The Journal - Patriot
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS
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Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
JULIUS C. HUBBARD?MRS. D. J. CARTER
Publishers
1932?DANIEL J. CARTER?1945
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under Act of March 4, 1897.
Thursday, October ?0, 1949
i Caro>,t>o CV
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$12,000,000,000 For
Inferior Medicine
How much would the proposed scheme
for compulsory government health insur
ance cost the taxpayers of this country?
Many estimates have been made, and
most of them have contained a large ele
ment of guesswork. As a pattern, however,
we can take Britain's experience with her
"free" medical care plan. According to
Aneurin Bevan, the Minister of Health, the
plan is costing Britain more than 50 cents
a week a person?over twice the original
official estimates. The total cost of the
system this year will probably exceed $1,
500,000,000.
In an editorial on the subject, E. T.
Leech, editor of the Pittsburgh Press,
says: "On the same per capita cost, a
similar U. S. health plan would cost about
$6,000,000,000 a year. But far higher
living standards would probably make the
bill twice that amount." In other words,
at a time when the Federal government is
unable to make both ends meet even with
a $40,000,000,000 income, compulsory
health insurance alone would pile up to
$12,000,000,000 a year more on the
sagging backs of the taxpayers!
that would not be all?not by a
long shot. Government-medicine would
levy an enormous cost in a coin other than
money. It would?if experience elsewhere
means anything at all?lower the stand
ards of medical care. It would be a barrier
to research and preventive medicine
which, in the long run, can do more than
anything else to improve the health of a
people. It would create a great new politi
cal bureaucracy, with sweeping powers
over medical practice. And, sooner or lat
er, it would inevitably end in completely
socialised medicine.
Sorrowed Comment
THE WILKESBOROS AND THE
FARMERS
(Winston-Salem Journal)
When Governor W. Kerr Scott bemoan
ed the failure of urban civic groups in
North Carolina to aid the farmers and en
deavor to draw tighter the bonds of co
operation between towns and rural areas
he evidently wasn't thinking of the Wilkes -
boros.
This week, for the fourth consecutive
year under a program sponsored by the
Wilkes County Chamber of Commerce, the
towns of Wilkesboro and North Wilkes
boro staged a gala Farmers Day program
which brought sereraJ thousand rural peo
ple from six Northwestern North Carolina
counties into those towns to enjoy a pro
gram of entertainment, recreation, a
mammoth parade, and hear informative
and inspiring speeches by area and State
civic an<J agricultural leaders.
The big parade itself was highly educa
tional, carrying out the theme of agricul
tural progress, with old and new farming
tools, implements and machines moving
along the route of march. Commissioner
of Agriculture L. Y. Ballentine made the
principal address, discussing agricultural
and marketing problems, and stressing the
importance to the farmer of offering top
grade products to the markets.
Other features of the big Wilkes event
included the crowning of the Farmers' Day
Queen, presentation of forestry awards to
school youths planning and developing
stands of timber in a county-wide pro
ject. In the afternoon there were band con- j
certs, a string music jamboree and other
colorful events in which the people of town
and country participated in: the spirit of
gay camaraderie and mutual enjoyment
and understanding.
It seems to us that the Wilkesboros
have come rather close to what Governor
Scott has had in mind in his insistence up
on a greater effort on the part of urban
people to co-operate with and help their
rural neighbors.
tElkin with its annual Farm Day and
Stock Show program, and Winston-Salem
with its big Christmas party for farmers
of the Old Belt and similar events also ap
proach the Governor's idea, we believe. In
fact, the towns and rural communities of
the Northwestern section have made more
progress, perhaps, in this direction in re
cent years than Governor Scott realized at
the time when he attacked the urban civic
groups.
However, it is quite obvious that we
have by no means exhausted the possi
bilities in this field of service. Much re
mains to be done in behalf of wider mutual
co-operation between town and country
districts to promote the prosperity and
higher welfare of both.
But the Wilkesboros deserve the high
est commendation for their splendid ef
forts to draw town and country together
for the benefit of a whole area which is
tremendously rich in potential natural and
human resources. Out of their planning and
endeavors are bound to come in due course
impressive urban growth and rural ad
vancement.
? THE
EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
By Rev. Herbert
Spaugh, D. D.
What kind of Christmas cards are you
going to buy this year? It's not too early
to be thinking about that. Orders are al
ready being taken and filled for these
cards now. Christmas by its very name im
plies a commemoration of the birth of
Jesus Christ. Yet from the way some
people celebrate it, you would never know
it. And from some of the cards which they
send you would never recognize it.
For many years through this column
we have been campaigning to keep Christ
in our Christmas and to keep its true
meaning on our greeting cards.
A few days ago we received an inter
esting letter from the director of the Na
tional Association of Greeting Card Pub
lishers commenting upon last year's col
umn. He admitted that some of the Christ
mas greeting cards conveyed very little
significance to the true meaning of Christ
mas.
"As with any business, we have to con
tend with certain elements who persist in
ignoring the true meaning of Christmas,
but in the aggregate, the vast majority of
the worthwhile publishers are in full ac
cord with everything that can be done to
keep the true significance of Christmas in
America's Christmas cards," he wrote.
"I thought possibly you might want to
cooperate in our effort to bring to the at
tention of the public the fact that at all
times and through all retail sources a wide
selection of truly appropriate and reverent
Christmas card designs are available. But
naturally it is up to the public to select and
send such cards if they wish to have a
greater variety of religious Christmas
cards offered from year to year."
Then to prove his point that the greet
ing card publishers are offering cards of
a truly appropriate nature, he sent 100
sample cards. They literally covered my
desk. They are lovely, appropriate, convey
the true meaning of the Christmas observ
ance.
I am thoroughly convinced that the Na
tional Association of Greeting Card Pub
lishers, which represents sixty of Ameri
ca's leading publishers, are willing and
desirous of supplying appropriate cards,
and that they have provided these cards
for our use. Now, it's up to us who buy
these cards to make proper selection.
There was never a time when in recent
history the line between the Christian and
pagan philosophies of life have been more
sharply drawn on international, national,
and personal issues. In the United States
the issue is more pointed between Chris
tianity and secularism. We will see it a
gan this year in the kind of Christmas cards
the American people send. Let's keep
Christ in our Christmas, keep Him in our
American way of life, in our thinking, in
'our living. Keep this column in your mind
when you buy your Christmas cards.
OIXIC-HOMK
MUMT
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Gil 31*
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