'Sunday, February 24, 1968 Tom Gene West ) ■ • . •’ • . • • Weekly Weatherman By J. A. C. DUNN There is something about wea ther that fascinates Tom Gene West. Tom is now the Weekly’s wea therman, responsible for the cli matological statistics, analyses, and predictions that appear on our front pages. At the moment <9th grade), Tom is not sure whether his life will be spent in politics or weather-watching. Say Rain! or Snow! or Cold front! to Tom and a light comes to his eye. He darts to a window and peers out, checking. Some times he can spot an approach ing cold front without a ther mometer, although he has three. ASK FOR THE 14-oz. Sirloin 1 STEAK SPECIAL _ • CHARCOAL BROILED • HVKEI) IDAHO ’OTATO • CHEESE DRESSING „■£' fV: l-’, ' \ • OREGON GREEN PEAS • CHEF’S SALAD W. C HOICE OF DRESSING • GARLIC TOASTED FRENCH BREAD NOW SEE WHAfS NEW AT YOUR CHEVROLET DEALER’S Four kinds of sport-all super Want to make spring c6me in a hurry? 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Lie naumi um brae »g supposedly the highest standard o. liv g yet attained by man. These scenes pictured the ter rible living conditions and. in s'mc instances, the rbject ,;quai i-r. in which an eshmated 30 to 40 million Americans are exist ing today. These unfortunate Americans ranged from unemployed coal miners in the mountains of West Virginia, to the pitiable and jicmeiess migratory agricultural workers of tho Fasten Seaboard and the Southwest, and included tne teme.neiit-shackleu ana uesti tutc minority groups festering in ghettos in cities throughout the nation, one of the mast sordid of them in Washington. D. within a few blocks of the Na tion's Capitol. Many of these impoverished Americans arc unemployed, most arc on some kind of government supplement, and all o. Itiein ,ind themselves either without the Opportunity or the know-how nec essary to keep themselves from Icing a social and financial drag oi society. Yet, in interviews with many of these people, it was apparent that their greatest desire was to gel off relief and somehow to prepare themselves for jobs which would secure for themselves and their families the material tilings necessary for ac cent living and the resulting pride so cssentiaflo human dignity. Those Americans are not look ing for charity. They are look ing an opportunity to provide tor themselves. And they have look ed and looked, until they arc now losing faith in themselves and i$ (he society into which l.iey were born. What is to be done about this ironic situation certainly one of the greatest paradoxes to be found in the march of human en deavors in the twentieth century? There has been much medicine prescribed, but the disease grows more malignant by the hour. Mr. Smith suggested that a great program of public works be negro to eliminate unemploy ment and at the same time pro duce institutions which will be of continuing aid in educating fu ture generations of Americans to provide for themselves Also, Mr. Smith suggested that wc must care for our ever-grow ing segment of "senior citizens," and even went so far as to call for complete medical care for all citizens over 65 years of age These seem wortny. if expensive, suggestions to aid an aecute social and economic 1 people have so little with which to buy) problem. To Mr Smith's Ist of pcn.,c works could be added such proj ects as sod -J reclamation, fresh water eonvei sion plants, atomic energy elec tric power pLo.s, deceui a,,..* quarters for migratory agr,cul tural workers, and all uie ,»c.iuuLi necessary to give each America, child the opportunity to prepare himself tor a prosperous life. The projects could, amt pi ooa bly should, be sold later by the government to private industry so that the taxes derived from their operation coulti be used in similar other projects. There are those, ot course. w.d> will immediately cry ' socialism' arid “welfare state” to such a program as Howard Smith has suggested And no doun t.,ey are perfectly sincere in their criticisms. Yet. many o; these same people Would probably shrug off tne fact that the Unit ed States gave away over 3 l i billion dollars last year alor.e to foreign countries for military and other aid. as our nationalist ic duty. Already we have by our pro lific giving created economies more progressive than ours, m West Germany, Japan and Italy (only recently our mortal ene mies!', while at‘the same time keeping France, England and a number of other nations financi ally afloat. Yet our own economy drags, and a large segment of our own society lists m poverty arid wari out the hope and pride which should attach itself to being an American And they have to im port laborers to West Gernwiy! To give is charitaole; but c.’.ar ity nurtures, ratner than ebm .el ates, poverty. But to aiford op portunity is to eliminate de pression and to lessen poverty, or, to put it in other wor«s, to boost prosperity. To a lord op portunity for all who would take it must be the hig.iest aim ot all benevolent government. Opportunity must be given all Americans first, then we can look to the other nations after that. Is this socialism or is it na tionalism? Is it a dole or is it a sacred trust, and a sound economic arrangement as well, thus providing all our willing citizens with an opportunity to provide for themselves? But no matter what you call it or what the cast, the sagtaess o. tne old saying “charity begins at home," has never been suc cessfully refuted. Although . . ye have the poor always with yotl,” it’is a poor nation, indeed, which will not succor its own poor before those of other na ticus. Page 1-B