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Show wants to give up air conditioning condition-ing and streamline trains? Be sensible about present conditions. TODAY'S UNSURPASSED RICHES The trouble is that when we think of the "Good Old Days", we see them through a rosy mist that blurs reality. We a'ssume that we could go back to the free-and-easy ways and the get-rich-quickness of the 20's, and stTTl have the new inventions, the modern comforts and the other-novel other-novel riches which we now enjoy. en-joy. It is human nature to glamourize glam-ourize the past and grumble at the present. Everybody, therefore, there-fore, who is falling short of his best efforts today because of a vague, nostalgic longing to be back in 1929, may well take stock of current progress. What glory of 1929, for instance, in-stance, would compensate us for erasing the network of air transport trans-port routes, grounding our planes, and thereby slowing up traffic in passengers, mails, and express? The modern, compact, mechanized and insulated home makes the oldtime cumbersome residence seem like a barn. Where is the woman today who willingly would surrender 1941 heating equipment, washing machines, ma-chines, and refrigerators? Who |