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The Augusta News-Review - September 29, 1977
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The term “welfare” in our American
lexicon is a loaded word. But generally it
means “us” - Blacks. The undergirding
connotation is that welfare is something
given to the lazy, the trifling, the
no-accounts, the cheaters, those who
wouldn’t work if you brought a job into
their living-room.
This is the perception of many in the
majority white community, a perception
that is too often accepted as real in the
Black community.
Proportional to our population ratio,
Blacks are more frequently recipients of
welfare. But the largest of persons on
welfare, as I have pointed out in several
columns, are by far white people.
That is the reality. But myth dies hard.
That is why I was so skeptical at first of
President Carter’s “welfare reform”
package. There seemed to be present in it
at first reading, a punitive streak of grim
warnings: work or get off the dole. This
would imply there are many on welfare
wiio shouldn’t be there - that are lazy,
onery, no-accounts who are making
suckers of us hardworking folks. This, of
course, just isn’t so.
But a closer reading reveals that the
Carter program has its good as well as bad
points. It is encouraging in that it seeks
to provide: (1) jobs for those in need and
who are able to work; (2)
income-support, such as part-time jobs
for those unable to work full-time; (3)
earned income tax credits as incentives
for the working poor.
Clearly, in a program of this
complexity President Carter sought to
stress the positive aspects of his
proposals. He also sought to blunt attacks
of those who are adamantly opposed to
any form of public assistance programs.
The NAACP perceives, however, a real
danger in just such an approach. The
danger is that.in attempting to scrape the
old system, Congress will devise one that
increases the burden of poverty of
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Most of the treatment provided by the
dentist today is pain free. In fact, many
patients who go to their dentist for
regular care never know what it is to
experience dental discomfort.
One of the simplest yet most
important things a dentist does is to take
x-ray pictures of you teeth and
supporting bone structures.
Such x-rays are essential because they
not only spot hidden cavities and the
early signs of gum diseases but they can
even save your life by detecting certain
types of oral cancer early when they are
curable.
Providing modern dental care without
x-rays would be like asking someone to
fix the engine of your car without
looking under the hood. The x-rays can
help your dentist see inside your teeth
and jaws, hidden areas between teeth and
the portion of your teeth beneath the
gums.
For example, small cavities that are
concealed beneath old fillings may go
undetected without the use of x-rays.
The cavity may grow unnoticed until it
reaches the pulp of the tooth and causes
severe pain. Often it is then too late to
save the tooth with a simple restoration.
The tooth might have to be saved with a
root canal therapy. If too much
destruction has taken place it might have
to be extracted and replaced with either a
fixed or removable partial.
Besides cavities, x-rays can detect such
conditions as abscessed teeth, extra teeth,
signs of peridontal disease and other
diseases of the gum and bone structure.
‘Welfare’ -a
loaded myth
By Benjamin Hooks
Dentistry and you
X-rays may
save your life
By Dr. W.J. Walker
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poverty on the most disadvantaged
segments of society.
Work incentives, therefore, should not
penalize the poor. They should, instead,
relieve the burden of poverty while
providing real jobs for those able to
work. Government assistance (subsidies
are another form of welfare, but we don’t
call it that) to business is for the most
part always designed to make positive,
rather than negative contributions to
entity. And so it should be to citizens
r who for one reason or another are unable
to care for themselves, for short or
extended periods of time.
The need for readily available day-care
centers for mothers wanting to work
should be adequately met.
The proposal to reduce the burden on
local governments is praise-worthy. But it
does not go far enough. It should
completely relieve local governments of
the responsibility for income-support
payments. The states should be made to
assume this obligation. There is also the
danger of robbing Peter to pay Paul, or in
this case to pay other Peters.
Income support benefits in one area of
the country should not be reduced just so
that assistance to the poor in other
regions can be increased. The essential
benefits of the present food-stamp
program should also be maintained
within the better jobs and income
program.
1 would like to especially commend
the President, and so would the NAACP,
for recognizing the stigma that is
attached to welfare and for seeking to
eliminate this negative aspect of the
program. We also commend the President
for wanting to strengthen the family
structure.
