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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
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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
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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,

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‘‘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-

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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.

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