Wanton Extravagance by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 13, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 27.

Wanton Extravagance

By Editor

THE widow of one of the multimillionaires who went down with the Titanic has filed a statement in a New York court complaining that the $20,000 a year allowed for the maintenance of her little son is not nearly enough to support him. The detailed account of expenses for the mother and her son, filed with the court, amounts to $166,000 for a period of about two and a half years. Of this amount, she has $64,000 charged against her son.

Facts of this character, so widely published, cause much discontent. The man who supports a wife and family on $500 a year is not made more contented and happier by learning that some woman finds it impossible to take care of her infant son on $20,000 a year. When God says to the rich men living in these last days, as recorded in the fifth chapter of James, that they are to weep and howl because of the miseries that shall come upon them, they ought to give heed. There is arising in this world an awful social storm that will direct its furies against this extravagant, wealthy class of people. We can see arising on every hand the clouds that betoken it; and what is more, God's word has sent out the warning signals concerning its approach. So we may be doubly sure that it will come.