The sub., 1946-01-17

things that O1SdppSdES SO IVuIS tU you and me. Some people are de- liberately blind, of course. Adver- Using is the hfe-blood of newspa- perS, you know.
 This great country has resources enough and energetic people enough to provide far higher standard of living for the working people-the vast majority of the population. There should be no need of old-age assistance, health insurance or unemployment bene- fits, except in isolated cases. How ever, such things are necessary, to prevent widespread distress among helpless people. They are neces- sary because the average working man or woman simply cannot save up enough during thirty or forty years of toll to enable him or her to retire for those last tired years; nor to be able to meet the terrific costs of sickness or accident; and he or she is just about helpless when unemployment is widespread.
 The basic reason why organized Labor and Farmers organizations are carrying such an aggressive battle is that these working peo- pie are determined to get their rightful share of the money that passes over the counters all over the country. It is not greed that | N%s @TJf d dnf0 n a. tion not to be victimized by greed any longer. Unfortunately, too, little attention is paid to the real rascals.
 The newspapers, including one | just across the river, could do the country a real service if they would shift their attacks to the ones who pocket most of the mon- ey that we all shell out in buying the necessities of life. Exposure of the system of distribution that we suffer under would bring out the real hogs. (How we'll remember a disastrous year spent producing milk at four cents a quart which later sold in Arlington, Mass, at seventeen cents, all the while buy- ing grain at four times what the Western farmer got for it.) The papers could get at the truth easily enough. An, but their national dis tributors' advertising would drop off! They must attack somewhere or else give up even the pretense of having a policy and a worth while editorial page in this great crisis in our country. So they at- tack the groups that are courage ous enough to fight for their own welfare, knowing that we are at great disadvantage in. such a war of words.
 As they have so obviously de- clared themselves the open ene- mics of organized labor, the small merchant or business man, and of organized agriculture as well, they should realize that they are really against the majority of the Amer ican people, and that "as they SOW, so shall they reap"
 How the ordinary people of this area would welcome 8 liberal pa per! The one that has a monopoly on the business here never has a word to say on local issues on it's editorial page, the heart of any newspaper They either don't care or they don't dare. A progressive paper would have been in the fight to develop the New London area into great shipping and industrial center long before this, and on the high ground that such development would benefit ALL the people by providing more and better jobs. Instead of something CONSTRUC. TIVE like this, we read Cor try to read savage attacks on our fel- low workers. Or we turn nauseated or enraged away from cartoons like the one before me now, showing Labor Ca very thuggish looking gentleman tearing Industry (G. M., Standard Oil, Du Pont, etc.) limb from limb.
 The newspapers are pursuing dangerous course, a monopolistic course that may we'll destroy them.