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THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1945.
A GREAT DECISION
Many of the great decisions
of this day are being made
without benefit of historic poli¬
tical conferences. They are be¬
ing made in the minds of the
people. Particularly is this true
in the United States. And here
the press is the instrument
through which the people fi¬
nally reach their conclusions.
The most important question
the people of America will
soon be deciding will be whe¬
ther to let government grow be¬
yond their power to curb it, in
return for alleged benefits. The
discussion surrounding propos¬
ed Federal control of medicine
is a phase of the larger ques¬
tion.
It is interesting to note what
insurance commissioners think
of compulsory medical care as
contrasted to voluntary pro¬
grams. G- 4 Neel, Insurance
Commissioner of Pennsylvania,
declares: "The unquestioned
preference for voluntary action,
for the continuance of only
those laws and regulations
which permit of the use of indi¬
vidual initiative, is so strong a-
mong Directors, Superinten¬
dents and Commissioners of In¬
surance as to be unanimous.
My personal knowledge and
experience would permit of no
other conclusion.
"The history of America,
since its discovery by white
men in the fifteenth century,
is replete with the fruits of in¬
dividual initiative. Our country
was discovered, conquered, de¬
veloped and has prospered due
to the ideas, ideals, courage
and strength of individuals . .."
The worst danger is that the
people will let government
grow beyond their control be¬
fore they fully recognize what
is happening. They should und¬
erstand that government domi¬
nation of medicine is a big step
in that direction.
DO WE APPRECIATE IT?
An idea of what all-out war
production means to the oil in¬
dustry can be gained from fig¬
ures cited at the war produc¬
tion conference in Chicago.
"Two thirds of the tonnage of
men, equipment, and supplies
needed in combat zones is
petroleum. The gasoline tanks
on a B-29 Superfortress hold e-
nough gasoline to last the av¬
erage civilian passenger auto¬
mobile for nine years.
"While the nation's oil fields
were deemed capable of pro¬
ducing more than four million
barrels of crude oil per day in
1941, the actual demand of the
refineries for crude oil was only
about three-millian-eight-hund-
red-thousands of a barrel per
day. Now, during the fourth
year of the war, the fields are
producing more than four and
one-half million barrels a day
and more crude has to be im¬
ported to meet war's needs."
More than 90 per cent of the
facilities for the production of
100-octane gasoline are located
in this country.
The United States has a mi¬
raculous combination of pro¬
ductive ability and resources,
without which the war could
not be won.
Office Boy: "Please, sir, may
I have the afternoon off?"
Boss Man: "It's your grand¬
mother again, I suppose?"
Office Boy: "Yes, sir. She's
making her first parachute
jump, you know."
Waterproof matches, used in
light jungle areas and at sea, will
after being under water
THE BAIT SMELLS!
At a time when our govern¬
ment is scratching the bottom
the tax barrel to find funds
to meet current obligations, it is
the height of folly to propose
a hundred-million-dollar public
annually to estab¬
a Rural Telephone Admini¬
which after all the
camoulage is removed, is a
for putting the govern¬
into the telephone busi¬
the same as into the elec¬
power business.
In a country that has more
telephones than all the rest of
the world, there is no excuse
the government spending
money in this man¬
The bill which would author¬
this $100,000,000 expendi¬
and a new government bu¬
with high salaried officials
loan money to small
companies for l-%
cent, lower than they could
get it any other way.
Significantly, the small com¬
did not fall for the
money bait, for the Unit¬
State Independent Tele¬
phone Association has gone on
record in opposition to the
measure.
Aside from their objection to
in business, the
telephone companies oppose
the Rural Telephone Adminis¬
tration idea as contrary to the
best interests of the United
States, and of the farmer in get¬
ting telephone service. They
feel that the logical expansion
of the industry as private enter¬
prise, will get more telephones
to more people more quickly,
when material and manpower
are available, than would any
political agency.
WHOLESALERS AND CHAINS
There is a constructive change
in the thinking of jobbers about
the threat of chain stores to
their place in food distribution.
