Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1983. január-június (37. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1983-01-20 / 3. szám
Thursday, Jan. 20. 1983. 11 AMERIKAI MAO f AR SZC) A FOGHUS BETEGSÉGÉNEK KEZELESE A foghus idült, néha elfekélyesedő betegsége, ha nem kezelik, idővel elpusztítja a fogakat tartó csontokat. Ez a periodontitis orvosi elnevezésű betegség, amelyben tasakok formálódnak a foghus tövében, meglazítja, helyükből kimozdítja a fogakat és végül a fogak kihullnak. Dr. Vincent M. Cali, a newyorki Hospital for Joint Deseases fogorvosi szakosztályának specialistája, mindent átfogó, könnyen megérthető könyvet irt a fogak házi ápolásáról, amivel szerinte nagyon sokan elkerülhetik az egyetlen megoldásnak látszó foghusse- bészetet. A könyv: "The New Lower-cost Way to End Gum Trouble Without Surgery." Vincent M. Cali, D.D.S. Warner Books, 1982. $ 6.95. Dr. Cali módszere abból az alapgondolatból indul ki, hogy a szájban jelenlevő és periodontitiszt okozó baktériák terjedésének csökkentésével a betegség kifejlődései, vagy továbbterjedését meg lehet akadályozni. A módszer abból áll, hogy naponta tiz percig a fogakat alaposan megkefélik és fogtisztitó zsinórral, irrigáló mosással jól megtisztítják, a foghust stimulálják. A fog keféléséhez hidrogén peroxiddal megnedvesitett szódabikarbóna pasztát használnak, ami szárítással és oxigénizá- lással megöli az anaerobikus baktériákat. Ezzel együtt rendszeres fogorvosi vizsgalat is kell, hogy a fogorvos mintákat vegyen a foghus alatti kaparásokkal és ezt egy televízióhoz kapcsolt mikroszkópon át a paciensnek megmutathassa. Ennek az a célja, hogy a paciens láthassa a bakteriak fogyatkozását és érdemesnek tartsa az eljárás folytatását. Emellett Dr. Cali jó táplálkozást is ajánl. Nagyon fontosnak tartja a vitaminok, különösen a C vitamin szedését és ásványokban, proteinban és rostban gazdag ételek evését, . ami az egészséges fogak és foghus megtartásához szükséges. Figyelmeztet, hogy az alkohol a vitaminok felszívódását akadályozza. Nagyon helyteleníti az amerikai diétában a nagy mennyiségű finomított cukor fogyasztását. A sebészet megakadályozása még nem jelenti azt, hogy másféle foghuskezelésre nincs szükség. Súlyos esetekben a fogorvosnak alapos munkát kell a foghuson végeznie, mielőtt a házi kúra megkezdődhet. Dr. Cali nem garantálja, hogy ezzel a házi kezeléssel minden foghus betegséget sebeszet nélkül lehet meggyógyítani, de nagyon sok esetben el lehet kerülni, ami különösen azoknál fontos, akiket egy vagy más okból nem operálhatnak. HAPPY NEW YEAR ! To the wonderful folks I have had the pleasure to meet at the Hungarian Word, including the editor of that lovely book, THIS NOBLE FLAME: a Happy, Peaceful New Year! Thank you for exposing me to your beautiful Hungarian heritage. I will treasure it for the rest of my life. Con tanto afecto Carmen Borjes U.S. Economic System Is Doomed, Longtime Labor Organizer Says AN INTERVIEW WITH ERNEST DEMAIO. Reprinted from the Hartford Courant (Dec. 13. 1982) By SARAH POLLOCK Courant Staff Writer Ernest DeMaio, a lifelong labor organizer, was born on Mechanic Street in Hartford in 1908, the son of a building trades man and a suffragette. He was blacklisted in 1927 for supporting the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti and spent much of the Depression organizing unemployed workers into councils that demonstrated in the streets for such things as unemployment benefits and Social Security. He was one of the founders of the United Electrical Workers union, which was virtually destroyed in Connecticut during the Cold War because of its reputation as a left- wing union. He also was the first organizer in Connecticut for the CIO (before it affiliated with the AFL). Today, he is permanent representative to the United Nations for the World Federation of Trade Unions, an organization that represents 206 million workers in 100 countries. Q. How is the current economy different from the Depression? A. It’s worse because at that time, while there was still a considerable degree of concentration of capital in a few hands, that has now gotten to the point where that’s the dominant character. It’s so concentrated, now. You have a situation where they’re gobbling each other up — spending billions of dollars not to build the facilities but to buy each other out. Q. Where will this lead? A. Well, it’s leading to what we have got. It’s leading to the death of the system which cannot put its idle workers to work on the idle facilities and utilize its idle cash. They call themselves entrepreneurs, but they don’t want any risks. If there are any risks involved, they want the people to pay for it out of the public treasury. All they want to do is gather the loot, and with the loot they gather they set up these NCPACs (conservative political action committees) to buy up the Congress. Read your history of Rome, why Rome went into decline. Caesar was for sale. The Congress is for sale. Q. Why then, if the situation is worse, haven’t people recognized that? A. Well, you operate the mass media, I don’t. Why doesn’t the mass media tell it like it is? Because you will get ads from United Technologies. Now there’s nothing United Technologies makes that the consumer, the reader of your paper, buys. So why do they put those ads in? It’s what’s known as sweetening the press. To influence the editorial opinions of your newspaper. Occasionally you may rise above it, but if you rise above it too often, a new newspaper will come to town and challenge your existence. Q. So you think the press isn’t informing people of how bad it is? A. The press is doing worse than that. It’s confusing, it’s obfuscating, it’s covering up. There’s a mass cover-up in the mass