Pings Repairing Own"Plates"

NZ Truth, Issue 770, 7 August 1920, Page 1

Pings Repairing Own "Plates"

"Cobbler" takes "Truth's" Chnstfehurch representative to task on the question of the high price for boot repairing. He does riot seek to explain

jor Justify the high prices complained pf, but satisfies himself with- denouncing the "Truthian" scribe for, he alleges, "advising all and sundry to repair their own boots and shoes." He Indignantly asks: "Would 'Truth' ad(vlse me to do my own carpentry, my fawn painting, etc?" Why not? We really do not see why he should not do hhese things if he can and the doing fat them will be profitable to him. He his letter by putting what She, evidently, considers a poser. "Diffeest this," he exclaims, "and let me {hear the wisdom of the 'whole' matter." easier" — not even falling bff a 3og. The man who can do these things iaatisfactorily and has sufficient free jsfcime to do them, which he cannot put •Jo more profitable use, and does not ?!do them, is a fool, a loafer, or g«ts his itnoney without working for it, and has vmore of it than he knows how to use If "Cobbler," by doing his own carpentry, or painting, or washing for that matter, -can cut down his expenses by a larger amount than he can earn m the same time cobbling (boots and shoes, and has boots and shoes to cobble, he is at his wrong trade. All the same, the "snob" is barking up the •wrong tree. All "Truth's" representative did was to point out that when* prices reached th© limit of the worker's pocket he had either to do certain things for himself m the time otherwise given ' over to -rest, recreation or amusement, or go without That is '.he only honest way. 'The dishonest way is to get your boots and shoes repaired on "strap" and then "slope." I>oes this last commend itself to "Cobbler"? After all, the economic law determines these things, not "Truth's" representative, and "Cobbler" may Jfrave his choice.