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Sec. 2 Pg. 4 - Plaindealer - Wed., Nov. 19, 1969 EDITORIALS Will You Be Next? A screeching automobile crash, a baby born with a heart defect, serious burns-tragedy that can strike you and your family without warning, Misfortune creates a constant demand' for blood replacement. Every twenty seconds someone needs a blood transfusion! As the seconds tick off, you or your loved ones could be next. Blood cannot be produced synthetically. It can only come from human beings. If people stopped donating blood, deaths from surgery, childbirth and accidents would increase dras­ tically. " In the Chicago area, Novem­ ber has been officially pro­ claimed "Blood Donor Month." This is the time for you to learn how you can protect your­ self and your family if the need for blood replacement should arise. You cannot predict when trag­ edy will strike. But you can be prepared with a blood donation. 'Prestige9 Shopping Advertisers who are concerned about day to day and week to week sales often wonder why they are beat to death by a cool competitor who is merely soft selling. Such concerned retailers overlook the fact that the cool competitor has been persistently building up an image for years that no amount of frantic salesmanship can overcome. In a town, any town, when a girl is elected homecoming queen, or when she is ready to be graduated, or married, she buys from the "right place" regardless of the price, regardless of the price and hard sell from other retailers. Yes, it may be foolish. Her parents attempt to explain that it is foolish. But the purchase is not foolish to the young lady. More than anything else, she wants her friends, and especially her boy friend to know that she bought her gown or her shoes from the very best store in town. What is the very best store in town? Is it a brand new dress shop? Is it a discount store which claims to sell at whole­ sale prices? It is not. The very best store in town is the store which has been ad­ vertising in the local newspaper since the young lady was four years old. It is the store which her friends consider the "Pres­ tige" store in the local community. Nylon may be nylon and leather may be leather, but the twain doesn't meet when retailer prestige is considered. What really matters is which retailer touched the heart and imagination of a girl ten years before she was ready to buy her graduation or homecoming regalia. y Ltrjff'S SCRAPBOOK of^j ̂MAN ON THE MOVE "THE LONGEST STRETCH OF STRAI6HT RAILROAD TRACK CROSSES THE NULLARBOR DESERT IN AUSTRALIA- FOR 328 WATERLESS, TREELESS MILES.' THIS REMINDS ME OF m OLD GIRL­ FRIEND- NO CURVES 3b A Service of t>ie United Transportation Union ®N HER SECOND TRIP TO THE. NEW WORLD, THE "MAYFLOWER (ORIGINALLY BUILT AS A WHALING SHIPj) BROUGHT A CARGO OF SLAVES/ » UGH.'PALEFACE GO THIS SIPE THE AMERICAN TRAFFIC SYSTEM OF PASSING TO THE RIGHT STARTED WITH THE COVERED WAGON/ LAND, AIR AND WATEI MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS Through the Courtesy of the Family Service and Mental Health Clinfc of McHenry County. Social Security QUESTION BOX by Elwin Kris FIELD REPR ESENTATIVE Today's questions are ones frequently being ask­ ed of our representatives by the people of Mc Henry county. The Social Secur­ ity office at 2500 Grand avenue, Waukegan, re­ minds Mc Henry county re­ sidents that it has repre­ sentatives meeting people at two locations in Mc Hen­ ry county on a regular ba­ sis. The representatives are at the Woodstock Pub­ lic Library, 414 W. Judd, Woodstock every Wednes­ day from 9 a.m. to noon and at the Harvard city hall from 9:30 a.m. to noon on the first and third Tue­ sday every month. If you have a question you would like answered on Social Se­ curity in this column, then please forward it to Social Security Administration Question and Answer Col­ umn, 2500 Grand avenue, Waukegan, Illinois, 60085. Give your full name, ad­ dress, and Social Security number. If you do not want your name to appear, please indicate this and we will use only initials. Question: I operate my own farm and pay my 20 year old son S200 a month to help me. Should I pay social security tax on his wages? Answer: Not until he is 21. Work for a parent by a daugh­ ter or son under 21 is not covered. Question: My mother was re­ cently released from the hospi­ tal after treatment for a brok­ en hip. We have hired a nurse to care for her in her