Show ii I Timely Topics Topics- II I RELATIVE CONDITIONS One needs to read the stories of the desperate plight of ot millions of ot people in J European countries to get a aright aright right view of ot the happy conditions that surround the people of ot the United States This country has foodstuffs in quantities almost unlimited and with prices tending downward third One-third of the people of the war stricken lands abroad are on bread rations so Herb Herbert rt Hoover has made public nubIle There is no nn menaCE tn to health hulth at any point in this land wh while the plague ague is s is sweeping pi g foreign lands Here there are money medical skill ands and s supplies to meet any sudden need Aboard there Is lack of ot funds lack of ot adequate medical skill and supplies Here there is it t at the best compensation in the history of ot the country so those who face war prices may yet fight their way to victory and care abundantly for or those dependent upon them Men and women are free to seek better employment as opportunity opportunity opportunity opens There is no question of funds being ready for tor payday Aboard money Is scarce labor Opportunities meager In most places while In soviet Russia labor has I been nationalized men and women being sent where the governmental agency decides paid what governmental tal officials fix and what they may earn what they may eat what they may p purchase or wear all are dictated by soviet officials Economically there is ho no o land In the world that has conditions comparable to those that obtain in this country coun coun- try We have abundant justification for tor being the happiest happiest happiest hap hap- people on earth We have all that our comfort requires and we have abundance wherewith to feed the hungry and care for those In distress We Ve have ha conditions conditions conditions condi condi- that vex and end annoy but they are curable and they are minor not major conditions It takes a view of European troubles to show us relatively how happy is is our condition Columbus Columbus Ohio State Journal I |