The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-03-22

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| In a recent issue of a so-called
popular picture magazine, the Miami,
Fla, area was given lambasting as
fat boy play spot where ill-gotten
wealth and bad manners make 4
ghastly spectacle. So the Miami area
was pilloried as a rather nasty tester
spot on the national map.
And that leads to discussion Of
big spending and bad manners.
1t was most unfair to pick on
Miami as an outstanding example OF
plutocratic show-off and surf-lolling.
Pictured were some scantily Clad
or unclad, girls, intended to prove
something or other.
Now, in truth, there probably is
several times the amount of big
spending in New York that there is
in the Miami area.
And the bank rolls and fat
paunches were acquired somewhere
besides in Miami
Why not ask, where and how did
they get it and what is wrong with
matters in these places and with
those methods?
Doesn't Chicago have its big spend
ing? Doesn't Detroit have it? Doesn't
Cleveland have it and for gosh sakes,
doesn't Washington, D. c., have it?
Yes, you can be sure they have it
and how!
A lot of expensive furs are taken to
Miami by the wealthy play folks, but
they were bought elsewhere by money
procured elsewhere.
1t is easy for picture magazine
to get pictures of fat bellies and
shapely legs in Miami, because Miami
has near-tropical climate and the
beach extends a constant invitation.
The surroundings for photography
are ideal.
So Miami gets the smear, with pic
lures of folks who go to Miami to
spend, because Miami is warm and
inviting and because they can afford
to get there, by one means or another,
But let's put little of the smear
on the places from which these rich
bought their tickets.
The whole thing serves to make the
point that too much money is being
made by some people, in spite of high
axes and high prices.
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ind the heart of it and that's where
he blows ought to fall.
The Miami sunshine invites people
o take off as many clothes as can be
dispensed with. And much of the re-
ulting show is bit on the revolt
ng side.
There's no beauty in a fat male
'aunch rolling out over bathing
runks. Nor is there any in a broad
emale beam draped in slacks, or in
canty bathing attire. 1t is easy to
Wish the dame would put on enough
lothing to hide the rolling results OF
asy and too rich living,
But where did they get that way?
tight in the old home town where
he war contracts roll fast and fat
\ tidal wave of production.
Those who know the city of Miami
nd its surrounding ring of satellite
tiles, including Miami Beach, know
nat the average citizen is pretty
luch like the average citizen else
here.
Men and women work, pay their
axes and do just about the same
lings that people do in most cities,
Scept that their homes do not get
irty from coal smoke.
An enormous network of war in
ustries exist and they have won
leir full share of Army and Navy E
They buy their war bonds,
, their civilian defense work and
axe their War Chest and Red Cross
just like the people of
her cities.
The great spenders come from else
here and so do the owners of most
the gaudy night spots where they
after night fall. The fat
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oppy, some sleek and glamorous,
'e folks from the Northern cities,
here they have made pile of dough
I'd yearn to take flyer in the sun
line.
Among them, of course, are many
no have worked to the point Of
haustion and who need rest and re-
ilding. But nobody notices them, OF
urse. The picture magazine could
nd better ways to help America
Dve forward -CMW.