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FORT LAUDERDALE NETS AND SUN-SENTINEL, Sunday. August 1. 196S 13A States Getting RuiuAround In Many Cases Federal Programs Grow Wider In Scope evolution of social welfare programs. The ideas are not all President Johnson's. But he is providing the political power and personal impetus to put them into effect.

And the impact on American society is likely to be felt for years to come. 10 I 1 I I i x- 1 iL tunity. But what is just as significant, though less noticed is that Mr. Johnson is now trying to fulfill that opportunity. In his recent speech at Howard University, he cited the need, for example, to deal with the breakdown of the basic unit in Negro society the Negro family.

He is also trying to attack the problem of Negro ghettos because Negro poverty is not really the same as White erty. This is one of the reasons for the controversial rent subsidy provision in the new housing bill. Still another innovation emerging in the Great Society program is the attempt to use the resources of the- federal government to improve the quality of American life. Instead of just providing more houses, for example, the aim is to provide better cities more attractively developed, with cleaner air, with better Instead of just providing any health care for the aged, the new medicare law insists in many subtle and not subtle ways on high quality care. All in all, the great new programs now emerging from the administration and Congress not only mark the beginning of an historic effort to complete the unfinished business of the New Deal, but represent a move toward important new landmarks in the By MICHAEL O'NEILL Ntw York Ntwi Wirt Strvlc WASHINGTON President Johnson did more than sign a Social Security bill Friday in Independence, Mo.

He wrote another chapter in what historians are already beginning to call "this country's second great social revolution. For the Social Security Act is not just the large single piece of welfare legislation ever passed in, the United States. It is part of a larger assembly of new laws which are vastly expanding and reshaping the government's basic relationships with the American people. The significance of what is happening has not been fully recognized. The public spotlights have been on Viet Nam.

The new programs now rolling out of Congress and the administration have not yet begun to work their weal on )ur society in a widely visible and tangible way. And many of the newest and most important ideas have not really been very apparent. For it is part of Mr. Johnson's genius as a politician to wrap innovations in old, familiar packages so that they are more readily accepted by Congress and the voters. A good illustration is the administration's historic decision to bypass the states in many new programs to deliver federal aid directly to the nation's cities.

This alone could have a profound effect on future relations between the federal government and the states, and between the states and the great new urban centers. The whole poverty program, for example, is a "community action" operation in which Washington deals directly with the cities without so much as a by-your-leave from the states. A little-noticed provision in the new Social Security law authorizes 185 million dollars in grants for community health programs for poor children. Again, the states are left out of the picture. The same is true in the case of some key provisions in the new housing law.

All this, if it continues, can "Yoi certainly got some IWy sAofs our pfonef, foo" But Studies To Continue Mars 'Life' Dealt Blow By Mariner MEDICARE BILL IN TRUMAN LIBRARY FRIDAY two pens, one in each hand, at ceremony civil rights law last year, and the voting rights bill now moving through Congress, are landmarks in the effort to assure Negroes- an equal oppor THE AIR KRAEER funeral Home Services at Downtown Pompano Beach 200 N. Federal Hwy. Phone 9414111 Joseph. Murphy Sample Pompano 1199 N.E. 36th St Phone 9414111 Boca Raton 450 N.

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And this was one of the concerns of the governors at their conference in Minneapolis last week. They know, even if the public is not yet aware of the fact, that their power is being eroded badly by the new trend. The states, of course, have invited the federal bypass. For PRESIDENT SIGNS he wields years, rural-dominated legislatures have been cheating the cities out of their fair share of Washington's largess and New York City is a spectacular case in point. But if the states are now cut out of the federal aid pipeline, on top of losing most of their tax income to Washington, their future may be very bleak indeed.

The question, already being raised by some thoughtful observers, is whether they can survive as an effective element in the federal system or be forced into the twilight zone along with county governments. The implications of the poverty program itself are hardly less significant than the federal bypass. The very idea of trying to stamp out so chronic and apparently inevitable evil is a novel undertaking. But the way this great experiment is being carried out under Mr. Johnson and Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver is, in many ways, even more I significant.

It Is not only that they are working directly with the cities rather than through the states. It is not only that they are using a new independent agency to drive ahead with new ideas without getting mired down in the regular federal establishment. causes bleeding in the kidneys, and I don't have any reason to think that it does. When there is blood in the urine, the patient should always be examined immediately. This does not mean that it is always a dangerous sign.

There are plenty of times when some fairly minor condition causes the bleeding. Conversely, sometimes it is a sign of a serious condition, and that is why examination should be immediate and thorough. The bleeding may not be from the kidneys. It may be from the bladder, or from an ulcer or other irritated area in the ducts leading to and from the bladder. Kidney stones can also cause bleeding.

GlJfe a ON 9 AM-11 PM MONDAY thru FRIDAY 9 AM MIDNIGHT SATURDAY -SUNDAY rmn vv t.i 1 1 SEE YOUR RADIO DEALER FOR NEW, LOW COST FM-AM RADIOS, STEREO HI-FI SETS Petite lh MT till 1 I Kidney Bleeding Not Aspirin Fanlt 3 nrrn trm i i fTvj rr 1 1 3de It is the fact that they are attacking the problem at its roots, among the young rather than among the older poor and unemployed. They are experimenting with educational and health programs in an effort to see whether youngsters born into poverty can be lifted into a better life. And this is quite different from the traditional emphasis on doles. Incidentally, a related innovation which has not received much attention, is the fact that the poverty program has also moved the federal government into direct aid for birth control for the first time. Poverty officials have already allocated funds to finance birth control clinics in Detroit, Corpus Christi, Nashville, and Oakland, Calif.

