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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1947 Pure Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Support Good Health A chain is no stronger than' its weakest link -so goes an old saying: . Possibly we shouldn't say a state is no stronger than its weak est citizen, but the analogy is not inconceivable. And the state of North Carolina's number one need is Good Health. North Carolina's number one plan is the .good health plan. North Carolina's number one job is to back the good health plan. - Why do we need the goodhealth plan? Just glancing at the facts more than proves the need. North Carolina led the nation in draft rejections. North Car olina is 41st in maternal mortality. There are only 144 Negro . doctors to serve a million Negro people. Only 38.1 per cent of our babies are delivered in hospitals. Six per cent of the white babies and 54 percent or our Negro babies do not have a doctor atten dant at birth. In this respect the state ranks 40th. These facts are not new. But they are increasingly important. North Carolina needs more physicians for rural districts and smaller towns. It needs more district health centers and com prehensive health services. The crying need in North. Carolina at the present time is for a health program that will reach out to all of the people of the state. Doctors, nurses and technicians must be trained. The North Carolina medical care commission has proposed a five-year plan for building new general hospitals and medical centers throughout the state and for enlarging existing hospital facilities all over the state. The state legislature' in Raleigh now has a medical care bill before it for consideration. It must act favorably on the bill at this session. We cannot afford to waste anymore time. It is the responsibility of every citizen of North Carolina to let his feelings on the matter be known. The SCHW is sponsor ing the campus movement to get behind the campaign. Every in terested student (and every student shoud be interested in his , most priceless possession good health) should let the legisla tors in Raleigh know that he wants action taken on the matter quickly. Write your representative, talk up the Good Health program. Remember, a man is no better than his health permits. Pro vide for the health and safety of North Carolina's future citizen- ry by getting behind the good health movement now ! On World Government An evening could be well spent tonight by listening to a speech on world government in Hill music hall. The speaker is Colgate Prentice, 22-year-old president of Student Federalists, Inc., a youth movement campaigning for federal world government. Many students are ignorant of just what the principles in volved in world government are. Here is your chance to ge't an interesting, authoritative insight into the program by listen ing to Prentice speak. "World Government a Challenge" is the title of Prentice's speech. Students have a wonderful opportun ity to learn about the challenge tonight. Daily Newspaper Today, marks one year of-publication of the Daily Tar Heel since our resumption of daily publication after the end of the war. During the war years a semi-weekly, and later, a weekly newspaper, The Tar Heel similar to this publication, appeared from 1943-46. But on the evening of February 4 the first news paper in four years with the name Daily Tar Heel, rolled off the presses. Yes, it's the Daily Tar Heel now ! But every day we are refer red to as the Tar Heel, the Dirty Tar Heel, the Damn Tar Heel, or even a few more superlative phrases! We take a great deal of pride on being the oldest college daily in the south and we'd like to be recognized as such. Just like a certain brand of aspirin, please always ask for the Daily Tar Heel, not simply the Tar Heel alone. item aflp to Heel The official newspaper of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, where it is published daily, except Mondays, examination and vacation periods ; daring the official summer terms, it Is published wreii-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, tinder the act of Mareh 8. 1879, ..Subscription price: $8.00 per college year: $3.00 per quarter. COMPLETE LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP UNITED PRESS The pini6ns expressed by the columnists are their own and not neces sarily those of The Daily Tar HeeL BILL WOESTENDIEK ROLAND GIDUZ IRWIN 8MALLW00D BILL SELIG , Editor Managing Editor Sporta Editor N AV MOON. JUST DOirV MY PART TO HELP THE GOOD HEALTH oon;D AKAl KAYO J ARE YOU ) I SICK, OR 6QH6 J j K TO A PARTYPi ilifc dOOD HEALTH I IP Strictly Detrimental .... Facts on Health in State Paint Frightening Picture By Jud Kinberg About the fourth time in one day that I heard the catchy Good Health song, it set my curiosity on edge. I determined to find out just WHAT "Is Up To Me." After a minimum of columnistic snooping, I realized that North Carolina has primed a movement designed to eradicate a scourge upon the state. It is nothing less than an all-out fight against Death, with all the modern cam paign weapons on the firing line. If you've ever seen what a bright hospital ward can do for the spirits of a per-Q BURTON MYERS Business Manager Circulation Manager Asmciatb Editocs : Earl Heffner. Eddie Allen. Zmtokial Boars: Oune Aenchbacher, Tn EUer, Jud Klnbergr, Jimmy Wallace, Al Loweo- xCrrilUALSTA ffTm att Hodgson, Sam Daniels, Bettie Washburn, Manny Marvelis. 'Assist a kt Swrg Emtobs Bob Ooidwater. - Hun SrT8 Rmtohs: Jim Pharr. BfUy Carmiehael, Morty Schnap, Spmts STAry : Mac Katzin, Dick Seever. Gil MrLend. Glenns Ant. Navrs Srw. Ed Joyner. Bettie Washburn. 