The war, naturally, influenced
the viewpoints of most of us.
We became nationally minded,
at least in the sense that we
learned to approach each eco¬
nomic move from the viewpoint
of the total good. Simultaneous¬
ly we learned to make personal
sacrifices to accomplish this to¬
tal good- Comparatively few
jobbers still favor prohibitive
legislation curbing the growth
of chain stores.—Wholesale
Grocer News.
To the People
of this Community
Remember the Kid in Upper
Four? He thinks about you, his
home folks, even under the
murderous fire of enemy ma¬
chine gun¬
ners. The
kid came
home the
other day to
receive a
decoration.
Unashamed-
1 y he re¬
called say¬
ing this sim¬
ple prayer:
“Father
in Heaven,
take care of
Mom and Dad and my brother
and sister and all the folks at
home. Thanks for the food and
water we have in this shell hole.
Take care of my buddies. Take
care of me. Amen.”
In this case the kid’s name
was Private Ken Miller of
Greensburg. Kan., \eteran of
Iwo Jima. Private Miller won't
mind if you substitute the name
of your boy for his as the boy
who prayed in a foxhole for the
home folks. The link between
foxhole and home is never broken
unless you break it here your¬
self. Your fighting sons look to
you in the 7th War Loan to dem¬
onstrate that you are helping
them in one of the most direct
ways open to you, the acquisition
of the most War Bonds you have
ever bought in any War Loan.
THE EDITOR
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, T RENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 19 45.
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In V/ashington
By
VALTER A. SHEAD
WNV Staff Correspondent
Multi-Billion-Dollar
Health Plan
WNU Washington Bureau
621 Union Trust Building
TTOW far do you live from a doc-
tor or a hospital? What chance
have you to get into a hospital should
the need arise? How many phys¬
ically fit persons do
you know in your
immediate commu¬
nity?
The answers to
these and other
questions have
prompted a senate
subcommittee to
propose that some¬
thing drastic be
done about it as
Walter Shead soon as possible
and, as a starter, a
has been introduced into the sen¬
by Senators Burton (R., Ohio)
Hill (D., Ala.) which would au¬
the appropriation of $110,000,-
in federal grants in aid to as¬
the states in making surveys
plans for hospital construction
administration.
The proposal of the senate sub¬
chairmaned by Senator
(D. Fla.), however, proposes
series of local health centers, ru¬
hospitals, district and base hos¬
which would bring medical
and hospitalization closer
the home towns and rural
of the nation at a cost
if carried through, would run
billions of dollars.
The proposed plan to safeguard
nation’s health would reach into
community and would involve
close state-federal cooperation to
available to all citizens, not
curative medical care, but pre¬
and diagnostic services now
or inadequate in thousands
small communities and levels of
State of the nation’s health was
into focus by the selective
boards which disclosed that
the 22 million men of military
between 8 and 9 million are
for general military service.
it is only through the army re¬
service that another 1%
inducted men have been
fit for service through correc¬
of physical defects.
Here are the answers to some of
questions which brought <£>out
plan to start this program to re¬
habilitate the national health:
A Farm Security administration
survey in 21 typical rural counties
17 states showed that 96 per cent
of those examined had significant
defects, with an average
of 3% defects per person.
Only 1 person out of each 100 ex¬
amined was found to be in “prime
physical condition.”
The Life Extension Institute in ex¬
amining 300,000 insurance policy¬
holders selected indiscriminately,
found that 59 per cent were so phys¬
ically impaired as to need the serv¬
ices of a physician at time of ex¬
amination.
Mental Disorders High
In 1943 the average male indus¬
trial worker lost 11.4 days and the
average female 13.3 days of work
due to sickness and injury. Appli¬
cation of these figures to the number
of men and women employed indi¬
cates a loss of more than 600,000,000
man-days annually, or 47 times the
amount of time lost through strikes
and lock-outs of all kinds in 1943.
Two-thirds of the illness encoun¬
tered in general medical practice is
essentially neuropsychiatric in origin
and half the patients in hospitals at
any one time are there because of
serious mental disorders.
