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The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 5

Publication:
The Mercuryi
Location:
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Issue Date:
Page:
5
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Adiuetable and towol ring. ote. Reg. 14.98 FEBRUARY A Lfttttr to Editor Where Does Poverty War Begin? To the Editor: I have often wondered where the war on poverty begins? And by whom? You seem to be the only paper the least hit interested in how the other half lives in these United States. It was wonderful what you did fnr the Rightmyers ani others that you have looked into.

Maybe you can find the answer to why there are few if any decent homes for col- you can call them that, are catch as catch can. The children's playground, is the discarded trash and garbage that has been dumped down there, old rotten and dangerous cars, cans, glass, and rats galore. They all own dogs down there, but this is a necessity, as the dogs keep the from taking over. They, too, endeavor to send their children to school, so that they may better themselves. New Telephone Directory POTTSTOWN UPPER PERKIOMEN VALLEY and VICINITY soon to be printed One Spigot for Many Families A Long Lane to Canal Street well air conditioned by virtue of no windows and ill fitting doors.

This rents for $20-522 The next floor also air conditioned, two rooms rent for $20 and the top two rooms for $18 These two rooms are occupied by ilies from three children on up. One family has 16 children and another ten They have one outside spigot for everyone down there and the outside privies, if There was a family of ten burned out in Mont Clare two years ago and the small sun of a little over $300 was donated. Did anyone come to lav a few cemen blocks to help this mother have a home for her children? Some kindhearted ones saw that they had clothes and furniture, but wha of a roof over their heads? You to he the only paper who care what happens locally. Why no housing projects here? Linfield WORRIED important to check your listings and your advertising. You may find that want to make additions or changes.

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12.88 ORIGINALLY 19.93 Royersford Row Home ored people to rent in both Royersford and Phoenixville Why, at the end of Fifth avenue, in Royersford, and down in the hollow, there are several families who pay rent for those shacks and their uater is a stream flowing from a are nice families who try to clothe their children well enough to send to school. But all large families and small income. Then in Phoenixville there is the so called Trash Littered Playground Toonerville section as you enter the town. Just a phase better than shacks. Worst of all is the so called Skate Level in Phoenixville on the North Side as you take the back road to the Charles Johnson home.

These are the worst of all and the rent is fantastic. Hardly able to stand, the houses are the best these people can find. You believe this, unless you them, as I have. The bottom level of one or two rooms it The Water Supply Is this our way of life? Before we are so generous with our food and money to other nations that don't want us, that spit on us, and bum our libraries, and let the tractors we send there rot, because they have no gas or oil to run them, you think that charity and love shoulJ begin at home? One of these women has to walk to Phoenixville hospital every day to get her insulin fhot, well over a mile, and it matter Canal Street If it snows, rains, or hails she must have her shot. How much more loving if the visiting nurses could give it to her at home? The road down to these people is a wreck and worth your life to drive it, especially in the almost only car available, but then the little ones have to go to school, too.

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Pages Available:
293,060
Years Available:
1933-1978