National Reports

...Lawrence Pollock, a paper maker...

...Change has not come quickly or accidentally...

...Unwritten rules are rigid but confusing...

...But there is no evidence, according to the findings of the American Medical Association, that the reduction of nicotine and tar by present-type filters has any physiological significance...

...Indeed, it is the ease with which the habitual smoker can be gulled Roy Norr has written for numerous publications, including Reader's Digest, the Progressive and Christian Herald...

...One sociologist has found that "This creates new problems, since public housing projects are generally filled with those from the lowest socioeconomic groups...

...Through pressure, conciliation and planning, the efforts of the private groups cited have been models of that "deliberate speed" which the Supreme Court enjoined eight years after they began laying the groundwork for successful school desegregation here...

...Statistically, the association between cigarette smoking and the incidence of lung cancer is now "incontrovertible," he added...

...The integration of Jewish contributions to Texas and Southwestern development is also exemplified by Fred Florence, whose contributions, financially and otherwise, have helped to make SMU, a leading Methodist university, one of the great educational institutions of the region...

...Two known cancer-producing agents have been identified in tobacco," he announced...

...Clearly the fight against prejudice in St...

...Brotherhood Week in St...

...Conference-sponsored activities which bring together whites and their new Negro neighbors have cut down panic selling...

...he's the newscaster, the quizmaster, and the stage star who blows clouds of smoke in your face and fills the air with the strumpet cry of "pleasure" for sale...

...The Temple cost its congregation about $2 million...

...Remember these advertising claims of a few seasons ago...

...Social workers here have no quick or certain cures to offer...

...Southwestern Jewry has within it the seeds of a leavening influence on the current struggle of conscience with cultural mores over school desegregation and other problems that are tearing the South apart...

...Chances for passage of an ordinance which would end such equivocal policies are rapidly increasing...

...The St...

...He predicted that sooner or later legislation would compel cigarette manufacturers to state in percentage terms—presumably on each package—just what the filters filter out...

...His weekly radio broadcasts have drawn an audience of thousands of Texans of all faiths and beliefs...

...In the United States," Dr...

...Florence Hall, named for the banker, is a part of the SMU Legal Center, which is rapidly assuming a top-ranking place in hemispheric law development...

...At least 16 investigations, made in seven different countries and covering many thousands of lung-cancer cases, point to the inexorable conclusion that the relative risk of developing lung cancer rises in proportion to the amount of tobacco smoked...

...Playing no small part in this appreciation of Judaism's role in developing the Southwest is the outgoing spirit of Texas Jewry...

...and Fred Florence, president of the Dallas Republic National Bank and also president of the American Bar Association...

...Space does not permit discussion of many other developments of tobacco abuse noted in recent medical literature...

...Today, there are 1,500 families in Emanu-el, making it one of the country's leading Reform congregations...

...Louis is broadening, although less intciiM' than it was a decade ago...

...What is clearly beyond doubt is that: • Nothing but good could come from cigarette abstinence—freedom from Smoker's Throat, Smoker's Cough, Smoker's Asthma, Smoker's Larynx, Smoker's Pharynx, Smoker's Heart...

...It is well known that inferior tobaccos are being increasingly used in filter cigarettes...

...Louis makes in the field of race relations, the more complex and deep-rooted are the problems faced in this conservative metropolitan home of 250,000 Negroes and 1.2 million whites...

...The production of filter cigarettes has gone from barely 2 per cent a few years ago to about 40 per cent at present, and it is still rising...

...Real filtration...

...Rabbi Olan himself is a vital link in the community spirit of Dallas...

...Yet, our cigarette industry not only stifles the truth in its ubiquitous advertising but feeds us lies about the pleasure and safety of smoking...

...If the massive study conducted by the American Cancer Society is to be accepted, the risk of getting this deadly disease for a person who smokes 40 cigarettes a day is 70 times greater than for a non-smoker...

...The Jewish Community in Texas By Bicknell Eubanks Dallas Out on the northern edge of Dallas, a new temple has been dedicated to Judaism...

...Now we hear: "High filtration to help you keep your smoking moderate...

...While important in a religious sense, the erection of the Temple also reflects the Southwesterners' comparative freedom from anti-Semitism...

