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A weekly symposium of rep
resentative opinions wupon in
teresting questions held within
the community of our readers.
These opinions are selected sole
ly upon the basis of their general
valus or special interest, without
reference to the editorial views
or pelicy of this newspaper.
Mrs. E. H. Horine Gives Half
Time to Managing Farm and -
Works to Increase Production.
“I'm simply staggered.,” said Mrs,
i, I, Horine when asked how ghe
was helping to solve the question of
the high cost of living.
Mrs. Horine disclaims any clearly
defined plans as a solutien to the
problem, but characteristic of her
ability to meet ilntricate situations,
#he is already actively working along
lines showing very pronounced
thought.
“IMiret of all, I am trying to ar
“range my household affairs so that 1
may ut. least be rid of petty annoy
ances, In order to be able to give
gome inteiligent thought and action
10 this pressing subject,
~ “It appears to me that the owners
of large homes and small families
rhauld move into apariments or
smaller homes, to dispensé with ex
travagance in eyery form and, if
necessary, depénd on a ‘part time’
servant,
| “A very great dea! depehds on tho
attitude of our women. Onece awak
ened to the businees of llving, 1 think
thal they could revolutiorize condi
-lidna, :
“In the matter of clothes and food,
vith the exception of a little more
ar and a littla more flour, 1 am
th!cln‘ the same economy as dur
yhe war; not only for the sake of
‘pmy, but I realize that if extrav
e is curtalled in enough homes
‘would result a normal market
ittendant normal prices. ‘
€ otively superinegnding the devel
it of a maghnificent plantation in
Walker County, owhed jointly with
her brother, Mr, H. Ii DeGive, 1s tne
most tangible evidence of her activi
.tlel begun as war work and con
tinued to help solve the problem now
facing the country,
She is Intensely interested In en
couraging the co-operative idea
among the farmers of her vieinity,
and the movement under.her Influ
ence has alreally gained a strong
foothold with great possibilities of
development of better roads, better
schools and a better chance to buy
supplies cheaply and at the same
time vell advantageously,
Mrs. MHorine devotes nhalf of her:
thme to the farm and is continually
having “executed ldeas for lncru»od“
productiveness, increased fertility ol“
the soil improvement in farm ma
¢hinery and building, |
Again quoting her. }
‘Women had a very great deal 11"‘
do with helping to win the war, and
il they set cheerfully about to extend
thelr war work into the just as nec
essary peaec work of solving .this
very difficult problem, 1 feel very
sure that they will be rewarded with
siccess in the same measure they
won during the stress of the war"” l
National Budget Is
Senator’s Solution
Ey MEDILL McCORMICK,
United States Senator frem Illinois,
The establishment of a Rational
budget svstem I 8 no less essential (o
lfm reduction of the high cost of liv.
g than the prosecution of profitcers
and bhoarders. Without it government
exponditures will continu to run rjot
in the future as they have in the past
and In these days when every indi
vidpal in the United States s a tax
paver, every inerease in taxetion
means just another addition to lhel
30“ of living, Conversely, every re.
uotion In taxation correspondingly
reduces the coest of living,
If we are able, through the ereavion
of a budget system, to save a billion
dollars a year, and frankly I am of
the opinion that such a =aving m
possible, it means that we lift (hat
burden off the shoulders of the tax.
payers. A Dbllllen dolldrs a yuar
means $lO for every man, woman and
chlld in the United States,
Personally | favor a budget syiatem
based upon full execcutive responsi
bility., 1 would make the President
submit recommendations for appro
priations to Congress with his ap
proval. Together with these recom
mencations I would have him submit
suggestions for reveneu to cover ine
uppropriations. Then Congress could
act upon both,
1 would reserve to Congress the
right to increase or decrease appro
priations | naccord «ith its Judgment
und obviously | would also reserve to
Confl:eu the right to frame its reve
nue legislation in accordance with its
action on appropriations,
By Wiz method of procedure the
i t would be responsible t 0 the
¢ tor the demands of the vavious
amentel depurtments and Con
would be responsible to them
s4O apon thaed desy g
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How Do YOU Solve Problem of Increased Cost of Living?
WATCH WASTE,
BUY WITH CARE,
Business Woman Compares At
~ lanta’s Prices With Those She
Was Accustomed to in France.
