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TUESDAY, NOV. 20, 1945 ’
THE PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM
The proposal of President Truman, just submitted to
Congress for compulsory insurance for all persons who work
for a living, indicates an important trend in national policy.
We shudder to think what would have happened had
this proposition been made 20 years ago and we suspect
that it would have had some rather severe criticism even as
late as the beginning of the New Deal.
It may come under fire yet, but we venture to say that i
if it does it will be because of the methods used to carry
the project out rather than the idea itself.
The idea that the community has some responsibility
in the relief of the sick—compulsory health insurance would
spread this sickness cost over the community—is not new.
We have been recognizing this principle in North Carolina
for some time and the last legislature undertook greatly to
expand the medical care program in this state.
In this connection it is noted that one of the cardinal
points of the President’s program is federal financial aid
to the states and localities for enlarging, modernizing and
building new hospitals and other health facilities.
This is as it should be. It puts the specific burden of
caring for the ill on the communities and states in which
they are situated while at the same time spreads the financial
burden over the whole country.
President Truman’s program deserves the careful
thought, not only of Congress to which it has been submit-,
ted but to the general citizenry as well. We all will pre-1
sumably benefit from it, and certainly we all will foot the j
bill.
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EVERYTHING BUT THE CARS
OPA’s establishment of ceiling prices for new auto-1
mobiles would mean a sight more if there was any assur
ance new cars will be available in any number at all. Fixing
of these prices came to an industry worried over its future
and making no promises as to when new cars in volume will
reach the general public.
The industry is described as being in an upset condi
tion because of labor problems and with production pro
grams still uncertain. In the forefront are the threatened
strikes of the United Automobile Workers union in support
of its demand for a 30 per cent wage rate increase. The;
manufacturers have rejected that demand claiming that the
prices of cars must be raised if wages are boosted.
Commenting on OPA Administrator Chester Bowles’
iuggestion that the automobile industry would be turning
out half a million cars a month by next June, George Rom
ney, general manager of the Automobile Manufacturers As
sociation, said this was the industry’s estimate as of last
August but expressed doubt as to its realization.
Then, too, we wonder if wage raises are allowed, will
OPA be forced to do most of its calculating over again and i
give us a new set of ceilings.
We are only a little better off than the man who once
fcaid: “If we had some ham, we'd have some ham and eggs,
If we had some eggs.”
We do have automobile prices figured out to the decimal
point. We lack only the automobiles. We trust they will
be along fairly soon because reconversion in America is
AUTOMOBILES.
TURKEY PER CAPITA
Not for one minute would we question the statement
Just made in advance of Thanksgiving by Secretary of Agri
culture Anderson that there will be available for everybody
in the nation five pounds of turkey Thanksgiving, not count
ing stuffing and gravy. He explained that the turkey crop
is 22 per cent above last year and the army and navy are not
taking as many birds as expected.
But regardless of how many turkeys lose their heads
this season, what the crop is or anything of the kind, we
are pretty sure not everybody in the country will get his
five pounds. In the first place it isn’t everybody that has
a taste for turkey. Many prefer other forms of poultry.
Not only that, but our distribution would not easily stand
the strain of getting five pounds of turkey to each individ
ual in the United States.
Finally and most importantly, even if there were laid
on each person's plate f;ve pounds of turkey—we’d settle
for a drumstick—the country would have the awfullest com
posite stomach ache, it ever had, and our already over
worked doctors could not nearly get around.
The only point we are trying to make is that if Secre
tary Anderson’s estimate is anywhere near correct we’ve
got a surplus pioblem on our hands. Moreover we suggest
that encouragement be given of dividing the five pounds per1
capita at least between Thanksgiving and Christmas and
perhaps we might even ring in New Year’s. Five pounds of
turkey will go a long way on anybody’s plate.
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i The Everyday !
! COUNSELOR
i By DR. HERBERT SPAUGH j
Why do more Americans die from
heart disease than any other cause?