8iffbee Miller. Darley Leaner. Harry Snowden, Johany Clampitt. Tomie Cates. Brooksie Fopkins. Bill Sexton, Jinx Helm, Dave Owens, Jey Blumenthal. Raney Stanford. Ken KothweU, Bob Morrison, June Sauer, Tinley Camp bell. Saw Whitehall. Helea Hishwater. gTArr Photograph ejis : Bob Reams. Ed Gtlreath. Kkmt Emtu: Chuck Hauser. Bookie Jabiae, La wren ee Clements. AssraTANT BuHIwtos Mamagcr: Howard Bailey. AvnsBTttnna MaaRs: Ed ParwelL Naney Wmugh.; BwMNass St aft: 8hum Barclay, Brantley McCoy. Natalie Sell. Mary W. Bledge, Bar- AmmnumTlAPVt Mary Je Cairn. Betato CJwwthaw. Irt Clarke. Uwnw CTwet. Eto Helden. Jaaet Jelly. Alice Leaa. SaraJa Malaga, Nell Bias, Eleanor Redd. Cole TaoaMS. Jin Wolfe. BywwwTHii Uuucni JtMa Moody. FOR THIS ISSUE: NraxT Esrrca: Lawrtat Cicatmts Sports: Ba Goldwater son critically ill, you'll agree that adequate medical facilities are a dirt cheap insurance policy on the future of the people and their community. But I don't have to paint word pictures, there are some figures that speak language far incisive than any grand generalities. The press release, from the North Carolina Good Health Association, tells the user not to "scare your readers." I wish it were possible to follow that advice, but it's like asking you to publish casualty lists and not dis turb the mothers of the dead. The facts are cold, hard and frightening. Put them together and they com plete a maddening jigsaw puzzle of inadequate facilities resulting in in adequate health throughout the state. The facts scared me, I'm afraid they'll scare you. I've tried to add them up and get a different answer, but the same one comes out every time. It's that this campaign for Good Health in North Carolina isn't a luxury item, it's bare neces sity. Any improvements made in the next five years, ' no matter how great, will also be necessity. Let's get rid of a specious argu ment first. "Why can't we depend upon private facilities," is the usual hue and cry. Most people in this state cannot pay for modern medical care. In 1940, North Carolina ranked 44th in net income per capita. The average was $317. That's average, the lows are way below that. Then there's the prime matter of hospital beds. We don't look so good there, either. North Carolina is 42nd among the states in hospital beds per thousand population. The generally accepted bare minimum is four beds per thousand people. Only a few of North Carolina's counties approach that number. In all, we are 6,000 beds below the average. That's just the beginning of black ness. Just about every statistic you turn to, from infant mortality to old deaths is just the same. You have to go way down the list before you find North Carolina. Those are some of the figures that aren't supposed to scare you. I guess if you're calloused enough you can read the full report and then dash off to Aggie's for a brew without 'a thought about what those statistics mean. The answer is that right now the North Carolina citizen has a bet ter chance than his neighbor at one thing: Death. The hopeful part of the report is that it doesn't have to remain that way. One of the bright spots in the record in tuberculosis control. That's because state authorities assumed re sponsibility for this phase of good health a number of years ago. Today, through the high-powered Good Health Association, the plan is to bring the government in on the many other phases of maintain ing life. This Association is giving all of ns the opportunity to parti cipate in the campaign in a manner guaranteed to cause no pain. The" kind of support they want is vocal and not financial. For the paltry price of enthusiasm we can help buy good health throughout this state. Since they ask so little, I think we ought to give them more. Student discussion groups have been looking for momentous issues. Certainly this one is big enough for a series of for ums. Student leaders should take ac tion to see that the entire campus knows just what the Good Health As sociation intends doing. This chance to fight for a better chance at life for everyone in North Carolina is one that every student Tar Heel born or just Tar Heel breed ing should actively champion. It is one way of proving that we're not here to hide from life's realities. The Third Part . . . . Needed from Legislature 'Little Beneficial Action ' By Jimmy Wallace The name of this column is derived from my conclusion that a University is composed, like Gaul, of three parts. Each of these bears a definite relation ship to the other, and, upon mature reflection, I have concluded that a Uni versity cannot successfully exist without cooperation between the three components. They are: the Faculty, the Administration, and the students. The students are the third, and often forgotten part of the University. So this column will be about students, and things that affect students, be these things local, national or international. It will not be surprising there- fore, if I talk about high forced to pay a tax. I can see why, however, that many corporate interests would like to scut tle the co-ops. They DO cut into pro fits occasionally. In fact, that is ex actly the reason given by the pro pounders of the bill in Raleigh. So write yore representative, or youll be drinking third-rate cow juice. The other item which will soon be socking the headlines is: Should Cha pel Hill get a hospital and Med School? Many people think not. Many think that we should. It appears that a poll of many of the state's doctors yielded, through the use of leading questions, an answer which seemed to indicate that Charlotte was the logi cal place. We have a two-year Med school here. It was built at the expense of several hundred thousands dollars. To let the Med school stay here and die (two-year Med schools are ob solescent) would mean a great waste of the state's money. If, howerer, the school were enlarged to a four year school, it could be done at less expense to the state. Either way, 'there is going to be a big fight. 