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Show EAT THE SAME BREAD No country on earth has as many automobiles per capita as the United States. In no country is the automobile such a necessity in the daily life of the people. We have used, it so universally that steam and electric railroads long ago discontinued dis-continued the bulk of their interurban service throughout the country, and interurban tracks have been generally abandoned aban-doned and torn up. Now, as a war necessity, people are required re-quired to give up, to a large extent, this basic means of transportation. When gasoline rationing went into effect, many congressmen con-gressmen and senators who regulate the acts of private citizens, signed up for "X" cards giving them unlimited amounts of gas, on the theory that their driving was essential essen-tial to national defense. Probably nowhere else in the world is a private car for a public official less needed than in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, where taxicabs are as thick as fleas on a dog's back and rates are the lowest. Most congressmen and senators sena-tors live in apartment houses and hotels where it is more advantageous to use a taxicab than a private car. Writing on this situation, Raymond Clapper says: "The attitude of these senators and representatives makes one's blood boil." This gasoline grab is a glaring example of privileged priv-ileged officialism asking the common people to make sacrifices sacri-fices which the office holders do not wish to share. It's high time that our growing army of public servants, which is acquiring ac-quiring more and more special privileges, was set back on its heels and made to eat the same kind of bread it rations out to the people. |