Show It l Stamping Out Poverty 1 tA MERICA is fast approaching the day when I t poverty will be completely abolished in land The great captains of b business siness and industry and the foremost schol- schol I rs are Predicting that our economic System r r before loii long long- will put an end to the curse that S S olden years fell upon most of the S uon Perhaps we we can understand better what n epochal thing it is that is happening by byJ J reflecting fI that never ever before in iii the world his his- frS frS' have any b but t the wildest visionaries ever that poverty really could be put out f existence It has always been taken for granted that there never would be quite food enough clothing enough houses enough hap hap- enough to go around Even the wis- wis t of men felt that a hard pr providence had decreed that some men in all ages should e downtrodden a arid d Now and then Ithen of course a a Utopian dreamer reamer arose and announced some new theme heme of society in which there should k no people But his scheme always a revolution ill in the conduct of relations in- in which in which society be It liever hever looked qu quite te practical Iut Bilt now look what is happ happening ning It is pre pre- isely the most practical realistic of busi- busi i sess ss and industrial leaders who are declaring that it will soon be possible for everyone in t e land tand to have a job that will provide for than simple subsistence Matter fact selfish uninspired and m materialistic as the world may be it is nevertheless carI car car- I ing us straight to a realization of the 4 dreams eams of the Utopians This isn't to say that the reign of human Q and equality is at hand It doesn't necessarily mean that the Golden Age to dawn again There will be plenty of wrongs in the world for our children to r ht Yet this modern age is more Ii ng than we mes think It may n y be veri Crass and materialistic but it is entirely pos pos- I ihle that by releasing millions of men from froni grinding oppression of l cares it paving the way for a mental and spiritual such as the world has never seen |