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Show If We Traded Places With aiussia Merle Riche Comparisons with Russia seem to be the things that get attention and how we fall for them I It is that of the Soviet Union, here are some of the things we would have to do: "Get rid of 19 of every 20 automobiles and trucks; tear up 2 of every 3 miles of highway; sink 8 out of 9 merchant ships; tear up 14 of every 15 miles of paved highway; get rid of three-fifths three-fifths of our steel capacity, two-thirds two-thirds of our hydro-electric capacity, cap-acity, two-thirds of our petroleum capacity, and 90 per cent of our natural gas production. "As for the standard of living, we would have to destroy 9 of every 10 telephones and radio sets, destroy 80 per cent of our housing space per person, and cut meat consumption by 60 per cent. "How can anyone look at figures like these, and join the critics of our economy who claim that Russia is ahead and that the United States is a second rate power?" Did you notice the interesting series of articles on the reading problem that has been appearing in the Tribune? From a reading survey comes this gem: "The teacher frequently has little choice of method and does her best within the restrictions imposed uponher. Students at teacher training colleges are usually trained in only one method of teaching reading--the sight method, with incidental phonics." more interesting, interest-ing, however, to note the i nformatio n given in Senator Wallace F. Bennett's "Wash ing ton Roundup." It gives a more sane perspective. I 'I " " - i It we traded places witn Russia, our economy would be that of the Civil War era, with a few dramatic exceptions. Our population pop-ulation would be concentrated in one-half of the country, and we would be offering bonuses for settlement of the other half. Fifty per cent of our labor force would be engaged in agriculture. "To make our economy equal |