Show TAKEN FOR GRANTED even the poorest americans have much to be thankful thanh ful for compared to people in europe and asia such simple things as water and plain food a tight light roof and some kind of heating are often difficult to obtain over much of the war dev countries warm clothing is very scarce medicine is hard to got get except where the red cross or some soma other of her agency cahas has a station all sorts of plain everyday necessities are missing it is particularly hard on women avith young children Th estory of a polish woman is its told in article she had been accustomed to a luxury level of existence be bc fore ore the war they had a fine apartment f a car carwood good furniture money for travel and so cial events the war changed ch ange d all this her husband brothers and father are all dead they starved she managed to survive by begging and scavenging in the ruined city one child was born in a sheep barn now noto that hostilities have ceased conditions are better but there is still much suffering she lias has learned to appreciate ordinary things that all of us talce take for granted |