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Show and whife-collar Americans who pay this nation's tax bills. The productive citizens can't he robbed to provide tribute to the nonworkers in our society. Spokesmen for the slum populations say that their clients can't get work. This isn't true. American newspapers newspa-pers always are publishing want ads. Employers seeK help. It's true that the advertisements advertise-ments are not all for computer programmers or for operators of data processing equipment. Many jobs are open for hard physical -labor, .but these are jobs that have to be done in any society. Many Americans who today have good, high - caliber jobs are the children or grandchildren grandchil-dren of those who held down hard, uninspiring jobs. When an individual or a people wants to go up in a free society so-ciety ,it is necessary to begin at the bottom of the ladder. If a person is energetic, he can get ahead in America. A janitor's jan-itor's job may not be fascinating, fascinat-ing, but with today's wide educational ed-ucational opportunities it is possible for a-janitor to go to afternoon or evening classes and learn a skill so he can qualify for better employment. . This is the American way, the self-reliant way, and the only effective way for our country to solve its problems and get ahead. It requires only individual indi-vidual initiative, not Big Government Gov-ernment spending. The political leaders of the United States must put aside the baloney whether Latin-American Latin-American or domestic slums are involved and start preaching preach-ing the importance of hard . work and self-reliance. The rhetoric of handoutitis makes no sense In the real world. Guest Editorial ... SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice-President Southern States Industrial Council HELPING OTHERS HELP THEMSELVES Though the proclamations and speeches associated with the inter-American meeting at Punta del Este al-leady al-leady are fading from memory here in North America, it is hard if not impossible to forget some of the angry demands voiced by Latin meetings at that conference. The President of Ecuador, for example, was especially bitter toward the United States for not giving more money to the countries of South America. Ironically, much the same kind of bitterness is heard oft the home front from those who want the federal government to escalate the War on Poverty. Spokesmen for radical groups . end poliical action groups in slum areas angrily condemn their fellow citizens for not pouring more money into social uplift schemes. They suggest almost threaten that vio-lence vio-lence is just around the Corner Cor-ner if the money is not pro-, vided forthwith. It is time the people of .this world, both abroad and at home, get over the idea that they are wards of the United States. Certainly the productive citizens of the US don't have an obligation to subsidize those at home who make careers of being drones, nor to help other nations that won't help themselves. Neither a man nor a nation benefits from becoming accustomed accus-tomed to receiving money that is not earned. The more you give a man and this also applies ap-plies to a nation the more he wants, and if you give it to him long enough, he finally considers it his by right. As a result, the donor is impoverished impover-ished and, what is worse, the donee's self-reliance . is . destroyed. de-stroyed. For many years the United States has poured money into Latin American projects. But vast outlays of government - money from he USA have not helped the Latins. ' What they ,j j qotv, handout i j but a wider desire to help themselves and to cooperate with foreign investors. Repeatedly, Re-peatedly, Latin countries have penalized investors, expropriating expropri-ating their property or damaging damag-ing . them in one way or another. an-other. It is no wonder that U. S. business approaches some Latin lands in swittish fashion. Indolence and dissipation of money are unfortunate facts of Ijife in Many parts of Latin America. The spirit of self-reliance self-reliance is not strong. In part, this goes back to the old Spanish tradition of centralized rule, which impaired growth of free enterprise and personal liberty. But Latin America must overcome its hurtful inheritance in-heritance if it wants to have a better life. In short, the Latins have to find their awn way out of the mess they have created. cre-ated. The U. S. can't do it for them certainly not by sending tax money into the continent. . The same, truth has validity with respect to upgrading people peo-ple rwho dwell in slums in the United States. The fact is that we have a substratum of people peo-ple in his . country who don't want to work who want Uncle Sam to support them with subsidized sub-sidized h o u s ing, subsidized health care, and numerous other oth-er federal benefits. They intend in-tend to- use their votes to compel com-pel handouts. 'The xjnly answer to this problem prob-lem is a more realistic, determined deter-mined attitude on the part of "ainfully employed blue-collar 0 |