Some light may be thrown on this
by an Associated Press dispatch
from Los Angeles, where many
prominent physi
cians recently at
tended the Los
Angeles Heart
Association Sym
posium. Dr. Sam
uel Levine, as
sistant professoi
of medicine at
Harvard Univer
sity. an/ a heart
specialist, stated
that heart disease
is practically
REV. SPAUGH non - existent in
China. “A Chin
ese with angina or thrombosis is
almost unknown.”
Dr. Levine thinks that the lack
of heart disease in China is due
to their racial heritage, or to their
calm and philosophical view of life,
compared to our excitability. He is
undertaking an intensive scientific
investigation concerning this, with
the view of applying the findings
in the United States.
H. G. Wells in his latest book
"Mind At The End of Its Tether,”
says that man’s mind developing
out of proportion to physical and
spiritual ability, is surely destroy
ing man himself. Many scholars,
scientists and writers have said the
same thing concerning the dis
covery and use of the atomic bomb.
Heart disease is killing chiefly
men, but also women, at a start
ling rate in the United States. As
soon as women assume the places
of responsibility as men in the
business world, you will see the
death rate from heart disease rise
with them. Man's mind is overload
ing his body with a mounting death
toll as the result.
An important cause for this will
probably be found in increasing
lack of spiritual resources among
the American People. Peace in the
heart is a powerful antidote to
mental strain. Spiritual resiliency
is a great shock-absorber for the
tenseness and emotional strain of
modem life.
Eller, in his book ‘‘Houses of
Peace,” commenting upon the
peaceful atmosphere of eighteenth
century Bethlehem. Pa., a strictly
religious settlement say, “In this
age Europe was beginning to heed
the cry of atheists and other bit
ter, idle, aimless men, but here in
Bethlehem was almost incredible
peace and happiness. Ttfre was
peace because the 1/rethren knew
beyond doubt that God was with
them. There was happiness be<ftuse
each of them had found a purpose
in life, reason and need for work.”
There was no lack of hard work in
Bethlehem, but the brethren knew
how to carry the strain of it.
With the love and peace of God
is in a man’s heart, he can carry
tremendous burdens. Furthermore,
his best efforts are not turned tow
ards creating instruments for the
destruction of man: instead, his de
sire is to help them.
EDIITOR S NOTE — Dr. Spaugh’s
new book, “The Pathway to Con
tentment,” will oomf from the
press about December lit. It is be
ing published in response to the re
quest of many readers, and con
Washington
Speculates On
Next Governor
By LYNN NISBET
RALEIGH, Nov. 20—Your repor
ter does not cherish any such big
ideas of his own capacity to size
up a situation as was manifested
by a radio commentator the other
day. After spending about a week
in the Hawaiian islands a com
mentator came back with the ans
wers to all the questions about
Pearl Harbor, army and navy ad
ministration and the future of the
Pacific. A reporter that good
could spend a short weekend in
Washington and get all the dope;
this one couldn’t, but he did pick
up a little stuff that frankly is
more intuitive than factual.
All except a few governmental
offices are closed tight Saturday
afternoon and Sunday, and very
few of the working newspaper
gang showed up at National Press
club offices, i Let's put this in first
person singular for sake of easier
writing.)
HARD TO GET
I wish I could quote what the
Prefident said, or report inter
views with senators, congressmen
and other big time Tar Heels in
the national capital. There is no
such report because there were no
such interviews. It was extreme
ly difficult to establish contact
with lesser secretaries and news
paper folks in the few hours a
vailable. Some thirty telephone;
calls and personal visits yielded a
total of four contacts, and these j
were not among the policy mak
ers or real powers that be. Some
times, however, the office boy or
stenographer has a better story
than the big boss. They are not
inhibited by responsibility and
are proud of the chance to tell |
what they think they know. With j
all that qualification, here goes
on impressions gathered.
