Bernie Rose, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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Rose (1/17/83) page 6 Mr. K Mr. R Bryant with that job that things turned out for us pretty well. From that time poverty was behind us. It was no great wealth, or anything like that ••• But you were O.K. Yeah. Then of course, my uncles and aunts, they got better to American life and got better jobs, and the older ones of the cousins went to work even though there was that different family ethic in those days. You see, in those days as soon as a kid was able to go to work, the question was how much of what you earn do you have to contribute to this house to keep it going? I can remember the bitter quarrels between my cousins who were older I am and I'd sit around and listen to it about ••• I don't know wha they'd make, maybe $5 or $6 a week •• and my aunt and uncle would be screaming at them that you've got to give me '4 a week and the kid would say "no, I'tn only getting $6, I'm only going to give you $2". And they'd argue back and forth about that, and that was always a }. .~ - .. , . .~~ r t source of quarrel .. them. I can't remember any kid refusing to give anything; there was always the quarrel about how much they had to give. They knew there was a responsibility for the house. You have to remember that I was just about in the middle of the generations of all my cousins who are alive; there might be some as old as 82 or 84 now, and I was a little kid when their money was already coming into the house where ever I was because I ... always went to the oldest one first like my Aunt Mary, you see. So, probably had kids working, or at least one, when I got there. By the time I got to my aunt's house, and while my mother might not have paid a full tithing for my staying there, there was by that