Show The American Way Individuals Have Hare It If When the American Revolution had its beginning ning conditions had scarcely changed since the time of nezzar The colonials gathered their own firewood and cooked over open fires just as people had cooked since the dawn of history They spun thread and wove coarse cloth with spindles and looms handed down from the early Egyptians But it is the nature of responsible free people to put intelligence into ac ac- ac- ac tion Here is what has happened We have moved from backbreaking drudgery into an age of power substituting substituting substituting steam electricity gasoline and the atom We are prolonging life and resisting resisting resisting resist resist- ing death itself with anesthetics surgery surgery surgery sur sur- sur- sur gery sanitation hygiene dietetics We have gone from pine knots and candles to kerosene lamps to gas jet then to electric bulbs neon lights and fluorescent tubes From fireplace to stoves furnaces automatic burners air conditioning from the storage of food in a hole in inthe inthe inthe the ground to the refrigerator from beating clothes on a rock to automatic washing machines Nobody picked our inventors to invent invent invent in in- vent anything They saw a need and rushed forward to fill it In America we have the opportunity for self improvement and personal ad ad- But it is up to the individual to take advantage of the opportunity There are no substitutes for self- self faith self-reliance self self-development self individual effort and personal |