Mr. Pompey is employed on a job which pays him eight dollars per week. He begins work at 8 a. m., is allowed an hour for lunch and at seven ten in the evening he doffs his apron, hangs it on a peg behind the door, brushes f lour from his trousers, dons his coat and cap, changes his shoes and goes home. He repeats this program seven days in the week. Mr. Pompey has a nice little boy, just six years of age and a cute little girl of four. They were his pals three years ago, but now they think "daddy is the meanest thing" because he never romps and plays with them. Poor fellow, he is too tired when night comes and a movie and ice cream cones are unheard of things, because there is no change to spare.

Mr. Pompey lost the little bungalow because he just couldn't keep up monthly payments. He moved to the cheapest residential section in his town. Rent amounts to twelve dollars per month. his light bill is one dollar per m onth and his water rent each month is one dollar. Of course the house is small, but fire is kept all day for the sake of the kids which means a ton of coal, which sells for seven dollars and a half, is used in the Pompey household. He had to drop all of his life insurance, whice he realized was a foolish thing to do, but thoughts of a sick day brought pictures of a family starvation to him so he took out a fifty cent per week accident policy that would pay him ten dollars each week in case of sickness, and he is just hoping that he isn't going to die before he can afford a life insurance, the cost of the other policy being two dollars a month

Now, Mr. Pompey does not have to buy food for himself; he eats on the job, but two growing children and a healthy wife must be fed, but are they? Expenses listed before amount to twenty three dollars and fifty cents; his sa lary per month is thirty-two dollars, which leaves a balance of eight dollars and a half per month to clothe two adults and two small children, to feed one adult and two small children, to pay church dues and other smaller items.

Yes, Mr. Pompey is a changed man who seldom, if ever, smiles when his nice little son and his cute little daughter are playing about his feet.