.. Integration, which was fought for to vigdrously in tile
early 60s, was to improve opportunities for blacks in
education, employment, and housing but has proven to
be elusive, according to recent studies.
Even though, information released from the Census
Bureau indicated that gains have been made in employ
merit, education and housing, the statistical gains do not
reflect the reality.
In 1960, representation in technical and professional
employment for nonwhite participation was about
4.6. Today, it is-9.
Representation of black managers and administrators
in the 60's (categories specified by the Department of
Labor) was around 2.5; today, it is 5. Today,
blacks comprise 11 of plumbers and pipefitters, as
compared to 5.5 in the 60's; 8 machinists and job
fitters are now black in comparison with 2 in the 60's.
Today, there are 9,300 black physicians and surgeons
in the United States; while in 1960 there were only
4,650. Currently, there are nearly 12,000 black lawyers;
in the 60's there were 2,000.
The gains made in the integration of schools is very
significant.. In 1978, sixty per cent of black children at
tended schools at least half black;-while ten years ago
(1968), seventy per cent attended these schools (down by
On a windy, chilly night last November, an entire
family was rushed to the hospital. After a delicious
homecooked dinner of favorite foods, mother, father
and children all felt violently ill. Two aunts became
comatose. Others complained of upset stomachs,
queasiness, and dizziness.
Physicians suspected food poisoning, but tests were
negative. Then someone suggested carbon monoxide.
Blood tests confirmed that carbon monoxide levels in
deed were abnormally high. When health department
officials returned to the house, they found a leaking fur
nace, the source of the sudden mysterious illness.
One aunt never regained consciousness: she died four
days later. The other came out of her coma after three
weeks; today she shows signs of residual brain damage.
The rest gradually recovered, although the father and
son were treated for some time for loss of memory, con
fusion, and weakness of the legs, long-term symptoms
of carbon monoxide poisoning.
9,000 Deaths
Between 1968 and 1975, nearly 9,000 deaths in the
United States were attributed to carbon monoxide as an
underlying cause, according to the morbiditymortality
Are you searching for friends? Would you like to
make other people become interested in you? Would
you like to win friends and influence people? If your
answer to these questions is yes, follow this advice:
Want to be friendly. When you sincerely want to be
friendly, you have begun to win the battle of getting
friends.
Act like a friend. When you are friendly, other peo
ple will respond similarly because they will feel that you
lik" them.
" Ask questions. And, display a sincere interest in the
answers. Most people become very happy when others
ask them questions about themselves. This is the easiest
way to "break the ice."
Be a good listener. Show concern, understanding
and empathy. Most people search endlessly for someone
who will listen to their problems; someone who will let
them unburden themselves of their difficulties. So,
listen! - - -
Pot your own problems away to t whileiUlLBro-,
bk ms are more important to you than the problems of
another person. But your problems are not as important
to others as they are to you. Few people ever really have
an opportunity to express, in a very personal way, the
things that trouble them. When you put your problems
away and show sincere interest in the problems ot
others, you will be instantly liked. So, quietly listen and
begin to collect friends. ....
Smile. Your smile indicates that you like the person
at whom you are smiling. When you smile at them, they
will return your smile because your smile says: I I ke
you "Everybody likes to be liked. Everybody likes the
person who likes them. So, smile and win frwnds. '
Look at the other person. Let your eyes com
municate your friendlinness. When your eyes display in
terest in the other person, they feel friendly around you
They feel that you are sincerely interested in them and
become even more motivated, to talk Let them talk
about themselves and you will notice how quickly the
Business In The Black
Black Renaissance In
Motor City
Charles E. Belle
GETTING SMT
By Walter J.. Smart
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ten per cent). In the South, black children attending
predominantly black schools dropped from 79 per cent
to 59 per cent, the greatest progress made in any region ,
of the country. ." ; ''
In the area of higher education, one million blacks are
presently engaged in undergraduate studies, as com
pared to around 250,000 in the 60's. Today blacks
represent eleven per cent of undergraduates at American
colleges; up from six per cent in the 60's.
At the graduate and professional school level, blacks
comprise six per cent of enrollments; a rise from four
per cent in 1970.
In housing, black suburban-big city living from 1960
to 1979, grew by 72 to about five million, as com
pared to white movement of 38 to the suburbs. Most
of this moving by blacks occurred between black city
neighborhoods and suburbs that were mostly black, or
rapidly becoming so.
. With blacks having increased their numbers in
employment, education aixd housing, I guess one can
conclude that integration has had an impact among the
professionals and technically-trained minorities. But, if
we analyze the social progress made by integration in
the last twenty years, progress has been minimal.
There are social barriers to integration that are very
hard to penetrate. For instance, in housing most of the
movement for blacks occurred within black areas rather
than to white areas.
Some housing critics note that in white areas, rents
andor mortgages are overpriced for blacks and act as
segregation factors. Mortgage loans are much more dif
ficult for blacks to get because of the stagnant pre-
Happiness Through Health
Carbon Monoxide:
Death That Strikes Without Warning
By Otto McClarrin
section of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Motor vehicle, exhaust caused 5,782 mortalities; in
complete combustion of domestic fuel, 1,093; and oc
cupational exposure from blast furnaces or kilns, 1,889.
Carbon monoxide poisoning, particularly at low
levels, claims more victims than most people imagine.
"Carbon monoxide is an extremely prevalent and
very dangerous problem that is not noticed," said Dr.