These small fry expect that the
Republicans will organize the
next Congress and that a good
many southerners now in position
of influence will be relegated to
minor posts on congressional com
mittees. Because of that some of
the North Carolinians are look
ing homeward and may be more
interested in the next state elec
tion than they have been since
1932.
JOB CONCERN
The clerics and stenographers
were franlrly more concerned a
bout their own jobs than about
who would hold the big offices.
What they wanted to know was
their chance to get a good state
payroll berth cinched as a sort of
hedge against possible let-out in
Washington. None of them was
quite that frank about it, but
there was manifest evidence of
home-sickness; they just wanted
| to get back to North Carolina.
Office gossip among the Tar
! Heels in lower salary levels is that
General Kenneth Royall of Golds
boro is definitely a candidate for
governor and Lindsay Warren
may be. The Washington contin
gent seems to think Royall’s ap
pointment as under secretary of
war put him in the gubernatorial
tains material which has appeared
in this column. The price is $1.00
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The Everyday Counselor, Box 4145,
Charlotte, N. C. Advance orders
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Guidepost
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MOLDERS OF OPINION, edited by
David Bulman 'Bruce; $1.75).
The columnists, arbiters of our
morals, politics and economics, are
investigated here.
Thirteen nien and one woman:
Mallon, Hcatter, Lippmann, Lewis,
Welles, Pegler. Kaltenborn. Swing,
Pearson, Lawrence, Kennedy, Win
chell, Sokoloskj- and Dorothy
Thompson are taken apart to see
what has made them click.
The short chapters devoted to
each were written by 11 differ
ent persons described as • for the
most part O-istanding journal
ists.” Some of the authors confine
themseves strictly to the facts
and refrain from passing judg
ment. Others are as vitriolic as
the columnists on whose vitriol
they allege they choke.
Here s a sample of opinions:
Dorothy Thompsons fault is •phi
losophical haziness;” Pegler has
“by far the largest intelligent fol
lowing among the columnists;”
Swing suffers from "a surprising
immaturity.”
One writer has no criticism of
Lippmann's desire for a U. S.
USSR understanding; another
agrees emphatically with Sokol
sky that capitalism and Commu
nism can never get along to
gether in one world. Welles, the
blue blood, is praised, while
Winchell is scathingly accused of
only a sixth-grade education.
Any one of these may be true
but there's no single point of
view from which they're all true.
If this is a book needing to be
written, it needed to be done in
some other way, on some general
sta./lard. There are as many per-;
sonal opinions as there are writ
ers. This is "philosophical hazi
ness” and ‘'immaturity;” this is the
kettle calling the potboiler black.
MODERN MAN IS OBSOLETE, by!
Norman Cousins (Viking; $1).
The expanded text of the Sat-1
urday Review of Literature editor
ial is put between boards so you
can save it for as long as this men
aced globe continues to support hu
man life.
Cousins’ subject is ethical man;
against scientific man. The atom
ic age is of our own making and
way well be our undoing.
"Man is asked to adjust himself;
to an Atomic Age before he has
caught up with, let alone master-,
ed, the age ushered in by electricity
and steam,” Oousins says. He
worns: "The greatest obsolescence
of all in the Atomic Age is nation
al sovereignty.”
race rather than took him out. As
for Warren the gossipers justj
can’t understand how a man with
assured 10 years more at $15,000
a year would be interested in four!
years at $10,500 and prospect of!
having to spend a good bit of that
to get the nomination. Experi
ence of eating and sleeping in
Washington on $1200 to $2400 a
year has made them money con
scious.
There ts striking similarity be
tween attitude of government
workers in Washington and state
employes in Raleigh. They think
because they are at the seat of
government they know a lot about
what’s going on in the back
ground—and are wrong more than
half the time.