Mrs. Lollie Markham Pickett, who
was lc}lvely engaged for months in
war work in I'rance with the Ameri
can Red Cross and who is one of
Atlanta's feminine business successes,
writes interestingly of how she is at
tempting to meet the situation of the
high cost of living in the management
of her tearoom. 2
“When asked what I was doing to
help solve this vital problem of the
high cost of living," she said, "I was
in the throes of making a menu for
the next day, struggling to find some.
thing to tempt the appetities of the
‘mttonl of the Green Tree, -and to
lurrx,wo the prices so that it would
not be a question whether they came
‘back the next day, or instead Invested
in Coca-Cola stock.
“Things g» by comparison in this
world, .80 after a year in France,
where food prices were almost pro
hibitive, the prices here did not
seem 80 exorbitant, In our Red Cross
canteen the glaple articles were fur
nished from the government commis
sary, but we were obliged to buy
meats and vegetables in the French
markets for the personnel.
“Pherd were several Southern girls
in our ganteen, so on Sundays we
indulged in extravagance, and had
chicken for dinner, which cost quite
48 much as a whole coopful would
have cost in North Georgia before
the war.
“Thig experience prepared me in a
way for the conditions over here, s 0
on assuming the management of my
tearoom, immediately on my return,
1 determined npt to worry, bélieving
that thingy would get back to normal
in a reasonable time, and until that
time came to ouy carefully, watch the
waste and increase the prices on my
menu in proportion to the increased
prices of foodstuff and service,
“I feel sure that those who take
their meals in restaurants would un
derstand better the necessity for
these increased prices on menus if
they were informed of the exlsting
prices. Take coffee, for example, 1
am paying just exactly double for the
same grade of coffee as a year ago.
There seems no logical reason that
‘we can see why coffee should ad
vance.
“l believe on Investigation that it
will be found that prices in Allanh\;
are quite as moderate as any !o\\'}\;
of its size and that many valuable
lessons will be learned from this com.
pulsory economy we are forced to
practice, made necessary by the ex
isting high prices.” ‘
.
Trsy Co-operative
tore as Remed
At Birmin thl
Fopapen
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 30,—The
co-operative ctore, which has been
tried with varying success in differ
ent parts of the country, is the lat
€st move in Birmingham's fight
against the high cost of living. ‘
The originators of the plan are
waging a brisk campaign to enlist
the first 600 members and say suc
cess is already in sight. The store
will nct be opened until the full quota
is obtained. Dues «ollected from
these members wiil start the venture,
It is intended to have the initiation
fep set at $4, with $1 a month as
dues. The first payment of §& will
include the initiation fee-and the first
month's dues. It is planned to re
celve $2,600 from the girst group of
members., Of this sum $2,000 will be
used to purchase a stock of goods
and SSOO as overhead exponses. A
central location down town for the
first store will be obtaned, with the
srospects of opening branches in the
outlying districts as the membership
warrants it, *
1t is planned to employ a storeqman.
agor to take charge. Godds will he
wold to members at cost and thepe
will Be no deliveries.
A membership commiftee, consist
iag »f Dr, Thomas P. Pyrnes, chalr
man; Miss Molly Dowd, Charles K.
Hall, Jacob Kennamer and Mr, Spain
bas been uappointed to obtalt' the
necessary membery in order to ex
pedite tha launching of the store.
'As wsoon as the 0500 ‘members have
‘been obtained 4 mass mectang will be
heid and 2 board of nine trustees and
a president, vice president and the
comb office of secretary and
*mn:x.mwmm
l\:er is acting as temporary president,
Dy TP Byrnes, temporary treasuror,
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CO-OPERATIVE
APARTMENTS
“Go down and talk to Gene Black
ihont the big co-operative apartment
house we are planning and plotting
o build on his lot as a solution to
our own individual problem of the
vigh cost of living., I'm simply noted
‘or having fewer ideas on housekeep
ing than any woman in Atlanta, so
my opinion en this subject might
uke the color of a joke among my
frgends, and Mrs, Wilmer Moore Le
came delightfully npimated over these
really serious plans,
*We expect this idea to remedy the
servant problem by actually cutting
in half the number of servants it now
akes to keen a large house,” she
sanid. “Each family will entirely own
heir apartment and after the ex
tevior plans are fimshed, individual
leas will be executed in the arrange
ment of floor space to meet the necds
n{ the owners,
“We want to have the first floor on
the order of the French apartments
with a conclerge who will take care
of all calls and minor business for
the apartment. We want a large co
wperative dining room run by an ex
pert. who will furnish dumb waiter
cervice to the individual apartments
when desired, We want separate
Jarages and servants' quarters.
