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table for four that’* neifhef round/rectangular nor triangblori^ square, fffiNfTURE mi Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man __-__And He May Be Wrong More on Carcinogens The United States Public Health Ser vice and its adopted children in the American Cancer Society, The American Heart Society and the National Associa tion 'for Tuberculosis, who are so busy attacking tobacco as the source of every problem confronting mortal man from dandruff to ingrown toenails, should con sider some of the possible conjectures that they might leap to in an article in “Commentary” this month by Sheldon j Novick, administrator of The Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Wash ington University. Novick’s article- -is captioned: “The Menace of the Peaceful Atom”, and in its few pages it casts; 2 lot of question ing light into areas where nothing more than scientific ignorance and official un concern very largely exist. srgy Commission is more licenses for Novick says, “Radiation problems m the reactor industry, then, begin in the shafts of uranium mines. Uranium ore also contains radium and other radio active substances* Radium, in the process of slow decomposition, releases a gas called radon. When the ore is mined, radon gas and its own decompo sition products accumulate in the mine chaff and pose a hazard to miners. The first disastrour*fteets of this gas were observed in the 1930’s in mining com /munities in the Erzebirge Mountains (between Germany and Czechoslovakia). A study performed between 1035 and 1939 revealed that approximately half the deaths among miners were <h»e to long canter, and that 80 per cent of the t Were diie to other lung And;1 the military arm of the federal establishment has also discharged more radioactive materials into the atmosphere since 1945 than any single organization while other branches of the federal establishment, such as the federal trade commission, the federal communications commission and the federal health ser vice are aiming their heaviest and most vindictive artillery at one of civilization’s oldest scapegoats: Tobacco. Smoking, by any criteria, is a foolish wasteful habit, but no case has yet been made to support the terrible lies being made up against tobacco out of random statistical studies. After The Ball Back in the balmy days of October, and the earliest days of November, there was hardly a liberal periodical that crossed an editorial desk that didn’t moan in pnrplest adjectives about the “constitutional crisis” that George Wal lace had forced upon ah unsuspecting public. '■i';: Generally accompanying these muted bleats was a stern recommendation for a direct-vote system for the election of presidents, since the “outmoded” Elec toral College and the “anqient” consti tution no longer served the best interests of the “best people.” But when the last hoorah was beards after November 5th these glib gliberals began to put Humpty-Dumpty back to gether again, and they found that what they had longed fat in October would Interesting Que*ti< little minds of small men big places have completed a survey sir... the November 5th election which shows that in the States of the Confederacy there are now 378 Negroes holding elec tive offices, with Georgia leading the w»y With 72. J * Bat with the same kind of careful tention to bigotry that they generally display they have not included with this look at the South any facte, or even any fancy on the number of Negroes outside the South who hold elective of fice,. 'v ’ - • % : ft " Iq the fast federal census these il States of the Confederacy h*d 9,883,367 of the nation’s total 18,871,881 Negro population, which is slightly over half of the total. Without sufficient resources,to check on total Negro elective office holding, but with total confidence hi the blind bigotry of the majority of the nation toward the South we are willing to bet our last Ku Klux Klan 'sheet that the ratio of elective Negro office holders is at least 50 per cent higher in the South than in the rest of the nation. There are a handfulof show-piece types such as the mayors of Gary and Cleve land, Adam Clayton Powell and Edward Brooke, but finding another 374 to go with these in order to match the South’s production in this department comes un der the specific heading of improbable possibilities. But one could not really expect it to be any other way. These same 11 states in which the Negro supposedly has been so badly abused include more Negro millionaires, more Negro college graduates, more Negro college presi dents, more Negro homeowners, more Negro farm owners, more Negro tractor owners, more Negro automobile owners, more millions of Negro, dollars in savings accounts and insurance coverage than all the other Negroes in the Unit ed States and the world combined. - This really has been a “terrible” ex ploitation^ the Negro has suffered for so long in the South. But it explains very easily and very positively wh^ the finest elements of Negro society have remained in the South, building their homes, educating their children, and listening to demagogues tell how badly they are being treated. College. And so the tone of these liberal period icals is suddenly reversed. Now they understand what kind of bloc-voting has made presidential shingles in the past 36 years. They support this iniquitous big-state, big-city control of presidential elections by arguing, none too convincingly, that since congress is largely controlled by the rural, Protestant, white blocs it is only fair that the urban CatholicJewiSte Negro blocs have tight control over the presidency. This is the old impossibility of two wrongs making one right; or perhaps more properly; two rights making one wrong,; ■> , '.■■■ ; v'V;,pv- ' All of which, suffice it to say, is suf ficient to support the premise that nothing is likely to happen in the reas onably near future to alter this situation. Which is also sufficient reason why JACK RIDER New York Governor Nelson Rockefell er last week came out for. total federal , operation of the nation’s faltering weir fare system. He had his own selfish reas on for making this suggestion, and as usual managed to get in a few anti South licks in making Ids statement. In spite of Rockefeller’s overall racist attitude toward the South and his using the Wrong reasons to arrive at the cor rect conclusion I lave to agree with ii tin Last year I did a lengthy study of welfare .programs front the county to the national level, and'reached the con clusion that many of ournational domes tic problems were rooted in the absurdi ties of the welfare system as it now operates, or tries to operate. For a long time now the federal treas ury has supplied the bulk of the money for all welfare programs, and as such has written the, “guidelines” under which state and county systems had to operate. But the urban-oriented racists who were writing these national welfare guidelines vented' their anger on the South by permitting programs that literally forc ed Negroes to migrate to the hostile cores of our major cities. A person eligible for welfare aid had to be blind, deaf and stupid to stay in Mississippi for $7 per month per family when New Jersey was paying $57 per •month per family member. And this was done with the consent, if not with the secret advice of these great brains in Washington. They made the perfect ly -natural mistake of believing that all they had to do to re-write all the books, including those on Negro history, was to lead all of these poor, exploited peo ple out of the jungles of Southern ex ploitation and into the Promised Land of big city humanitarianism. This same kind of illogic has convinced equally educated men of science that an animal is happier in a zoo than he is in his natural habitat. They have now found that the Negro, oriented since the beginning of time to the slow-paced life of first the jungle and then the planta tion, suffers unimaginable terrors when he is trapped and caged and hand fed in the concrete human zoos that corrupt the inner heart of all too many of our major cities today. • " V-'- 4 People coming from the ghettoes of Europe and Asia to the cruel world of the American City found a true promis ed land, since the boundaries of the American ghetto were far more flexible, and much more easily breeched than the true ghettoes of Europe. U_ Now our country needs a complete reversal of the process that tore so many people from the land and the way of life they loved and pressed them into the cruel mold of big city conformity, to which they react with fear, and hatred and panic. If a fraction of what has been spent in causing this m now be invested in correcting this mis take one of our nation's most pressing, problems can be solved, and far more
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