The Rise of Consumerism
The rising trend of money incomes after 1900 meant that millions of families had more money to spend than ever before. The shortening of working hours meant that these consumers had more leisure in which to enjoy goods. The expansion of physical output meant that business men had a larger volume of goods to market. That recently invented goods bulked large among these products meant that manufacturers and merchants had to teach masses of men and women new tastes and ways. The changes which occurred in consumption habits before the depression seem explicable mainly in terms of these four underlying ...
Housing and the Household
Society is trying to strengthen the home and the family by many aids, such as courts, social legislation, home economics courses, and the church. An important effort of strengthen the family is concerned with good housing. The influence of housing in family life is observed in the case of the apartment house, which in its present from is ill adapted to children, but which presents savings in household duties and makes possible certain advantages of congregate living. [caption id="attachment_51" align="alignnone" width="588" caption="Semi-Bungalow"][/caption] New homes in multi-family dwellings were almost 50 percent of the new homes in cities constructed before the depression, ...
Problems Presented by Increasing Leisure
As has frequently been pointed out men work fewer hours per day and per week and the home tasks of women are less time consuming; child labor has been greatly reduced, and though school time has been extended children may share in growing leisure no less than their parents. [caption id="attachment_54" align="alignnone" width="588" caption="Ballroom Dancing"][/caption] To profit the potential market offered by increasing leisure, many forms of amusement or recreation have been provided on a commercial basis, as for instance, moving pictures, automobile touring, travel, radio, boxing, tennis, golf, baseball, football, dancing and "resorts." On these and similar recreations in the late ...
Sports
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Learning to Ski the Scandinavian Way – Part 2
In skiing, as in most other sports, the right way is the easy and simple way. In...
Learning to Ski the Scandinavian Way – Part 1
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Ice Yachts for Thrill Seekers – Part 2
In Russia, owing to the rough ice, a sail area of 600 to 1000 square feet is necessary,...
Ice Yachts for Thrill Seekers – Part 1
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Society
Herrin Mine MurdersTHE HERRIN MURDERS Two months after the atrocious wholesale murder of workers in...
France wants Gold – not Paper Money
With the firmness of the money market the only disturbing factor in the present financial...
Allocation of English Shares in Ford Motor Company
THE Henry Ford publicity service, which may or may not consist entirely of Mr. Ford...
War Loans
ITS DUCATS mean more to Uncle Sam than the re-establishment of financial peace and...
A Million a Day for our Wounded
WHAT IS THE REASON for the failure of the Government’s program for the rehabilitation...
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Arts
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Tariff Cartoons from 1922
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German Reparations Following WW1
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The Best Movies of 1928
FOLLOWING a time-honored custom, and in the childish belief that somebody cares, this department presents its impressions of the cinema output for the six months just ended. Not to keep a palpitant public in suspense let us announce forthwith that of all the pictures we have seen since last June we select the following as having made the greatest appeal... [Read more of this review]
George Gershwin’s – An American in Paris
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