SAVING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 6

SAVING.

The confliction of views on the subject of saving is at present purely the confliction of interests and shows that the subject has not been very broadly and deeply gone into. Saving has always been extolled as a virtue, and perhaps rightly so in the past, but now, with society so complicated as it is at the ?r present day, is the saving man the bulwark s of the human race 1 To save, a man must voluntarily adopt a low standard of living i .y compared with modern standards, but suppose ' • 1 we all did it? If we all did'l am afraid chaos ■' would result. Just a few simple examples of saving: Let the ladies go back to long hair '-4 again, and a large number of our creatures would be added to those already on the "dole." Let them permanently adopt short skirts and be unaffected by the ever-changing v. \ fashions in clothes, footwear and millineryj . in fact where hats are concerned wear none' at all. More on the "dole." ~ Suppose we, . started a big economy campaign, all of us buy no more cars, radios, „beer, tobacco, cut out racing, "talkies," everything, in fact, that goes to make present-day life what it is. What would be the result? A very little thought on the part of most of us would give us all some idea. A healthy society of the future wi]l. be made up of human beings working regularly,, producing profusely and ' spending ; freely, and wisely. J.V.C.