MAKING ENDS MEET
The pound today is worth 10s. 2d. as compared with 1939. Some middle-class salaries have risen, some have not. Very many people are living on fixed incomes. How do they manage ? Where does the shoe pinch most ? What economies are possible, and at what sacrifice ? With a view to securing evidence from which some conclusion may be drawn the SPECTATOR has arranged for a series of articles in which a retired headmaster, an architect's wife, a clergyman, a civil servant and an author will give some details of their own family budgets and the adjustments they have made, successfully or otherwise, to increasingly stringent circumstances. The first article will appear next week. In a concluding article Walter Taplin will review and sum up the series.
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