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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 19 May 1976, p. 24

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SECTION 2 - PAGE 4 - PLA1NDEALER-WEDNE8PAY, MAY It. If7t EDITORIALS American Life-Style In material wealth and work-savin# devices the American standard of living is among the highest in the world. Americans like to boast that their country is the richest in the world. Measured by many material guidelines the U.S. standard is high-not the highest, however, in all. But there is more to life than material wealth and critics of America often argue, sometimes convincingly, that the American way of life seems to force everyone into a sort of mass-production mold of standardized behavior, mannerisms and living. Perhaps that criticism partly misses the point in that there is such a large, affluent middle class in this country outsiders tend to compare it with upper classes in other countries. But there is also substance to the accusation that we are such as mass production society too many fail to achieve or seek a quality life. Quality is. worth seeking. Style, culture, pride and poise are worth the effort. Mass-production has done wonders in reducing living costs but something else must be added in life if we are not all to be commonized into stereotypes, into an uninteresting, ordinary average. Minorities And Jobs The unfortunate unemployment trend in the easing recession has been that minorities tended to lose Jobs in disproportionate percentages. Attention should be focused on this problem by federal authorities, especially concerning blacks. But in counting women a minority In this country (they outnumber men) one overlooks the fact that most men are still the principle breadwinners for their families and wives often take a second or part-time Job to supplement family income. These put-time jobs are sometimes the first discontinued in an economic slump. It's more important to the family in many cases that the principle breadwinner's Job be maintained. No bureaucrat's statistical chart can take this into consideration. The whole tendency to equate female employment with male employement on equal mathematical terms fails to take into account that the majority of Americans, male and female, maintain through free choice, the traditional husband-wife relationship. Thus when federal bureaucrats tell females they are Suffering grievously because they are not employed in equal numbers or because their more recently acquired or part-time jobs are among the first terminated, this is somewhat misleading. The real unemployment injustice in this country may be to blacks, who see themselves discriminated against, often by refugee groups who have only been in America few years, and by the flood of illegal persons entering this country every year, taking jobs (creating unemployment), sending earnings abroad and contributing nothing to the national economy. A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. Weekly Market Review Let's be charitable! Perhaps those Bears who have been Screaming for months that "The correction is coming, the correction is coming" are simply poor at grammar rather than stock market advice. After all, anyone can confuse the future tense "is coming" with the present tense "has come" if he is not careful - or if he isn't looking beyond the Dow Jones Industrial average, and certainly all market analysts look below the surface and to the real stock market to see just what stocks are doing-once again, we are trying to be charitable. The fact of the matter is that the vast .'majority of stocks have been undergoing sizable corrections since early February which has been camouflaged by a churning Dow Jones Industrial average. . Our advice for several months has been to tread lightly, to accumulate selected stocks, to keep back some buying power, to not get enthusiastic short term, and to think Bullish. Although two days do not a trend make, we are impressed with the performance of many stocks since Friday afternoon and thus we would become more aggressive in buying programs, on increased volume, both the advance-decline ratio and new high-low readings have improved. Price moves in a number of important stocks have been impressive and there are signs of renewed buying, and most importantly, in a Bull market the benefit of the doubt goes to the Bulls and the Bears have to show compelling evidence which they have failed to do for three months. We profess to little conviction as to howbroad or big this advance may be. However, we do feel that stocks technically are in a position to try the upside and there is plenty of fundamental support available if investors are in the mood to look, anfl it wouldn't be at all surprising for the