Show A housewives POINT OF VIEW for almost as long as I 1 can remember the phrase charity begins at home has been a favorite expression x r cs 0 n and this brings to my L mind ii d tl the e question as ag to how far should uncle sam go in trying to cure cuic tho the ills of all the world for instance all of the money which wo we taxpayers are arc giving to the economic cooperation administration requested by president truman for 1050 is being used to bolster and subsidize the mining industry of foreign countries while our own mining industry is sick unto death we pay huge prices to support the price of potatoes and at the same time we allow canada under some act or excuse to import into this country more than the surplus wo we are trying to eliminate we have a fund of ready tu to pour into china but dont know whether to give it to nationalist or communist china if we continue to give the shirts off our backs and end in demoralizing our own industry wo we will be in ili the same boat with tile the rest of tile the world and will bo be easy prey to tile the socialistic ideas we are fighting against because of government intermor once the mining and many other industries indus trica find themselves in the same position as the man mail who being pursued by a bear sent up tile the supplication lord if you cant belp me please dont dant help that bear between batches bat cli cs of tile tho family w washing ashing this morning I 1 read the congressional record and found it something every father and mother C I 1 in the country is vitally interested in it it is entitled A plea from two children and was read into the record by mr patterson Patter soh of connecticut of course it was not written by a little boy in the first grade nor by his sister in kindergarten but I 1 am sure it was wait written by thoughtful parents theirs was a plea pica that we of tills generation hold things in check so that they wont lose the kind of voting system that we have they want to be able to celebrate the birthday of lincoln jef fet faraon son jackson washington and lee they dont want to celebrate in lionor honor of stalin marx or fabian in ili 1980 when these two children will bo be in their thirties they do not want to bo be known only by their social security numbers they want to it apply rj ay for the kind of work they aou would enjoy doing they want to call their air own doctor ter not depend upon a government doctor they want to be able to make and till save enough money to buy things they need and they want to save it a little for their old age they want to send their children to public or parochial school to learn tile things wo we learned and riot not to learn what the government plan planners nerg say they should learn they dont want a government w which aich says well take enough out 0 of f your pay and load taxes on yuu you to give you tho the ti lingi you need to live on and pay you a little each month when you cant work any more in other words all they want is tile the same chance that my father my grandfather and I 1 smarted started with but which we are letting slip away BY way of advice thouc children go 90 on to say that we cant hold things in chuck chick by cl ct issing officials official in washington or the state capitol we will have to stop blaming office holder and politicians the office holders will do what we say if we are arc right and if we convince enough of our neighbors that we file aie right no leader in this country they say can lead unless we follow no officeholder can keep his job ab if the people dont want him As a caution the children end their plea by saying yes yea well lw be thinking of you in 1980 |