media, and in the end it will lead to their destruction. If policies are pursued that impoverish the people, your ads from the retailers will start going down. Your lineage will begin to shrink; and all the sweetening of the É ress from the guys who are robing the people blind won’t keep that paper alive — and they’re dying all over the country. Q. But why hasn’t It gotten to the point that It got to in the Depression where people were demonstrating? A. It takes time. Only the top 10 percent of income earners are better off. All the others either are slightly behind or very much behind; and the further you go down the scale, the further behind they are. The only ones who are benefiting from the policies pursued by the Hollywood ham of jellybeans is the very, very top. Q. Do you think demonstrations are inevitable? A. Yes. Well, inevitable because none of the policies that have been tried or are being talked about really come to grips with the problem. Q. Do you think that some of the gains that were made in the Depression and the New Deal are easing the situation somewhat; for example, the fact that we now have unemployment compensation, food stamps, welfare and medical benefits? A. Partially, but not enough to do the job. Obviously, these were only partial solutions to a social program. And there was an abandonment of the new economic bill of rights, enunciated by Roosevelt in 1944, by Truman when he came to office; and (there was) the acquiescence of the trade union leadership in the abandonment of that program. The problem is that you have a Congress where the cost of electing a congressman now is very high. We just went through a midterm election, where some $70 million was spent; that’s only the sum that was reported. That’s a hell of a lot of money. What does it mean? It means that representatives of the people don’t stand a chance unless they come to terms with those who have the wealth, or who have a friendly press; and the friendly press is influenced by those who have the wealth, with their advertising. Q. But Is this different than it was in the Depression? i A. No. Except it’s further down the road. You didn’t have the highly structured society then that we have now. Don’t forget we went through a World War II, where we came out of it the only industrial nation of the world that wasn’t smashed. And we were the arsenal of democracy during the war, which meant we sat it out while the others clobbered themselves to death and we came in at the last round and picked up all the marbles. The same thing we did in World War I. Some idiots in Washington think that we can have another war and do the same thing, except the moats Of the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean don’t work anymore. We won’t have somebody else do the fighting for us. Nobody wants to die for Wall Street anymore. They’ll die for their own interest; they’re not going to die for the interest of those who are robbing them and robbing everyone else. Q. What would you like to see happen? A. What I’d like see happen is a tremendous strengthening of the trade union movement; a greater democratization of that movement so that the people themselves and their voices can be heard and to become a countervailing force that can stop the depredations of those forces that are robbing the economy blind. And that’s a democratic movement. I think it can be done and i think it will be done, but only after there’s more suffering. The American people don’t really know what democracy is. They think they do. We say, well we’re democracy, aren't we? We’re allowed to talk, aren’t we? Well, you’re talking, aren’t you? This is a free country. I’ve been in all kinds of countries where all kinds of social orders are. People work, eat, make love, have children; whether it’s fascism, whether it’s communism, whether it’s socialism, or - whether it’s bourgeois democracy such as we have. The democracy . is limited to a few who own and' control; but the crisis that faces us now is that while the capital- ■ ists control the country, they are no longer able to run it. Q. And make it Work? A. And make it work. Every option consistent with their drive to maximize profits has been tried and failed. What does that tell us? That tells us that there’s going to be an option that to them is abhorrent. The people will have to make the changes and they will have to impose them. It will have to go far beyond what Roosevelt did. Roosevelt was out to save the capitalist system. I think the capitalists have so deeply gutted the system that it is beyond saving. They are destroying their economy. It’s too far down the road. They are on life-support systems. And the time will come when someone will say, well why not let it die in dignity and pull the plug. Q. How long is It going to take for this kind of movement to really get going? A. Social change comes very slowly, almost imperceptibly and. yet it comes, and when it does, because no one expects it, it comes with explosive force. It’s like putting a pot on the burner to boilfyou watch that thing and say, my God, it’s never going to come to a boil. And when it comes, it erupts. Q. And we’re not that far along yet? A. Well, in the first place, everybody’s thinking that as long as there’s food coming in, as long as we can put off whatever bills we can, if we can go into bankruptcy (and many of them are doing that) — whatever means they can to operate within a shrinking situation. But then there comes a time when there’s nothing. The cupboard is bare. Then you have to do something. More than 300 religious leaders in the United States, including 22 Roman Catholic bishops, have issued a message; denouncing the Reagan administration’s policies in Central America.