Merry-Go-Round
Atomic Bombs
Could Ignite
Entire Planet
By DREW PEARSON
(LI Col. Robert S. Allen Now On
Active Service With the Army)
WASHINGTON — Public and
congressional opinion regarding
the atom bomb has moved so rap
idly that the Truman-Attlee state
ment just barely caught up with
it. A few weeks ago, the Truman
Attlee plan to share the atom se
cret if other nations reciprocated
would have been considered revo
lutionary. Now some senators
and many scientists think it
doesn’t go quite far enough.
Chief reason for the rapid
change in public opinion has been
the educational campaign staged
by the scientists and some sena
tors.
For instance, scientist Milton
Burton of Oak Ridge, Tenn., went
to see Senator Chan Gurney of
South Dakota. Gurney, a sincere
and able gentleman, devoutly be
lieves that the sun rises and sets
in the War department's Penta
gon building across the Potomac.
Some of his friends suspect that
he takes out a prayer rug and decs
obeisance in the direction of the
Pentagon every morning. To him
a brass hat can do no wrbng.
Thus the army’s plan for airtight
control of the atom bomb to him
was perfect.
However, he listened politely to
Oak Ridge scientist Burton. Bur-;
ton wanted to outlaw the atom j
bomb altogether, but the senator
from South Dakota remained un
convinced. Finally, Burton pulled
his trump card. He unfolded the
danger of setting off the nitrogen
chain. This is one thing the sci
entists have been deadly afraid
of.
"You realize, senator." explained
the scientist, "that if enough
bombs were dropped, of sufficient
size, they might set off the nitro
gen chain and the entire world
would go up in flames. We would
simply be another flaming star in
the heavens, later a barren des
ert. People from other planets
would look out and say 'Aha. No
va! A new star! ”
Scientist Burton was deadly
serious. So are other scientists
They say it is quite possible that
a sufficient number of atom ex
plosions would ignite the nitrogen
in the atmosphere and the entire
earth would be burned up, just as
other planets are today.
MCKELLAR CONVERTED
Another Oak Ridge scientist.
Charles D. Coryell, went to work
on the family of Senator Kenneth
McKellar of Tennessee. So also
did William Pollard, a professor
at the University of Tennessee,
but now working in New York.
McKellar, a powerful, energetic
figure in the senate, had not even
wanted to appoint liberal young
Senator Brien McMahon of Con
necticut as chairman of the ato
mic bomb study committee, even
though McMahon introduced the
resolution. And when McKellar
finally consented to go along with
McMahon's appointment, he
stacked the committee with reac
tionaries.
However, when scientists Cor
yell and Pollard finished explain
ing the dangers of the A-bomb,
the Tennessee senator actually got
down from his presiding officer's
chair to make one of the most
statesman-like speeches the senate
has heard on atom control.
Another senator who has seen
how a cut-throat international
race to get control of the atom
might wreck all civilization is Re
publican Senator Alexander Smith
of New Jersey. Smith spent sev
eral weeks on a New Jersey speak
ing tour both educating and
sounding out public opinion re
garding the bomb. He reports that
the people generally are ahead of
Washington in believing that the
secret must be used as a means
of working out international co
operation and permanent peace.
Meanwhile, scientists and some
senators make two chief criticisms
of the Truman-Attlee control
plan. They say <1) that the plan
must be worked out by the heads
of states, not by the foreign min
isters who just failed so miserably
at London; (2) That it was a mis
take to put future control in the
hands of the United Nations, since
the United Nations already has
proved a disappointing skeleton,
inadequate to cope with the in
tricate problems of peace. The
atom bomb, they feel, can be used
to create a real system of world
cooperation—not subject to the
veto of one power.
U. S. S. MISSOURI
PAPERWEIGHTS
Just before the giant battleship
Missouri was about to leave Pearl
Harbor for the East Coast last
month, it was published that she
was held up by “trouble." Here’s
what the trouble really was;
The spot on the deck where
MacArthur signed the surrender
consisted of wooden deckboards.
Under orders from someone, the
navy yard tore up the entire sec
tion of the deck and replaced it
with new wood.
