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Hie proponents of the Administration’s compulsory Fed
h eral health insurance bill make much of the alleged fact
the cost of medical care is now excessive, and beyond
the ability of the masses to pay. That is just political talk.
The American people spend more for alcohol and more
for recreation than for medical care. They spend two
i thirds as much for tobacco. Over a long period of years,
the people have spent four per cent of their incomes for
medical, care—including, doctors, dentists, hospitals, and
ice cost,of drugs, appliances, etc.
■" It has been implied that, as a people, our standards
sgfiiealfh are low, and that compulsory health insurance
is-need?d to better them.
According to Dr. John W. Cline, president of the Ameri
i can MCflical Association, “We are the healthiest large na-
I ti3h in-the world. .. . Since 1900 we have added almost 20
k%ears jxj the life span in this country. .. Maternal and in
mortality are generally considered to be the best
pindieesrQf the quality of medical care. Comparison of the
\ figures-of the United States with those of the rest erf the
i world sftotws us at the top of the list of large countries. Cer-
small homogeneous countries have in the past had
gMßfißfte surpassing ours, but the improvement in the past
g«Ss!&des makes it improbable that they now can equal our
Pj%,***rlCise achievements have been made under private
©medicine. What possible excuse could there be for accept
ing a system of government-dominated medicine which, in
lilaJjasic premises, is little dfferent from that which has
f'WOgfully reduced the standards 6f medichl care in Eng
s'land?
i Grass Roots Opinions
j I SYCAMORE, OHIO, LEADER: “Alexander F. Jones,
* president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors,
icills for a prompt end to the free press privileges granted
H respondents in Washington.
ency (the Soviet press bureau) enjoys the
of the free ptts Wsie United States,’ says
:can reporters in the Soviet countries are
rery indignity —even jail—in their attempt
reporting j0b.... Tass is not a news service,
government-supported and controlled pro
il. its Russian employes—Mikhail Fedorov
, for example—are Soviet Government em
ne to this country on diplomatic passports,
free customers. They represent a govern
mPinr wnose political philosophy teaches and advocates
the overthrow of the United States. Government by force
andviutepee. Yet these representatives are accorded every
pgSfiege of the free press in Washington.’ ”
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While the officer stared In dis
belief, the driver climbed from the
cab with the aid of a cane. A com
panion explained that ids buddy
bad lost his eyes several years
years ago “and it was his cherished
ambition to drive onee more.”
“Come to think of it, that blind
fellow drove mere carefully than a
lot of people I’ve seen with a 20-20
Vision,” the trooper said.
These Days
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DUMP THE TAX COLLECTORS
One of the greet economic mis
fortunes of Europe has been the
multiplying of customs barriers
which prevent goods from moving
from where they are made to where
they are needed. They used to have
such stations in China to collect
the liking, a tax which has played
a great part in China’s ruin.
‘ • Now, we are getting such barriers
in many parts of the United States.
Often they are disguised as pro
tections against germs or some
thing, but wherever they exist,
tlieir purpose is to keep goods of
cue state from moving into another.
They are interstate tariff bureaus.
' The great economic strength of
the United States heretofore was a
result of free communications, of
the ’free movement of American
goods from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific, from Maine to Texas.
Recently, in Massachusetts, a
citizen, Raymond S. Redfield, once
president of the Springfield Cham
ber of Commerce, was actually
charged with the crime of purchas
ing eight cartons of cigarettes, two i
gallons of wine and a quart of gin
in Thompsonville, which is just
over the Massachusetts line in Con
necticut. Also, his car was seized
The court threw the case out, but
it can happen again.
According to Redfield, he was in
a town called Longmeadow on busi
ness and when he was on his way
home, he went to Thompsonville
and made the purchases. The
State of Massachusetts had spies
on hand who demanded to see
the Connecticut purchases.
Springfield in Massachusetts is
the general marketing city for resi
dents of that area, which includes
towns in Connecticut, and it is
now possible that that state will
enter upon a war reprisal all alqng
the border, seizing goods purchased
in Massachusetts. It is said that
Massachusetts is doing this sort
of thing on its borders, which af
fects Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New Hampshire, New York and
Vermont. It could turn Nevt Eng
land into a balkanized region.
