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Like any other potent social medicine, government assistance to the needy often causes unpleasant side effects. The welfare state means new security for the millions who do not share the nation's affluence. But it also means public intervention in private lives, job-shirking relief chiselers who loaf at government expense, and tax burdens that soar higher every year. Can the side effects be nullified without crimping the cure? Last week one city answered with a resounding yes -and in the process, Newburgh, N.Y., gave the nation cause for some sober second thoughts on the use-and misuse...
...Quetzalcoatl. Outraged Aztecs set upon the blasphemer and his descendants the curse of undying lust. Telling of it, one weary descendant, a rancher who at 67 requires the constant attention of 18 concubines, "seemed to collapse within himself. His face was newly dented with grief like a loaf of bread a giraffe has kneeled upon...
...Reeves found a third possibility, closing the doors of his schools to prevent the government from using them. The Africans cried that depriving them of education was like depriving them of bread. The Rev. Reeves replied that his justification "depends on whether the loaf is poisoned...
...Loaf of bread...
...bridge games flourished and waned as some players ran out of money. The thirsty on trains carrying bar cars wedged there into one solid mass, and after all the good stock was gone, they were reduced to drinking warm beer. On one train, a passenger broke out a loaf of bread and passed it around. Another commuter shared his roll of Life Savers by distributing broken pieces to his comrades. One cheerful man found an air whistle and using it as a tuner, led his car mates in song. Cigarette supplies ran low, newspapers changed hands, a man penciled...