home. Will Medicare help pay the nurse's wages? Answer: Not if you hired the nurse on your own. Nursing ser­ vices are covered if provided through a participating home health agency. Covered ser­ vices available through these agencies include part-time nur­ sing, physical, occupational, and speech therapy and part time service of home health aides. Question: I receive social security payments as a stu­ dent. If I should get married would I lose my benefit? I am 19 years old. Answer: You will lose the benefit if you marry. Since you are past 18 you must also go to school full-time in order to qualify. If you marry or change to a part-time status you should notify Social Secur­ ity immediately. Question: I will retire on January 31, 1970, my 65th birth- PUBLIC PULSE (The Plaindealer invites the public to use this column as an expression of their views on subjects of geni­ al interest in our commun­ ity. Our only request is that writers limit themselves to 300 words or less signature, full address and phone num­ ber. We ask too, that one in­ dividual not write on the same subject more than once each month. We reserve the right to delete any material which we consider libelous or in objectionable taste.) FOOD FOR THOUGHT "Dear Editor: " Another letter to the cit­ izens of the county of McHenry, in regard to some of the news we hear and read about by the news media. "l-There is a report from Dr. Crane on the last page of the Shoppers World Friday, Nov. 14. In this report he re­ lates some experience he re- day. I have paid the full a- mount into Social Security since the system went into effect in 1937. Can I expect to receive the top benefit of $218 a month? 7 Answer: No. Workers will ^ have to have the maximum of v .*07800 covered earnings for sev- | eral years before the top re­ tirement benefit of $218 a month will be reached. Since the max­ imum taxable earnings was less before 1968, the maximum ben­ efit for you, and others who reach 65 in 1970, will be $165 a month. Question: The fellows at the plant the other day were talk­ ing about how much they have paid into social security over the years. We wondered if we will ever get back what we have paid into it. Can you give us the answer? Answer: Based on averages, I would say, "yes". If you re­ tire at age 65, and live the normal expected years beyond 65, you will get a good return on your money. But all of us won't live that long. The im­ portant thing to remember is that your social security taxes are buying you substantial dis­ ability and survivors term in­ surance in addition to future retirement benefits. Question: 1 have paid the max­ imum Social Security tax on my wages each year since so­ cial security went into effect in 1937. How much have I paid in all together? Answer: Your payments a- mount to $3016.80 through 1968. Your employers matched this figure for a total of $6033.60. Had you been self-employed you could have paid $3829.20 into the program since self-employed people were first covered in 1951. The yearly self-employ - ment contribution is higher than the individual employee's con­ tribution, but less than the com­ bined employee-employer con­ tribution. For Your Information11 Dear friends, We often hear this question: "Doesn't a funeral director become calloused to grief?" The answer to that question is, no. One cannot enter a griefstricken home with­ out a real sense of sympathy, no matter wjfot the circumstances may be. We believe, though, that the funeral direc­ tor can best express his sympathy by going about his work quietly and calmly. Confusion only adds to the strain. Respectfully, "Now they won't be able to do either." PETER M.JDSTEN & SON FUNERAL HOME McHanry, Illinois 38S-0063 ceived from visiting Russia and about Japan, which I feel should be given greater publicity for those who read and forget, and don't read because the print is small. "We are all living in peri­ lous times because we are all living in fear of World War three and the destruction of the world because of the atom bomb. In this U.S.A. we have a two- party system which is labeled democracy and while it is not perfect so far, in comparison there is nothing better. "Now the human race, re­ gardless of race color or creed, has various traits and the one causing the most trouble is one word 'ENVY' There is a com- merical which appears on tel­ evision once in awhile which shows a young woman giving a compliment to another regard­ ing how becoming the dress she is wearing and while she tells her at the same time that it is nice she says they are making nicer styles for heavy women. "And this is the underhand way of the enemies of this country Who envy us the modern ways of living that even those who cry poverty enjoy. Those enemies of our country are taking advantage of those who do not think to create discontent and chaos. "It is time that all right thinking citizens wake and write to the legislators who we elect­ ed to protect us and it only costs a six-cent stamp. If they get enough letters of protest from the voters they will con­ sider it for it means votes. This is the meaning of the word DEMOCRACY. This is the melt­ ing pot. Our ancestors came here from all over in order to live in freedom and in this year of 1969 we all do. If you will check with immigration you will find a large waiting list of people who want to come here and live. Is this country worth saving? Think this Over. "Protest meetings and all other disturbances cost money. Where does it come from? I challenge the F.B.I, to find out and give them a one-way ticket to live wherever they think it is betters. "Mrs Nettie Sarley "Lakemoor* HOSPITAL ISSUE "Dear Editor: "After reading Mr. Corcor­ an's open letter in the Public Pulse column of Nov. 12 re­ garding mail handling proce­ dures at McHenry hospital, I feel it necessary to reply pub­ licly. "I have received a reply from Mr. LeRoy Smith, post­ master at McHenry, regarding my complaint to him about these procedures and he has advised me that they are not in vio- FSYCHIATRISTS CHALLENGED By Bertram S. Brown, M.D. Deputy Director, National Institute of Mental Health The rapid rate of social change today is pulling the firm, familiar ground from under our feet and making us cast our eyes heavenward as if we could hold tight to the fixed stars in the lation of present postal regu­ lations, as stated by Mr. Cor­ coran in his letter. * "I can no longer question the legality of such procedures, but I can and do question the eth­ ics of such practices. The fol­ lowing nearby hospitals, sev­ eral of which are larger than McHenry hospital, and all, I believe, have been in existence longer do not --. I repeat, do not -- open mail addressed to their employees at the hospital addresses: Sherman hospital, Elgin, Mr. Salman, administra­ tor; Memorial hospital, Wood­ stock, Miss Kedzik, secretary to administrator; St. Therese hospital, Waukegan, Sister Mary Ann, administrator; Con- dell Memorial hospital, Liber- i tyville, Mr. Vevle, administra­ tor. The employees, or adminis­ trators, as noted, were the persons I spoke to on the tel­ ephone on Nov. 12 regarding this subject. "All, without exception, stat­ ed that any and all mail, wheth­ er marked personal or not, is delivered intact to the employee concerned, or placed intact where the employee can pick it up. "I must compliment Mr. Cor­ coran on his command of the English language -- his letter was exceedingly well written. However, after reading and re­ reading His letter I was not really sure whether he had ac­ tually clarified anything. "I have now been given three reasons for the use of their mail-handling procedures. " 1--To eliminate so-called junk mail from being sent through channels to employees (this given verbally to me by Mr. Corcoran in his office on Aug. 13). "2~To prevent delays in conducting the business of the hospital with the public and/or vendors (as noted in his letter to me, printed in the column on Nov. 15). "3--Improvement of bus­ iness practices in internal con­ trol, as recommended by their auditors (as printed in the col­ umn on Nov. 15). "I believe it possible that pieces of mail containing checks, medical forms, insur­ ance claims etc; could inad­ vertently be addressedtoapar- tieular employee-but I can hardly believe it to be of such volume as to warrant opening of all mail (except, of course, where marked personal or con­ fidential) addressed to employ­ ees. In support of this belief, I refer to the nearby hospitals previously listed, where this practice is not used. "I might add here that in my stay at McHenry hospital this past summer, I did not meet any employees who in my opinion would not immediately send back to the department concerned, any checks or forms mistakenly addressed to them. The employees are the great­ est, and I believe they deserve to have any and all mail ad­ dressed to them, delivered