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2 -THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY. JANUARY 2, 1971 CfeCaitjttia pirwiflujrwf EDITORIALS Most human endeavors are stimu lated primarily by the profit motive - and a very worthy motive it is. When an enterprise seeks a profit, it must also . contribute something worthwhile to the community, 'hit, there are professions where incentive and initiative are supplied by seme thing deeper than profit Medicine is one of them. In many ways, doctors everyday evidence the qualities of dedication that set the medical profession apart from virtually any other human un dertaking. At the moment, the doc tors are in the midst of what the American Medical Association calls a "Volunteer Physicians for Vietnam" program. Under this program, hun dreds of physicians have served in outposts of Vietnam, "... not because it is where the action is, but because it is where the need is." The AMA "Volunteer Physicians for Vietnam" program, in operation since Junfc, When Man Ceases to Explore Willard F. .Rockwell, Jr., chief executive officer of North American •: Rockwell Corporation, a firm deeply involved in space and commercial W manufacturing, makes the strongest kind of case for continuing the U. S. program of space exploration. He ob served that nearly 249 years elapsed from the first voyage of Columbus, in 1492, and Vitus Bering's discovery of Alaska in 1741. "In those 249 action-packed years," he comments, "every great land mass was uncovered and virtually every shore charted, and the foundation *as laid for the deve lopment of as we know it today." From Columbus' first voyage,' through the ensuing centuries of ex ploration, skeptics could see no use ful purpose - financially or otherwise - in the undertakings of the ex There has been so much political propaganda concerning the U. S. pre scription drug industry that it is in cumbent upon every thoughtful citi zen, whose life may sometime literal ly depend on the availability of high quality medication, to learn the facts for himself. And, the facts are avail able to anyone who wishes to take the trouble to look at them. The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association has published a little booklet, entitled "Key Facts About the U. S. Prescription Drug Indus try." It has sections on prices, com petition, quality control, research and accomplishments of the industry. Included are up-to-date charts and many statistics on health trends such as increased life expectancy and re duced hospital loads brought about In spite of the years of debate that preceded adoption of President Nixon's maritime program, there are still those who persist in writing off as failures past programs to maintain the U. S. Merchant Marine and who downgrade the new program. The president of the American In stitute of Merchant Shipping has en deavored to set the record Straight He says, 'The contributions of the American Merchant Marine, as mea sured in terms of national growth and well-being are most significant and yet little known. The merchant fleet has been (1) our commercial lifeline to global trade and deVeloper of hundreds of overseas markets for businessmen (2) a major contribu tor to our economy through signifi position of a second-class nation. The " •«* ""♦•iinMi nrnnntitinn Help Needed Checks the Facts An Untenable Proposition 1966, has been extended for an addi tional two-year period by the U. S. Agency for International Develop ment. To carry out the expanded commitment, the medical profession • must provide 32 volunteer physicians on a continuing basis every 60 days for the duration of the program. So far, the "Volunteer Physicians for Vietnam" program has had vir tually no exposure to the public. But, in order to stimulate interest, the doctors, through the AMA, are letting the need for wider interest in the program be known. It may en courage young doctors to participate, and it may broaden public under standing of the unique sense of dedi cation that is inseparable from a career in medicine - a dedication re flected in the policy and actidns of the medical profession to help achieve workable ways of meeting the nation's health needs. w 7 , plorers. Yet, they followed Columbus across the Atlantic and settled on fee shores he discovered. They followed the trailblazers across the continent of North America just as they have followed the paty of pio neers all through history and have benefited enormously from every step forward. And, so it is today with space exploration. Man has landed on the moon, and the skeptics say it is a waste of time and money - but is it? Rockwell points out that, even now, tangible benefits from the space program are visible. He says, "In the United States we estimate that our windfall of technology from the space program is already returning four dollars of