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Australian Newsman Takes Objective jLook at America
Often one can’t see the forest for all of the trees. ’Being too close to something too long can dull perception.
Bryce Kinnear, an Australian newspaperman who visited the United States for three months, came on the American scene with the friendly inquisitiveness of a stranger.
He looked, and then looked again. What he saw puzzled, pleased, mystified and sometimes intrigued him. What many Americans take for granted he questioned.
The American standard of living, on the average, is higher than the Australian standard, he observed.
“But basically, jt’s higher m things that are adjuncts to life, not essential to it. Things like bigger automobiles with more chrome more often, home freezers as well_ as refrigerators, television sets, and dishwashing machines.”
These things, he maintained, drive Americans forward in a frenzied rush to nowhere.
As a side reaction, fatigued persons, unable to enjo^ what .they’ve worked so hard to gain, fall prey to fear. Jealously they see inAgj^ nary sectional and national plots to part them from their possessions.
The extreme preoccupation of adults, on one hand, and the almost irresponsibility of youth, on the other, is a paradox of extravagant productive and competitive races.
Youth, schooled to be carefree and happy, mature one bright day
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Louisa County is constructing a $41,500 Negro elementary school; a $55,000 Negro e 1 e m e ntary school; a $90,000 addition to the Louisa High School, and a $63,000 addition to the Louisa elementary school. Facts and figures on school construction in Rappahannock could not be secured . . . !
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