Herald & Lanlem 2 March '83

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Liquor Industry Lies (From Page 26) THE PUBLIC has been misled by the liquor industry through distortion and deliberate muislatement of the facts. We feel the liquor industry believes that, because they really do not have any legitimate arguments with which to fight this legislation, they must resort to gross untruths and intimidating scarce tactics. Many of the legislators who are co-sponsoring these bills or those who have expressed support for S1863 and At969 have been harassed. As you know, we are in an election year, and the liquor industry gives PAC monies to certain campaigns throughout the state. It has come to our attention that the liquor industry may pull their monies from those legislators who do not withdraw their support and/dr to use the money to defeat them. We ask you, the public, are we going to allow the liquor industry to make the decisions for our State? HERE ARE SOIVIE true facts about S1863 and A1969. Approximately 2,000 restaurants in the entire state would qualify for permits. Not all would take advantage of permits. Fast food restaurants are not eligible for permits. Municipalities must provide approval for specific restaurants to be eligible. Evidence from other states demonstrates that restaurants with limited liquor sales do not diminish value of full liquor licenses. License holders pay for their licenses based on what they believe their business will generate in dollar volume. Dry communities must have the approval of local council by ordinance for permits. We welcome any comments or questions on S1863 and A1969. You can be assured that any and all information will be nothing but true. (609 ) 386-7414. BARRY E LEFKOWITZ Legislative Representative Garden State Restaurant Association

Health Watch by Dr Robert G. Beitman

When was your last PAP tesi? In my opinion, if you are 18 years old or have been sexually active younger, or have gynecologic complaints, then your answer to this question should be "within the last year." The PAP test is designed to detect "uterine cancer." Uterine cancer, or cancer of the womb kills 11,000 American women yearly. The tragedy is that this number is needlessly high, for with annual PAP tests most uterine cancers would be caught in their early stage and possibly cured Cancer of the womb can involve one of two specific parts: The cervix, which is the passageway from the womb thrbS^h which a baby travels on its way out to the world, and the endometrium, which is the lining of the womb. THE PAP TEST is painless, simple, and takes only a few minutes to perform. The doctor gentle separates the walls of the vagina so that the cervix can be seen. This is performed using a forceps made of metal or plastic called a "speculum”. With a thin, wooden popsicle-like stick, he then rubs a few cells off the cervix onto a slice. Laboratory analysis of these cells is one example of the advances of preventive medicine. Cancerous cells, as well as those that are beginning to turn cancerous (mutate), can be seen under the microscope. Cancer detecv tion with the PAP test allows us to isolate the cancer and treat it before symptoms might begin or the cancer spreads to other parts of the body (metastasizes). PAP tests are not 100 per cent accurate, so it is important to know the symp : toms of uterine cancer’ Also, certain women are at higher risk. If you are such a person, then you should develop a regular monitoring program with the advice of your family physician YOU ARE AT high risk

for cancer of the cervix if you have: UnusuaI bleeding or discharge between periods, if you have had frequent sex before the age of 20, if you have had many sexual partners, and if you have poor personal cleanliness. Cervical cancer is most commonly found in women ages 40-49 Key syjnptoms are a watery, bloody discharge, which may be heavy and foul smelling and bleeding from the vagina between menstrual periods, after sex, or after the "change of life" <menopause) v ) You are at high/ risk' for cancer of the endrimeihum if you: Take prolonged estrogen therapy during or after menopause; if your menopause starts after age 55 and if you are a diabetic, have hypertension or are very overweight Again, unusual bleeding or discharge during or after menopause, is an important symptom to report to your family physician. CANCER OF THE endometrium is usually diagnozed in women 50-54. It is not as easy to detect as cervical cancer, and is one of the frontiers upon which research is being done. You may know women who have had "D & C’s" This stands for "dilation and curretage,” which is a special technique for scraping off the walls of the endometrium. This is sometimes done to get cells for laboratory analysis of cancer, but it is also done for many other non-cancer related reasons. There is also a small suction instrument which is sometimes used to gather cells, called "aspiration currettage" These tests help you detect cancer early, since the PAP test is only 40 percent accurate with regard to endometrial cancer The basic* message is very simple, ask your family physician to arrange a yearly PAP test With early detection and prompt treatment over 80 percent of cases can be cured For a free illustration pamphlet on this topic contact the American Cancer Society 15 Delsea Dr , Rio Grande

