Show VALS these warm sunny days are the ones which inspire women to pitch in anui and get their spring cleaning lone done ive always maintained that the job of housecleaning house cleaning was made lighter in spirit at least if at the end of the job there was one new item to add to the room such as new curtains new throw rugs anything at all its a sort of bribe or dividend for the extra work I 1 was talking to a friend of 0 mine the other day about spring and she mentioned that she would like to have new throw rugs for her bedroom she also needed a new dress but unless she found a job there wold be none 0 of these things for her family this spring the high cost of living tand and high taxes have just about taken the family pay check there Is nothing left with which to buy those little items which makes the difference between austerity aust erity and gracious living probably one of the reasons tor for the growing glowing austerity in living in the united states is the fact that our leaders are going overboard in the foreign aid program in a letter from sen arthur V watkins I 1 was told that there are 13 billion dollars of foreign aid funds fund available and at the present time and yet the administration is still asking for 61 6 billion dollars 0 well my friend 6 billion dollars would buy a lot of throw rugs and new dresses but they wont be yours lias has it occurred mccurr ed to you how much you could do with the money which is deducted from your pay check before it ever reaches you or even what you could do with the withholding tax money it if you were allowed allo veil to keep tt it every other month at least there would be new throw rugs for those wh who wanted them and an occasional occasion new dress to give milady a lift there is so BO M much t ch activity across the s treet street where our home is being built that Is is hard to concentrate on getting out the paper but every boat board d that Is carried from the lumber yard to the building site only serves to remind d me that we will have to work harder than ever now |