market to turn up just after its overall behavior was starting to really deteriorate and shortly after a good deal of bad news is out. The Bears have had an 0.8 percent wholesale price index leap for April, a very soft bond market, and a whole new set of presidential uncertainties to work with and yet sellers have been accommodated. The jury is still out on the short term trend, but in a Bull market we prefer the risk erf erring on the buy side rather than the sell. Uncle Sam Legend Is Related In New Film A Bicentennial color film entitled, "Uncle Sam: The Man and the Legend", which tells the story of Samuel Wilson of Tory, N.Y., the man on whom the legend is based, is available free of charge through the McHenry County Board of Realtors. "Most Americans do not know that Uncle Sam actually lived," said Bev Ebert, president of the Board of Realtors. A resolution was passed by Congress in 1961 recognizing Samuel Wilson as the namesake of this national symbol. The use of the name, Uncle Sam, dates from the War of 1812 when it was associated with Wilson, a provisioner to the U.S. Army. The National Association of Realtors, which is presenting the film as a part of its Bicentennial program, decided to draw national attention to Samuel Wilson during the Bicentennial celebration because so few Americans realized a real, live man was the inspiration for the father­ like figure used to represent the United States: humanized, benign, friendly, yet firm, and dressed in the "Star Spangled Banner." The movie features actor E.G. Marshall as narrator who visits Troy, N.Y., Arlington, Va., and Mason, N.H., to recreate the background where Wilson lived and from where the legend stems. The film is available free of charge in McHenry county by contacting a local realtor or program chairman, Dave For Your Information Dear friends. Those who have gone through the trauma of the loss of a loved one are best able to offer heartfelt sympathy for the be­ reaved. Their very presence testifies that all must suffer such grievous loss -and that life must go on. It tends to give perspective to personal grief. Respectfully, PETER MJUSTEN & SON _ FUNFRAL HOME McHenry, Illinois 385-00&3 MAY CROSS-COUNTRY RACE P^OMOMV . . ' CONTROL. Cancer Society Approaches Goal /.«/•* ' ' . . ' V --^-----7; > The American Cancer society announced that it is ap­ proaching the goal of its four- year campaign to get every American woman to have a Pap test by the end of 1976. Eustice Klein, Harvard, chairman of the society's McHenry county unit, noted that in an introduction to the society's annual report for 1975, it was stated, "More than 85 percent of American women at risk of getting cancer of the uterine cervix have had at least one Pap smear taken. Those at risk are primarily women twenty years and older, plus younger women who are sexually active." - The 1975 annual report takes a close, candid look at cancer control, stacking up the progress against the problems. It shows how the society's work A m e r i c a n V i e w p o i n t s PUBLIC PULSE (The Plaindealer Invitee the public to use this column as an expression of their views on subjects of general interest in our community. Our only request is that the writers give - signature, full ad­ dress and phone number. 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 con­ sider libelous or in objec- tlonal taste.) THE GENOCIDE TREATY Editor* "Again this year the Senate Foreign Relations committee has passed the Genocide treaty and it could be brought up for a vote at any time. 1 "Nothing is said in this treaty about "Political" or "Economic" groups and therefore it is a hoax. It would be utterly useless against the greatest mass murderers of all time - the Communist rulers, who slaughter their enemies without regard to race, color or creed. "How can we support 'detente' after the Russians and Chinese have liquidated 100 million of their own people? How can we allow our State department to promise black African savage terrorists that we will help them take control of the Rhodesian government because of its alleged suppression of natives? Not one word is said against the Russian and Chinese dictatorships where the people are complete slaves with no voice whatever in their government. "This Genocide treaty would be another nail in our coffin and I urgently urge all Americans who value their freedom to contact their Senators to protest this treasonous agreement. (I will be happy to furnish more information upon request.) "As Solzhenitsyn said, 'Why do you help our slave owners? When they bury us in the ground alive, please do not send them shovels. Please do not send them the most modern earth-moving equipment.' "These agreements with the Communists amount to our digging our own graves. Are you ready to jump in? I