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life Magazine a few years ago of the top industrial executives of many of our large companies. 'Practically every one of them started out as a clerk or a laborer at the very bottom of the ladder.
But our land of opportunity, our land of freedom, is being'undermined by an ever-growing segment of our population which has never and will never lift a finger to help itself, but will always ex. pect to be taken care of. ,
lOuVfi got tnem ra your county —they’re in every city. New York has them by the hundreds—to be -exact, about 4 pel cent of the population.
Now, I believe as you do that eharity is one of the greatest of human attributes, and I believe as you do that in a modern civilization there will always be unfortunate people who must be helped along in times of adversity.
But 1 believe there is something wrong with the system when, while we have been helping those unfortunates who have fallen down before the onslaught of physical or economic disaster, we have also created a class of people who demand to be helped but who will not help themselves.
I believe that group is at the root of this illness that J call “when-do-I-get-mine-ism.” From that small group the disease has spread out to destroy the old American principles that made this country great.
There is no pride iny more bf taking care of one’s obligations. When we get in debt and get over our head, then we go into bankruptcy, an<T save our skins by paying our creditors ten cents or less on the dollar. _There is no desire to put a penny aside for a rainy day. When we get sick, we want someone else to pay the doctor and we expect unemployment pay also.
There is no incentive to put something aside for the twilight of our lives. When we get old, we
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