The NAACP is prepared to work with
President Carter to achieve the enactment
of a meaningful better jobs and income
program, one that will remove the
demeaning aspects of certain proposals
being made by enemies of the
humanitarian intent on welfare, or those
inherent in present welfare policies.
large and crooked roots and broken and
retained root tips.
Your dentist may want to take
complete x-ray pictures of your mouth.
How often he does this will vary with
your particular oral health condition. He
has been trained to take your x-rays with
maximum safety to you, and the amount
of radiation from dental x-rays reaching
the more sensitive cells of your body is
less than that you receive from natural
sources such as cosmic rays or the natural
radiation in rocks and other materials.
Even before the dentist uses x-rays, the
first thing he will do will be to give your
teeth and mouth a general inspection. He
will check for decay, abnormal wear,
loose teeth, the way your teeth meet
(occlusion) and any diseases of the soft
tissue. He will look for signs of improper
chewing habits.
One of the routine tasks for the dentist
or his hygienist will be to clean the stains
and mineralized deposits, called calculus
or tarter, off the teeth. For many people
this professional cleaning must be done
about every six months, although the need
varies with the individual.
In some of the dentist’s activities, such
as cleaning teeth and removing decay, he
is aided by a handpiece, a modem
instrument capable of 30.000-to-250.000
revolutions per minute. It enables him to
complete in seconds procedures like
decay removal that used to take minutes.
The handpiece is also equipped with
water or air to cool the tooth. (Next
article: “Reducing Dental Costs”)
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Everyone agrees that inflation is bad, but
aside from the rhetoric, not much is
being done to effectively control it.
Conventional economic wisdom has it
that the way to control inflation is to
slow down the economy. Translated into
the real world that means tolerating high
unemployment.
The idea is that with more people out
of work demand for goods and services
will shrink, and people still on the job
will moderate their wage demands and
not spend as much. All of this is
supposed to put a damper on prices.
That’s the policy pursued by previous
administrations, and while backing mild
stimulus and job-creation programs to
ease the worst effects of the recession,
Washington is still following the broad
outlines of that policy.
So full employment is viewed as a
long-term goal, lest it fuel a speedy
economic expansion and overheat the
economy to the point where runaway
inflation takes over.
All of this supposes that today’s
inflation danger comes from the old-time
classical model of too many dollars
chasing too few goods. But whatever
validity that had in the past, it does not
hold true today.
A recent study by the Exploratory
Project for Economic Alternatives called
“Understanding the New Inflation”
demonstrates this.
The study finds that there’s a new
form of inflation today, one not
amenable to conventional policies.
Today’s inflation is limited to four basic
necessities - food, housing, health and
energy.
These areas account for about 70 per
cent of the average family’s budget, and
even more for poor families. Two-thirds
of the consumer price inflation in the
1970 s is attributable to price rises in
these necessities.
And the cause of this kind of inflation
is not subject to quick solutions. World
food demand, the cartel of oil-producing
nations, land speculation, inefficient
health and housing industries, all
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Inflation fight
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By Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
combine to result in price hikes for
essentials.
Now the interesting thing about this
kind of inflation is that conventional
policies don’t work. It can’t be controlled
oy manipulating federal budget deficits,
by adjusting the money supply, or by
pushing unemployment up and wages
down.
Another aspect of this inflation and
the outmoded methods used to fight it is
the unfair burden placed on poor people.
On the one hand they are subjected to
higher inflation than the rest of us since
almost all of their budgets go to pay for
necessities. On the other, they’re asked to
accept unemployment and limited wage
increases supposedly to fight that
inflation.
So the poor are trapped in a double
bind. So too is the government if it tries
to fight new-style inflation with old-style
methods that wind up forcing huge
expenditures for unemployment
insurance payments, welfare and lost
taxes.
All of this indicates that it's time for a
new look at federal economic policy.
Instead of trying vainly to fight inflation
with broad-based policies that depress the
economy, the government would be
targeting in on the four basic areas that
account for the bulk of inflation’s effect
on most people.
The Administration is making a
beginning by its proposals to limit
hospital costs and by provisions in the
energy program to exempt home heating
oil from new taxes. But that’s only a
beginning. A full-scale attack on the big
four is long overdue.
