Not long ago, a bureaucrat by
the name of Robert J, Mangrum,
who runs the Office of Economic
Opportunity minstrel s how,
there in New York, cried to the
heavens over the lack of jobs for,
Negroes in Gotham.
The New York Daily News
nailed him. It pointed to the
very obvious fact there are
thousands - upon-■thousands of
jobs to be had In New York, jobs
that, call for no experience, no
skill, not even for the abiHty to
speak the language.
And what was Mr. Interlocu-.
tor’s rebuttal? Hear him:“When
I spoke of the crying need for
jobs in Harlem ... I meant jobs
through which a man can get out
of poverty and not be immobil
ized on its borderline, jobs that
offer advancement in the future;
careers, really, in which a man
can grow and take pride.”
.--•Read-it again. „
How about, that! It isn’t a job
they want,, they, want the corner
suite, “careers”, yet. And not a
word about qualifications. No
more of that up-the-ladder rou
tine. ■
I tell you, these faking phon
ies have about got me. I work
my life away, pay taxes that strip
me bare, and for what? To take
I
such jawbone as that For the up
keep of such tax-eating leeches
as tf»is Robert J. Mangrum, he
and his herd of loafers. And I
am sick of it of him, and the
loafers,'
Go back with me a bit Let
me tell you of a chap I once
knew;
In 1936, I think it was — in
Redding, California, in any
event, at the site of Shasta Dam
— this friend of mine huddled
through a Winter’s night shook
the night away in a driving,
sleet-speckled rain. There was a
reason: Rumor had it hiring was
to begin in the morning and he
meant to sit, there , at the hiring
hall, until he got himself a job.
Rumor was right, he got the job:
rough carpentry.
There was another time, same
chap, who hired on in a small
Texa&Panhandle town. This time
it was dancing with a jackham
mer, breaking concrete, 10
hours a day, six days a week, 20
cents an hour. Circa, 1937.
A third instance: In 1938, this
benighted gangling made a pier
head jump, because a deckhand
on the Sea Queen, riding San
Francisco Bay. Pay: $60 a month,
and found.
A fourth: He once lay soaking
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“Helping to build a better Livestock
Market loir Eastern North Carolina”
in a hobo jungle there in the
S-P maze of Fort Worth. He
hadn’t eaten since LA. When
daylight broke, he swung aboard
a Katy freight and rode it to
Parsons, Kansas, to join a har
vest crew. A corn field supplied
his food. Raw corn. Circa, 1939.
Ten years later — in 1950, acr
tually — this child of poverty
had the responsibility of man
aging the campaign of a candi
date for high public office. His
man won. And so had he.
* • •
The lazy bums. It is “careers”
they want, handed to them; and
careers it will be else they will
sit on their fat duffs, living on
my tax money until they get
what they demand.
I’m sick of it. In my town, in
my neighborhood, two blocks up
the street, Dr. Pestle has been
rolling pills and pumping sodas
for 40 years. His drug store is a
fixture, hereabouts, but he
doesn’t “deliver” any longer.
“I had to quit it — I just
couldn’t get anybody to ride the
bike. A dollar-and-a-quarter an
hour they laugh at.”
• • •
Do you work? And is this sort
of business getting your goat,
too? And did you vote for Lyn
don Johnson and his coterie?
Then, listen to me: You put
the blame right where it be
longs. You hang.it around your
own neck. You did it. You put
WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
by Henry E. Garrett, Ph{D.
Professor Emeritus, Psychology, Columbia University
Past President, American Psychological ASsobtatibn
Q: Why do IQ tests vary?
A:. Several factors may cause
an IQ to vary from one time to
another. For one thing, like ev
ery measurement (mental and
physical), the. IQ is subject to
experimental error. Thus, a
child’s IQ on a second test may
vary up or down by as much as
five points — do solely to ex
perimental errors. Again, if a
child is ill or frightened or hos
I tile, or if the test administrator
lis unskilled, IQs very probably
will be inaccurate. Finally, if a
child’s environment is drastical
ly restrictive, if stimulation is
meager, or the child neglected,
his IQ will be depressed, as ev
ery clinical phychologist knows.
those fakers in office.
And if you are ready to make
amends, you pledge yourself to
work to your utmost to turn
them out, every last one of
them.
Either that, or go join ’em.
Get out of my sight.
For the vast number of children
growing up in anavf^age Ameri
can culture, hefavef, the IQ is
valid and comparable.
. . . And Forest Fires destroy
trees that give ns wood.
A phone of her own.
So she can say all the things
sixteen loves to say. In private.
So families can do all the things
they like to do.
And have their privacy, too.
Extension phones
are helpful in so many ways.
At any age. In any room.
(What else that costs so little makes life smoother for everyone?)