Then the old boards on which
MacArthur and the Japs had stood
was turned over to the wood
working shop at the navy yard and
made into paperweights.
But what burnt up enlisted men
was that the paperweights were
then given to the brass hats. Not
one enlisted man was able to get
a souvenir of the memorable sur
render occasion, though thousands
of them had given their lives to
help achieve it.
CAPITAL CHAFF
Navy explanation of why Gen
eral MacArthur’s photo was omit
ted from the official exhibit of
war leaders is that they sent a
naval officer recruited from Hol
lywood to Brisbane at $7 per diem
Behind The
FRONT
M.
By BOLT MePHEKSON
MuuttBl Editor ’ ?
PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S FIVE-POINT HEALTH PRi
presented to the Congress yesterday is not something to be
lightly as "socialized medicine” but rather is recognition this na'
challenged to utilize its resources to promote health of all its people ,,
It needs to be studied thoroughly by Congress and the ptioptii
cause in it is the seed of a social consciousness that the country’!
in health is an investment not only in better living but also against ?
verty, disease and problems of relief which ride in that company.
nation that has just seen millions of its young men rejected as phyi
unfit for armed service is painfully aware of price of past n^glec%
health. The interest in health needs be as vital in peace as in
time to set up the structure is in advance of trouble, for to be fore'
is to be forearmed.
The Truman program, carrying with it compulsory health
may not be. exactly the answer to a vast and growing problem, btit
challenges the nation to a broad and effective health program*
too, it is something on the beginning of which our state government’
already embarked—the national concern for it fits well into tnat
commending Tar Heel forethought and action.
ANYONE WANTING TICKETS TO THE SHRINE BOWL
game at Charlotte—and they carry the Vox Pop attendance privi
lege, too—can get them from W. D. Lackey, chairman, or any
member of the committee. I have a batch of them I’ll be glad to
make available to any wanting such.
SAM M. GREENE, JR., SEAMAN l/c, SON OF MR. AND MRS. BAM
Greene of Mooresboro, sings at the world’ tallest church, Chicago Temple,
First Methodist. Seaman First Class Greene sang first as guest soloist for
the regular service, then later was invited to give a personal program, wh #| ,
he did by singing ten songs. After which Greene was immediately offered
a position with a very good salary, but he refused because he plans to
complete his education before starting out on his life's career.
The Chicago First Methodist Church has occupied its present site for
106 years. The spire, floodlighted at night, is one of Chicago's most In
spiring sights. The chimes are heard throughout the downtown area.
The air-cor.ditioned sanctuary accommodates 1,200 worshippers, with
additional seating provided in the chapel. The organ, complete with an
echo organ and 6,300 pipes, is considered one of the largest and best In
the country. Visitors from an average of thirty states worship there every
Sunday. The church is open daily for meditation and prayer.
MRS. LELA MAE RAGAN COMES TO HER 25TH ANNI
versary with the telephone company and will be honored at a
dinner and dance next Monday night here. As the efficient chief
oprrator of the local office, she is largely responsible for the effi
cient and courteous service which distinguishes the telephone
operation here. She didn't tell me, but I'm thinking her two years
here—with the trying help shortage and overload of work Incident
to V-E and V-J days, the Junior Legion championship and other
things which cause folks to ring the bells off their phones—entitles
her to medals almost as much as the 23 preceding did. She has
lifted her job above the work level and definitely Into the service
—with a capital S—classification and she must have started very,
very young in telephoning.
