The More Things Change...

Nov, 17, 1948
Attention L.I.R.R.: Of all nights for you to ask to increase your rates is a night when my husband's train is almost three-quarters of an hour late! How about the railroad making up for all the meals that are ruined because the trains are late? We wives will fight any raise as well as our commuting husbands.
An Angry Wife
Hempstead

March 16, 1954
Since last June I have been complaining to the Long Island Lighting Company about my unfair gas and electric bills, but nothing is done.

My husband and I both go to business and are away from the house from 16 to 18 hours a day. Still, my bills run from $44 to $46 for a two-month period. Our latest bill was higher than ever.
Muriel Skernick
Plainview

April 1, 1954
You ask, "What kind of children do we have who bomb schools, stab friends, destroy classrooms, assault girls and threaten teachers?" How can they help doing these terrible things when it is vividly presented to them on television, in the moving pictures, in magazines and newspapers, and elsewhere. The first and greatest reason is because people are trying to live without God in their lives. Instead of worshiping God, the almighty pistol and sex are worshiped above all else.
H.M.G.
Bay Shore

-- Compiled by Barbara Braine