RANSVESTIA

IRGIN IEWS by VIRGINIA

SUGGESTIONS FOR ECONOMIC SURVIVAL

This editorial is a departure from anything I have ever written in TVia before. Some of you may resent the use of the space for something that has nothing to do with FPia, others of you will really appreciate it and probably a large number of you in the middle will read it with passing interest and not care much one way or the other. Be it as it may I'm about to "do my thing." Most of you are not aware of it but I have a considerable sense of concern about "my people," as I choose to think about you. Over the years I have tried to compose editorials that would help you survive the constant psychological pressures that we are all under by virtue of being FPs. But this time I'm going to write about something else but still do it out of concern for you-my people. I hope it will help at least some of you to survive the economic pressures that I am sure lie ahead. I don't set myself up as a predictor nor one with all the solutions. But I have learned some things that have helped me and I set them forth here in the hopes that they will help some of you. I'll try to make this concise and point by point, though not very short.

1. Our country and our world are in a rather bad way for a great many reasons but I am concerned about the economic ones. Lest some may say, "Well, Nixon's out and Watergate is more or less over so now we can settle down to a normal life,” I hasten to say that this has nothing to do with either Nixon or Watergate and it is not going to settle down because of a change of administration. There is going to be much talk to that effect now that President Ford is in office but he isn't going to be able to do any- thing more than Nixon could or did- or that a Democratic administra- tion could do. I am talking of course about inflation-recession-depression.

2. The present conditions are, I believe, inherent in a capitalist system of free enterprise by the very nature of it and have been there all along

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