SWith the servant problem partly
solvedd, or rather cut in half, with
‘he food question for eight families
m the hands of an expert and
brought to ne reasonable a basis as
possible under existing conditions,
and with the worrles of housekeeping
on a 4 'arge scale entirely eliminated,
[ (00l that eight women at least will
have more tigae to think and think
xeriously and to act more judicinusly
than over on this pressing question®
entinuing Mrs. Moore said:
“I think that as long as women de
rmad in millbnery and sboos, exqui
sively crented models to mateh co's
tain claborate gowns, just o long
GETTING OUT OF REACH
MORE SCARED THAN
HURT, SAYS AMOROUS
] “We are more scared than hurt.”.
We are suffering from “agitators and
alarmists.” Everybedy is blaming his
lnoixhbor as the promoter of the high
| cost of living.
i The masses are not suffering for
'roogl or raiment, We are all living
|more extravagantly than we did 20
‘or 40 years ago, and a canvass of
the individual family will prove this
true. Legislation on prices will not
cure the supposed troubles. The
‘rcmody for our troubles rests with
‘he individual—it's a home economic
problem,
Let us be honest with ourselves
jand put our own house in order and
the political problems and prices will
ludjuut themselves. We can Lelp our
fuglily cost of living by do}nx more
wome producing of things we want
and heed. : :
The average family does little or no
sewing or knitting. They bake no
Lread. They darn no socks, they
wash no elothes, they chop no wond,
they milk no cows nor feed any
ehickens. All these today are prod
uets of others that we buy, and we
use the time we sive from this pro-
Aueing in the shows and singing and
Aawmcing and of course we need more
wauges to 'meet the “high cost of liv
ing."”
When I was a boy all my clothes
were made at home. My children have
to buy from the stores all their
i'«-to(hn. .
“When 1 was a boy I could walk to
'mvlmo: or anywhere clse I necded to
| O. My children must ride in an
[will prices be Inflated. One shoe
| merchant tells me that it is the work
!.‘n‘ ¢lass who buys the most expen
’rh'o shoes, A diamond merchant
[ «ays that his business is Kept going
'by the trade of the working man,
| “I am by no m & registering a
looupluhu agalnst bit of uxtrava.
Ixanv‘v now and t for the wives of
the working classes during normai
4 \utomobile today or street car,
When T was a boy | made all my
toys--tops, popguns, kites, ete. My
children's toys all come from (he
stores ready made,
‘We used to buy bacon in the
“strip;” today we buy it sliced i o
fancy jar—no better bacon, but high
cost,
‘We used milk or bread as.a cereal,
Now breakfast foods no more nour
ishing--but 500 per cent more costly.
We used to wear $1.26 brogan
shoes—all leather and would last a
year or two (with half soling). Now
wa prefer to wear fancy patterns at
$lO to sl2, and wear them out in a
few months,
And so on through the whole year.
The more money we get the more
“high cost” articles we buy. I recall
when I earned sls a month and board.
I saved sl4 a month, and later when I
earned $l5O a month I didn't save a
cent. I then had to have $566 tailor
made suits and $65 overcoats and 10
cent cigars and a vacation trip to
the seashore and join the clubs,
We can't and don't live uniformly.
I recall three men working in 1876
for the same cofcern. A had $3.50
a day, B had $1.25 per day, C had
#0 cents a day in wages. A was mar
ried and years after died a poor man,
B got married, bought a lot, built a
home, all while earning $1.26 a day.
C accumulated a fortune and was
Fnown and respected as a leading
Ipubllc spirited citizen,
All these facts, 1 think, justify the
conclusion that “living” is an indi
l\-ldul problem.
times, but I do believe that results
will be long in coming toward a so
lution of this perplexing problem un
less the wives and daughters of the
working man unite with the wives
and daughters of the rich man in a
determination to put aside extrava
gance in every form and become fec
ognized as a sane-minded, intelligent
Atianta womanhood.”™
Responding enthusiastically to the‘
question > “What are you doing to
solve the problem of the high cost
of living?” Mrs, A. C. Briscoe says:
“I'm doing without and encouraging
in my household a response tc every
thrift impulse, 1 echo the statement
of Willilam G. McAdoo that if the
inelastic wages of employed Ameri
cans can not be stretched to meet
thelr desires, the desires must be
daughters, whose homes are fortu-‘
ity two years ago for ideals when the |
need was presented, we must cer-|
tainly practice it now when the needs
are presented. |
“It is true the motive of helplna;
ourselves is not so glorified sound-:
ing as that of helping others, but the,
need for doing so is a throbbing,|
nrgens one. My active werk in help
ing solvg this problem extends only
as far,as my own kitchen. This 1
have turned into a family food serv
ice station for the famlilies of my
daughters whose homes are fortu
nately so sityated that the arrange
ment is posnlgle. The result has been
very gratifying in a decreased cost of
fuel, labor and food,
“A light evening meal of bread,
butter and tea is the continuation ol
the lesson of conservation learned
during the war. We are exercising|
economy Jjust as strictly now as dur
ing the war, |
“It has be.n said that it will take!
