The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1921-07-21
cd on agriculture.
And Still We Kick.


no cearer-visioned optimist in the
country, enumerates some things in
the current number OF his magazine
which are worth recalling at this
time, and which some people seem
TO be forgetting. He points out how
well off the Americans are, and what
he says is so decidedly to the point
that we reprint the greater part of
it here. He says:
"The vast majority Of families in
this land have enough food, enough
clothing, enough shelter. Ordinarily,
Siere is work for all who are willing
to work. The opportunities for adj
vancement are more numerous here
than anywhere else in the world.
More poor people become well-to-do
or wealth in America than in any
other country. Good schools for our
children cover the land.
Eve have an abundance Of church.
es, hospitals, physicians, nurses, medi-
cine. Our climate is healthful.
Scourges, such as plague the Orient
and other parts of the world, rarely,
il ever, visit US in yirulent form.
Newspapers, books and periodicals
are within the reach of practically
every household, and no country is
more plentifully supplied with librar-
les. Every town and almost every
hamlet now has its place or places of
amusement, its athletic field or fields
and other facilities for recreation.
We have unmatched railroad facili-
ties; We have almost as many auto
mobiles as the rest of the world COM
bined; and we are spending unpre-
cedented millions in building good
roads.
I'VE have better facilities than any
other people for talking with our
friends nearby or at distance
America has more telephones than
the rest of the world put together.
Postal facilities for both letters and
parcels cover the whole continent.
We have more electric lights than
any other land. In most homes where
decency and industry abide you find
the means Of enjoying the finest
music ever produced Our homes
are furnished with more labor-saving
devices than the homes Of any other
countries. Our sewerage systems
and our water supply almost every
where are conducive 90 sanitation
and sound health. The number Of
baths in America is perpetual
source Of Amusement 20 foreigners.
Famine is unknown within our
shores. Seven-day-a-week toll is the
exception, and the average working
day is short beyond the dream of our
forefathers.
"The clothing worn by the work
ing class in this country, generally
speaking, is equal 70 the Sunday
best" Of workers in other lands. We
enjoy religious and political free
dom unexcclled under any other gov
eminent, and the poorest babe may
rise 20 what is today the most power
full office on the face Of the earth.
"Our natural resources have been
little more than scratched New in
venti0ns are welcomed with open
arms and open purses. The demand
for brains h Unsuitable, and the re-
wards paid here are without parallel
elsewhere. We have excellent saw
ing banks, innumerahle commercial
banks and a currency system that
functions so well that it is the envy
Of other nations.
our mighty strength as nation
renders us virtually immune from at
tack by any foreign foe, yet we have
no vast standing conscript army but
only a handful Of professional sol
diers. Although our taxation bur-
den, thanks % the heroic part we
played in the World War, is today
regarded as heavy, we are infinitely
better of than any other nation
which took a foremost part In the
war We
"But why 90 on? Yet, because
the unhealthy boom brought by the
war has ceased, and business tenn
porarily is cloudy, we whine and kick
as II we were objects for the deepest
PITY
What a fine bunch Of sissies we are
90 whine in the face Of such sit
uati0n Suppose we have a little
hard shedding ahead What do we
expect, anyhow? As II is we are
much better off than the rest Of the
world that il ought not 20 make US
feel uncomfortable And If we keep
"a stiff upper lip and only half try
we shall be better off still"