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Show JameS Presto Students of the scene today - national and international still are analyzing the implications of a survey of living conditions throughout the world which one of the country's largest newspapers made the first of this year. They find its meanings important impor-tant when America, representing free enterprise and democracy, faces Communism and State Socialism So-cialism in Europe and Asia. As representing stable and skilled workers, representative railroad engineers in various countries coun-tries were interviewed as to what they earned and how. they lived "Life Is Bitter" The Chinese engineer, who earned $45 a month, summed it up when he said he found life bitter "very bitter indeed." The engine driver in Soviet Russia Rus-sia thought himself lucky to have one room for his family of four to live in. The British engineer under the about $78 a month left after paying pay-ing his income tax, and wasn't eager to earn more because it would take him into still higher tax brackets. The American engineer, one George Teese, of Harmon, N Y., was found to be living with his wife and two children in "one of the pleasant six-room houses" in his town. They use six quarts of milk a day, they have a Packard, Pack-ard, tiled bath, electric refrigerator, refrigera-tor, two radios, a big yard for the children to play in . . . They also have democracy. |