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Autumn Arrives — Full of “Promises?
Autumn arrive* and with it the bright, rosy colon of frost-nipped foliage. By far, however, are. those discerable through candidates eyes, for now is the time of campaign promises with predictions of brave new worlds, if only the right man is elected.
Mr. Stevenson can see, with a single sweep of his Democratic eye, the solution to all our foreign problems. The fact that 90 % of our foreign troubles stem from the Kremlin and that in all probability he has no particular influence there whatsoever, bothers Mr. Stevenson not at all. Mr* • Kefauver foresees an immediate solution to the 40 year old farm problem of surpluses, if only the Democrats are elected. Mr. Eisenhower has been slow t« start, but he is now busily polishing up rosy forecasts to be tossed the voters* way this week when the President launches his campaign.
However, our vote for the Prince of Promisers must go to Mr. Richard Nixon. This Sunday we were reading his predictions of a Republican Utopia to a certain young lady who was engaged, meanwhile, in picking up a room after four young sons.We read about the three television sets and two automobiles per family, and about the standard of living being doubled in ten years. Then, as two of the boys came racing in calling for Sunday dinner, we read of the grandest promise of all, a four day work week. As she departed for the kitchen the young lady quietly and ungrammatically asked, “for who?*’
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