THAT ROOSTER WHICH HAS GOTTEN NATIONAL ATTENTION
because he continued to live and function even after his head had been
cut off from his body hasn't so much to crow about, for his case was i
matched right here a long time ago and probably explains what happen- I |
ed. too. Rev. John W. Suttle recalls that back when Professor Burns was
running old Piedmont academy and Frank Elam handled livestock opera
tions there was a fine looking hog marked for slaughter. The day cv'^ls,
killing came, a rifle shot was put into his head and It didn’t seem to .»-*e
Mr. Hog at all; another shot was squarely placed and he registered only
puzzlement where he should have fallen over dead; several more ahota
into the vital spot of the brain made a pepper box of the hog’a head but
didn t topple him. so an axe was swung with no more effect than to bring
the porker back up startled at all this strange activity that to him seemed
little more than some bees swarming about his head. Unable to stop him
with bullets or brain him successfully with the axe, he was caught, held
ar.d stabbed so that he finally bled to death. Frank Elam called for a
post portem to see what made the hog so indestructible and the startled
onlookers were amazed to find no brain where the brain should be, bul
rather it was located down near the shoulder and thus clear of the lethal
efforts of his killers. The rooster's brain likely survived similarly, Brother
John thinks. That's no hog-wash!
“IT'S A SAD, SAD WORLD,” SAYS DOVIE LOGAN LA
menting the Ions of her black Chesterfield coat, velvet collar and
all, which somehow got lost in the course of the reception Satur
day night. Someone will brighten that gal's heart by reporting It
was taken by mistake.
HAPPILY, NO ONE GOT HURT WHEN ONE OP THE BIO
Frederickson trailer type trucks got out of control Sunday morning gne
jack-knifed to plow up a Dover street lawn before coming to a stop aftef
brakes had failed because power from the stalled engine wasn’t there U
hold them. It occurs to me. after seeing the danger In such, it's exceed
ingly bad business to drag along too closely behind one of those big be
hemoths on a steep hill. Give ’em plenty of distance and live longer!
to get the picture. It was ex
plained to MacArthur's headquar
ters that when all the photos were
collected they would be presented
to the nation at FDR's library at
Hyde Park The photographer
waited a couple of weeks at $7 a
day, but MacArthur refused to
pose . . . That was why Mexican,
French, and British generals were
included in the navy's photo exhi
bit of war leaders, but not Mac
Arthur . . Gen. Clayton Bissell,
chief of army intelligence, is now
on a trip to South America. The
State department asked him to
steer clear of Argentina, because
they didn't want it to appear we
were sending them any distin
guished visitors at a time when
we frowned on their fascist form
af government. But Bissell Ignored
the request, went to Argentina
anyway . . . Walter Winchell, who
starts his I5th consecutive year
on the air Dec. 2, offered $1,000,
000 in cash for a 12 1-2 percent
share in the ABC network. He
wasn't bluffing either. He had the
cash in small bills in a strong
box
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Mrs. Truman took a long-de
layed step toward mending her re
lations with the ladies of the press
by inviting them to a White House
supper . , . However, a lot who
were left out were more miffed
than ever . . .The dinner was de
licious — turkey, sweet potatoes,
three different kinds of ice cream
. . . Mrs. Truman went out of her
way to be informal. There was
no head table, she just plunked
herself down among several guests
and started eating . . . Dress at
the dinner was optional. Mrs. Tru
man wore a long gown, her daugh
ter Margaret a short one . .
Margaret was the most excltei
member of the party. "I am go
Ing to flunk an exam on accoun
of you girls being here ton* tilt,
she said. "I was supposdyWt
study. Ill send you my repoi
card when it comes" . . . Mn
Truman, took her guests down
stairs to the White House projec
tlon room after dinner to slur
them a new picture, "Weekend ■
the Waldorf.” It was selected b
Margaret . . . Last year at a slmi
lar party staged by Mrs. Roose
velt. the picture was “The Vole
of China" . . . Ladles of the pree
peppered the evening with whia
pered remarks about the contra*
between Truman and Rooseve
hospitality. You can’t pleafe a
the people all of the time.
NO PROBLEM
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M«—(A*)
—It was night when Ernest
Benjamin’s car stalled in a
ditch and some spilled gasoline
went unnoticed In the dark.
A friend, studying means to
extricate the vehicle, struck a
match.
Assistant Fire Chief Milton
Grande said there wasn’t
enough car left for Benjamin
to worry about.
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