The Value of a Dollar

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 9, 1916

The Value of a Dollar

A DOLLAR today does not purchase as much in many lines as it did ten years ago, yet one can get more knowledge and general information today for a dollar than ever before. By the modern methods of printing, a great volume of the best thoughts of the best thinkers may be had at a very small price. A man may lecture, and for his thoughts receive admission fees ranging from fifty cents to two dollars; but if he prints his lecture, the public complains if it costs more than ten cents, while in fact the lecture is worth more when read than when merely heard, for one needs often to re-read and to study another’s thoughts in order to retain them. And, moreover, that which is printed can be referred to when desired. If, therefore, the lecture of an expert physician is worth fifty cents, only a small part of which can be remembered accurately enough to apply it,—

Is a Health Mentor Worth One Dollar a Year

when it contains more than twelve times as much expert instruction as can be given in one lecture?

Sickness is avoidable to a large degree, and the mission of our health mentor, Life and Health, is to reveal to its readers how to keep well. If its instruction is heeded, it will not only save much unnecessary suffering and the gradual undermining of the general health, but will save on an average more than $22 in cash every year. That being true, is Life and Health worth $1 a year to every reader? If it is worth that much to one reader, how much more to a family?