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* to realize that the cards are stacked against the masses. I be-= gan to realize that no matter how hard a person tried, it seemed that he could only go so far in improving his standard of living. It seemed that if you did accumulate anything or had obligations the boss knew about it and you were kept dovm. No matter how hard you tried to forge ahead you were stopped one way or another. After a time I got my bellyful of the phoney setup people have to live under and I came to the conclusion that the only way to better living conditions is to work in a group and be so organized that you can demand your wants from the socalled big- shots that we are forced to work for. ... I believe in the labor movement. Everybody has to work. No one's ever poing to give you anything. You have to fight for what you get. As long as youtre on tnis ball of mud you might as weil get all you honestly can. You don't know where you're going when you get out of here. I believe your heaven and hell are right here on earth; you might as well have as much heaven as you can." learning the Score Bett oldstein Bettye Goldstein, Peoria, Illinois, was born in Peoria in 1921. She is Jewish; her father was a business man. Miss Goldstein comminted extensively on the fact thet 99% of the people in Peora lived in the lower end of Peoria and 1% lived on the Bluff. Miss Goldstein lived on the Bluff. She stated that she had never met any of the 99% and stated that in the Junior High School they were separated. Most of the lower end children went on to Manual Training Schocl and onthe bluff ~cu went te Pecria High School. The following pertinent parts of Miss Sclidstcints article is set’ cut as follows: 'Then I was sixteen I wrote a composition called "Education for the Masses". I pointed with scorn to the stcrility, the in- adequacy, the pompous protcnsions of American public school ed- ucation. I deseribed with cynicism the influence of the movies, radio, advertising. These things were respected by mcst people. They were considered right and beneficial. I questicned them, doubted their veluc. I locked arcund at the people who are products of the radio, motion picture, and advertising culture. You run into trouble if you question things that are accepted as rigut and proper. When I asked too many questions the last year I went tc Sunday schcol the rabbi tock me aside and told m: that I vcuid understand better when I was clder. hon we wanted to carry an article on social diseases in our schecl mag- azine, or an article on the defects of our educational syston, -44-