Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1913 — Too Much Extravagance Real Cause of High Cost of Living. [ARTICLE]

Too Much Extravagance Real Cause of High Cost of Living.

t v It the real cause of the high cost of living can be found Arthur M. Evans, of the Chicago Record-Her-ald, is the man who to going to find it. He has been over the ground thoroughly for the past year and has suggested everything imaginable as the cause. Now he is going over the ground a second time and n current article says it is due to extravagance, declaring that the rising generation is being reared in habits that are of a spendthrift kind. He said there is “too much prodigality.” M.r Evans Js quite right and has been in about ail of the, reasons he has advanced. The cost of living is high for many contributing reasons, onp of the most important being that there has been a great tendency during recent years to earn a living by working only 4, 6 or 8 hours a day, when 10 and 12 was the former plan. The fewer the hours of labor the higher the cost of living, any child can see it.