Evening star., 1946-06-17


she wanted in the stores.
If there were more people like her
there would be less of this present day
foolishness.
Il believe 1t is because we. indiyid-
ualiy. nave become so supine, so ready
TO take orders, that we are Sd harassed.
mo doubt we deserve what we get.
Sincerely, O. de L."
X
ALEXANDRIA, Va.
Dear Sir:
Your column is generally ENJOYABLE,
ana l nave thought of writing to tell
you so. However, I am moved to writing
now OF Mrs Tenpleton Jones' dear old
lady
1T should be kept in mind that the
retail stores are not limiting soaps, bread
ana pals OF yarn because of govern
mental orders, but simply because they
nope TO save little of the scarce goods
1or the conscientious people that they
number among their customers.
To the people who are too busy to
make six trips to the store, who have
families, and also have incomes too low
to substitute higher priced goods for
the things that are scarce, this sort of
plggish Il mean the word behavior is
not at all amusing.
TO people who willingly limit them
selves to help others at such a time as
this, it Is rather nauseating to realize
that we are not helping the others we
thought, but just the more grasping.
Sincerely, F. D."
People can no more agree on a def
milton of dear old lady" evidently.
than they can about anything else
today. 1t is an era of disputation, with
SO persons for thing-anything-
SO persons against
The great man will be he who breaks
this deadlock, and gets the community
city, Nation and world back to 60 Der
cent thinking all one way.
Then we will have millennium again.
such as the United States knew from
1880 to 1910.
There was true Golden Age.
Its salient point was that most of the
persons who counted-let us be a bit
snobbish for time-thought the same
way about matters that counted.
The result was that there was none of
the dissatisfaction manifest today in
all walks of life
People were not divided up into price
classes" as if they were for sale, but
were regarded as human beings, individ-
uals, each one as good as the next-if he
were.
1t did not occur to any one. in those
days, to look down on a barber because
he was barber He talked freely and
often wisely to the banker, the baker
candlestick makers.
IL was wise and good age, when
men OF decency and good will really
felt that they had solved some of the
important problems of everyday living.
The joke, at least from the viewpoint
OF our divided, unhappy present day is
that they were right.
They, indeed, had solved problems,
because most persons of ordinary good
manners and minds felt the same Way
about most of the matters that counted
for good living.
Today it is all lost
We could all be as happy as people
were then, II we put our minds to it,
and could regain something of that lost
unanimlty OF opinion that was so pre-
cious.
Maybe you are still wondering why all
the leaders during the war were con-
tinually howling about being united
Churchill called for unity, and so did
Roosevelt, and SO did the rest.
They knew better than most, of course,
that unity is something which goes back
to the home community, and that you
cannot have q united front against the
enemy unless you first feel united among
yourselves.