Cadillacs or Better Food?

By EDWIN B. PETERSEN

Hello Folks:

Recently the Arab Monarch Ibn Saud in his visit to the United States spent $1 million on fancy Cadillacs while at the same time his subjects were half starved and disease is rampant.

This ruler wants American dollars to help fight communism. It is however a cinch that any effort to fight off Communist influence is going the standard of living amoung the underprivileged of his nation.

Why don’t we aid him in fighting communism by selling him food, medical supplies and know - how, then return the money received from these sales to Arabia to build up their defenses and economy in such a way that out influence will have great effect?

The interest from the money we would lend to them in such a manner, could be used to further our world trade, staff our embassies and the money itself might come in handy in the future years should our own “hard money” prove to have big teeth marks in it. Even if we never got any of the money back directly it would still have been money well spent if we will have gained influence for ourselves and loss for Communism. 

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We talk a lot about socialism and its accompanying evils. That however does not mean that all socialism is bad. Our schools are a good example of how socialism can work for the benefit of all.

Generally, though socialism is a painless spirit killer. It lulls the public into a false sense of security. Much like the case of the explorer.

This explorer was traveling through a cold Artic night. He was not particularly uncomfortable, but as he proceeded he felt a sluggish, drowsy feeling coming over him. He decided to lie down and rest.

Then all of a sudden he realized that he was freezing to death. The thought so startled him that he got up and began to run with all his might. The excitement and vigorous exercise quickened the heart action and soon had a good supply of warm blood circulating through his body. Then the danger was past. His life had been saved because he thought enough about his life to do something about it.

It seems to me we are in that stage here in the United States; We had better take stock and see where we are at, or we may find ourselves frozen too stiff to do any thing about it. 

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Here is a little article I ran across in my wife’s note book.

GASSES WE BREATHE

When man breathes he draws in oxygen, which is taken up by the blood and distributed through his body. This oxygen burns his food in every cell very slowly, at a comparatively low temperature. The result is carbon dioxide and water vapor. The carbon dioxide escapes into his lungs and is breathed slowly out, in small quantities. He throws into the air carbon dioxide. In short: Man absorbs oxygen and breathes carbon dioxide.

The leave are lungs and take in carbon dioxide and have the power when in the sun to separate the carbon dioxide into carbon and oxygen. The oxygen is given off, the carbon retained and combined with hydrogen of water brought up by the roots of the plant.

Thus animal and plant complement each other to make food for both.