Show I Ckgffi DEW ICIPITUL Most of America's horse racing fans will recognize the colt on our cover as Native Dancer biggest money winner of all time in the class Now he's Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's choice threeyear-old entry in the mile and a quarter Kentucky Derby next Saturday If Dancer favored in the "winter book" to win comes through it will be the first time the Vanderbilt stables have brought home top stakes from the Derby Odds against a winter-boo- k favorite winning the classic are about six to one though so Dancer can't be called a shoo-iOn our cover he is shown working out at Santa Anita race track where he earned an unofficial record tile peppiest horse in the stables An extra barrier was put across his stall after he had sailed over the gate twice ld n CRISIS IN OUR AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE WRONG DOS In a recent Quiz 'Em column this question was asked: "What rare breed of ' ANNOUNCING A SERIES OF FOUR - IMPORTANT ARTICLES ON NEW 1 PROBLEMS WHICH TOUCII US ALL It - ' 7 '3 t " 'k k 4 1111 AS AMERICANS we like to talk about "The AmeriA can Way of Life" It is a way built originally on the initiative and enterprise of free men working together Out of this combination have grown many of our social institutions and with them an dream of increased happiness prosperity and for all the people Ruin the profits of that dynamic capitalism our museums libraries and colleges were built and enriched our cities grew and America became an international force for good But in recent years there have been changes which add up to a growing crisis in many phases of our way of life The old private benefactors — Carnegie' Morgans Rockefellers — are disappearing film our national life Public tax funds though mounting are being sonstnned more and morel) the demands of national defense and rising costs of essential pervices Thule developments threaten several important and cherished aspects of our daily life — the fate of many schools and colleges for example the maintenance of cultural institutions like museums and libraries the preservation and improvement of our cities now threatened by decay For too many years as problems arose we have manned that the only way to solve them was the "government way" with more and more responsibility being shifted to Washington or the State Capitol or City Hall But these am nese times They cell for nese solutions Many of these will be found not the government way but the individual way provided we resort to new bold and imaginative thinking As Russell Davenport has 'mid "The time has now come for Americans to recognize the principle of private initiative in public affairs" That is the central idea which underlies "Crisis in Our American Way" an important series of This WE articles starting in this issue On four suc well-bei- they will discuss various aspects of the present crisis and point to the answers: connive weeks 1 Our Class now risking a slovenly deterioration because of unplanned growth congested traffic and chaotic tax policies MOSS SOUNDS Toy Papaion and puppies -- — libraries museums zoos playgrounds and parks Never have they been more needed never has their future been more precarious L Cultural Institutions L Private Schools and Colleges — their very existence is threatened by the drying up of private endowments by rising costs and government encroachments dog has been given to the Eisenhowers?" 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