THE FREEDOM WAY
An outdated, but valid $1 a week food plan.
It's a little dated now, but the $1.00-a-week food plan is
still good.
Copyright: Victor A. Croley
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INTRODUCTION
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him
step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
"
-Henry David Thoreau
Two fearful explosions, coming as a complete surprise to a
bewildered world, changed the course of the world and the
lives of everyone in it - including your life - and
heralded the beginning of the Atomic Age. Civilization as
we know it was doomed when the echoes of those atomic bomb
blasts in Japan died away. What next?
The world asked that question. It is still asking it. Of
what use to build magnificent, costly cities, if they can
be wiped out in a jiffy? Of what use to struggle and strive
to build up a fortune, if in the flash of an eyelid
everything - including life itself - can be wiped out?
We are now at that uncertain stage in life. We are
confused. We are afraid. We are bewildered. We cringe. We
don't know what to do next. We are afraid we may not only
lose our possessions; we are afraid for our lives.
It has been said so often that it has become an axiom and
even a proverb, that some good comes out of every bad.
Another axiom is to the effect that every weapon carries
with it its own defense. And if you will couple these two
proverbial expressions, do a little thinking to get your
ideas straight, you will have the answer to survival in an
atomic age. Let a good life come to you from this bad omen
for civilization, and use the only weapon against the
atomic bomb which has ever been devised.
The good life? It is unquestionably the simple life - and
more and more each day Americans are turning to it, in one
form or another, grateful that there is an escape from the
complexities and problems of modern city living.
And the defense against the atomic bomb? It is one simple
but inexorable thing - space. For, don't you see, if you
are not near enough where an atomic bomb may explode to be
harmed by it, in your life it is harmless.
Therefore if you find a better life in the simple life, far
enough away from the crowded cities to be uninteresting to
the men who launch atomic attacks, you can survive. More:
you can find a new measure of satisfaction in living by
getting back to the simple form of living.
There's nothing new in this. A hundred years and more ago a
lean, lanky, hawk-nosed New England philosopher and writer
wrote an entire book about it. The book was called WALDEN.
It was so unpopular in its day that the author - Henry
David Thoreau - had to publish it at his own expense, and
was left with most of the books on his hands. Once he wrote
a friend: "I own a library of 712 books, 700 of which I
wrote myself," - the unsold copies of WALDEN, a book about
the simple life.
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