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Show u A1L America is groaning under the burden of high taxes and inflation which they say is caused caus-ed by government spending To my way of thinking, the cause of our present unsatisfactory unsatisfac-tory condition is due to waste extravagance and buying of nonessentials. non-essentials. Each year we dump enough food In our garbage cans to feed all of Japan. We have old and unused clothes in our closets that could completely outfit some of the smaller nations, and we are still buying more. We will buy an automobile, expose it to the weather winter and summer, drive it down the highway 90 miles an hour, jeopardize jeop-ardize the lives of many people, and, if good luck is ours, in a year's time it is ready for the trash pile; when, with proper care and sane driving, it would have served us for five years. We spend from $8 to Sin hil. lion annually for hard liquor, and the first cost is nothing to compare with the broken home-; orphaned children, mangled bodies, bod-ies, and, most of all, wasted manhood. Tobacco and narcotic.; also take their toll. We allow gambling devices, crooks ana rackateers to take another $3f. billion annually. We have raei: working on important defense jobs, doing two hours work and drawing eight hours pay, when every loyal, liberty-loving Amev ican should pride himself on producing more than he consumes. con-sumes. If every American citizsr wouid lollow these three rulei (1) Buy only that which you actually need; (2) Pay for it oh delivery; (3) Make beneficial use of all you buy our inflation infla-tion days would soon be over , and Americans would save $00 J billion annually to set up a constructive con-structive program for defense and for paying of our national debt. Think it over folks and forget for-get about keeping up with the Jonses, for they haven't thought about, a place on which to land. John P. Madsen |