Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1921 — Page 9

Wages That Stand Still, in Reality Are Increasing You are actually getting an INCREASE in wages every week, even if the amount of money you draw remains the SAME. Seems IMPOSSIBLE, but it’s TRUE. * The amount of MONEY remains the SAME, but it will BUY MORE. t And the VALUE of money lies only in what it will BUY. As mere money, it would only be a NUISANCE to take care of it. That is the ABSOLUTE truth—think it over

How It Happens Now, how does it happen that you are ABLE to buy MORE each week with a dollar than you could buy the week before? Because the prices of many articles and commodities have been REDUCED. Facts PROVE this. The statistics of the U. S. Department of Labor show that the cost of living reached its PEAK last summer and has been steadily COMING DOWN ever since. And it is STILL coming down. MANY prices are LOWER! FOOD—* CLOTHES—for example. That is why your dollar will BUY more. Actually, An Increase Perhaps you have been saying to yourself that YOU are not going to “stand for any wagereductions.” When you insist on having the same AMOUNT of money, you are actually insisting on an INCREASE.

A “Reduction” is a Reduction in NAME Only v Copyright. 1821. Sidener & Vanßlpeiv

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921.

That is, when you estimate money on tho basis of what it will BUY. j And there’s no OTHER way to estimate it. ] That’s what money MEANS to you, doesn’t it? No Real Reduction And think a minute of THIS point: In effect, the man who accepts a REDUCTION in the amount of his PAY, is NOT taking a reduction in WAGES. The LESSER amount of money still BUYS the SAME amount of merchandise—goes the SAME DISTANCE in meeting the cost of living! So, in holding out for the idea of the “same amount of MONEY,” you are actually holding out for an INCREASE. And in accepting a less amount of PAY you are NOT actually reducing your WAGES. And with OTHERS meeting these new conditions fairly and squarely—helping to bring prices back INTO LINE with one another, it is impossible to think that ANYONE’S price is going to continue long OUT of line.

How Your Prosperity Is Being Assured —No. 5

They Look to You Statistics compiled by the U. S. Department of Labor show that the cost of living has been steadily DECLINING since last summer. This means that other wage-earners, manufacturers, jobbers and retailers have co-operated in accepting a READJUSTMENT of their prices, in order to bring them INTO LINE with prices which have remained fairly normal. These wage-earners, manufacturers, jobbers and retailers, having done THEIR part, are expecting the same thing from YOU. Stability and Happiness High prices ARE being READJUSTED. There will be few exceptions to the movementIt will bring anew and STABLE level of prices —prices that bear the proper RELATIONSHIP, one to the other. Bringing low prices UP would ADD to the cost of living. Adjusting the high prices DOWN, brings a proper RELATIONSHIP between prices, puts everybody on an EQUALITY, brings STABILITY, maintains the purchasing power of your dollars, and spells Prosperity. For after all what you want is not MONEY—' but what money will BUY.

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