...This should also alter the situation now prevalent at City Hall, where no Negro holds a position of cabinet rank, although Negroes constitute 17 [ier cent of the city's population...

...Today, the grinning image of the Testimonial Liar, who is bought on the hoof, has taken his place and moved into the family living room via the television screen...

...Since few Negroes have yet qualified for jobs, an appearance of "Jim Crow" policy remains and may be dampening incentive for an engineering career among Negro youths...

...It would seem that the least the smoker could expect from our health officials in Washington—"the people's physicians," they call themselves—is that they demand legislation declaring tobacco the drug that it is and placing it under the authority of the Pure Food and Drug Act...

...Conference leaders have some hope the two newspapers will eliminate segregated listings of real estate property, but little hope that the St...

...For the greatest health protection in cigarette history...

...Prevention—-prevention of preventable cancers of the respiratory tract—remains the best hope of thwarting the merciless killer which, according to the latest British medical opinion, will strike one victim in every family there "very soon...

...Typical of a new problem is that faced by McDonnell Aircraft Corporation—a shortage of skilled Negro workers...

...That's how the congregation's thinking goes," explains Emanu-el's Rabbi Levi Olan, who is one of Dallas's leading religious and civic thinkers...

...As the city's Negro population grows and more whites move to the suburbs, more white politicians will back the anti-discrimination bill...

...developed about the time of the 1001...

...Wynder wrote, "some tobacco companies have taken advantage of the public's desire for filter cigarettes and its equal wish for good tobacco flavor by marketing increasingly ineffective filters...

...But enough is known for an enlightened state like Sweden to cease all tobacco advertising in the interest of youth...

...In many desegregated schools, teachers struggling to help both urban and rural whites suddenly had poorly prepared groups of urban and rural Negroes added to their classes...

...NATIONAL REPORTS The Filter-Tip Cigarette Hoax By Roy Norr Once the wooden Indian who used to stand in front of the tobacco shop holding an open box of cigars was the only testimonial-giver for the tobacco industry...

...It is Temple Emanu-el, a synagogue that ranks with the most impressive houses of worship in the United States...

...And Dr...

...It has been greatly accelerated by the full-time efforts of a hard core of social workers with groups such as the Urban League, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Jewish Community Relations Council...

...He was Big-Chief-Me-Smoke-'Em, carved from life...

...How an industry, whose dubious distinction is that its relations with its customers are until death do them part, is selling false "health protection" with filters that don't filter is a fascinating story of advertising success...

...Louis Real Estate Board will withdraw its opposition to opening new neighborhoods to Negroes...

...An even greater challenge to human survival than cancer is heart disease, which kills more people under 65 than the next five causes of death combined...

...For the 17,000 Jews who form an integral part of the 650,000 people of Dallas, the dedication of Temple Emanu-el is also an affirmation of the vital role Jewry has played in the development of the Southwest...

...But when some food processors, noting the growing medical opinion against too much salt in the diet for vascular and heart patients, rushed into the market with "salt-free," "medium-low" and similar foods, they were pulled up at once and made to label their products with the exact percentage of salt contained...

...Our cigarette manufacturers have discovered, it is reported in the tobacco trade, "that a darker, heavier-bodied, stronger leaf is best for filter cigarettes...

...Of course, such disparities between students of all races have long existed...

...And it is only now that Air Force doctors are beginning to warn pilots that smoking can cause a spasm of the blood vessels in the eye, which no doubt is the explanation of many "mysterious'' crashes...

...In the strictest scientific sense, conclusive proof may never come of the exact role played by smoking in the terrifying spread of lung cancer...

...Filters out so much harmful smoke that it also filters out the worry in every puff...

...They have been pioneers, patriots and participants in every phase of economic, social, political, cultural and religious life...

...Families with multiple social problems are usually the ones responsible for unflattering inferences...

...A praying temple is a great addition to the well-being of the commonwealth...

...Tobacco apologists say that public intelligence separates the false from the true in cigarette claims...

...The removal of about 40 per cent of the nicotine and tar from a given cigarette, he believed, could be a partial solution to the serious health hazard posed by excessive smoking— provided, among other things, that the "tobacco selection, cut or packing is not altered in such a way as to yield increasingly more tar...

...The panic rush for filter tips is sufficient answer to the industry's boasts that the "health scare" has been forgotten...

