Sis er coms e Page Four THE COLLEGE NEWS Friday, November 18, 1966 Letters to the Editor (continued from page 2) (Tuesday’s) today’slunch, we were promised homemade soup, salt- ines, Spanish macaroni L-1A, jello-and apricots Q-15, bread- butter - peanut butter and jelly, and oatmeal cookies. Please note that the temperature today was 34°F and yet we were deprived of our hot soup, not to mention the accompanying saltines and our much anticipated oatmeal cookies, Where are the green vegetables and fresh fruits of yore? Mr. Saga Man, have you heard of the Seven Basic Food Groups? Is ice cream the eighth? It is an historic fact that 48,000 Free French died dur- ing World War II because of some- one’s mistaken idea that Jello was a complete food, Where have all the genteel in- dividual milk cartons gone? Are 20-pound water pitchers a part of the President’s Physical Fitness Program or the Saga Man’s way of saying ‘‘The best to you each morning??? Granted milk bottles are Pop Art, but don’t you think -they look. better in. Warhol’s gal- leries than on our dining room tables? And how about the alum- inum cereal dispensers of Early Supermarket Gothic? “Must Gra- LA 5-0443 Parvin’s Pharmacy James P. Kerchner Pharmacist 30 Bryn Mawr Ave. Bryn Mawr, Pa. MADS DISCOUNT RECORDS 9 W. Lancaster Ave. Ardmore MI 2-0764 Lotgest Selection Folk Music Pop - Classics - Jazz LA 5-6664 PONCHOS HANDWOVEN IN BOLIVIA SOME IN VICUNA SOME IN ALPACA ALL GOOD TO THE EYE ALL COZY FOR THE WEARER PEASANT GARB 1602 Spruce St. Philadelphia 868 Lanc. Ave. Bryn Mawr William Michael Butler International Hairstylist 1049 Lancaster Ave. LA 5-9592 cious Living perish before the spectre of Economy? Vast statistical increase of acne and avoirdupois is occasioned by the plethora of ice cream at every meal, The promise of ice cream as a ‘‘substitute’’ for any dessert loses all its lustre, ‘ W¢, eagerly dwait the next in- novations -- elimination of table cloths? Of chairs? Of tables? Turn the dining rooms into study halls, Box lunches, Feed _ bags? TROUGHS! To quote an outraged Pembroker, .‘‘Meals_ should be meals, not feedings!?? We appreciate Saturday steak dinners and holiday treats but these Saga Specials do not com- pensate for the general deterior- ation in the quality of the food, What began in September in a veritable flourish of gastronomic splendour has dwindled to an. in- excusable affront to our stomachs and a crushing blow to our psyches in light of the culinary delights we were led to anticipate, Beckie Steinberg Mercedes A, Mestre Missy Cusick Gillian Whitcomb ‘Cap Sease Sally Rosenberg Linda Anderson Taking your M.R.S.? 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Mrs. Poston Forecasts Problems For Johnson’s War on Poverty Alliance presented Mrs. Ersa Poston, head of the Office of Eco- nomic Opportunity of New York State, at a lecture on ‘Poverty in the Midst of Plenty” in the Common Room Monday night. Mrs. Poston began her lecture with a quote: ‘‘We must anticipate charity by preventing poverty.’’ She then went on to give examples of the failure of American society up *til today to do so. She traced social aid through history up from the early days of the country, citing the New Deal after the De- pression as the main major step. But, Mrs. Poston asked, in reality, ‘“‘How far have we come?’ She said that these days America considers itself to be the most powerful and wealthy nation in the world, not realizing that all its wealth is in the midst of poverty. According to the government Mefinition of poverty, a family of four which has an income of under $3000 a year, or a single person who has an income of wnder $1500 is living in poverty. And according to this definition, she said, over 1/5 of America’s population, or 36 million people, is impoverished. These poor, said Mrs. Poston, are scattered through the nation’s cities, suburbs, farmlands, and mountains. They are left behind, COG Cola" and Coke” are regi tered trade-marks whi ‘‘alienated’’ by society, and the result is that ‘‘the children of poverty become the parents of poverty and begin the cycle again.”’ Social work in America, she said, has come a long way, but it is held back still by certain myths that Americans happily delude themselves into believing. One of these myths is the idea that hard work and energy will set anyone up. Another is that if we only con- centrate on helping the nation’s economy, poverty willautomatic- ally disappear. Many Americans fondly believe in the status quo: things are basically fine, we have the power to change society’s ills. And there is the really basic American idea that money solves all problems. Mrs. Poston pointed out that the Depression disproved the hard theory -- if the money’s not there, it’s not there. She said that econ- mic growth does not touch many of the poor; it falls completely out- side their sphere. Status quo, she said, is a belief:in donating money for housing projects in the suburbs while the city crumbles around you. And money, she said, is useless without investigation into its appli- cation. Americans need, said Mrs. Pos- a Are you sure today _is homecoming? _ ton, to be alert, to have communi- cation with all sectors of their society. She spoke favorably of programs which train the poor for certain skilled jobs. These jobs, she said, should not only employ them, but train them to move farther. Mrs. Poston noted especially the popular Community Action social program, in which many of a city’s social groups work to- gether. There is a federal law now for certain of these groups that at least 1/3 of the governing board must be representative ofthe poor. The Philadelphia Community Action group, she said, was one of the first in the country to actually hold a general election on the mem- bers of its board. Asked for her opinion of the government’s War on Poverty, Mrs. Poston said that the heart of the program had been cut out by the last session of Congress.Com- munityAction. was defunded, she said, in part because it threatened the old social power establish- ments. ‘‘The Great Society pro- grams are going to be in trouble’’ when next’s year’s conservative Congress comes in, and social groups must begin to look for new sources of money. M.K. Metter esp Any game is more fun with ice-cold Coke on hand. Coca-Cola has the taste you never get tired of ... always refreshing. That’s why things go better with Coke... after Coke... after Coke. - Bottled under the authority of The Coca-Cola Company by: PHILADELPHIA COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY, Philadelphia, Pa. #