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Show r COMMENTS A LESSON IN CONTRASTS From liberated areas of Europe and Italy have come stories stor-ies of shocking contrasts in the living standards of the people While some groups enjoY" luxury and plenty, others slowly 1 starve in utter degradation. According to news reports, the : former are members of a small minority with enough to secure se-cure comforts in the black market. Perhaps this is the envit-able envit-able aftermath of war and economic collapse in which civil I ization gives way before the brutal law of dog eats dog. Whatever it is. Americans, who have been raised in a nation where the emphasis has been on ever wider distribution of necessities ne-cessities and luxuries, will shudder with compassion and thank God they are here and not there. NO TIME FOR INCOMPETENCE Another cut in the octane rating of I, gasoline has been made. This means that your, car will knock a little more on 'the hills and hard pulls. The oil industry should not be blame for that. The better gasoline has been going overseas to fight the war. American oil companies are supplying the . bulk of the oil for the Allies. |