in­ tact, so that they might have the privilege and privacy of open­ ing their own mail. "It is my sincere hope that there has been enough publicity regarding this subject to prompt someone with enough authority to affect a change in the mail handling procedure. "Sincerely, "Larry Murray" heavens. Accelerating so fast is the rate of change that some scien­ tists have selected Friday, the 13th of November, 2026 A.D., as a kind of doomsday. At that time, both the com­ plexity of life and the number of lives will be doubling in less time than it takes to grow from birth to puberty. Long before then, between 1960 and 1970, the mid-age of the United States --the age of the "representative person" if such a one were pos­ sible--will have moved from the mid-30's to the mid-20's. This is the sharpest such age drop in recorded history. Some call it chaos; others call it challenge. Whatever it is, cer­ tainly it poses undeniable chal­ lenges to psychiatry. As men seek for answers to those social and mental prob­ lems that have significance for medical practice and social jus­ tice, the psychiatrist as a citizen is not always there. This is not to say that the psychiatrist is never there. Often he is, but not enough, and not in enough numbers. Of the 19,000 psychiatrists in the U.S., far from a majority are closely enough related to today's urgent social and com­ munity problems. The psychia­ trist seems to stand in the eye of the hurricane of problems. He knows what to do at the practice level, but he has done little to translate this knowledge into enlightened public policy. But those of us who are psychiatrists must now realize and accept community needs and challenges. For our position has become clear. We are trained to hear the thump of the human heart through the stethoscope. We move on to listen to the cry of the human soul. Now we are being asked to move on again: to listen to the collective cry of mass misery and malfunction and to par­ ticipate in solving the ills of the whole community as a "patient." As we do, more and more you will see today's challenged psychiatrists moving, some re­ luctantly, some gladly, into fuller community life participa­ tion, in there working with each and all of you to prevent mental illness and promote mental health for your town. Are Yon New In Towa? Do You Know Someone New In Town? We would l?ke to extend a welcome to every newcomer to our community. . . CALL Cru Fail 385-4084 ROYAL WELCOME Fran Olsen 385-5740 Joan Stull 385-5418 Ann Zeller 385-0559 OPTOMETRIST Dr. John F. Kelly At 1224 N. Green Street McHenry (Closed Wednesday) Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted Contact Lenses Hrs. Daily 9:30 ajn. to 5 p.m. Friday Evenings 8:30 p.m. Evenings tor appointment PHONE 385-0452 Dr. Leonard Bottari Eyes Examined - Contact Lens Glasses Fitted 1303 N. Richmond Road Hours: Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. 4:00 pun. to 6:00 pan. Tues., Thurs., 6 Fri Eve. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sat. 9:30 to 3:00 pjn. No Hours on Wednesday PHONE 385-4151 If No Answer Phone 385-2262 OFFICE EQUIPMENT McHenry County Office Machine* Sales-Service & Rentals Typewriters -Adders Calculators Mon. - Set. 9:00 - 5:30 Friday 'till 9:00 p.m. PHONE 459-1226 93 Grant St., Crystal Lake, ni. METAL WORK Schroeder Metalcraft For Home and Garden Wrought Iron Railings Fireplace Screens Antiques 1705 S. ROUTE 31 PHONE 385-0950 INSURANCE Earl R. Walsh Fire, Auto, Farm & Life Repreeenting RELIABLE COMPANIES When You Need Insurance at Any Kind PHONE 385-3300 or 385-0953 3429 W. Elm St., McHenry. 111. George L. Thompson General Insurance •LIFE *AUTO •HEALTHB *FIRE •CASUALTY *BOAT Phone 815-385-1066 3812 W. Elm St., McHenry In McHenry Plaindealer Bldg. Dennis Conway AUTO, LIFE, FIRE STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANY 3315 W. Elm St. McHenry, Illinois 385-5285 or 385-7111 LETTER SERVICE Mimeographing - Typing Addressing - Mailing Lists McHenry County Letter Service 1212 -A N. GREEN ST. PHONE 385-5064 Mon. Through Fri. 8-5 p.m. Closed Saturday ACCOUNTANTS Paul A. Schwegel 4410 West Route 120 McHenry, Illinois PHONE 385-4410 REPAIR SERVICE = Call "Servisal" -- (815) 385-2145 For Repairs on Refrigerators - Freezers - Washers and Dryers - Window Air Conditioners - Dishwasher Ranees - Cooktops - Ovens, both Gas and Electric. tnges ^El IRVISAL 4PPLKNCE COMPANY 3412 W. Elm Street, McHenry, Illinois \