[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I am old enough to have lived without a lot of the comforts and conveniences he mentions. I personally don’t consider many of them to be necessities. I enjoy many of them but I could imagine living without them — again —even if I didn’t have Rockefeller’s fortune.

[Jeff Chandler]

I personally don’t consider many of them to be necessities.

Except for the medical advances, most of what the article discusses are not an issue, really.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

Of course they aren’t necessities. Indoor plumbing isn’t a necessity, strictly speaking. The point concerns standard of living. All the things he discusses make like easier, more fulfilling and longer.

Hank