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Next to the expenditure of public money, the biggest hope being perpretrated on the Amer ican people is that of “unem ployment”. I don’t refer, exclusively, to the “unemployed” of the wel fare rolls; that is a cesspool all in itself. I have in mind the layoff presently being experi enced by scientists, profession al and technical people, sales man, managers, etc., the high flown “employed.” ■ What gets to me, principally, is the implied responsibility an 7 employer -has to maintain an employee who, for whatever reason, no longer produces a profit for the company. That, my boy, is hogwash, there is no such responsibility. The whole smell of it is. re pugnent to a person .with per sonal pride. Take, for instance, that gain of laid-off “scientists” who were too expensive for their company’s economic blood. Hav ing laid ,them off the company went to a college campus to re cruit youngsters who could fill the bill at salaries the company could afford. And what happened? The ex scientists picketed the recruit ers, is what. What miserable cowardly people. * * * ^ Don’t talk to me about split level homes half paid for, nor repossessed automobiles, nor yet of cancelled ballet instruc tions for the little darlings. Do that and I’ll tell you of a jungle I once knew, one long cold win ter — sleeping in a concrete pipe, I was, with the winter’s rain swirling under the grating I slept upon — awaiting a la borer’s job on California’s Shasta Dam. This was at Redding. And I was no different than any of the hundreds of others who shivered away the short days and the long, long nights. , And I never heard a bleat from anyone that somebody ow ed us a job. ^ But take today’s gentleman, the likes of those so-called scien tists. One missed paycheck and they line up at the unemploy ment window and if The Man does not offer them a job that fits their pistols, exactly, there after they are listed on the dole ful rolls. Arid it makes me sick. Go to work you bums; there afe millions of jobs open. * * * , ^ think I will tell you that story anyway. One .morning, thirty ago this Thanksgiving three budies and I pather our lodging place for an eonomic conference of great consequence. On cataloging our assets we learned, between the four of us, there was enough de cent gear to put a. “front” on one person. I. was elected to be the tfothes horse because my feet were the only feet that fitted the one pair,of decent shoes we had. So, .patched, fore-and-aft — but never mind that — I showed up at The Big Store (that was its name; stitfis, for all I know) seeking Christmas work. And 1 my jungle raiment to spend the night with my friends. And in the morning I would reverse the process. Christmas came and with it a thank-you present from The Boss. Glory Be! That was unexpect ed. It was success I tell you; a bonus. But what it was, actual ly, I didn’t know. The foe-rib boned package was about 14 inches square and some 6 inches deep. A fruit cake, I hoped. Like conspirators, the four of us gathered deep in a dark re cess of the saloon and ripped it open: 6 bottles of wine. No matter. We worked that winter, at this and that, hustling to stay alive, and spring came and the Dams jobs opened and all came right with the world. And now, if The Man doesn’t say Yes, here is a $7,000 job for a scientist who specializes in measuring the radiation given off by the Big Dipper, that guy is out of work. As I say, it makes me sick. WHAT IS THE ANSWER? by Henry E. Garrett, Ph.D. PROFESSOR EMERITUS COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PAST PRESIDENT AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION Q: Dr. Garrett, every day we read of demands made by these militants for "black studies". Is that a legitimate demand; who do they think they are? A: The demand is not legiti mate, not as it is usually phras ed. The activities of Negroes should be treated as part of the general history of Americans. That their history is meager is not the fault of the teacher, but of the Negroes. There is no de mand for Irish studies, say, nor for Jewish studies in the public OHw Editors Say DALLAS TIMES HERALD Equal Wrongs Women’s liberation, take no tice. No sooner was black rev olutionary Angela Davis arrest ed and removed from the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list than white revolutionary Bernardine Dohrn took her place. And pretty soon, she was joined by two more fe male radicals. Looks as though there is at least one man who isn’t a male chauvinist pig. J. Edgar Hoover, we think his name is. Other Editors Say TAMPA TRIBUNE Long Hangover Marijuana smokers defend their habit as a harmless meth od of relaxation, carrying no more risk than a beer or whisky “high.” Science has been slow to pin down the properties of this drug. But research has been stepped up — and early results suggest that potheads live in a dream world in more ways than one. A researcher at St. Johns Uni versity reported that after preg nant rats had been subjected to marijuiana smoke for 10 days they produced offspring with serious genetic defects. Twenty per cent of the newborn rats were affected. Rats are not humans but Dr. Vincent Lynch said the tests convince him that marijuiana use could have “ve^y serious consequences” for human repro duction. With alcohol, the hangover comes the next morning. With marijuana, apparently, it comes later — and may last a lifetime. schools. Yet, both of these groups have achieved far more, have a far more noble history than the Negroes. The real motive behind this demand for “black studies”, I suspect, arises from the strong feelings of in security of the blacks. They simply cannot learn physics or the calculus, so they demand yakety-yak courses which almost anyone can understand. Frosty Morn Meats Inc. "Helping to build a better Livestock Market for Eastern North Carolina" Othw Editor* Say .SHREVEPORT JOURNAL test of Malthusian Theory? Near the end of the eighteenth century, a British theologian economist warned that popula tions were expanding more rap idly than the ability to produce food. Unless population trends were reversed, he warned, Ihe results would be calamitous. His name was Thomas R. Malthus. The industrial revolution of the 19th century at least post phoned the impact of the Mal thusian theory, as far as Britain was concerned, by making it possible for Britons to produce sufficient exports to buy the food they need. Now the green revolution of fast-growing strains of wheat and rice may be doing the same for Asia. With the present world popu lation of three and a half bil lion — more than half in Asia — expected to double by the turn of the century, the Mal thusian theory again may be put to a severe test. Can another major develop ment such as synthetic foods — appear in time to prevent a population diseaster The food versus population time bomb is one which has been met and defused before. But the projec tion of seven billion inhabitants on this globe toy the year 2000 is a sobering one. Even if the r problem of feeding that many people can be solved, they may have to do their dining standing Other Editors Say CHRISTIAN, S.C., NEWS & COURIER Shrinking Press In 1929, notes the Powers’ Ex port Bulletin, there was 15 news papers in New York City. The bulletin — published by Joshua B. Powers, Ltd. of London and New York, international publish er’s representatives — finds it ‘remarkable’ that today there are only three: The Times, The Daily News and The Post. The Wall Street Journal no longer operates a printing plant in Manhattan. If the labor unions whose strike has forced The Post to suspend publication are not careful. New York could find itself with only two news papers. In a city of some seven million persons, that seems in credible. Dr. Andrew V. Schally. Chief, Endocrine and Polypeptide Labs, New Orleans VAH, is this year’s winner of VA’s highest honor for medical research — the Wil i liam S. Middleton Award. No Mess — No Waiting — Our Ready-Mixed Concrete is on the job when you need it. Also Sand, Gravel and Crush ed Stone. BARRUS READY MIXED CONCRETE COMPANY Free Estimates — New Bern Highway, Kinston, N. C. a rz x t? <£> STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 101 PROOF 8 YEARS OLD
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