twenty years to bring prices back to|
a before-the-war basis, and wages|
will not be o slow to find their for-'
mer level, When, the women of At
lanta cateh rhis great natlonal vision |
of peace time saving or anti-extrav
agance we shall then begin to see and
feel the results so hoped for, l
et A el ]
Jewish Emigrants in a
Palestine Movement
CHICAGO, Aug, 20.--The DMplrannl‘
for the migration of Jews from all over |
the world to the Tand of their dl’Qlfl‘ll;
has begun. Even from America a con- |
siderable exedus is in progress, arranged
by the Zionist Organization of America.
The Chicago branch of the Zbnists has
recelved questionnaires In English and in
Hebrew for those intending to seitle in
Palestine. The applicant is asked his
nagivity, family history and®trade, when
he oxpects to emigrate and the cnm’l he
will e able te provide.
It 15 oxpected the first party of eml
grants from Chicago will leave soon after
the national convention of the Yionists
Cvgoniration, te be held in Feptember %
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Take Stock of Clothes on Hand.
. .
Take Housekeeping as Busi
ness, Advises Matron,
“*How shall we reduce the high
cost of living? I asked a young man
who is contemplating matrimony, and
as a committe of one studying
‘Ways and Means.! His reply was—
‘After much investigation of the sub
ject the only way I see is to cut
one’'s throat and let those left fight
it out with the undertaker.’
“I can not believe,” says Mrs.
Alonzo Richardson, “it is as bad as
this, but with our country in such a
state of unrest. with the solons play
ing politics instead of backing up the
President, signing the peace treaty,
which I believe would give us a
feeling of resiful relief, here we are,
each, in his own way trying to wrestle |
with the problem as it confronts the
in dividual household.
“It's funny, too, when the men fail
to quite get on with various projects,
they turn smilingly to the women and
say ‘Of course you can do this, we
need you.’
“We will go to bascball games on
hot August days with velvet hats |
that cost too much in the b“glnninrzf
for really cold weather, and whlch!
will call forth the remark 1 over
heard a day or two since: 'Here.l
man, hold my coat, that hat just
makes me too hot to wear it, and
by golly that woman in furs ought to
faint, and I hope 'she does. I'll not
get her a glass of water.’
“All this aside—What are we go
ing to do about it? We are going to
smile indulgently on. the foolish fur
and velvet hat crowd, remember that
this big eity is full of real people who
are trving honestly and sensibly to
solve this problem first for their own
households, and then to help others.
“We are going to take stock: we
are going to refuse to buy the former
twenty-five dollar suit for sixty, sev
enty-five or any other ald price; we
are going to press, clean and use the
last winter, or even the winter-be
fore-last clothes; we are going to look
over our family shoes, have them
mended and buy only what we need.l
“We are going to take our ‘»h'ouse-‘
keening as & man takes higsbusiness,
seriously and make .efficiency (thm‘
overworked ward) the 'slogan. We
have almost run that word to death,
but there is still hard use for it here, |
and the well balanced women of At
lanta are going to use it.again.
“Ag a younger woman the text inl
the Bible, ‘He is able to supply our
needs,’ used to puzzle me, in fact to
try'my faith a bit, for with a growing
family the needs grew faster than the
femily exchequer, I found that I was
misreading my quotation; In my
heart I was reading the word ‘wants’
instead of ‘needs.’ Given the right
perspective the strain on my faith
was relieved. l
“There is an abundance in this
great country to supply our needs.
An intelligent and serene survey and
understanding is the first step, then
the principle of thrift which our gov
ernment is so strongly urging, prop
erly applied will, I Dbelieve, very
largely soive the problem of the high
cost of living.
“The mcn have said ‘We will buy
no more clothes than are absolutely
necessary until prices go down.” They
are turning to the women for co-op
eration and help. We have never
failed, and I don’t think we will this
time.” '
BECOMES HUSBAND'S
PARTNER IN EARNING
Fallowing is the experience of one of Atlanta’s charming young
matrons who hus made herself most delightfully feit in musical circles
and whose business erperience has been partionlarly sucessful:
. When T became fully awake to the
realization that the income which my
husband was receiving had parted
company with the cost of maintain
ing our home on the scale to which
we had been accustomed for a long
time, and that we were at a point
where our little savings of our ten
years of married life would have to
be sacrificed, I began to do some very
serious thinking. Here is the way
I reasoned out the matter:
Wages, the best barometer of liv
ing costs, had begun to rise on ac
count of the labor shortage resulting
from the unusual demand created by
the great war. But we were in the
position of the clarionettist where
a rich patron was giving to each
member of the band all the silver
dollars his instrument would hold.