Edwin Rayner Levine, of Chicago, an expert in the
field. Often, he says, the victim won't recognize any of
the toxin's various signals. Or he or others may mistake
symptoms and attacch them to some other malady.
"Chronic buildup at low levels might not produce
definite symptoms," he explained. "But if you talk to
wives or family (when carbon monoxide poisoning is
suspected), you often will find that the individuals may
have been more irritable, forgetful, difficult to live
with. Thai's a typical picture of oxygen deficiency,
which carbon monoxide poinsoning causes. Loss of
judgment, change of personality, loss of memory,
weaknness, sleepiness these are symptoms that
should be thought about.
"The individual may notice nothing, but as the
poisoning becomes more defined, his judgment
decreases. He is less aware that he is in trouble than
anyone else. Many patients tell me they passed out and
did not remember feeling bad before. The symptoms are
so indefinite they can come on so gradually, and then
Coping
Make Other People Like You
By Dr. Charles W. Faulkner
being to like you.
Make them talk by asking them questions about
something in which they are interested. Your first objective-should
be to find out something interesting about
the person. Then, express an interest in it by askuig a
simple question about it. Ask about the person's talfnts,
job, family, clothes or other friends. Then, sit back aid
listen to them really start talking.
MT;,3VS:8DI TKIDUKLBMTIUES-IS
judices at the lower level of banks.
In the educational areas, 46 of the nation's black -children
in 1977 attended black schools. A large propor
tion of whites removed their children from the public
school system to private or parochial schools.
Insofar as higher education, the two-thirds blacks
who attend white colleges find little interaction with,
whites outside the classroom.
Racial seperation is even more preponderant in the
professional fields. There is the National Bar Associa
tion for black lawyers and the American Bar Associa
tion for mostly white lawyers. A recent National Law
Journal survey showed that just twelve of the 3,700
partners of the fifty biggest U.S. law firms were black.
Nearly 75 of all black lawyers work for governmental
agencies because private practices hold so little promise.
There is the National Medical Association for black
physicians and the American Medical Association for
mostly white physicians.
It seems as though integration is just an Utopian idea;
when applied to realiry, it leaves much to be desired But
even though integration has not reached the intended
milestone envisioned, it has had a positive impact on the
progress made by blacks.
they strike, much as someone creeping up and hitting
you over the head."
Just how long it might take for damage to be done,
depends on the time of exposure to carbon monoxide,
its concentration, the rate of pulmonary function,
whether or not one is sitting, standing, or working. But
when carbon monoxide begins to tie up the hemoglobin
or red cells carrying oxygen, trouble begins. One hun
dred per cent oxygen is needed to offset this imbalance,
to prevent asphyxiation.
Facing an ever-present danger of overexposure to
potentially lethal carbon monoxide are garage
employees such as ticket takers, traffic directors, iraffie
police, and those who work in steel mills and foundries
with lift trucks and combustible materials.
Other Common Sources
Furnaces, tireplaces with flues insufficiently cleaned,
attached garages, natural gas (produced from flame),
condominiums, apartment buildings, shopping centers
with garages on the first few floors, underground
garages. "When many cars are running and these
become crowded with people waiting in line, they are
very, very dangerous.
Compliment the other person, hveryone likes to be
praised. Everyone likes the person who praises them.
So, praise them and start collecting friends immediately
Compile a list of things that you like in otherslt
you like these qualities in others, remember that other
people like the same qualities in you. ,
It is most important that you remember that when
people feel that you like them, they want to be fnencrs
with you. Start today to make people like you and you
will have more friends than you know what to do with.
If you have questions you would like answered, direct
them to Dr. Charles W. Faulkner, P.O. Box 50016,
Washington, DC.
DETROIT Why was I lost when 1 first stepped into
the stately structures of Motown's m,lifLce"'
Renaissance Center? Have we gone too far? Too fast?
Or is it because we don't know where to begin? It s a
beautiful modern octagon shaped plaza with water falls
and wide open spaces inside leading to the Renaissance
Plaza Hotel, headquarters for the National Business
League, 1980 convention. . ...
Black businessmen and women in suits, ties and smart
trousseaus have come together to propose their case for
corporations in this country to consider doing business
with capable black American owned and managed com
panies. Clearly these people beheve they are continuing
the concept layed down by their beloved leader and
founder Booker T. Washington "cast down your bucket
here" for a match made in heaven big business.
However, if these black American business men anc
women wish to expand their businesses over night,
might'n they too cast down their buckets m thar own
black American communities? Combining all the black
American owned and managed savings and Joans
associations together last year would produce assets of
less than om billion dollars $847 342,237 to exact,
according to statistics gathered by John L. Dunham,
membership services representative of the. U.S. League
of Savings Associations. .
When did these 39 savings and loans advertise their
services to their black communities last? Lest you think
I take money lightly, let me remind you of WV"
when my only banker stopped me on the i stairs in he
Plaza Hotel. Hope to tell you he too was there at the
convention trying to tie down some additional business
But being polite, I merely inquired when was the las
time ine First Enterprise Bank in California has run an
ad in the Black Press of America? The Chairman cough
ed, sneezed and cleared his throat. Ahh ....
One of the many problems of black American owned
and managed financial and other msi nut ions is their
ability to ignore other professional services available in
i he black American community. Common sense, aic-
ates the dSpmen. of the $100 billion annual
estimated income of 26 million black Americans for
black businesses. , ,f ,h
The black press is ever present in every pocket of he
black American community across the nation. Advertis
ing in the black community owned newspapers puts the
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