...He knows the cigarette addict's desire to justify a habit which he inwardly recognizes as harmful...

...Louis Housing Authority is beginning to bring aid to these people in spite of limited resources...

...Ochsner computes that by 1970 one out of every eight American men will have cancer of the lung unless preventive measures are taken...

...Asked whether filters help, the eminent cancer surgeon Dr...

...Some of the material used, they argue in the advertising man's lingo, is merely "smearing it on the cat to see if she licks it off...

...In England, in view of the present health emergency, no cigarette advertising is accepted on either TV or radio...

...For example, a Negro can eat in a ground-floor lunchroom in one department store, but not upstairs in the public dining room...

...Its personnel director finds Negro technicians and engineers even more scarce than white ones...

...Texas Judaism has given leadership to the region ever since Isaacks helped Austin and Adolphus Stern took part in the Fredonian Rebellion in 1826, a forerunner of the Texas Revolution...

...Not the least is nicotine amblyopia—often a sudden stroke of blindness due to the constrictive action of tobacco on the blood vessels in the eye...

...By 1876, it had become the Jewish congregation Emanu-el, with 32 families...

...He knows the smoker's eagerness to believe every fake testimonial, every false "medical claim" that helps to anesthetize his fears...

...Besides the varying levels of abilities and incentives which these children have, there are problems of cthical and cultural adjustments...

...This brings up another problem...

...The large Catholic element in St...

...Paul Dudley White...

...Yet, the huckster knows that "real" filtration, "effective" filtration can mean only one thing to the properly scared smoker: minimum health risk from the nicotine and tar in cigarettes...

...No other filter tip takes out so much nicotine and tars...

...Early this year, the British Medical Journal, voice of the British Medical Association, published a leading article by Dr...

...World's Fair here...

...Segregated schools and employment policies had killed the incentive of Negro youths to follow an engineering bent...

...By the appraisal of the greatest cancer institutions and the leading medical journals here and abroad, the weight of evidence—statistical, experimental, chemical—is so great as to call for stern warnings to adult smokers and a campaign of education directed at youth...

...Teachers must strive to set a good example for many children to whom dope peddling, juvenile theft and illegitimacy are not unfamiliar facts of life...

...Having thus conditioned his victims to respond to "filtration" with the same gullibility with which they accept the assurance of "health protection," the cigarette slickster now proceeds to massive affirmation of his advertising...

...Effective filtration...

...The 17,000 Jews of Big D are mostly descendants of the early settlers, who grew up with Texas and never were forced to huddle together in segregated ghettos...

...In this country, the Public Health Service has yet to make any effort to warn our youth on this menace...

...Both, of course, are blind to the faults of those in their own race...

...that city and private agencies will co-ordinate activities to make a mass attack upon their tenants' problems...

...It is built on one of the most valuable parcels of real estate in the rapidly growing city— right in the heart of its important north side...

...The Conference lias stimulated the city to appropriate money for improving zoning regulation...

...Housing: Court orders have also ended segregation in public housing...

...But the cigarette manufacturer who uses these "findings" to protect himself from attack secretly snickers at the pap poured out by industrial "psychologists...

...Louis The more progress St...

...President Eisenhower's heart consultant, has said: "Tobacco is a noxious weed and an unnecessary source of irritation to people's stomachs, lungs, blood pressure and cardiac rhythm...

...Whites form stereotypes of Negroes from their underprivileged colored neighbors...

...Some flavor apparently is lost as the smoke passes through the filter...

...There, too, the tobacco monopoly has offered a prize of $2,200 for the best essay on how to control smoking among youth, and the Government has undertaken to see that the nature and effect of tobacco are taught in the schools...

...White home-owners were worried about increased zoning violations and panic selling in the face of an in-migration of Negroes...

...Some major movie houses will admit Negroes, but will not advertise this fact...

...No medical authority today dissents from this statement...

...But now they are no longer hidden, and gaps within individual classrooms are bigger...

...Among the leaders of Dallas Jewry are Stanley Marcus, head of the famed Neiman-Marcus Department Store...

...Louis (February 17-23) was a time for stocktaking by those interested in pushing this river city farther and farther North...

...Gone are the specific claims of nicotine and tar removal, which the advertiser might be forced to make good...

...He said: "You are contributing to the world about you when you worship...