The other side of the coin is that if we
are freed of the obsessive linkage of
inflation and jobs, public policy can
move on to creating a full emolovment
economy. The recession, still with us in
the form of seven million people
officially unemployed, and the real figure
double that, hasn’t ended inflation. Thus
far economic policies have limited
people’s ability to cope with higher
prices; they have not put a lid on the
prices themselves.
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Staggering Black
unemployment
One of the more frightening aspects of
cancer is that far too often the victim is
unaware of the disease and hence does
not seek medical help until the illness has
reached the crisis state.
Black Americans are the victims of a
two-pronged cancer which is growing at
our vitals, but too many of us are
unaware of or unwilling to admit to the
condition.
One prong of the cancer is the chronic,
systemic, structural unemployment
which devastates our communities, and
against which no significant Federal
Government action has been advanced.
The Black unemployment rate is
staggeringly high and causes crime,
juvenile deliquency, drug/alcohol abuse
and other socio-psychological
pathologies. Perhaps the most damaging
feature of forced unemployment on
Blacks is the loss of a sense of
personhood. Such a sense of loss prevents
one from fulfilling positive roles, such as
father, mother, community worker, etc.
in the Black community.
In turn, a significant absence of
positive role models, adversely affects the
life style and aspirations of Black youth.
Thus it is that forced unemployment
impacts negatively on life of another
generation of Black Americans, who have
not yet reached age 25.
GUARANTEED JOBS
The only meaningful answer to forced
unemployment is a comprehensive full
employment program. One shich
guarantees work, in either the private or
public sec tor, to all who want to work.
Timid, cautious, piece-meal approaches
to Black unemployment simply will not
end the problem.
The second prong of the cancer is the
deliberate, sustained, carefully planned
attacks against affirmative action
programs. Without these programs we
Blacks could not have realized the limited
gains made in the last 10 years.
The “reverse discrimination
syndrome” initially found only in the
professional school educational arena, has
now spread to the point that it is having
disastrous effects on Black America. The
“reverse discrimination syndrome”
retards employment opportunities for
Blacks in both hiring and promotions. It
thwarts Black business opportunities in
both the public and private sectors. It
limits educational opportunities below
the professional school level.
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Reports lo /be People
By Rep. Parren J. Mitchell
1 am appalled at the extent tb which
much of the white media has joined in
the attacks on affirmative actioh. Using
ridicule; out of context illustrations; and
attempting to smear effectivfe action
programs, the white media has joined in
the fight against.
That is the situation! What is being
done? Are there any encouraging
developments? Much is being done and
there are positive developments.
In June, I sent to Black leaders and
Black organizations the chairman’s six
months report on the activities of the
Congressional Black Caucus. The report
shows clearly that we are effectively
engaged in attempting to kill the cancer.
Caucus Members serve on all of the key
Committees of the U. S. House of
Representatives and therefore we are able
to score successes as we advance our 10
priority issues. They are: Full
Employment, Health Care, Urban
Revitalization, Rural Development, Civil
and Political Rights, Education, Welfare
Reform/Social Insurance, Economic
Development/Aid to Minority Business,
The Economy, and Foreign Policy.
Black Brain Trusts
As Chairman, I view the formation and
operation of Black Brain Trust as the
single most important development in the
last six months. The Black Brain Trusts
embrace such areas as: (l)Administration
of Justice; (2)Education; (3)Health;
(4)Communications; (s)The Black Aged;
(6)Minority Enterprise, Economic
Development and Housing (7)Foreign
Policy; and (B)Voter Participation.
They convene quarterly and serve four
major functions, which are: creation and
evaluation of national legislation;
recommending and monitoring agency
regulation; lobbying and future planning.
All four functions operate from the Black
perspective of course. Each Brain Trust is
composed of Black experts who are
activists; researchers; para-professionals;
professionals; communicators; etc.
These Brain Trusts create a Black
national communications network -a
Black national constituency whose full
political clout can be brought to bear on
an issue in a short period of time. In the
near future, we expect to have 16 such
Brain Trusts, each with a minimal
membership of 600.
Give us that army of Black expertise,
with its skills and resources, and it is
inevitable that we Black Americans shall
conquer our two present enemies,
joblessness and loss of affirmative action.