value for every dollar invested." When man ceased to ex plore, he will cease to live. largely by new pharmaceutical deve lopments. Some of the significant facts contained in the booklet in clude the information that of the 536 major new medicines developed in the United States during the last 30 years, 92 percent came from U. S. pharmaceutical industry laboratories. About one out of every five produc tion workers in major drug firms is engaged in quality control. The phar maceutical manufacturers will spend an estimated S6OO million for re search and development in 1970. The booklet contains these state ments qnd many more. It may be obtained by addressing the Pharma ceutical Manufacturers Association, 1155 Fifteenth Street, N. W.*, Wash ington, D. C., 20005. cant contributions to the U. S. ba lance of payments and as an impor tant employer, taxpayer and cus tomer of American goods; (3) a pro tector of U. S. traders' interests by assuring the availability of adequate, dependable shipping services at fair and reasonable rates ...; (4) a logisti cal weapon in our nation's arsenal...; (5) and a valuable political instru ment as vessel, flying the American flag into foreign ports become sym bols of both America's strength and her peaceful intentions." As other nations, most notably Russia, move to vastly enlarge their maritime interests, the U. S. has the choice of either applying its techno logical superiority to creating a mer chant marine capability that com mands respect as part of its overall nnwer or of withdrawing to the s -f? ■ * Of Course ... He Knew They Couldn't Answer J.EDGAR HOOVER STATED THA TURNED DOWN A QUEST BY THE THEN-ATTORNEY TO LOWER FB I QUALIFICATIONS IN ORDER TO HIRE MORE BLACKS. HE FURTHER STATED EVER SAY AHVTHIHG THAT'S A LIE AGAIN I'LL BRAND YOU ASA LIAR Al v .• 1 ll Hi - '•'.aft .U- J ■ h Comments from the Capital , (# k QUIPS, QUANDARIES AND QUERIES by Vant Niff. Timely tip to salad lovers: Ii you find that the price of a head of lettuce or a bunch oi aspara gus has nearly doubled recently, who's to blame? You may call Cesar Chavez, farm workers' union organizer, and the Team sters' Union, the culprits. Because out in Salinas Valley, California, known as "America's salad, bowl!", these two strong labor opportunists are battling over which one Of them will represent the lettuceJads. Result? The crops remained unharveeted. Produce prices soared. As in so many sit uations where organized labor rides roughshod over the inter ests of the ordinary man— nobody has bothered to consult the farm workers at all. It seems to me that every time there's a contest over who will rule in union disputes, it's the little man —you and I—who pays. • t • It's bandied about at the Over"*' Mas Press Club that The New York Times' slogan should be up dated to read, "All The News That's Lett To Print"! • • • Controversial question: Where was the National Labor Rela tions Board when a union pick eted 169 different Sears Roebuck locations carrying signs and pla cards that read, 'WORKERS OF SEARS ON STRIKE FOR UN FAIR LABOR PRACTICES"? Napping? In truth, no Sears em ployees were on strike. Sears had committed no unfair labor practices! Yet two years dragged by before the NLRB got the mat ter settled and squared away. Almost unfailingly this sup posedly impartial board rules in favor of the unions. A company like Sears might be able to sur vive prolonged picketing but it ' could easily ruin a small com pany. Heaven help the small business man—because the NLRB won't. • • • Wherever there's another anti- United States demonstration in the world it is the Communists who direct it. From my travels far and wide I can assure you that the average man-in-the-street —whether Turk, Japanese, In dian, Yugoslav, or dozens of other nationalities —truly ad mires America. It is his dearest wish to come to our free country. So don't hold the demonstrations against him. Rather you will find that it is usually Moscow money Dungs Ton Staid Kso«r f' THOTMES HI O ON OF A SLAVE WOMAN WHO ROSE TO BECOME A MIGHTY MONARCH... HIS REIGN BROUGHT UNHEARD OF WEALTH .M TO EGYPT. HIS EMPIRE EMBRACED TWO j|] CONTINENTS AND.ONE YEAR JHETRIB- \~|| UTE FROM A SINGLE NATION WAS 1,570 / - ; : M \ POUNMOFOOIOIOFTHEMANYMON. | F UMENTS HE BUILT, ONE OBELISK STANOS ON THE THAMES / LON- I -Tgjgj DON; ANOTHER IN CENTRAL PARK,N.Y.C v --KNOWN TO MILLIONS AS "CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE'"! CovnH k*,TAL. Z/*?6rf planted in trained cadres of mili tants that starts a new wave of anti-Americanism. • • • The spirit of the Women's Lib is taking over the male union member. If you think that some union demands are outlandish, this one takes the cake. Believe it or not, a paper workers' union, composed ol sturdy, hardy males, is seeking maternity leave for the men. Not merely a day or a. week, but four long months so that the new