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...than promoted recovery, let them be consistent. Let them propose to this Congress the complete repeal of these measures. . . . The way is open in the Congress of the United States for an expression of opinion by yeas and nays. . . . "Shall we say to the farmer: '. . . Now go and hoe your own row'? Shall we say to the home owners: '. . . We have no further concern with how you keep your home. . . '? Shall we say to the several millions of unemployed: '. . . We will turn you back to the charity of your communities. . . '? Shall...
Even Mr. Micawber knew that a balanced budget spells content, an unbalanced one misery; but Mr. Micawber never kept a budget. Neither did the Hoe family. Mr. Hoe thought there was something nobly American in owning your own home, even if you had two mortgages on it and could not pay the back taxes. Mrs. Hoe thought the niggardly pay she earned in a department store gave her the right to buy (on the installment plan) all sorts of luxury-conveniences. Their children thought that somehow there ought to be money enough to pay for their chosen careers: Dallas wanted...
When Mrs. Hoe took the family troubles to a sympathetic newspaperwoman, whose job it was to put the bee of budget-keeping in her readers' bonnets, she got good advice free, paid by not taking it. Then unsympathetic reality began to crack down. Dallas flunked out of high school, wasted a lot of time trying to win a $10,000-prize competition, settled unwillingly to a job as chauffeur to his best girl's father. Sythia's grandmother sacrificed part of her funeral money to divert the "career" into a more appropriate job in a beauty parlor...
...city dweller, an agricultural implement may be a hoe or a pitchfork. But the implement industry thinks of itself in terms of reapers, harvesters, threshers, trucks and tractors-particularly tractors. Its business is essentially the mechanization of the farm, the replacement of four-legged power by power obtained from oil and gasoline engines. Its goal is the technological obsolescence of the horse...
...competitor for the Ed Board does not have a hard row to hoe. One editorial a night on a college subject for the first few weeks, and then two a night as the candidates become weeded out. Criticism of a purely destructive nature, and incidentally in case you hadn't realized it, this is the most stimulating and valuable type there is, is given by the editors, and we hope you profit...