New Hampshire caught Massa
chusetts agents who were spying
on Massachusetts citizens and or
dered them out of the state.
This is a question of states
rights; it is a question as to wheth
er we live in the United States
of America. Suppose a citizen is
on a trip from, let us say, New
York to Yellowstone, to see Ameri
ca first. let us say that he stocks
up with food, drink, cigarettes and
camping equipment. Will he have
to pay a customs duty every time
he crosses a state Mne? Or sup
pose he buys Indian blankets and
toy totem poles in Yellowstone, wifi
he have to pay customs duties
every time he crosses a state line?
Maybe the A. A. will issue an in
terstate tariff schedule to help Its
touring members.
Our lives are becoming increas
ingly and unpleasantly complicat
ad as vjurious agencies of the fed
eral state and municipal govern
ments require more money. Ameri
cans are becoming involved in
bookkeeping processes which are a
nuisance and, so far as housewives
are concerned, become burdensome
because they are neither trained
nor equipped to handle these
chores. Small businesses are un
able to awry the personnel neces
sary to do aU the paper work in
volved in filling out forms and cov
ering the myriads of taxes. They
add te their expenses by hiring ac
countants and lawyers to do it for
them.
When States erect barriers
■gainst tbrtr own citizens and oth
er Americans, they arc pursuing a
harmful course, one curiously,
BMch was among the principal
causes of tbs French revolution.
The Octroi was such an internal
revenue tag which brake the backs
«f the French people.
An American ought to be free to
the Uhit
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Chicago market as well but I
should imagine that the shops there
get a gtWy business from In-
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bit dull!”
By ED SULLIVAN
I REMEMBER
Bask in February, at Philadelphia’s Convention Hall, I temember a
brilliant speech delivered to the “Men of Malvern," by Rev. Dr. John W.
Gibbons: “Historians are the coroners of history and marshalling their
autopsy reports, it is significant that thirteen empires which once ruled
the world were destroyed, not from without but from within—they wer#
destroyed by national moral decadence, a failure to reject the godless
materialism which now threatens the world structure today.”
The echoes of «is voice seemed to be floating over Manhattan Island
as Kefauver counsel Rudolph Halley defeated Tammy crushingiy In
the race for City Council.
Never, within this reporter's memory of 31 years as a New York
newspaperman, has the public been so eager to find honesty in govern
ment. Halley, because he sassed back mobsters in the Kefauver hearing
and put them on the spot, symbolizes honesty to the public and that is
why he was elected.
The people are fed up with the moral decadence outlined in the head
lines, fed up with corruption, bribery and double-talk.
Halley has a magnificent opportunity, if he can live up to it. If he
doesn’t live up to it, as other public choices have failed to live up to their
promise, John Q. Public will turn him out of office at first opportunity.
Two days ago, MaJ. pen. Howard C. Davidson sent along a copy of
“They Fought With What They Had," the story of the Army Air
Force in the Southwest Pncifie, through 1941 and 1942. The author,
Walter D. Edmonds, while working for the Personnel Narratives Divi
sion of the Air Force, started compiling the exhaustive data for tile
book in 1946, then interviewed thousanos of officers and men to double
check his findings.
U there is any doubt that the core of the’ nation is sound as a
dnA, get * copy of tMe book, published by Little, Brown, and read
of the fantastic nerofeiW of the kids from cities and villages, from
factories and offices, from every point of the compass. Read too of
Pappy Gunn, 41-year-old father of four children: “Certainly no man
fought more Indefattgably to beat the Janapense,” is Bdmonds’ tribute,
“and probably no man under the rank of general contributed more
through
Mahony, (Pappy) governed himself as though there were two wars
against Japan; the one the United States had on its hands and his own.
He fought them both.”
Mahony was Lt Grant Mahony, of the 3d Squadron. “Few men have
fought this war, or any war, harder than Mahony fought it,” footnotes
Edwards, “for he had the high emotional qualities that came with hie
Irish blood. He did not especially like the Army. He was not a
superlative flier, but he fought in his P-40 with a deadly purpose that
made him nearly as effective. It became his mission to kill Japanese,
hi Java, in Burma and then in China. Finally given a desk lob in the'
United States, he insisted on rejoining his men and he was killed
escorting A-20 bombers, over Lingayen Gulf.”
