The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
And, then, last but not least, comes the consumer who buys things which he does not need or even want, some of which things he never even uses, thus wasting his own money and causing an overproduction of the article which he has bought but does not use. Waste is well represented in every walk of life; permit us to give you a few homely examples: Of fourteen automobiles in the garage of a wealthy man we have the word of the garage boss that two of them have not been outside the door in a year--Waste. A skilled worker drove his $3,000 automobile to his place of employment recently and left it standing on the street, top down, through a sleet and snow-storm, greatly damaging the interior and doing no good to the exterior--Waste. The Federal government, state government, city governments, manufacturers, merchants and associations print millions of pamphlets and booklets which are never even distributed--Waste. A certain large city has eighty men on the payroll of a certain department, no one of which is performing any dutiesPolitics and--Waste. The reason food is cheaper in all of Europe today than it is in this Country is due to our-- Waste. The man who throws a glass bottle on a public highway, breaking the bottle and providing tire-cuts for the delivery truck and the motorist is guilty of criminal--Waste. The burning of old newspapers and magazines instead of salvaging them is inexcusable--Waste. The public dumps of most large cities are heaped with usable bottles and tin cans which represent willful--Waste. Permitting downspouts, brackets and other metal work about a house, factory or building to rust out for lack of paint is a common example of--Waste. Persons leaving electric lights or gas turned on in hotel rooms, offices, stores, factories or homes when not in use are guilty of fuel--Waste. Leaving the water faucet open when the water is not needed or used is in some cases a violation of law and in all cases is--Waste.
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The Secret Of Wealth