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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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cement. Neither laws against discrim-ination nor company policies that simply oppose discrimination will solve the problem. Dr. Bowensaid. A solution requires carefully designed positiveefforts, and responsibility for these efforts necessarilyfalls upon the corporation. In the discussion at Chicago, it was acknowledgedthat competitive pressures make it difficult for busi-nessmen to proceed as rapidly in some areas of socialresponsibility as they might like. One solution. Dr.Bowen suggested, is for the leading, prosperous com-panies to set the competitive norms which willeventually gain general acceptance. Another answerlies in the cooperative efforts of businessmen. Whatmay often not be in the interest of a corporation ifdone individually, Gardner Ackley, chairman of theCouncil of Economic Advisors, said, may sometimesbe in the interest of each if a group of corporationsall support it. As an example. Dr. Ackley said, it may clearly beunprofitable for a single corporation to attempt to
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The rising expectations of people everyw/iere for still higherlevels of well-being are a kind of consumer demand that no realis-tic businessman could afford or would want to ignore . . . ArjayMiller, president, Ford Motor Company. 13 raise the economic status of the Negro. Yet if agroup of corporations engages individually or col-lectively in the effort, the impact on the futurestability and efficiency of the community may defi-nitely advance the interests of each. Dr. Ackley added that it would be optimistic tosuggest that the problems of poverty, urban decay,delinquency, inadequate education, and health carecan be solved by the local action of public spiritedcorporations, even with substantial participation bylocal government agencies and voluntary organiza-tions. Federal programs are also basic to the solution.Yet Federal efforts can often join those of local com-munities and business groups in finding solutionsto national problems through local action. On the community level, he c

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