There were many mistakes mate, certifies Edmonds, in discussing
those early, confused days in the PPhi&ppines. There was a tragic break
down in communications, tragic tardiness in building air fields, tragic
errors In the delivery of planes without engines, and even fliers without
planes. But there was no corruption, no breakdown in nwift.y or
morale, as there is in government today. The political leeches bear he
resemblance, living or dead, to decent American families and their chil
dren, type of children who won against Japan and now fighting m Korea.
Rudolph Halley, picked by the people because they believe Mm to
be honest, is embracing a tremendous opportunity, the same sort of op
portunity that was handed to Mayor Impellitteri on a silver platter.
If Haney has real quality, there is no telling how far he can go
If he is a poseur, if he is not what the people, believe him to be it will
be another kick in the teeth to a public that Is now ra’rin’ to eMail house
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By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
WASHINGTON. Five of my
favorite Congressmen are heading
for Los Angeles and San Francisco ■
to investigate the goos that beau
tiful ladies. rub on their faces to •
make tbenwdves mere beautiful. I
with I could go along; I might be
helpful.
Some of the sweet - smelling
fluids In the pretty Jars have been
known to backfire And the lovely
who anoints herself with same has
to stay in seclusion until nature
returns her to normal. Most of
these unguents, according to Rep.
John J. Delaney CD., N. Y.), hurt
nothing except the pocketbooks of
husbands. A few have had horrid
results, largely because the manu
facturer sold ’em without testing
them first.
So Delaney and Co-, along with
their chief counsel, Vincent Klein
feld. arrive in Los Angeles No
vember 19 for a look at the stuff
that goes Into bottles there; then
they’ll move up to San Francisco.
All I know is that once In Holly
wood 1 had a date to Interview
one of movies’ most luscious red
heads. She never showed up. I got
sore, phoned her, and found her In
tears. She’d Just had a permanent
wave for her meeting with the
press, she sobbed, and now look;
her hair was green, with purple
stripes.
s This lady’s name I have given
to the investigators, In case they
need some before-and-after testi
mony. I’ve also suggested they drop
in on ohe Hollywood cosmetics out
fit for a look at the way it tests
the product. A female operative
there spends her days rubbing lip
stick on the stomachs of guinea
pigs. Not a pig has had a rash yet,
nor a customer, either’.
Kleinfeld said he’d had reports
of other items that gave him pause,
such as the shampoo containing a
distant relative of the polyoxyethe
line chemicals that some bakers
used to put In bread. Some females
Twins Honored By
Parents on Their
Eleventh Birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Godwin en
tertained last Friday afternoon at
their home on N. Orange Ave. for
their twin daughters. Jean and
Joanne on their eleventh birthday.
The Godwin home was gayly
decorated for the occasion with a
yellow and green color scheme pre
■ dominating. Beautiful arrange -
i ments of chrysanthemums were us
l ed In the home.
Jean and Joanne’s guests were
invited to come at 5:00. They en
, Joyed bingo and canasta and then
i had a weiner roast with all the
; trimmings in the backyard. Yel
, low iced cupcakes bearing lighted
candles were served and favors of
snappers and candy given.
Attending the party were Anne
, Aldredge, Betsy Byerly, Patsy
Northcutt, Barbara Keen, Norma
. Jean Catlett, Evelyn Cunningham,
Jerry and Barline Henry, Sandra
Blackley, Ida Sue Neighbors, Su
san Warren and Grace Dare *iax
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Mary J* enjoyed being an inva
, lid aa long as her aaaMyr watt
ed on hor. But her mother wlse
' Iv cheeked her malingering.
Everybody tends to fcld himself
Into thinking he le sicker than
ho really Is, hut some of ns
prolong the symptoms and be
come chronic malingerers.
By DR. GEORGE W. CRANE
Case B-SS9: Mary Jo, aged S, had
the whooping cough recently.
When overtaken by an acute at
tack of coughing, she would fi
nally choke and vomit.
Her mother urged her to run to
the bathroom first, but Mary Jo
felt she couldn’t wait that long.
Perhaps In a few instances she
was correct, but her mother final
ly decided the child wasn’t trying.
So she made a new regulation.
If Mary Jo were to suffer from
any future coughing spells which
led to vomiting, then she was to
clean the floor, herself instead of
letting her mother do so.