daddies can keep house while the mother attends to the baby. True, it's far-fetched, but hardly more so than some of the other blue-sky demands cur rently being made by unions. Considering the powerful wea pons organised labor has at hand to win almost any demand, it wouldn't be too surprising to set , a new breed of "male house keeper"''—a union-created mon- BEHOLO... THE "MALE HOUSOTBPfiR" ster—come into being fairly soon. But to my mind, this is only further evidence of the excessive economic and political power of the labor movement. In this in stance, it has gone so far beyond benefitting the working man that it borders on the ridiculous. • • • Which came first—the wage hike, or the price spiral? Some thing's got to give, to bring gal loping inflation to a halt! I• • • Raids on Black Panther head quarters in various places usu ally reveal a hidden cache of dynamite, guns and other killer kits. The Panthers are openly dedicated to bombing, burning, churning up existing standards and values. Numerically speak ing there an only a handful of them—a mere 900 hard-core Black Panthers out of a total twenty-two million Black Amer- icans. May I please ask by what right does this tiny minority de grade the image of our fine Black citizens and claim to represent the rest of their race? • • • A note to our freedom-seeking radicals: There are no foreign newspapers or magazines on the newsstands in Prague. And if that isn't sufficient indication that the word "freedom" has been eradicated from the Communists' vocabulary, Anton Vasek, Czech oslovak! an ambassador to Den mark, defected rather than return to the "People's Paradise". • • • Merry Madcap Martha (Mrs. Mitchell wife of the U. S. Attor ney General) may not be a fav orite of yours. But you must admit that the chatty Mrs. M. has a point when she fires her furious barrages of criticism at those she considers responsible for our country's problems. I don't agree with everything she says. However, when all the dissidents and trouble-makers are allowed to have their say on any subject why shouldn't Mrs. Mitchell be accorded the same privilege? • • • Whatever happened to: e The Great Society? (It was a slogan, not a pro gram. It died of boredom.) • The War on Poverty? (It was so inordinately expen sive that it almost ate us of house, home and country, and poverty is still with us.) e The Ban-the-Bomb movement? (The Russians got their own bomb —and suddenly, the left ists stopped all mention of it) e The five-cent candy bar? (Inflation gobbled it up.) e The dedicated politician? (He was shoved into oblivion by the self-promoting, charis matic types who promise Heaven-on-earth with "Fed eral" money that only comes out of your pocket and mine.) e The polite youngster? (He was over-shadowed in the mass media by the parasites of the "permissive soctety"— and are some of their parents red-faced now!) e The labor leader who really cared about the workers? (He got lost in the scramble for power that created some of the most critical situations that working Americans have ever known.) -Uprising {Coontinued from front page) may yet catch up with the most powerful nation on earth." The report, entitled "In dians in Revolt-1970," quotes a young Navajo named Charles Cambridge, who main tains: "The white man simply has not developed the philoso phical and cultural sophistica tion to control the technolo gy he has created. Now that technology controls him, and if something isn't done, it may destroy everybody." Many Indiand, according to Gaiilard, believe that American definitions of growth and progress are at the root of environmental pollution, and that the ecolo-. gical crisis is so acute the planet may become unihabit able unless white people and institutions change. "The white man needs to learn the simple things from Indians, such as how to live in har mony with what God has given him," Buffalo Tiger of the Moccosuket tribe said. A respect for the "spiri tual significance and limited life-giving resources" of the earth and an appreclitlon of the importance of tribal or group identity are the two things Indians believe they have to teach their conquer ors. -NMA Coontinued from front page) les, Washington, Chicago and Atlanta, the project was de scribed by Dr. Thomas as a program to "aggressively re cruit and support minority group students for the medi cal profession." He indicated that Project 75 is a five-year program de signed to make "a significant increase in the number of medical students among mino rity groups." Dr. Thomas said "only a well-organized and sustained effort at recruiting, backed up by well-funded assistance program for training will as sure that three are sufficient doctors available in the future to serve these communities." According to Dr. Thomas, Project 75 will "go further than similar recruiting effort to date because of such fea tures