> ^ Good Reading by Owen Murphy

(All of the boohs reviewed in this column arq available in the Cape May County Library.) Less Than Words Can Say By Richard Mitchell If you've ever'wondered why your high school-age children seem unable to ar ticulate their thoughts in either speech or writing, then you need to read Richard Mitchell's, Less Than Words Can Say. Mitchell, a professor of English at Glassboro State College, has written a devastating attack on the American Public School System. It is Mitchell's contention that the public Kite Flying Contest Set COURT HOUSE - There will be a Kite Flying Contest, 2 p.m. Saturday, March 26, behind the main buildings at Crest Haven. This event is open to all students and 4-H club members in the county between 9-18 years old and is co-sponsored by the Cape May County 4-H and the Gazette Leader, a weekly newspaper in Wildwood

schools, controlled by an establishment of "educa*. tionists" whoare mostly interested in their own careers, are turning out millions of illiterate graduates who will never be able to manage- their own lives. Mitchell argues that schools are not teaching children to read, write, and cipher. He feels that many students literally can't think because they have not been taught the simple disciplines that lead to fluent and logical thought MITCHELL IS especially critical of this country's teaching colleges which churn out hundreds of thousands of young teachers who know how to operate all the newest technological teaching devices, but who are helpless without a teacher’s manual and a textbook. Less Than Words Can Say is must-reading for anyone who would like to know why Johnny can’t read. All of the following quotations are by the author, Richard Mitchell Children are much smarter than we think They know when they arc

being deceived and the Amenca we know

defrauded Unless they cam utter that they know, however, they know it only in part and imperfectly. If we do not give them the language and thought in which they might genuinely clarify some values, they will do their clarifying with sledgehammers The mam business of education is to teach the process of thought, and the operation of the symbol systems in whjch we think — language and number When education fails to teach think%;. it fails m everything, and everybody talks nonsease PSEUDO-EDUCATORS learn a kind of vocabulary of special terms, each of which is used to conceal an emptiness of meaning and to make the obvious sound important. ... /• American Education: a factory where this year’s product is invariably sleazier than last year's but, nevertheless, better than next year’s. If you cannot be the master of your languarge, you must bo its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. Should we raise up a generation of literate -Americans, very little of

would survive. We depend on a steady background level of ignorance and stupidity. BUREAUCRATS and Pseudo-Educators: their language must serve the double purpose of showing the hidden powers that they deserve the dought. and making the ordinary layman believe that what they think about is terribly complicated and impor tant, too complicated for him to understand and too important for him to med die with • • • • We like to think, or a* least we like others to think, that what we do is important and difficult and that we achieve it only out of ^kill and intelligence Sinot very few of our callings actually require much morc skill and intelligence than the banging of trees with stones, we seize gratefuly any opportunity to sound as though we were skillful and intelligent. To think, we must devise connected chains of predications which, in turn, require fluency in language Those who are fluent in no language just don't have the means for thinking about things They may remember and recite whatever predications ex perience provides them, but they cannot manipulate them and make new ones

This year, put more in your own pocket, less in Uncle Sam’s.

You still have time to give yourself a $2,000 tax deduction for 19B2. Just open an Individual Retirement Account before you file your income tax return. Even if you're already covered by a retirement plan, you can invest up to $2,000 of your 1902 wages. Up to $A.OOO if you and your spouse both work. And a total of $2,250 in separate accounts if your spouse isn't 1 employed. Your investment is tax-free until you retire.

So is the interest. And it’s sizeebiel You have a choice of a fixed rate. 10 month cectifij^kte or a floating rate certificate based on the weekly Money Market rate. Best of all. your IRA investment is msuhed up to $100,000 by the FSLIC. So before you pay your taxes this year, pay yourself Visit an IRA Specialist at Gape May County Savings and Loan today, and open an IRA Account, it’s deductible!

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