Another key element in the social revolution now in the making is the administration's civil rights program. The big NOW SHOWING FEATURE AT 2:25 4:10 6:00 7:50 9:40 JAMes DiCk, VAH DYK6 Sovinea FREE PARKING ROCKING CHAIR SMOKING L0GE of colors as exciting as you'll find the "exactly right" fabric from our tremendous selection. No charge for making when full length and -in materials from $1.98 yard. Open Coma In Or Phono Beach, CRtsrwood 8-2877 ti i II TECHNICOLOR By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Prtis International WASHINGTON It has been a bad year for those who want to believe there is life on Mars.

The amazing Mariner 4 photographs released this week practically demolished that belief except for the most faithful. They were the most recent and most devastating blow of many that fell in 1965. Scientists of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration' (NASA) insist that Mariner 4 didn't prove anything, one way or another, about the possibility that somewhere on the planet there may abide bacteria, at least, or possibly single-celled plants. Such faith provokes snorts of derision from people like Dr. Philip H.

Abelson of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who scoffed at the notion of life on Mars even before Mariner's flight. Abelson and the other skeptics nevertheless consider the red planet a fascinating body, and they are all for continuing Martian studies. NASA is embarked on the $1.25 billion Voyager program to "soft land" instruments on Mars-(and other planets) to sample the soil and, at the same time, detect the presence of living creatures if any. The agency hopes to land a Voyager capsule on Mars in 1971. There is no sign whatever that NASA will abandon Voyager.

Long before Mariner, Dr. Homer E. Newell, chief of NASA's Office of Space Sciences and Applications, said Voyager's mission was to explore the solar system. If it should find life somewhere, fine. If it should find no life outside the Earth, fine again.

In either case, it would add to man's knowledge of space. Manner's big blow to those who want to believe in Martians was its fine photographs of giant craters, some of which must have been gouged by meteorites at about the time the planet came into being around five billion years ago. Practically all scientists qualified to have opinions on the subject believe earth's life originated in the primitive seas which enveloped the globe when it was young. Few if any believe life could begin anywhere in the absence of liquid water. Mars undoubtedly has enough water vapor in its air to produce frost deposits.

Mariner 4 saw what looked like frost-rimmed craters. But if Mars ever had seas and streams, its old craters long since would have been removed from the visible record by erosion, as on earth. So the conclusion is inescap able Mars never had an environment of the sort it takes to generate life. Its thin atmosphere, by earthly standards, is practically a vacuum. Any water puddles which might occur would disappear quickly by "flash distillation." The space science board of the National Academy of Sciences, recognizing all the arguments against life on Mars, had speculated that hardy organisms might nevertheless have developed in damp niches here and there on the planet.

Mariner's confirmation of Mars' extremely thin atmosphere and its strong indication that the planet never had liquid water do not give comfort to such speculations. Until this year, the firmest uUagiuJlcciit Sound oj Steiteo WILLIAM PICKERING PL director scientific support for the notion of Martian life was based on studies of sunlight relfected from the Martian surface. These studies suggested the presence of organic substances such as are manufactured on Earth, by living plants. Last spring the author of of these interpretations reported that further analysis showed they were erroneous. Another bit of evidence of life on Mars was the seasonal color changes noted by astronomers.

But these, it has been established, could have been caused by solar radiation and temperature effects on minerals in the Martian crust. Dr. William H. Pickering, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, which made Mariner 4, contends that old reasons for believing in life on Mars still exist and that they must be investigated, by Voyager. And the Academy's space science board has said that even if Mars is a sterile planet, its chemical and physical history is still worth studying.

Few scientists expected Mariner 4 to discover the so-called Martian canals which for nearly a century have been an inspiration to science fiction writers. Though some astronomers have thought they' saw lines corresponding to the canals, no telescope had ever photographed them. Mariner 4 saw no signs of them either. NASA scientists assert that Mariner 4's pictures do not prove Mars is lifeless. But they agree that the absence of seas on the planet will make it hard to find any fossil record of Martian life.

And they also have prepared a soft letdown for those who will find it hard to swallow the thought that life in this corner of the universe exists only on Earth. As one of them, Prof. Robert B. Leighton of the California Institute of Technology, so gently put it: Mariner 4's report "further enhances the uniqueness of earth within the solar system." HARD OF HEARING (Limited y3 Coming on WPBF 107.9 uUegacycfe Stereo fern will find perfect broadcasting in iterto on WPBF toon after Inaugural FM-cast. Intricate itereo equipment muat be perfectly balanced before brinaina Derfect listen for It VJPDF PROGRAM HiGHUGHTS Pf By DR.

J. G. MOLNER DEAR DR. MOLNER: A friend told me she in your column that aspirin could cause internal bleeding through the kidneys. Would you please write on this subject? My husband has been passing blood in the urine for several months.

MRS. W. B. Things get garbled in the retelling. The foregoing is not what I wrote.

Let's explain what I DID write, and add to it a bit. It is true that aspirin can irritate the stomach, and can cause bleeding. Not much, and not always, but in some instances, a little. It can happen. Ideally, we would prefer that aspirin never did such a thing.

However, the dissemination of this information doesn't seem to have caused any panic among people; rather, just some curiosity. That's fine. I'm afraid of panics but approve of healthy curiosity. And my own feeling on the subject is that I see no reason to stop telling people to use aspirin when they need it. I take it myself.

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