as a national data bank to provide information and counseling to students as well as medical colleges, greater provisions for securing finan cial assistance for students and a greater measure of com munication between students and the profession." Project activity will be con ducted nationally from the central office in Chicago and three regional offices. "Local NMA-affiliated medical soda ties will also provide leader ship for the Project's work," added Dr. Thomas, "and people desiring assistance or Information may contact us through these groups." -Traffic (Coontinued from front page) and a 7.1 per cent drop in traffic accidents. The Institute said this was the fifth consecutive month in which the economic loss fell below the corresponding month a year earlier and the fourth month in the last five in which accidents and in juries were down from a year earlier. The Institute cautioned that improvements in the traf fic toll have occurred brief ly in the past only to be can celled by a reversal in trend. It also pointed out that while a continuing and significant downward trend in economic loss ultimately would lead to a reduction in auto insurance rates, such a reduction would take time in coming because of the many months - even years - it takes for accident experience to be reflected In ratemakiag statistics. It alao noted that the total number' of accidents la still risit« and the cost of auto repairs and medical and legal services - which are paid by auto in surance - are skyrocketing. The economic loss for the first ten months of 1970 was $13,640,000,000 down SIBO million from the $13,769, -Home (Cooctlnued from free* P*®e) else so we chose this way to* demonstrate em concern," he added. The Fund is named far Mayor Even' brother Medgar who was assassinated in 1963 while leading the NAACps voter campaigns in Mississippi as Field Secretary far the nation's largest civil rights or ganization. He was succeeded In that post by Charles Ever*. The one-story wood frame bowe has three bedrooms and an enclosed deeping porch. It was purchased for $9,000 and is located in Jackson, Miss. The Green family moved into the home during Christmas week. Tax-deductible contribu tions may be sent to the Medgar Evers Fund, 150 East 52nd Street, New York 10022. The Fund's primary program commitment is to the social and economic deve lopment of Fayette, Miss., where it supports a communi ty health service. The Fund recently announced a (rant of SIOO,OOO as the . local share of a Federal pant to build a" multi-purpose com munity center. -Migration (Coontinued from front page) Community has thready been acquired in Hinds County. Mtosissippl, about thirty miiea from Jackson. He aaid the first RNA per sonnel are expected to be In residence there by early spring and that the first group of families should be able to move in by the opening of school next September. Hearing Clinic Certified At S.C. State ORANGEBURG, S.C. The Speech and Hearing Clinic at South Carolina State Collece has been certified to offer clinical services in speech pathology and audiology. Certification was granted by the Professional Services Board of the American Speech and Hearing Association upon the recommendation of the American Boards of Examin ers in Speech Pathology and Audiology. THE SERVICES of the clin ic include diagnosis and ther apy for persons with the vari ous kinds of Speech disorders, evaluation of hearing disor ders, and the fitting of hear ing aids for persons who need them, said Dr. Harold Powell, professor of speech correction and director of the Speech and Hearing Clinic. -Event (Coontinued from front page) gional awards are alao mad*. Traditionally, the national "Boy of the Year" is "in stalled" by the President in a White House ceremony during National Boys' Club Week, (March 28-Apr. 3). He also meets other government of ficials, visits New York for press, radio and television in terviews and is an honored guest at the 65th annual Boys' Clubs convention. He also meets other government officials, visits New York for press, radio and television in terviews and is an honored guest at the 65th annual Boys' Clubs convention. He also meets other government officials, visits New York for press, radio and television in terviews and is an honored guest at the' 65th annual Boys' Clubs convention. He will also be an honored guest in August at the American Legion convention In Hous ton. All winners will be an nounced during National Boys' Club Week. 000,000 figure for the —mt psriod last year. Traffic acci dents for the firat ten month. meanwhile, were —"rttii at 17,168,000, 24,000 more than the 17384,000 far the ocnwpondlng period laet y*ar. Estimated traffic injuries' ft* the ten months (topped 80,875 Atom 4,094,216 to 4,068,840, and traffic deathi fen 1,020, from 46,680 to 46,610.
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