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Show The HELPER PAGE SIX (Utah) in output. Some Surprises JOURNAL THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1964 NATIONAL I v. by George Hagedorn le Christinas Seals fight 1 tors, like the gross national product or the Federal Reserve Board Index of Industrial Production. These have their place but we need also, from time to time, to be reminded of the wide variety of trends that are averaged out in such measures. An opportunity to look below the surface is provided by an nrticie on "Patterns of Output Growth," just published by the Department of Commerce, inis analyzes the trends in production of aj9 sep arate items. The ran?e in growth rates i: fmlv flsfonishine. There were about a fifth of 70 products wrach were la&ejea the list "fast prowinff." These were items whose rate of growth averaged above 7.5 per year for The "modthe period erately growing" group yearly increase in output between 0 and 7.5 included 185 pro ducts. The remaining 84 Dro ducts showed actual declines Tl ( - The Family Circle' 1948-196- 3. March of Dimes Volunteers Help Parents of Birth Defects Children Picture a child crippled fry a severe birth defect. A tragedy? Unmistakably. But how severe are the effects on the parents of this child? What is the extent of their shock and suffering? n Dr. Hans Zellweger, a professor of pediatrics and genetics at the State University of Iowa College of Medicine and medical director d of the March of Birth Defects Center there, reports that in his experience 80 per cent of the or detective babies Earents unwarranted feelings of guilt. He believes that they, like their afflicted child, need help. For that reason he is about to erganize group therapy "classes" in which troubled parents can talk among themselves and with medical experts to discuss the problems created by this family tragedy. Dr. Zellweger points out that more than a quarter of a million babies are born every year in the United States with birth defects among them blindness, deafness, missing extremities, imperfect spines and nerv-u-s systems, and many other crippling disorders. Feelings of guilt and humiliation in the parents of these children are commonplace and have been for centuries. He explains that this sense of unfortunately shame persists even in the "enlightened" 20th century, although the individual pediatrician .today does all he or she can to combat it. Help b Expanding Help for those grief- - and parents is being provided by March of Dimes chapters on a growing scale in several sections of the country. "Actually, most of these parents aren't in need of medical treatment, but they are in need of some psychiatric help and the opportunity to talk over their problems with others similarly afflicted," according to Dr. Virginia Apgar, director ef the division of congenital Malformations of The National Foundation-Marc- h of Dimes. well-know- Dimes-supporte- guilt-strick- m 1 ? 111 V & ,! I ,.v " .K. I STURDY SKIS Tired of conventional water skiing, Barbara Clack employs. and Ken White Oshorn. Heft) r?ss Joker Z who hold tight to tow ropes to torn her "skis." ... bv JAMES W. DOUTHAT The Board of Education of New York City has made what it calls a "modest request." It wants citizens all over the U.S. to give it $1.5 billion to build schools in the richest big city in the world. It seeks this money under the poverty program. Congress repeatedly has refused to authorize such Federal aid to education in its own right, but the New Yorkers think they can get around the problem through the poverty funds. Suppose that this "modest request" is granted by the Federal Government. It would mean that every taxpayer in the land would have to pay an average of $25 to New York. And that the nearly eight million New Yorkers would receive Federal subsidy to the tune of more than $200 each. Could Cost $40 Billion Or, look at it another way. If the poverty program's funds can be used to build schools, New York would have no more than an equal claim with every school district in the country. If every community were given such funds on the basis the program of population, would cost $40 billion. In justification of its request, category later on. Departure from the average the Board points out that New pattern is so much more com- York City now pays more for mon than adherence to it, that Federal grants-in-aiprograms one is tempted to desscribe the than it receives. This is so. whole situation as chaotic. And The reason is that New Yorkso it is to the statistician who ers earn more than average tries to explain or predict eco- 'Americans, and so pay more nomic changes in in income taxes. detail. Ii New York is to receive For the consumer it is not back from the Federal Treaschaos at all but supreme or- ury all it puts in, then it folderliness. He finds the things lows that the poorer cities and he wants in the marketplace. states would also have to be The things he has ceased to placed on the same basis. want cease to appear there.' Shouid this happen, the whole National ewnornic planning grants program which now is favorably regarded in some amounts to around $11 billion would have no furquarters. However, we doubt a year that a