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Show ' ' IIERE IS ANOTHER VIEW There's something nice and chummy about this rationing ra-tioning and shortage business we're living through. Yes, there really is. It brings out the neighborliness of people. Then, too, it brings about a sort of misery-loves-company affinity of interest and purpose. I think a lot of people get a real kick out of watching the various stores for scarce commodities. They seem to get even more kick out of letting their friends in on it, after they have made a discovery. Hardly a day passes that somebody doesn't holler in at our office, telling us what stores have cigarettes, candy, meat, Oxydol, bananas, or what not. When you see an unusual movement move-ment of people down the street, each with a resolute look on his face, you know something's cooking, somewhere some-where down the line. : Shortages serve another useful purpose. When we used to buy our favorite brands of cigarettes day after day, we ot no thrill out of it. It was mere routine. Now it's something to send a person into ecstasies of delight. I've seen folks just thrilled to pieces because they found a favorite candy bar. If the procurement of these non-essential luxury articles produces thrills, what about the shopper who gets hold of a nice piece of steak or ham, or a dozen bananas, or some other food item that his mouth is fairly watering for? Such, a thrill is almost more than one can stand. I don't recommend that rationing and shortages be prolonged unnecessarily, just to give us this ecstatic thrill of procurement . . . However, I do think it's a grand thing that we get a kick of some kind out of this business. Williamsport (Ind.) Review-Republican. ! |
