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Roy Dunn sends AF a copy of an article looking at the way government and industry are working together and apart to solve the urban crisis. Quotes Whitney Young

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Can do-g ood ing be profitabl e as well as 
charitable? 
This flinty quest ion is now being asked by 
many an American businessman. 
The sickness of the ci t ies has pricked the 
conscience of many executives. Business has 
been caught up in the wave of concern over 
metropolitan maladies ranging from riots to 
real estate values. 
But now a new chapter in the adventures of 
business versus social woes is about to open. 
It will involve a whole new federal govern-
ment effort to put business to work with spe-
cific contracts , subsidies, incentives aimed at 
tapping the profit motive. 
It will entail shakedown cruises over the 
shoals of actual public problems to see just 
what business can and cannot do and at what 
cost and what return. 
It will also mean a battle with the Far Left . 
which sees business involvement in national 
social problems as a menace to the public weal. 
The Johnson Administration is turning to 
business eagerly. Key White House aide Joe 
Califano talks of developing government-busi-
ness "public interest partnerships." 
Certainly government by itself hasn't solved 
America's most complex problems now cen -
tered in the nation's cities. Urban renewal, 
public housing, welfare, the anti-poverty pro-
gram have fallen short of goals. 
Specifically, $100 million since 1960 in fed -
eral fund s to Detroit, and upwards of half that 
in Newark didn 't avoid last summer's r iots. 
Some businessmen see today's challenge as 
a kind of social Pearl Harbor, that we need 
mobilization of wartime proportions to bring the 
unprepared minority into our industrial system 
before we rush ahead into ever more sophisti -
ca ted and technical realms. 
NATION 'S BUSINESS • FEBRUARY 1968 
Hear a few typical corporate declarations: 
Lammot du Pont Copeland; chairman of Du 
Pont: " Business must act in concert with a 
broad public interest and serve the objectives 
of mankind and society or it will not survive.' ' 
George Champion, chairman , Chase Manhat-
tan Bank: " I can think of nothing that wou ld 
put the brakes on Big Government faster than 
for business to identity critical problems and 
take the initiative in dealing with them before 
Washington felt the need to act. " 
Charles Y. Lazarus. F. & R. Lazarus & Co.: 
" We have to put our community environment as 
high on our priority list as our daily balance 
sheets. " 
Business is also putting its money where its 
mouth is. And it's nothing new. 
Some 25 years ago, Pittsburgh businessmen 
formed the Allegheny Conference on Commu-
nity Development that plunged into a bold 
community improvement program. As early as 
1955. Sears set up an urban affairs unit. 
And in the recent surge of concern over 
hard -core jobless. urban deterioration, riots , 
welfare costs , public education failings, crime. 
congestion and despair , business has pitched in 
with such diverse projects as: 
Michigan Bell's adoption of a ghetto school 
to spur training, guidance, work experience; 
Raytheon 's sending of company spec1al1sts to 
Boston schools to upgrade curriculum; Mont-
gomery Ward 's tutoring of Chicago Housing 
Authority tenants in reading; 
Inland Steel's use of Negro execut ives on 
TV to broadcast job openings; Whirlpool's studies 
aimed at day care centers for working mothers; 
Eastman Kodak's plan to finance ghetto busi -
nesses in Rochester; J . L. Hudson Co.'s dropout 
employment program: Control Data 's Minneap-
olis slum plant ; Ford's employment centers in 
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WASHINGTON: A LOOK AHEAD 
Detroit's inner city; Metropolitan Life's youth 
motivation programs. 
As National Urban League's Whitney Young 
says: "Government serves to stimulate action 
and, in some cases, to subsidize it, but it is 
only when the initiative, imagination and cre-
ative skill of the private sector are engaged 
that we get real and substantive results." 
One new business-government program the 
Commerce Department has been testing in five 
cities is judged a success. It deals with the nub 
of the problem-hard-core jobless in big cities. 
In the test cities dozens of businesses have con-
tracted with Uncle Sam to counsel, train, moti-
vate, put to work bottom-of-the-barrel people. 
LBJ would spend $2 billion to put 500,000 
of them to work. 
Businesses that get into this effort will likely 
be entitled to a range of aids from Uncle: train -
ing money, surplus federal land for lease or 
sale, preferential procurement treatment for 
defense work, Small Business Administration 
loans, subsidized interest as a leg up in the 
money market and contracts with profit in-
centives scaled to their degree of success. 
New laws due for passage this year will also 
provide subsidies for private investment in slum 
housing and subsidies or tax incentives for slum 
plants. 
But as business and government both get 
close enough to touch urban problems, many 
questions still need to be answered. 
Roy Ash, Litton Industries president, for in-
stance, says we have to decide: What should be 
a minimum level of income, what should edu-
cation offer, what level of crime will we tolerate, 
what standards of housing, and what is the 
priority for each? 
Roy Ash also notes that managerial thinking 
and advice on a cost-benefit basis "may turn 
out to be of more value than all the money the 
cities are rushing to get from Washington." 
Robinson Barker, chairman PPG Industries, 
says individual firms can act alone or with 
others on a local or national basis, with indus-
try or trade associations. "We can encourage 
employee awareness and participation and we 
can present our views to Congress, the state 
legislature and city council." 
Some corporate executives bel ieve the prob-
lem solving concepts developed for complex de-
fense and space projects can be applied to 
urban problems. 
Gen. Bernard Schriever, who put systems 
management approach to work in missile-aero-
space programs, now has assembled a multi-
company group available for contract with gov-
ernment to make supersystems studies of 
crime, housing, transportation, pollution, other 
problems of the city. 
Many businessmen are convinced that they 
have the perspective, inventiveness and know-
how to solve these problems. Some believe 
they can do it and make a profit. 
Others take a long-range, combination profit-
service view. In addition to moral motives, if 
you train a man to work he not only gets off 
welfare and becomes a taxpayer he is a better 
customer. So the thinking goes. 
As selfless executives str ive to meet the crisis 
in the cities, try to find their most appropriate 
role, left.wingers already are harping. 
Michael Harington, for instance, author of 
"The Other America," whines that "Business 
methods ... inevitably lead to antisocial re-
sults." He contends the commercial and hu-
man approach are basically at odds and in-
compatible. 
Others of like mind call for guaranteed in· 
comes and other pay-off schemes for those 
who don't care to work, perhaps unaware that 
it could cost $25 billion or so. 
Businessmen might not be able to solve all 
the world's woes. But at least, businessmen 
deal in the science of getting the most from 
their resources. It 's a discipline that has brought 
America the highest standard of living ever 
known. 
NATION'S BUSINESS • FE BRUARY 1968 