central planning bureau ther excuse for being. trend for very many of the 339 There would be no advantage could have projected the right at all to any state or city to products analyzed in this Com- yield tax money, send it to merce Department study. Any Washington, and have the preattempt to force them into a cise amount returned to it predetermined pattern would less the administrative costs. have produced real chaos. Th2 New York Board consid- - KICK BALL Pert Mickey Heinicke, 4, kicks large ball in Denver Children's hospital to teach her to Ilea Vl0l locTc canQratnlii 1965 March She is the of Dimes Poster Girl. . ; . wrrrnrrP PluJ' it A t' t-- - fast-growe- rs fast-growe- rs mmmmwmm Will fast-growi- industry-by-industr- y psiii amis J J l Comment III d " Jp Central States News Vievs g fast-growi- SOME UP, SOME DOWN High level economic discus sions tend to be conducted in indicaterms of broad-gaug- e iL!vvvV rii fast-growin- OUTLOOK lllilil;: :: Among the group there are some products that we would have expected to find there: room air conditioners and frozen fruit juice concentrates for example. But some of the products listed as surprise the casual reader: vitamins, shavers, skirts and effervescent wines. Similarly, we are not surprised to find silk and bituminous coal in the declining group. But we wouldn't have guessed that men's suits, outboard motors, refrigerators, and men's work shirts would also show declines in output. Doubtless the experts in each of thtse fields can offer an explanation for what happened, at least in retrospect. Whether they could have predicted it in advance is another question. Chaos or Order? Not only has the growth rate varied widely from product to it has changed pro Juct for some products abruptly from one time period to another. Out of 81 products that were between 1948 and 1S57, only 35 were still between 1957 and 1963. Another 35 moved down to the moderately-growin- g class, and 11 actually declined. At the other end of the scale some products that were declining in the early years moved into the even into the growing lt research HEADS UP! 3,000 laying hens at the Cargill-Nutren- a farm, Elk River, Minn., are testing cages of various sizes and designs to answer questions about egg production for the feed firm. i ers $3.5 billion modest, but it drawing the freely available hardly looks so alongside the cash. Their criticism now haft poverty program from which been justified by this and other the funds are supposed to come. such events." There is little hope for real Congress appropriated only half that amount to run the relief from the tax burden so program in all its phases for Jong as such programs haJtl out our money freely to' those the whole nation for a year. who do not need it whether Tough on Taxpayers Critics foresaw that if this affluent cities, huge farm holdprogram became law, every; ings, passengers on luxury section of the country would be. transportation or tenants In decome "poor" .for purposes of luxe housing. i MAKE IT HEED IT GOT IT ... OF DIMES voluntetrs aid in easing the piychological and ether problem confronting parents of children with birth defects. ' Above, at Mankato, Minn., parents and members of March of Dimes chapter listen to lecture on birth defects by Dr. Warren Warwick, pediatrician, of University of Minnesota Medical School. MARCH "Also, they are in need of a evening healthy dose of truth about birth defects," she adds. "That truth is that so far as medical science knows, by far the maof a defective jority of parents baby have no reason to reproach themselves, or to point the finger of suspicion at the other partner in marriage." March of Dimes chapters in lecture, exchange "traumatic" experiences, and discuss such practical problems as getting their handicapped small children into the elementary schools. Volunteers Up to 75 parents attend the monthly gatherings of the Well-inform- Child Development Center Parents Group, at Children's five Minnesota counties- now Hospital, San Francisco. Half hold meetings of parents each of the necessary financial supmonth to discuss means of ridcomes from the funds of port ding themselves of their un- the March of justified feelings of Birth Defects Center at the Usually they are also addressed by a pediatrician hospital. All the sponsoring chapters and are informed about the find enthusiastic and progress of March of Dimes at these research grants in birth de- meetings volunteers on whom to call for fects at leading university-affiliate- d help during the March of medical centers and Dimes campaign each Jenuary laboratories across the nation. when funds are raised nationAt Houston, Tex., the Harris ally. County Chapter has established Other March of Dimes a Spina Bifida Educational As- ters around the countrychapare sociation which meets monthly planning similar projects to in a seminar room at Texas banish needless feelings of Children's Hospital. Fifteen to among parents of children guilt with 20 sets of parents attend the defects. Dimes-finance- d h. well-inform- l Ho Daulbtf 11 OUY IT ! n 17j .V Never guest about word meanings or for people Judge you on spelling how you speak and write! 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