am not! "Sincerely, > "Dorothy M. Himpelmann" Learning makes a good man better, and an ill man worse. -Thomas Fuller. Teberg, at 455-1114. The film, which is a 16 mm, 23 minute long film, may be reserved for use by groups, organizations or schools. County Seniors In Jeopardy: Skinner If you're a McHenry county senior citizen hungry for companionship or food, your chances of being helped by the Illinois Department on Aging's "Meet and Eat" program are zero, thus far, reports State Rep. Cal Skinner,. Jr. (R- Crystal Lake). "It's not bad enough that the nine northeastern Illinois counties have 59 percent of Illinois' seniors over age 60, but get only 43 percent of the meals. My home county's senior citizen council can't even get a solid commitment to be included in the program next year", the second-term lawmaker explained. "I certainly would not want to diminish the rapidly ex­ panding activities sponsored by the McHenry County Senior Citizens council and various local organizations, but I really resent this department's refusal to promise that we will be included in next year's program. "Oh, the Governor's budget pledges that 100 out of 102 Illinois counties will be in­ cluded in the nutritional and companionship program in question", Skinner continued, "but Director Kenneth Holland refuses to make a written commitment that the two counties to be left out won't be one of the teeny-tiny counties in southern Illinois". "I hope all of the senior citizen organizations in Everyone has his super­ stitions. One of mine has always been when 1 started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accom­ plished. Ulysses S. Grant McHenry county and any in­ terested church and civic, organizations will also write Director Holland at 2401 West Jefferson in Springfield and express their hopes that he will do what is right and approve the application for inclusion in the program that has been submitted by Executive Director Marge Jones of the McHenry County Senior Citizens council." C O L L f C . C o m t N T c o S t u d i e s MORE ATTRACTIVE TO SOME A man of learning is never bored. -Jean Paul Richter. K0ENEMANN Country Made Sausages, Hams and Bacon GERMAN IMPORTS AND CHEESES A Full Line Of Delicatessen Just east of Rt 12 815-385-6260 VOLO ( • t ( ( t < t t - K <( • ( t ' ( ( < I - ( t • t • I • I • ( t < t - 1 - 1 ' I ( •C ( Are You New In McHenry Area ? ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ Do You Know Someone New? WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A ROYAL WELCOME TO EVERY NEWCOMER TO OUR AREA ! ! ! ! ! •' \ CALL JOAN STULL 385-5418 % I//I/W.7W/..7I 'a KNOW YOUR AREA-ROYAL WELCOME DOES IT BEST fits into the total cancer pic­ ture, and how that picture- despite many obstacles- is getting brighter all the time. "For example," Klein said, "new drugs and combination of drugs are preventing the recurrence of some cancers following surgery, and have removed ten forms of cancer from the incurable list." The five-year survival rate for children with acute lym­ phocytic leukemia has risen from a handful in 1960 to 50 percent under today's best care. A new diagnostic device, the long flexible colonoscope, now enables physicians to examine the entire length of the colon, the site of 99,000 cancers each year. Klein noted that in 1975 three cancer researchers, supported for years by the society, won the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine because of work they have done concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and genetics in the basic mechanism of cancer. New information from the twenty-seven Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration projects run by the ACS and the National Cancer institute revealed mammography to be an effective screening technique for women 35 to 50, as well as for older women. The link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, which the society was in­ strumental in determining, prompted action around the world to discourage and restrict the dangerous habit. The 1975 third world conference on Smoking and Health brought together representatives from fifty-three countries. The ACS expanded its efforts not only to save more lives from cancer, but to improve the quality of the lives saved. Service and rehabilitation programs of the society reached more than 300,000 cancer patients in 1975. (-K « K r •c •( • c • t ' t ' 1 • t -1 ' 1 • 1 1 • 1 t -t <1 t t • ( r " t t ' ( I • K t t • t •I • I ' I -1 ' t Ser»'cc I professw"1 pirecl°r^ EARL R. WALSH & JACK WALSH INS. Fir#, Auto, Farm, Life Representing RELIABLE COMPANIES 4410 W. Rte. 120, McHenry 30S-3300 DENNIS CONWAY AUTO-LIFE-FIRE State Farm Ins. Co. 331? W. Elm St. McHenry, III. 3M-7111 DR. LEONARD B0TTARI 303 N. 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