotel, nor enter a
restaurant with them, and that she
could hardly be with them in the
university unless other women were
present. At the botanical society no
women were admitted. She was used
to so different a condition at botanical
congresses that America, w'lth Its re
putation of a paradise for women, had
greatly disappointed her.
Everything in America was ruled
by convention, in the opinion of Dr.
Westerdyk.
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