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Invitation from the PFP Director of Information for AF or designee to attend, and program for, National Conference of Local Voluntary Councils on Local Voluntary Councils on May 8-9 in Tulsa, in his capacity as chairman of the Tri-Cities Area Merit Employment Council

Siegrist, William

Plans for Progress

National Confeence of Local Voluntary Councils

Invitation to Attend

Subcontract for a construction project specifying AA

Rohrer, E. Parke

Daniel, Urbahn, Seelye & Fuller

Gaines, Aubrey M.

Gaines Construction Company

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Harvey L . Cole (R) 
: Arthur De Witt (D) 
: Ralph 0. Westlake (R) 
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·; Lee Lukson (D) . 
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A. F. Canwell (R) 
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Bert Cole (D) 
Richard A. C. Greene {R) 
R. J. fBob) Odman (R) 
Robert Satiacum (R) 
Stanley R. Gallup (R) 
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER 
Gerald Sullivan (R) 
Garland Connor (R) 
Jack Meyers (D) 
George M. Woods (:Q) 
Karl Herrmann (D) 
Wallace Cole ID) 
Joe Lacey (D) 
Bob Sullivan {R) 
George Harper (R) 
- SUPREI\1E COURT 
Robert C. Finley 
Vaughn E . Evans 
SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE 
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Charles T. Morbeck 
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Lyle D . Perrigo (R) 
Glenn Gunn (D) 
STATE SENATOR. 16 
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C. E. "Chuck" Evans {R) 
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