...Jobs: Negroes are no longer confined to domestic and unskilled occupations...

...Increasing Negro attendance at unsegregated schools and simple economic incentives will probably have major effects upon this problem...

...It is largely another term for vascular ills—"one of the major health problems of our times," as President Eisenhower put it...

...He's the baseball hero who trains on cigarettes instead of wheaties...

...It is fervently hoping, too...

...E. L. Wynder of the Sloan-Kettering Institute here, which has attracted wide medical attention...

...Walter C. Alvarez...

...The universality of thinking that is typical of Texas Jewry was spotlighted in the Sunday ceremonies that marked the official opening of the Temple...

...Note that the "meat" is no longer there...

...In private housing, the West End Community Conference has started an aggressive campaign to maintain good housing standards in its neighborhood...

...that has encouraged leaders in the industry to embark on their latest adventure, the great filter-tip hoax...

...From the time Samuel Isaacks came here with Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists to settle on the Brazos River in 1821, Texas Jews have had an important part in developing the region into an independent republic and now into one of the leading states of the Union...

...Louis has followed the lead of Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter, who desegregated parochial schools in 1947, thus affecting those least likely to be reached by many race relations organizations...

...Success in this new "melting-pot" process will only be won, or lost, by hundreds of teachers working with hundreds of slightly varying classroom situations...

...In a period when racial and religious differences form a basis for cultural, economic and political antipathies, the situation here is particularly encouraging...

...Moreover, on the recommendation of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee, the most responsible medical committee there, the British Minister of Health last summer spoke out before Parliament on the issue of smoking and cancer...

...An editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association (1955) finds: "There now seems to be definite evidence that smoking, even though it may not directly affect the coronary arteries, can have a damaging effect on the myocardium"—the heart muscle itself...

...Temple Emanu-el itself grew from a small organization of 11 Dallas Jews who came together in 1872 to organize charity and conduct High Holy Day services...

...For our own country, Dr...

...It apparently prefers to give poison, not people, the benefit of its scientific "doubt...

...Senior Consultant in Medicine to the Mayo Clinic, makes no bones about how the issue has been confused by smoking medicos: "I remember some of my close friends in the medical profession who knew all the dangers of the excessive use of tobacco and yet went on with their chain-smoking until in their early fifties they dropped dead with a coronary attack...

...He publishes a newsletter on smoking and health in New York...

...The race now on is to see which company can produce the least effective filter, so that the "full, rich tobacco taste" can come through unmolested—a filter tip, incidentally, that will pass lots of nicotine and tars to keep the smoker chained to his habit...

...The classic statement of the effect of tobacco on the cardiovascular system remains the one made in 1952 by Professor Grace M. Roth of the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research: "In normal individuals, the usual vascular effect produced by the smoking of tobacco is a rise in the blood pressure and pulse rate, with simultaneous constriction of the peripheral blood vessels...

...Politics: A bill to make discrimination in public places illegal has several times been rejected by the Board of Aldermen...

...Here is the picture that emerged: Schools: While there have been no flareups of racial violence in the schools, teachers face trying classroom situations...

...Alton Ochsner, of the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, answered: "Yes—to sell cigarettes...

...Last December the bill lost by only two votes in the race-conscious Board...

...How many thousands have been crushed into a pulp in road accidents due to such failure of vision will never be known...

...Integration in St Louis By Richard Rose St...

...They tell the tobacco tycoons not to worry about damaging the public psyche or stunting the individual's capacity for judgment— their advertising is not that effective...

...Over the pilots' room of one of our jet-interceptor bases hangs this sign: "What you don't know won't hurt you—it will kill you...

...They think of themselves as a natural part of the larger community...

...Negroes can similarly make unfavorable generalizations about whites on the basis of their observations there...

...This was exemplified in the dedication of Temple Emanu-el not only to the congregation and Judaism as a whole, but to the entire city of Dallas...

...Professor Evarts A. Graham, international cancer authority, believes that the evidence already is stronger than the proof that vaccination protects against smallpox—"and only screwballs doubt that...

...Umphrey Lee, Chancellor of Southern Methodist University, accepted the Sunday dedication...

...Salt is neither the poisonous alkaloid that nicotine is, nor the equally noxious substance that tobacco tar is...