My husband is a lawyer, and the
members of this profession were call
o4 upon to a greater extent than any
other for gratuitous service in behalf
of the country, in addition ta the fact
that on every hand litigation wus on
the deeline and lawyers' incomes
were very much diminished.
Clearly, something had to be done,
After thinking hard over the mat
ter and appealing to my husband for
a chanée to do my bit in the interest
of our family, it was decided that T
should help to make more money for
our living expenses rather than try
to skimp and stint in an effort to
get along on less,
1 had been quite well educated and
had successfully studied, among other
things, music and painting. I had
qut up my music, both .
(piano) and voicé, and had "
This week the views of:
MRS. VICTOR H. KRIEGS
HABER.
MRS. E. H. HORINE.
MRS. ALONZO RICHARDSON.
MRS, A, C. BRISCOE.
MRS. LOLLIE MARKHAM
PICKETT.
MRS, WILMER MOORE.
MARTIN F. AMOROUS.
Suggests Mass Meeting Be Called
to Study Subject and Endorse
Leading Simple Life, ‘
By MRS. VICTOR H. KRIEGSHA.
BER.
“How am I trying to solve the in«
creased cost of living?”
Myswatchword these days is “sim
plicity,” whether in dress or house
hold management. I do not feel jus
tified in getting a new suit or pair
of shoes and paying double or triple
the prices of a year ago. I shall wear
my last season’s suit and winter
coat,
To pay %18 for a pair of shoes is
extravagance in the highest form. No
shoes are worth it. I shall wear low
shoes with spats, and be just as warm
as I would be with a pair of those
“high” shoes.
I'am not purchasing one iota mors
than I actually need. There is a say
ing in India t hat the man is consid
ered the richest who has the fewest
possessions, I think if we in this
country could be impressed to do
socmething along the line of getting
only the necessitieß, especially during
these abnormal times when the most
unusual conditions exist, the high
cost of living would go “tobogganing.”
If every one of us would take “sim
plicity” as the keynote and lead the
sug?le lfe, and not be ashamed to
make use of last year's garments, or
if need be, wear shoes that have been
mended, and omit from their menus
at ‘home those articles of diet whien
have so noticeably soared in price, a
great step toward reducing the cost of
living would be launched.
Find out which grocery stores and
meat markets charge the least ex
horbitant prices and trade there, and
tell your neighbors about it.
It seems‘to me to be timely to sug
gest the calling of a mass meeting by
some of our most prominent women
to discuss the subject and pass reso
lutions endorsing the leading of the
simple life, especially during the reign
of the excessively high prices. It is a
foregone conclusion that if our prom
inent women will inaugurate the
move, all will follow, !
It is a subject so vital and so all
absorbing that every woman in At
lanta would be glad to attend such a
meeting to get ideas about managing
her affairs on a truly sgienticifc basis.
When women have banded together
and set out to achieve any specific
purpose, they have never,K yet failed.
No question more vital than this has
ever been presented to a community,
and we all are so ready to be helped,
rn great deal of pleasure for myself
‘and apparently for my friends out of
this accomplishment of mine. I now
set about to apply this talent and
test its commercial value; and with
the most gratifying results,
I do not feel that in the short space
rot this article I can go into details
!turther than to say that my income
after a very few weeks of effort was
suficient to make up for the defici
ency in my husband’'s income and also
that we Were actualy adding to our
savings account. Furthermore, I had
never before had such a worth-while
feeling. 1 was actually doing some
thing not only for myself but I was,
1 knew, helping to make better boys
and girls out of the pupils who had
come to me for training in music,
1 was able to fix up a studio right
in our home ahd therefore did not
have to suffer the u’epur-tlon from
our two precious youngsters, T fact,
I was at home more than formerly,
as 1 mad been devoting a great deal
of my time to playing brldxe and
other things of that nature. fter a
few months of. my teaching I became
aware of the possibility of our buy
ing a good substantial home by pay
ing a small amount down and the
halance in reasonable monthly pay
ments, thereby saving in the future
all of the rent money which we had
wasted for ten years.
But the very best part of the whole
business is that my husband and T
have become partners in a bigger,
move complete sense than ever fi
fore, and we look out into the future
years “with a greator f¢ ling of “Ye-