Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1910 — Dad Got It as He Could; Bub Wants It all at Once. [ARTICLE]

Dad Got It as He Could; Bub Wants It all at Once.

Poor people are laying by less and less money each year. They say that their expenses are greater; that they can’t afford to put so much money in the bank. But I believe it’s this way: Thirty years ago a young couple were married. They had a celebration some six months later because they had scraped together enough to buy a carpet to put down on their front room floor. A few months ago, this couple’s son was married. He was but little better off than his father had been, but there was no humble life for him and his bride. They had to start out with a completely furnished flat and begin with expenses that would have staggered the old man. And there, I think, is the answer for the present high cost of living agitation. It is not so much the high cost of living as the cost of high living. Poor people simply won’t live as their parents did. Each generation wants more luxury, more style.—Mulry.