Show KA KATHLEEN NORRIS Prepare Now for Rocks Ahead I nn 9 A tS IS ls A FAMILY I nn 9 A tS IS ls A FAMILY that Is ls OURS I never quite easy on the money question writes Alison AUson Hoyt from Kansas City Lynn and andI I are intelligent I think not college college college col col- col- col lege folk tolk but just lust two more of the great mass of people who have a aboy aboy aboy boy and a girl and a car and are paying on a washer and manage to spend every cent of our a month My grandmother the letter goes on thinks that is big money but when my grandmother kept house for a month taxes were not what they are steak was 18 cents a pound and bacon 11 cents Childrens Children's dentistry consisted of a visit a year and there were no motor cars movies telephones electric kitchen equipment Our real trouble continues Alison Allson is s that Frank and Barbara are 14 and 12 now and their clothes amusements and expectations expectations expectations in the way of presents have just simply gotten out of reach We did pile up a nice nest egg of bonds during the war when I worked but we are down to bedrock bedrock bed bed- bedrock rock now What's the answer Where are we wrong We only have what so soman man many others have seven-room seven house no s servant public schools Barbaras Barbara's dresses and mine cost under 10 each but she has to have havea a coat each winter Other children get their half dollars for movi movies S Sand and skating rink and chocolate malts we cant can't be the ones to stop Considers Working Should I get a job and if U I Ido Ido Ido do who keeps an eye on my boy and girl in the dangerous teens Alison JUlson if U my answer seems harsh to you you may comfort yourself that it applies to about four million equally worried AmerIcan American Amer Amer- American ican families too Science has never put so many tempting household household house house- hold devices in womans woman's way so- so 1 4 IF h 1 1 G H. H hill dollart lor or movie mOo cial vial dh development tl ment has bas never never put before childrens children's eyes so man many desirable things to wear eat watch We have all as a nation gone slightly c crazy azy on what we must have wear and see even though every voice that speaks prophecies now a says say a y s rocks ahead You and Lynn are following the trend and it t Is a trend t 1 t leads to a dependent ol old age to Frank and Barbara being burdened with tomorrows tomorrow's heavier costs insurances insurances insurances ances and taxes and being burdened bur but with you too It Is an everyday every every- da day tragedy but nonetheless terrible ter tel in its ita effects Now I am going to tell you a little story Olga and Jan came from the depth of occupied Poland two years ago They are as aswell aswell aswell well educated as Lynn and you but they had known nothing but star fear tear cold pain for years un Now miraculously they are here Small Apartment Olga h hunted ted through the very quiet utterly unfashionable parts of at town and found three room rooms near the river for tor 26 28 a month Kat Katsi Katri 13 helped her ber clean and paint the uninviting apartment Karl 15 and his sister lister go 10 to school choo but Katz got cot an atter school after Job lob with burdened little Mrs Smith and her three babies and makes make 10 a week Karl has bas had bad a bahr bakery delivery job since lince th the th day they arrived Olga doe does her ber own OWl washing in to a tub on a board marveling in the new powders that are one more miracle in this land of miracles She takes a basket to market and not a smart market market but but the hungry hungry hun hun- gry family finds no fault with the thick soups the shining salad the made home-made bread and cheap desserts des des- desserts desserts of ot cornstarch apples ap ap- pIes ples runty prunes soaked to soft soft- ness Nothing is wast wasted d. d Jan wears his year old c coat at If U her school companions laugh ather at ather ather her clumsy European clothes Katzl Katz Katzl Kat Kat- z has the good philosophic talk at table to give her balance She found several pals as ass shabby as herself and Mom takes their breath away now and then by sayIng say say- Ing that her good girl can have a dollar yes go to the movie Illnesses are taken straight to the city clinic where the whole cost is 5 6 cents for the bottle of medicine Sports are free in the school yard Swimming on broiling summer nights is free tree The pay taxes but they carry no insurance for Jan isn't afraid of his family's courage They are going to be Americans and neither Katz Katzl or Karl will listen presently to the half baked talk in the school yard They know They grew up under the cruel auspices auspices auspices au au- au- au spices of the nation that is trying to teach Americans another code |