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Show Page 3 - S. L. Neighborhood NewsAdvertiser Y dlittODiriail sum As a nation we Americans like to think of ourselves as a nation of caring people, steadily guided by humanitarian principles. This form of national We take great pride in our caring attitude towards the victimsof disasters. The minute a hurricane, flood, famine or some kind of disaster strikes another state or some section of our nation we rush to the aid of the victims with the necessary items for the allievation of the victi m's suffering. We are apt to respond in an immediate and more generous manner if the disaster takes place in substantially is a self-delusio- n. a James Petersen, left, and Wiley Beavers, right display United Way goal . helped by young friends. United Way Sets Goal The 1973 United Way goal has been set at $2.2 million by the agency's Board of Directors. The amount effectively, the community can take pride in caring for its own. Only a true goal of need is was based on consonant with purpose, recommendations given June 15, by Chairmen of the seven agency review panels. Last years drive raised $1,730,000. "A goal of $2.2 million represents a dramatic increase. But the hard fact is that the growth of the social service needs of our responsibility and achievement," James E. Petersen, 1973campaign Chairman, added. community has long since outstripped fund-raisin- our growth in When we carefully g. analyzed the true needs of our 51 agencies, it was obvious that a small increase over last year would leave our agencies severly and unable to do the job they must do," Wiley U. Beavers, United Way under-funde- d UNITED WAY MEMBER AGENCIES Drug Treatment and Service: Community Drug Crisis Project Reality Tooele County Crises Center Manhattan Project of the Salvation Army Family and Children's Services-- : Family Service Counseling United Way of the Great Salt Lake Area is to meet unmet social service needs of the community. Its responsibility equates with the purpose of the organization. It Center Children's Service Society Catholic Charities The Children's Center Salvation Army Traveler's Aid Society Youth Counseling Center (Bountiful) Legal Aid Society welfare agencies to the community in terms of defining unmet social service community needs. It represents the community to the agencies in terms of supporting unmet social service community needs. It is obligated to represent its agencies and the community fairly, honestly, and fully. If the United Way organization does this Utah Mental Health Association Utah Association for Retarded Children Reading Room for Blind Utah Blind Association Columbus Community Center Recreation and Informal Education: Odyssey House "The sole purpose of the social Multiple Sclerosis Society Diabetic Foundation Dental Service Society Hemophilia Foundation Arthritis Foundation Center President said. represents the member Community Nursing Service Health and Rehabilitaiton: American Red Cross Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Y.M.C.A. Y.W.C.A. Neighborhood House Boys Club, Sugar House Jewish Community Center Crossroads Urban Center Campfire Girls (recommended for membership, action on 62173) Planning and Coordination: Services Council Community Davis County Community Services Council Salt Lake County Great Salt Lake Health Planning Council Multiple Handicapped Training Center Easter Seal Society SALT LAKE NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ADVERTISER -- Published by the Communications Service Center, Inc. Community Groups: Copperton Activity Fund Kearns United Fund Midvale United Fund Murray United Fund Oquirrh Civic Fund Tooele United Fund (These in turn, allocate funds a robot, a non-thinkin- g person, who is trained to value things more than people. As a result of this process true caring is destroyed and in its place the substitute is a mask of caring, for personal gain. This schizophrenic behavior creates a personal identity crises for people who only pretend to care. Such people forget how to laugh, they receive no satisfaction from their accomplishments, they work and engage in all types of endeavor only for material gain. Eric Fromm has said on this subject, "Our society is run by a maragerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians, people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves. All activities are subornitated to economic goals, means have become needs. Man is an automation well fed, well clothed but without any ultimate concern for what is peculiarly human quality and function." Presently we are experiencing as a nation the shocking effects of this process through the Watergate The true man becomes investigations. institutional machievalian and believes that as long as his purposes are good he is justified in using any type of method (including murder) to achieve his self-decide- d goals. to their own member agencies.) caring people. Caring people place their allegiance to the individual Marlene Marie Young, Editor Distribution by carrier. Publication of the newspaper is weekly with a distribution of 30,000 copies. tender, What is needed today in our society are institutions that create National Agencies: Tim Funk, Staff reporter Donald Young, Photographer Clark Yospe, Graphics and Children's Supplement Editor Ed John, Advertising Manager foreign impoverished country. This type of response provides us with publicity and it satisfies our national conscience for the lack of everyday caring for others in our daily personal encounters. All too often caring is a "put on" attitude used by people to satisfy their economic and personal achievement needs, and not an expression of true concern for their followmen. In our rapidly changing technological society man is into a machine rather than to impersonal institutions American Social Health Assn. Council on Social Work Education National Assembly National Recreation and Parks Association National Urban League U.S.O. and systems. They weigh each act and decision on the scales of goodness to their fellow man. The way institutions treat their older employees reflects society's view of older people in general. Sim de Beauvoir puts it, "by the way in which a society I f people, old teachers and students alike, it will hurl on the waste pile those individuals (young and old) whom it regards as inefficient. This consequently teaches our youth to g become people. To relegate people of unique experience to the human junk pile of retirement and inactivity is a callous and extravagant waste of the human resource that can ill be afforded even in an effecient democratic society. Milton Mayeroff, the noted philosopher, says, "in the sense in which a man can ever be said to be at home in the world, he is at home not through dominating, or explaining, or appreciating but through caring and being cared non-carin- . 4 M for..." suspect the reason for the g attitudes in evidence today stem from the feelings of not I ; jp non-carin- being cared for and the accompanying feelings if no one cares for me why should care or someone else. UNTIL we Americans learn to care for caring's sake because we are human (and this is only a natural way of displaying humaneness) we will become a Watergate natlbn of im personalized robots unfit to enjoy the fruits of a democratic society. The greatest hope lies in the development of our youth into caring people with courage and vision. The courage to speak out arid to act for people without the fear of reprisal or for personal reward. The vision to care enough for other people to help America achieve both the greatness and goodness that was the intention of our founding fathers. All of our societal institutions, government, church, school' and home must have as their immediate behaves towards its old people it uncovers the naked and often carefully hidden truth about its real principles and aims." Thus if a society sees schools and other institutions as places to develop students who will provide for the economic growth of the country rather that the creation of I a r. 1 1 ij i ' 5' learning environment that promotes the enhancement and personal development of all goal the creation of true caring people if we are to change our present course down the road to a dehumanized nation. Exams Needed i Parents of students who will be attending Salt Lake City Public Schools next fall are reminded that physical and dental examinations will be needed for some of the students. Those students in grades three, seven or ten, and those new to the district or should have these exams. Local doctors' offices have supplies of the exam forms, or pre-scho- ol additional supplies are available from the district offices at 440 East First South, Room 101. i re |