Show WRONG NUMBER A sordid crime a campus revolt of ofa a few untidy malcontents or garrulous ranting against everything American these are the things t that at seem to permanently permanently per per- reside in headlines One of the country's top businessmen Donald S. S MacLeod an official of a major manufacturing concern Involved with both space and commercial products products pro pro- ducts takes emphatic exception to this negative approach toward America lIe He says Were using the wrong numbers in Americas America's social balance sheet While in no way minimizing the gravity of social and economic problems his company has been a leader in training and providing opportunities for the hardcore hardcore hard hard- core unemployed and disadvantaged He notes men did not commit commit com com- mit a criminal offense in 1968 in the same lame year college students did not participate in a campus demonstration tion citizens did not use illegal illegal ille ille- gal drugs These numbers represent what this business executive calls the Invisible majority He then suggests ways of achieving a sensible approach to the many problems admittedly confronting the country To begin with he states that we must have a historical perspective perspective per per- that Is we should know the direction we are traveling and the gains gams which have been made For example we hear a great deal about 25 5 mIllion million mil mIl- lion people living below the poverty line lineas as defined by the government for a family of four That is 13 per cent of the population but in considering this figure it should be recalled recalled recalled re re- called that in 1961 the figure was not 13 per cent but 22 per cent The trend is more Important than a negative sta ata- Speaking as one of the invisible majority majority ma ma- this businessman observes In our bones we feel the current of the time that Is leading us ever closer to the fulfillment of our American future |