PORTLAND/OBSERVER Feb. 11, 1971
Perspective
Shop the
Population medicine
With tlie crush of over-pop-
ul ation making itself all over
the world, and with
mankind
seemingly determined to pop
ulate Itself right off tlie face
of this planet,
the c iie b of
mandatory
population controls
are tiecoming more frequent and
more boisterous.
This
past weekend at the
U niversity of Oregon Medical
School, fo r example, a Conf
erence
of Doctors,
Nurses
and othet Health Profession
als heard
from D r. George
Denniston of Seattle, a self-
styled advocate of ’ ‘ Population
M edicine.” Denniston calls for
Immediate legislation to force
people
In
tills
country to
lim it the
size of th e ir fam
WILLIAM R. DEIZ
ilie s . He also seeks to have
means social change.
rules
Governing contraceptive
Ilie Black experience in this
use-speclfically the
“ p ill ”
country
has
ta u g h t A fro -
relaxed so that greater num
Americans that
almost
any
bers of people w ill "B e n e fit”
plan
advanced
by
white
I o this end, he say, he would
Am erica
" f o r the benefit of
like to see the Medical P rof
a ll” must
be viewed
with
ession get out of the p ill busi
more
than
just
a little
ness; he feels
the
p ill Is
grain
of
salt.
C ries
of
safe enough
fo r use without
” GENOCIDE ” are continual
prescription.
ly raised in m inority comm
D r. Denniston
insists
his
unities
whenever population
population
control
proposals
control programs are advance-
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would affect everyone equally
and fo r good reason.
rich and poor, black and white.
Where Blacks
are
few in
Were
It
not fo r the past
numbers their complaints are
By Gerald White
history of Racial callousness
systematically ignored. V.here
Purple
haze flonders
in this country his proposals
they are in abundance their
on florence beach,
might seem sound.
pressure
to remedy intoler
where sea gulls sacked,
Most
thinking
people today able
conditions often results replica of fresh haunting,
agree that steps must 1« taken
in positive change.
and I repeat the ocean sm ell
to curb population
g ro w th .
i t ’ s too bad it has to be moving from pain to music,
But
it is imperative to re
this way. A fte r a ll, a te r r i neon accoustics persuade the
member that we have,
since
bly high percentage
of g rie bell bottom thighs, like foot
World
War
11 fo r example,
vances by Blacks represent leg prints
had very detailed
Laws
on
itim ate complaints
against a to be denied and washed away
the
books dealing with the
system
that
has fostered In evenings tide.
D raft;
Laws
that
w e re
SIX O’CLOCK
racism as an institution.
w ritten
in
such
a way as
by G erald White
If
whites
are
re a lly so
to
allow
the Economically
interested
in
saving
the Six o ’ clock in the morning
Advantaged
to avoid tlx; Draft
Ecology
and
in population and the noise is gone
people are gone with it .
entirely
through
the use of
controls
"b e fo re i t ’ s too ”
deferments and through know
late they
had better set as Buildings hide behind the sky
ledge
of Draft-Exem pt occu
th e ir fir s t p rio rity the
re and I hide behind them
pations.
gaining
of
a lost trust— a The buildings are fast asleep
The point is, the D raft Laws tru st they lost when they be P e o p le sleep within th e ir
never did
work equally for
gan
the slave trade in this sleep.
everyone
in this country; that
” free country” and which, I
in actuality
they
worked to
am sad to day, they have done I am alone
the only thing left
the aute
disadvantage
of
sinfully little to regain.
for me Is to count the empty
Blacks and other m inorities.
The continued war in South spaces
F o r example some estimate
east
Asia does
nothing
to In the sky which were cnce
put the number of Black Com
regain
this tru st. The sub fille d
bat Infantrymen in Vietnam as
version of
"Food fo r Peace" with stars.
high as 20% of the Combact
monies
into
use fo r
in
force; at a time when Blacks
struments
of
war
does NEGRO HISTORY OBSERVANCE
comprise
only
about 11% of
nothing
to regain this trust
Program s w ill be pre
the total
U. S. Population,
The denial
of
equal living sented at North Portland Branch
(Most of those who are s e rv -
working
and pleasure opport 512 N. Killingsw orth
ing fir s t
tim e hitches
in
unities to m inorities
does Saturday, Feb. 13
2:00 P.M.
Vietnam are Draftees) .
nothing to regain this tru st.
Prosel Poetrvl Song!
It
stands to reason then
In short,
the efforts
at
that those with money would
subjegation and dehumanization, Vernon Branch Libra ry
find ways to circum vent
any
practised so adroitly by much 4919 N. E. 17th
Laws
which
would
se-ik to
7:00 P.M.
of white Am erica today, do Thursday, Feb. 18
force birth control.
F ilm : J. T.
nothing to regain this trust
Of course it might lie ar
gued: if a way
were
found
to ensure
equal Application
Have your garden tools taken be seen in the m all at Franklin
of the Law
the Law would over the garage? Need a place
High School near the to ile r
Universal for the kids' toys, or a sm all room at S.E. 54th and Wood
be good. On
a
bsis
maybe.
A ll countries
shop for Dad?
ward. The building w ill meet all
The b u i l d i n g construction city, county, and state codes.
lim it
must
take
steps to
if
man is class at Franklin High School Is Students can supply information
th e ir populations
offering to build, on order, an on required footings and place
to survive.
But
here in 1971 America attractive tool and equipment ment.
we are faced with an even b u i l d i n g , fo r approximately
Contact building construction
more pressing and immediate $400.
Basic size of the Ixiilding Is instructor Bob Stuart, Franklin
problem:
that of
the Human 8 feet x 12 feet, and It can be High School, 774-3213, Room
and spiritual
deaths
caused m ade-to-order to match your 108, for additional inform ation-
daily by racism .
home.
o r to order a tool and equipment
It goes without saying that
A model of the building can building.
Black Am ericans
do not in
any way "e n jo y ” th e ir m inor
ity status. It is becoming in
creasingly evident that when
7 l 4 ' / i N.E. A lb e rta
ever there
is a concenti ation
P ortland, O re g o n
of
Blacks,
changes in the
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social order
are being made
with alacrity...even
in
the
South.
It is also axiomatic of
conditions today
that where
anv p rin te d
Blacks are fewest in numbers
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such as Portland State even
thought of the need fo r them.
So numbers can have mean
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and fo r Black People the
weight of sheer numbers often
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