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Show Too Prosperous "The United States," declares Mary Kingsbury Simk-hovitch, Simk-hovitch, of Greenwich House, New York City, "is suffering from too much prosperity." That, she believes, is the principal prin-cipal thirT that is wrong with this country. Well, ihe United States is prosperous. It has the greatest great-est educational system in the world. Its people, individually, have more money than those of any other nation. There are more luxuries here. The United States had billions of its , dollars to throw into Europe during a great crisis. Yet, says ! the prominent settlement worker, the United States is suffering suf-fering from too much of what admittedly is a good thing. But isn't Mary Simkhovitch's indictment the product of her observation in the slums a protest from a sympathetic heart that has given itself to the betterment of deplorable conditions there? She sees her people burned to death in : rickety old tenements, their minds touched by the blazing heat of the streets, their children killed by rich men's motor '. cars. She sees, amid the indescribable poverty of her people, j the lavish luxury of the night clubs. She watches her people j turn to crime in protest against these things. And so she says, "Too much prosperity." But the answer is not a super-abundance of wealth it is the lack of ability to manage it. ! |