7Ae Cdita prices, government inefficiency, or Atomic Bombs. For the nonce, then, the local scene needs a lettle surveying. Yester day, I wrote a column in which I de plored the cold molasses similarity to the speed and efficiency of the Stu dent Legislature leadership. Chas. Warren, the speaker, is currently wrought up about it. It appears that, of all things, criticism is what he likes least. He has, therefore, written a little letter to the Daily Tar Heel, and he sez that my attack was "con temptible," or so I understand. Surely Chas. knows better than that. Surely his pal Dewey Dorsett knows better than that. I have noth ing against the boys. All I want is a little action; not even on any particular thing. Just a little action on something which might benefit the student body. I am glad about one thing. The col umn yesterday moved Chas. to write a letter to the Editor. Which is just charming. I hope that Chas. will write a letter every time I write a column. Then we will have genuine freedom of the press and interchange of ideas. But I have a feeling that Chas. will run out of gas. There are two items of interest in the current Legislative mill in Ral eigh. One of them is the little matter of placing a tax on cooperatives. I'm agin it. The reason is veddy simple. Cooneratives don't make profits, at least theoretically, and therefore, should not pay taxes. Cooperatives are merely groups of people who organize for their benefit; sort of a mutual or ganization. The very delicious grade "A" milk which Chapel Hillians are now drinking is the product of the Farm er's Dairy Cooperative. Before that Cooperative came into existence, we were getting grade "C" milk. I can't see why such enterprises should be put out of business through being It Happens Here . . . All letters must be typewritten, double-spaced, under S00 words in length, and signed by the writer. Writer's name will be withheld on request, but letters must be signed. The Daily Tar Heel re serves the right to present the let ters as it wishes and to delete all matter it considers libelous. Rebuttal (Ed. note the following letter was given up by Charles Warren, speaker of the student legislature, following yesterday's editorial against consti tutional changes.) Mr. Woestendiek: I asked editor Woestendiek to ex plain few of the 16 amendments which he vigorously opposed in yes terday's editorial. Greatly to my sur prise, the editor was unable to ex plain many of them; yet, he had the audacity to publicly oppose all amend ments. Could it be that the editor is regrettably many times used as poli tical implement? Mr. Wallace: I harbor no resentment against Jimmy Wallace for his contemptible statement directed against me yester day. My job doesn't include personal name-calling feuds with those op posed to my leadership. I regret that there are those who feel my leadership is sluggish and, if in the performance of my duties I have hurt anyone I am sorry! How ever, I would like to point out that any manifestation of lethargy on my part is mainly due to biased, uncoop erative elements which I believe the majority of the ' legislature members would like to see resigned. Mr. EUer: . Your article on Student Govern ment in the Carolina Mag represents a good effort to indoctrinate the stu dent body inrre Student Government Contrarily, your effort was partly ob structed by misrepresentation of the facts. I have never stated that the Constitution was void (Upon man date of the administration.) I disagree with you also in saying that the St. Legislature has only ac complished a set of by-laws. Space doesn't permit detail; however, I fa vor j less critical analysis and more actual work. Mr. Dorsett: Dewey Dorsett is one of the finest and most outstanding presidents this student body has ever had. He has my definite backing. We are confident that members of the Legislature will attend this week's session receptive to both pros and cons on the pro posed amendments. There is no desire on our part to hastily consider these measures. Respectfully, CHARLES WARREN , Vice President 7:00. Meeting of CICA in Ro land Parker lounge, Graham Me morial. 7:15. Wesley Foundation Vesper service, Chapel of Methodist church. 7:30. Third bill of Experimental Productions of new plays, Playmakers theatre. 8:00. Bible Study, Methodist church. 8:30. Student Federalists present Colgate Prentice, speaker, in Hill Mu sic hall. U. S. PROVIDES BUILDINGS Pittsburgh, (UP) The Federal Works Agency has alloted the Uni versity of Pittsburgh six surplus build ings for temporary use to further the education of its war veteran enroll ment. One building will be used for athletics and the others for labora tories. TRAVEL FAR FOR KNOWLEDGE Pittsburgh (UP) Sister Mary El len and .Miss Cecilia Petrie of Mercy Hospital, Buffalo, N. Y., made a 460 mile automobile trip once a week for two months to attend a class at the University of Pittsburgh. Each al ready had a master of science degree. MOTORCYCLE WRECKS FREIGHT Albany, Ore. (UP) A motorcycle driven by Stanley Ellison, 16, crashed into a Southern Pacific freight train and derailed two cars. Ellison escap ed injury. 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