European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes april columns comments Anthony Lewis will no one offer Hope to the poor children How Many of the million children in new York City would you guess live below the official poverty line i would have said 15 perhaps the Correct answer is 40 that shocking figure appeared last week in the new in a note and comment on poverty in the the very fact that i was shocked and i think most readers of this column will be How Little we allow ourselves to the statistics of poverty Are not we just do not want to know How much misery coexists with affluence in the United the figure came from a report to new Yorks Community service society by professor Emanuel Tobier of new York in Tobier one in five of the cites children was poor As defined by the Federal govern by in the latest official a third of the children he estimated that by 1982 the figure had probably moved Well Over the 40 percent think of what it in our greatest City children live in squalor and the America that we in the comfortable Middle class take for granted does not exist for they live in another i see on third of a nation ill nou the statement is As True of new York and other major cities today As it was of the More Rural America addressed by Franklin Roosevelt in but we do not want to hear such Calls to Community responsibility we prefer a president who tells us that lifes goal should be to acquire More possessions for but there is no escape from the the new yorkers who enjoy the excitement and glitter of their the restaurants and share the City with the the existence of a Large underclass threatens the equanimity of their that must be people who see affluence All around them but have no Access to it can hardly be expected to have a deep commitment to Middle class to put it Only in terms of those who partake of americas Prosperity have reason to be concerned about the existence of an underclass son to want to do something about those children living in but what can be done and what is Politi Cally possible As it there is something to be done that fits our current preoccupation with that is to look at the problem in terms of of giving individuals a ladder to boost themselves out of the poverty most existing programs addressed to poverty Are of Flora Lewis an ameliorating designed to keep life not to stimulate food for have worked marvellously to alleviate but they do not break the do not give poor children a Way there was one outstanding example of legislation that gave americans Opportunity for self advancement the Bill of it helped educate millions of world War ii veterans who would otherwise not have been Able to go to College and had a Chance for better the Law had an Impact at the same time egalitarian and individual if there is any possibility of dealing with the massive problem of Urban poverty and social decay in today political it must he in that direction of providing Urban Job Cre compensatory training measures of that kind May begin to lift individuals out of hopelessness them into the world of the theory is a natural for populist Jack Kemp Speaks of the Opportunity one might expect president Reagan to be attacking poverty in those but his speeches about Opportunity Are addressed to those who already and his policies attack the few existing measures of Opportunity for the less programs designed to help the working poor to wean them from welfare to jobs were hit in the first Reagan Federal Aid to education and College student Loans Are major budgetary targets and the administration is engaged in a full scale assault on one mechanism that has enabled Blacks to get a Start on civil service jobs court judgments ordering local fire and police forces to take on numbers of Blacks after years of the problem is a profound Challenge to both political will the democrats find a new Way to Combine the historic american themes of Opportunity and egalitarianism will conservative populism seize the ground or will no one offer Hope to 40 percent of new Yorks children c 1985 new York times Syndicate aboard atoms solve pc few to stops in a Wmk weep the aisle no have youd wet Texas can reap fhe rewards of Lon term planning for a Long Texas has had its ups and Downs As a two crop land agriculture and but the population growth is draining water it will take vast investments to continue irrigation into the and the Oil slump is Only a precursor to the problems of dwindling so Texas is starting now to develop a new crop advanced that is As after weve Only Begh Here a Little Over four years fashionable an idea around the world As the miniskirt and the typewriter in their from the sound of unless peo ple everywhere take to wearing and sleeping in they will have to live off doing each others but Texas has an interesting approach that makes the prospects sound it has Large pockets As Well As pockets of staggering the Gnu at billion is already about equal to with two thirds the there Are 16 million people expected to reach 21 million by the year that Means it will need a lot More they Are being sought with the kind of state private cooperation which is neither the government planning to which europeans and others have turned nor a will Nilly Reliance on the markets Appeal to one example was the extravagant Effort with which the state and the University of Texas lured the microchips and computer to Settle in Mcc is the unusual new company sparked by the realization that american businesses keep up with the Jap anese unless they found some Way to Pool their research two senior William Stotesbery and George explained the operation in their elegant Blac Glass Headquarters the corporation is owned by 21 companies each holding a single it sponsors neither Basic left to the nor new product which will be left to member but the i Between application of science to new computer ideas that will permit dramatic it took some special dispensation from the department of Justice to enable the companies to join in the kind of Effort that the japanese government the risk of antitrust prosecution remains ahead if the results Lead to too much mar Ket but the provision for open licensing of inventions three years after members receive Access to patents should open up that is also the Way Mcc Hopes to become profitable and it plans to eschew defense work so As to avoid bureaucracy and mountains of and to ensure efficiency and flex eventually it might provide some better models for the mess or defense contracting state officials expect the new High tech Center to draw a lot of other people to the not necessarily to produce High technology but to develop its they have Learned How to tap the Federal govern ments Small business innovation and re search program so that All kinds of enter Prises can seek to and they Are paying attention to an honest evaluation of resources for the especially so investors wont be drawn into a dead it int so much planning that were said Mimi a Young woman who is Mark Whites assistant for economic its providing a Supply of Lon term that is the most encouraging part of the whole the willingness to urge Enterprise to look Well Down the Road instead of concentrating on the Quick re Mcc is also prepared to be expecting its projects to take 6 to 10 years before bearing american Industrial with its fixation on the quarterly and annual Bot Tom tends to Block this kind of Man but experts agree it is one of japans major secret measuring Success by the future share of the Market and letting the profits pile up As the re not As the first the increasing Pace of Industrial change cant mean Shorter and Shorter calculations for fast that Way lie Shorter cycles of Boom and growth and rust with its devastating effects on a sturdy renewal of american productivity and the purchasing Power to sustain it requires a sense of caring for not leaving it to fend for seem obvious and it is obvious that government has to have a role in promoting the longer the Market tends to be in a big but thar int always the which already has a lot of has a Good Chance of reaping the rewards by thinking beyond the ims new York Telmet Syndicate
