A ROOM OF OUR OWN

...telling labor that farmers are selfish "individualists" who are really economically all right...

...Upon investigating, the family finds that mother is trying to protect her favorite child so that he will contribute as little as possible of his income to the family...

...there are many meatless days, oleo takes the place of butter, and the coffee is very poor...

...I laughed but told her ruefully that even when a disease was found to be correctly diagnosed it is no fun to see the symptoms as they come along...

...If, then, Wisconsin has been getting "the most for her money," what does "economy" mean...

...It doesn't make any difference what name you call It...

...As he puts it, the economic barometer Is still falling for the mass of people, and they have only one way of registering their opposition.—to vote the ins out, and the outs in...

...Come up and see me If you want to go to work...

...That energy must have a channel...

...She turns off the electric light switch in the garage...

...And they are intuitively right...

...We haven't money, but we have got grains, guts, and shoe-leather...

...Let's rub the smoke from our eyes, and appreciate that )n the richest country In the world it is ridiculous to harp on a scarcity program...

...There has been enough popular pressure behind such measures in a state like Wisconsin, and increasingly on a national scale, to put legislation on the statute books and raise the money to pay for these services...

...it is a question of how much relief should be paid, how much money to keep people in idleness...

...All one heard in criticism of Mayor Hoan during the weeks before the election was, "He's had it long enough...

...No, it was not the baritone voice, nor Mayor Hoan's long service that accounts for the recent election...

...As in the 1938 election, people were worried, discouraged, demanded some kind of a change...

...We are faced with the choice of raising the money to pay for the services we want, or we shall have to cut down on the services or do without some of them...

...We know that as our society has become more complicated we have asked more of government.—all kinds of services like public health, increasingly better education for our children, more and better roads, various kinds of pensions, and so on...

...The Heil administration has evaded this situation, telling the public that "economies" have been made by firing employes, cutting appropriations in various departments, and the threat is now in the air that Gov...

...The best example I can give is that of a family, where the father and grown children contribute to the home which the mother manages...

...we have a physical problem—12 million little dynamos of energy...

...A friend called me early the next morning to say, "Grant says to tell Phil that the only ray of light on the landscape is that Phil predicted all this two years go...

...the poorest kind of reason if one is genuinely Interested In economy and efficiency...

...As indicated above, Phil has seen this coming for a long time...

...she cuts down on' cleaning and pressing: to save coal she keeps the house at a shivering temperature...

...In some places there has been inefficiency or even corruption in the administration of this work, but in Wisconsin even the reactionaries will admit that we have had a high standard of honesty and efficiency...

...In other words, we are getting less than before but we are paying more than at any time...

...The agents of the "big boys" are going among the farmers telling them that labor has more than its share of the pie...

...Lets see through to the real Issue, and then, as Phil told the young people, "I'd rather have you as workers than all the paid workers of the Republican party...

...It makes me boil to see so-called leaders using every known method to convince the American people that they have reached the bottom of the economic barrel, and they had better take a cinch in their belts and fight over the scraps...

...Some of them seem to feel that it is so much money in their own pockets...

...Heil will "close the capitol for a month...

...Uninformed or careless-thinking voters are apt to get a feeling of satisfaction from these apparently bold methods of "economy...

...A Room of Our Own The Election Results Appeal to 'Economy' Story of Prosperous John By ISABEL BACON LA FOLLETTE 4NOTHER election day has come and gone with people trying to interpret its results...

...The question is HOW...

...Were going to win...

...What is worse, they find that the poor meals, meager services have been planned, not to save them money, but to buy a new carpet for John's room...

...As Phil puts it...

...The most dangerous undermining of democracy is the political tweedledum, the shadow-boxing of the two old parties, in the face of 12 million unemployed...

...SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN...

...But talk as they will, the fact remains that the present Republican administration in Wisconsin has spent more money than any In the history of our state...

...The family grumbles but accepts what it believes to be the inevitable...

...The administration tries to hide the fact that these so-called "economies" are for the benefit of the large-income group, the brother Johns...

...At last they wake up to the real situation: they are expected to go on contributing their share toward the whole family expense, get less for their money, so that prosperous John not only won't have to pay hLs fair share but can also get favors which don't rightfully belong to him...

...Heil economy has cut services and tries to tell the taxpayer that the benefit is his...

...How long is it going to take the people to see through this "economy" smoke-screen to the simple fact that there is no reason why we shouldn't have all the goods and services we need from government...

...As after the 1938 election, people outside Wisconsin will say, "How could this happen In Wisconsin...

...This "economy" talk is an outrage, a smoke-screen to prevent voters from examining the real situation...

...Not only a good vote for the Republicans, but the defeat of Mayor Dan Hoan of Milwaukee demonstrates that the voters are still dissatisfied...

...As Phil told a crowd of Young Progressives recently, "Our problem is not just, a question of what Is going to be done...

...Financial experts were amazed that Milwaukee could even retire bonds during the depression, when other government units were piling up debts...

...The voter* chose a young man whose positive qualifications would be very hard to list, although I understand he has a fine baritone voice...

...Suddenly, however, the rest of the family begin to notice that brother John, whose income is much the largest of any of the family, is buying a new car, new clothes, taking a trip to the city in addition to steadily swelling his bank account...

...Economy" will never answer this crying problem...

...Let us examine the "economy" appeal, look underneath its wellworn surface...

...What we ought to be doing is to put our thought and energy to using our human and material resources to produce the kind of life we have every right to enjoy...

...What is the truth...

...but these agents tell all groups that what Is really crushing them is the tax burden, that at this vital spot the voters can get relief from the harassment of financial pressure...

...It is going to come out...

...Suddenly the mother says brother John insists they must economize in the home...

...they have to take one of the alternatives, and it is the fault of political leadership if the right alternative is not offered...

...From one angle it is hard for people to understand •hat the electorate would turn down a man who gave one of the country's largest cities an outstanding ucord for economy and efficiency in municipal government...

...I have been watching the radio and press reports of the speeches of the candidates for nomination of both the old parties, and have yet to hear anything really fundamentally constructive...