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TB« SOUTHERN ISRAELITE Friday, September 16, 1966 ►xwv As We Were Saying By ROBERT SEGAL "BETZ EXTERMINATORS, INC. rj>- j f t\ s DU ! • L "'0t5 .PiP’io*.. OPEN ALL NIGHT Ponce de Leon at Highland •NC STOP SERVICE 1 Mwr MnM |A azan g Tailors & Cleaners 1008 Peachtree, N.E. At Tenth TR. 6-0616 Atlanta, Ga. LADIES’ and MEN’S HATS (A Seven Arts Feature) The returns are still coming in from this June’s Commencement speeches; but my guess is that nobody inspired more of the good ones than Ralph Nader. You remember Ralph? He’* the 31-year-old author of “Un safe At Any Speed” who was shamefully spied upon for Gen eral Motors, only to show up be fore a Congressional committee just in time to light an auto safe ty fuse which may—just possibly may—help to cut back the hor rible toll of some 50,000 lives lost in traffic annually. The Nader affair will be re membered for years. Ralph has entered the halls of the renown ed who helped break the big city political machines, exposed the railroad robber barons, stopped some of the raids on our natural resources and blasted the bill boards off the highways. But in a way, Ralph’s assign ment was tougher because he undertook his crusade in an era of indifference, a nation of af- iluence, and a climate of “Just you dare, young man!” He ac tually had the nerve to value a human life above automobile profits and that’s dirty pool in the United States. Yet, if Ralph Nader was the hero of the drama, Henry Ford II became, perhaps unwittingly, a strong member of the support ing cast. For while Ford’s first reaction was disbelief that the great god, Industry, would be permitted to take a kicking around, he recovered in time to make a stunning speech of his own about the social ills that plague us. In the first flush of embarrass ment over young Nader’s cheeki ness, Ford said, you will remem ber, that the attacks on the In dustry were unwarranted, that Detroit (if left alone) would make really safe vehicles, and that the economy might get trampled in the shuffle if this nonsense kept up. (“I question seriously whether they — the investigating congressmen — have considered the possible economic impact of the kinds of laws they are considering — the economic impact on our industry. Because, if you start by law to fool around with model changes, to tell the industry that it must do this, that or the other thing to its products . . . you upset the whole cycle of this industry.”) But soon that other speech of Henry Ford’s was humming over the newspaper teletypes; and this time, the automobile maker said that business leaders have a duty to join the war on poverty, dis crimination, ignorance and un employment. Then he said: “The economic and technological triumphs of the past few years have not solved as many problems as we thought they would, and, in fact, have brought us new problems we did not foresee." Allan Nevins, one of our great historians, had said it perhaps better: ‘‘We can be certain that the necessity for a cultural and moral growth to arm us to meet change will grow urgently, even ferociously. The voices which counsel us to spend all our en ergies on science are sinister counsels. Most of our energies must go to the development of the intelligence and character which can control science." Another outstanding American, Reinhold Niebuhr, who had a pulpit in Detroit early in his ca reer, recalls an earlier Henry Ford, the one who gave us mass production of automobiles. Nie buhr has said that the elder Henry Ford “combined mechan ical genius with social and his torical ignorance”; and Niebuhr has pointed out that the new in dustrialism “aggravated most of the problems of industrial jus tice it claimed to have cured.” The wisdom of Nevins and Niebuhr and many more of our social philosophers, coupled with the guts and perserverance of a few young men like Ralph Nader, may yet extricate us from the hole that technological marvels have dug for us. This wisdom and this courage are needed to awaken millions of Americans to the damage done not only by unsafe automobiles, pollution of air and water, and the idiocy of sub-mediocre television program ming: needed even more is an awareness of the misuse we have made of the opportunities that ingenuity and engineering have brought us. 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