THE MICHIGANDIL DAILY PAGE AMERICANPEOPLE DNOV IRVING FIiF1 YL 11,11FESSOR1 BELl EVES 'VF[QN ltiIS FEW CAN LAY UP SAVINGSE Rap1)1i (ain", lIn Last Six 1Year (ie Sooiiy1'I'OiidP For Al "In the absolute sense, the' Ame- Can pe)ople ar~e not protsprous0," ac- cording to a statement by Irving Fish- er, professor of economs at Yale university in a recent copywrited ar- ticle in the Springfiel, ilas, ail, "Iin the tIiiied States four-fifths orI ovr 90,000,00) people1 make hnr. little! over bare Iving expenses," e said, "andl~ thus they can lay lip little in savings agaist futre needs," "According to t he National I311uraiu of Ec onoic research, the natio ayh' recovered from the want of 1921, and is comparatively better off than Ero- pean countries," Prof. Fisher debar- ed, "bll t thelPresident and em14Vs forget that we are only relativey wellI off. At the annual convention of the National Associlation otNlanuf aetir- ers, at Chattanooga, President Egr-' toni spoke of the abnormally high wages and lower living costs of the so-called working lasses. :1However, it is not time yet to worry about pros- perity as a threat to our morals." Bureau Quoted "The National Bureau of Economic earned in 19203 was $2,000, or almost earnedl in 1921 was $2,000, or almost one-third more than in 1921. The av- erage income was $9,000,000, which hakes anr average of $500 apiece for over 93,000000 of the 117,000,000 peo- pe who live in the United States. According to Prof. Willford . ing's four polulation groups, this 93 mil- lion makes tip the poorest and lower middle classes. Professor Fisher fur- ther stat ed. The poorest class alone consists of 75,000,000 lpeople, who re- ceive about 38.6 per cent of the na- tional income and is made up of mnan- uial and office workers, small business mene, many managers, and most of t he engineers of the country, hie sai. Professor Risher added that for the average family of five, this leaves $2- 300, which is just enught to live on in the family of an office or inustri- al worker in New York, and leaves nrothiing for saving. Smal Exees Exis "Tn the most prosperous year we have ever known in t his country, the estimated excess over the necessary living comforts and necessities, is on- ly $117. This cannot be said to be enough to endanger the living of the people. It mulst be hard for those in the lower income groups to make endls meet," Proessor Fisher went on.. "King, andl the Natral Bureau of Economic Research are obliged to ill in some items with clever guesswork it is true, but surely it is better than the pure guesswork and loose gener- alizations aout. American "prosper- ty" which are common in this coun- try and are implied in the reports ofI official andl other visiting delegations from Europe. Our rapid gains in the last six years give promise that event- uaIly our industrial machine may pro- vidle a comfortable living for all," Pro- fessor Fisher °concluded. CHICAGO -Tirty thousand firemen on western railroads await an arbitra- tion board decision to see whether their pay checks will be increased by $1 a day, RPH EUp OTHEATER v --- - -- . .... I had 'use .. 3 j t M Ab HAVE Y'O U SEEN THIS 3-Distinctive .Shops-3 533 E. Liberty FO0%R $2.50 118 E. Huron 113 So. Univ. John M. Jefers $1.00 Can of Old Briar FREE With Any $2.00 Pipe or Over . Finished writin~g Burr, Patterson Co. When a customer _,,*"* Came in the An Ad. for r ,t'. /' r r ' r ._ , j' __ 'n 7 U mom COMMENCING TDAY Presenting ltrtinof the f210ris to describe the iful peach. it see and then i Store to * * * Ia I ' t' The writer eof this announcement respectfully Cleclines to phrase words of explanation lest ,we un- intentionally mar its almost super-human appeal', but we car, say to you ! See it Sure! See it Sure! See it Sure ! if' Quoting a Famous Movie Critic : about this production is like trying t lustre and pinkish hue of a beaut just can't be done, that's all. You try to tell me. Pick odt some Party fav-ors for his Upuse. After looking at The K~lockout Display of v V F u ", ' ' -Gifts and i Fraterrp4ty eel y, He made the ;Pithy remark ; "Why, every thing In the Mtore Would4 iak, ea .:d Good Christmas Present for $qn~ioe." Th' ex~ * * * He said jn *4*. one sentence What ,l had tried To say in Two h ndre Words. 5 i "rues. and Wed. So 1'll Let it That. * * t go at A: * * S .. * S: s # s ter- .:. , ~~.. .cI AVIV o! t 'r Y ~' GEORG V7 ?FITZMURICE gI Production e -* The Store is ion SouthfI.~ At Forest And let me* Warn Yo.- We leave for ou H Hometowni Christmas Parties I : -. h[ M.J WITH BELLE BNNETT And Another Famous Critic Said: In all my eighteen years writing legitimate and big motion picture successes 1? have never paid the follow- ing tribute to any of them-I would see this picture if had to borrow the money from a miser. I 25c2 A I I hh. IMATINEE-i :.25, RODCTION ARRANGEMENT 3:00, 4:40. EVENING-7:O0, 8 . c I