SEPTEMBER 21 - 27,19 THE ICHIGAN CITIZE
7
OPINION
Carr c ing fina cial mi
ee we ill conclude
our four-part rie on financial
mi e common to mo t
American but hich tend to be
especially prevalent among
American Black
Thus far e h ve discu d
and propo d remedies to the
follo iQg m . or financial mis
t es;
-Failure To Set Specific
Financial Gols
-Failure To Pay Your If
Fir
To Inve t!Or Start
And
problem 0 t of u can e
financial problems coming but
too often we adopt an "I'll
deal-with-it-tomorro "attitude.
If we are honest with our-
lye we generally have to
drnit that we knew we were
beginning to charge too many
thing to our charge cards.
We kne there w a major bill
due which we had not t
'de a single dime to pay.
But mo t importantly mo t
of us know almo intuitively
that there is little likelihood
of becoming fmancially
ure by wor ing for someone
el ; however, only a few of us
ever t aside money to start
an investment fund or have the
courage to tart a business of
our own.
Remember: Financial cur
ity does not come by chance.
You must make financial
curity happen. Thu I recom
mend that if you do nothing
el you must at least tart a
vings account with the inten
tion of making that a count
gro int an investment
Readers Write:
'Substance of life'
is endang ed
Dear Editor
All of my life I've been told .
the expert ' now be t." And
wh t wonderful dvice they've
given!
In 1946 the' Gl's u d as
guinea pi s in atomic testing
ere told to sweep the rad ia
tion off their uniforms with
broom . In the 1950's s
hoolchildren we were told to
find ety by crouchin under
our de in ca of nuclear
att . In the 1960' we were
told that herbicide nd pesti
cide like DDT would incre
crop yield and do no hann
and ent Or would in the
ar in Vietnam. In the 1970's
e ere told that nuclear
po er would safely lve the
energy crisis.
ow, halfway through the
1980' we are di overin the
oppo ite of what we were told.
e re d in the NY Time
(Sept. 6, 1986) that " xp rt
y Chemical Peril Farm
Belt' ter. " The rticle
explains th t 7 5 000 people,
over � of 10 's resident,
'drink w. ter containin trace
of one or m re p
nd what of Three ile
Island and Chernobyl?
nd what of the 40-50
"million pounds of 2,4-D applied
annually in the U.S. on land
nd water? A ational Can-
cer In titute study published in
the pt. 5 1986 is ue of
Journal of American Medical
Asso iation found that, "Kan
sas farm wor ers who u d
herbicides h d a higher ri fo
developing non-Hodgkin lym
phoma than non-farmers in the
tate ... Farmers expo d to
the herbicide (2,4-D) for more
than 20 days each year had 6
times the ri . . . compared
to non farmers."
On Tuesday Sept. 23 at
7 p.m. t the Lee Township
Hall in Pullman area residents
will tell the ex pert that they·
had It all. RO G. Pure, clean
water i not a matter to b
left to the experts, but a crisis
facin all of us - for water i
the very su enance of all life!
Rev. Richard Orawiec
c. Pastor
Oak Grove Church anctuary
Rt. 1 Pullman, I 49450
Ph. 236-6179
Re�ders /Community pressure builds
:::Z- agains ground water pollution
It is a pity th t no one
from the media was invited to or
pre nt at the August 30th
meeting of the Lowe Scott
Lake Improvement Association
in Pullman. Rarely have I en
a better example of the com
bined power of concerned citi
zens and the press to brin
about positive change.
I attended the meetin as a
guest who as one of several
people who had written letters
to the editor critical of the
As ociation's action in using
2, 4-D herbicide to control
milfoil gro th in the lake.
The barra of letter and
articles about this and ther
potential threats to s e water
in thi area had led the Bard
f Director f Pullman Health
ystems to call the forum th t
ill be held at Lee Township
Hall on Tuesday, September
23, at 7 p.m., and as one 0 the
citizen-volunteer board members
fund by simp1y ving 5% to
10% of every dollar you earn.
That's called 'paying your If
first."
o. 9: fAILURE TO GET
PROPER F ANCIAL IMFOR
MATIO AND ADVICE. There
are a host of good fmancial
publications on the market de
signed for the middle income
American. I simply suggest
that you subscribe to at least
one of them. The ones I prefer .
are Money Magazine, Success
Magazine, Venture, and Chan -
in Times.
Remember: It is extremelY
difflCult to t e the right
financuu actions if you do not
have the right fmancw infor
mation.
rite for Jame than'
Succe ew ( 11.95 for a one
year subscription) P.O. Box
54041, Washington, DC 20032.
The need for the correct
fmancial information is tre d
necause American Blacks des
perately need to produce greater
wealth for them lves and their
comrnunitie .
and chair of its community
Relations committee, I wanted
to invite Association members
to the forum and learn what
their plans were as to fu ture
use of 2 4-D.
, It was clear right from the,
. reading of the minutes of
their previous July 26 meet
in that the ciation had
been deeply tined by the con-
troversy. A large tu rnou t 0
39 was reported f r the July
26 meeting whi h fir t di u d
it, but as I looked around I
counted 77 adults in the Pull
man Bible Church hall on
Au ust 30.
The meeting followed up on
a July 26 decisi n to purch
a large harvesting ma hine in an
attempt to eliminate the u of
the herbicide. t of the
over 12 0 0 needed had been
raised and members of their
exe utive committee h d offered
to loan in half of the balance
The recent Census
Bureau report which revealed
that' the verage Black family
is a n tional scandal.
Unle this situation i.
changed we will doom future
generations to increasing level
of poverty. The median income
earned by the typical 81 k
hou hold ha incre d only
slightly in the p 16 year .
We, a a people, are m ing
a lot of financial mistake
Tho mistakes mu be cor
rected.
needed on promis ry notes.
The membership was ed to
do the me for the re t in-
tead of raising annual due.
The enthusiasm for the itch
from chemical to m chanical
weed elimination
that mo t of tho
up announced d nations rath r
than 1 an and all the m ney
needed a uarante d and
the meeting bro e up amidst
universal smile and If- on rat
ul tion. It w like a lle rive
igh of relief.
Let' eep
on the many
p lluti n nd
other individual
zati n will re p
tively s the L
Improvement
nd let's have lot f r p rter
at the eptember 3 forum.
LeR y olin
Pullman MI 49450
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