This rule produced a remark
able change. Mary Jo did vomit
on a few occasions after it went
into effect, but she always b»ot to
the bathroom first!
MALINGERING PATIENTS
When people are forced to de
who got a touch of the suds In
their eyes found they couldn’t see,
although their blindness proved
strictly temporary.
Then, said he, there was the
manufacturer who discovered a new
and especially rlch-looklng finger
nail polish. He never did try it on
his own fingers; instead he put
it on the market immediately and
the ladies who bought the first
bottles found that their iinjernails
fell off. Kleinfeld said that par
ticular product went off sale at
once, before more serious damage
resulted.
Another item that has pained the
Congressmen (all of whom have
wives with handsomely curled hair)
Is one particular brand of heatless
permanent wave lotion. On most
women this makes beautiful curls,
but on some it causes their hair to
fall out. Some of the newly bald
ladles have filed complaints with
the committee and. presuming that
their hair has grown back by the
time the Congressmen open their
hearings, will testify.
The gentlemen also hope to look
into the hormone creams, which
cost fantastic prices for small fan
and which are supposed tp smooth
out the wrinkles of aging beauties.
The trouble here is that nobody
knows for sum what else' these
creams will do. Kleinfeld said that
numerous experts already had tes
tified as to their potential danger,
but that there had been no proven
capes so far of rejuvenated females
suffering serious damage.
You see what I mean. The gen
tlemen have an interesting subject
and I hope they’ll crack down on
a cream that comes in a pink bottle
and casts $6. My own bride says
that nothing else is so good; Klein
feld claims, and I, quote, that she’s
a sheep.
(Copyright, 1951, United
Feature, Syndicate, Inc.)
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pend upon themselves, they soon
become much' more self-reliant or
seM-con trolled:. . ~ '
Mary Jo was deceiving lief self
into thinking she was ftf. more f
invalided than actually was the
case. But aa long as she could get
away with it. there was no Incen
tive to change. ;
In medicine we frequently en
counter patients who are “nudtager
ing”, or feigning an illness that
does not exist in fact.
Sometimes they originally f did
have a real ailment. Bui they
found it pleasant to Teceive the
solicitude of relatives. and friends, w
They enjoyed being the center
of attention. They l«ted belng walt
ed upon hand and foot-
But when they were well, they
had been relatively ignored. As a
sick person, however, they now got
the spotlight of attention.
I WANT TQ BE IMPORTANT
Since illness, or at least apparent
Illness, fitted into their baste hun
ger to be important, they subcon
sciously chose to remain as ipva- £
lids. Such patients Aren’t always
fully conscious of their own be
havior.
To remedy such conditions, and
we are all inclined to kid OU» stives
into at least a temporary exaggera
tion of symptoms, we should first
have a thorough medical examin
ation.
If there Is no adequate cause for
the symptoms of illness, then we
should tactfully mate Invalidism _
more unpleasant than the state of®
good health.
Mary Jo’s mother did this' Very
nicely with bar daughter. Y&Aohild
didn’t like to'clean .up the mew,on
the floor, sp she simpSy avoided
.having a recurrence. #g?
This was not inhumane; tor af
ter a coughing spell, Mary to was
able bodied. Sbe could clean) up
the floor Just as readily %s her mo-
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Even If she had not been able
to exercise sell-control till she w
reached the bathroom, her mo
ther’s rule would not have worked
an undue hardship on her.
BHE CHANGED HER VOCATION
I'm not going to be a nurse When
I grow up.” Mary Jo Informed her
mother a day or so later, although
that had been her cherished am
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“I don’t like to dean up when
• people throw qpl” ...... ...
In treating cnase thiPVMter on
malingering or feigned* fEaean, be (J
! sure you gtv* the patient SThince
to “save face’’ or oUmb baek Rom
the limb on which he. has pMced
himself. *
Let him try one more remedy or
1 medicine, even though It be gnly
colored water. Glowingly build up
Its curative powers. Your doctor
will cooperate.
And then politely let the pa
tient see that you are going to
i continue attending mbvles and
n&rties, regardless. U '• . i
The malingerer will be more
strongly motivated to get well and
Join In thqae good Hindi that other
wise would be missed).