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Show THE AMERICAN WAY A SICK MAN pWf&V, f Vwl ' I - x , v mm By Geort Peck- JE .ffffiY Nations, even as individuals, sometimes are ravaged with disease. dis-ease. Consider then the sad case of Uncle Sam! He is a very sick man, even though lo the uninitiated un-initiated he may look well, and despite the fact that he is not very old just had his 172nd birthday last Fourth of July. Throughout the years Uncle Sam has had his many illnesses and family troubles. In his youth he was visited with the usual run of diseases and maladies that attack the very young. But, he was a sturdy youngster and managed man-aged to shake off every one of them. Back about the year 1933, he experienced his first really serious ser-ious indisposition. He broke out with a bad rash known as spend-cmia. spend-cmia. While this is a nasty disease, dis-ease, it is not necessarily fatal, if diagnosed correctly and given proper treatment. The chief physician and his staff of inexperienced consultants, consult-ants, in this particular case, unfortunately un-fortunately did not prescribe the right medicine and ordered the wrong sort of treatment. Result: spendemia developed into was-tcrphobia. was-tcrphobia. This latter is a much more serious malady and it was deemed advisable to send the patient to the hospital. Some of his friends became slightly perturbed. per-turbed. This slight anxiety progressed into grave concern when through continued neglect and careless prescribing of quack remedies and nostrums, squan-deritis squan-deritis set in. And his many friends had cause to be concerned, concern-ed, because this malady, bad as it is, in all too many cases is followed fol-lowed by taxdementia a most horrible and devastating disease. dis-ease. Some suggested a change of treatment or that a new physician phy-sician be called inf. In 1940, many millions of Americans thought they had found just the .right medico to take over, but more millions favored keeping the same doctor on the job. The condition of the patient continued contin-ued to worsen and, as many had feared, .lie succombed to that dread affliction1 taxdementia. Not only is this a painful ailment, ail-ment, affecting every part of the body political, economic and social, but it is of long duration, yielding slowly to even the best and wisest of treatment. When the patient suffers with this disease, dis-ease, it paralyzes his flow of capital (the blood-stream of a nation) and it slows down his industrial in-dustrial action (the pulse of a nation). na-tion). And now, due to the ravages of the four diseases that have wracked his body, plus injuries recieved in a serious fight with a madman named Hitler, Uncle Sam, in his weakened condition, has succumbed to inflatitis the worst sickness of all one from which -few nations have ever recovered re-covered because inflation has either completely destroyed, or made a permanent invalid of every nation it has attacked. In 1944, and again on November Novem-ber of this present year, a new and younger physician applied for the position of head doctor. To a majority of the people he seemed to offer nothing new just more of the same .nostrums and quack remedies which not only had failed to heal, but actually ac-tually had made the patient worse, So, his application was turned down. Now, we have to wait until 1952. Let us hope and pray that during these next four years a physician will be discovered who will have the wisdom and the courage to suggest that the medicines med-icines which have proved so ineffective, in-effective, even harmful, be discarded dis-carded who will prescribe those good old-fashioned medicines and treatments which up to six- teen years ago had proved so beneficial, efficacious and remedial. rem-edial. And, let us hope further that one of the two major parties will have the. wisdom to give us an opportunity to vote for him. The elongated gentleman with the chin whiskers most certainly is going to requirs the best medicine med-icine and treatment if he is to survive and regain his former vigor and strength. |