The national ratio of general hos¬
pital beds is only 3.4 per 1,000 popu¬
lation, in many states much less;
40 per cent of the counties with an
aggregate of 15,000,000 population
have no registered hospitals.
There is a shortage of physi¬
cians, particularly in the rural
areas, and strictly rural areas
have only about one-third as
many physicians in proportion to
population as urban counties, al¬
though this shortage is not due
to less need for medical care, for
the burden of illness in rural
areas is the same as, or great¬
er than, in urban centers. De¬
spite this need, medical gradu¬
ates have shown increasing re¬
luctance to settle in rural com¬
munities. For instance, in North
Carolina 73 per cent of the popu¬
lation is in rural areas and these
areas contained only 31 per cent
of the state’s physicians.
“Lack of hospitals and diagnostic
facilities is one of the most impor¬
tant factors in keeping doctors away
from rural practice,” the senate
committee report says.
The plan, approved by the sur¬
geon general of the U. S. Public
Health service and, according to
Senator Hill, by the National Hospital
association, would set up as many
small health centers as possible,
with a rural hospital located within
easy reach of several health centers.
District hospitals would be located
conveniently so they coqld serve the
rural hospitals, and finally, as a hub
for each medical service area,
there would be established a large
base hospital. Both voluntary non¬
prof and public hospitals would be
eligible to participate.
It Pavs Tn Advertise
HANG TOGETHER—
OR HANG SEPARATELY
Representatives of organized
labor and the United States
Chamber of Commerce have
announced a "peace charter"
to prevent strife between man¬
agement and labor when the
nation's economy contracts to r
peacetime basis. The document
recognizes the "inherent right
and responsibility of mange-
ment to direct the operations of
an enterprise." It supports "pri¬
vate property and free choice
of action, under a system of
private competitive captalism."
It supports the right of labor
to organize and engage in col¬
lective bargaining. It calls for
the establishment of an inter¬
national organization capable
of assuring lasting peace.
This is constructive, states-
manlike action. Every workman
and every business man should
do his best to make it bear fruit.
Continued labor-management
strife will inevitably result in
total and permanent govern¬
ment control of both.
IS IT WORTH IT?
Events of the past decade in¬
dicate an increasing depen-
pendence by agriculture on
political protection as a shield
against fundamental economic
forces- Now is the time to in¬
quire whether a program of
subsidies is feasible, and if so,
whether it is worth the ultimate
cost to consumers and taxpay¬
ers of the artificially high prices
it is designed to create.—The
Index.
OBITUARY
FOSTER—DAVID L., aged 70,
of Fort Payne, Route 1, passed
away Friday p. m., March 4.
Mr. Foster was born in De-
Kalb County March 5, 1875.
He married Nannie Warren
August 12, 1897. To them was
born five children, of which
three have died, Johnnie, Nel¬
lie, Nannie Lee. The two liv¬
ing are Martin and William.
He also leaves five grand-
chilaren.Koerner, Ingalls, Lil¬
lie B., Shirley Arm and David;
one brother, Phil, and one
sister, Mrs- Lillie Chandler.
Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon at the resi¬
dence, with the Revs. Green¬
wood, Dean, Baker and Brooks
officiating. Song services by
Bart Hughes. A special song
was "I'll Live On." When the
congregation was called on to
speak it reminded this writer
of a testimony service in an
old time revival meeting as
there was a good responce and to
the call. Funeral services
interment were completed at
Little Sulphur Springs ceme¬
tery. Active pallbearers Chand¬ were:
B. M. Maxwell, Willie
ler, Nell Warren, Lf>tt Warren,
R. C. Thomas and Fred War¬
ren; honorary, Koerner Foster,
Ingalls Foster, Brown Harri¬
son, C. C. Hunt, Dave Culpep¬
per, Calvin Furgerson, Charlie
Grant and Charlie Wilburn.
Flower girls were: Dorris Eber-
hardt, Dennie Hunt, Mary Sue
Thomas, Louise Turner, Eve¬
lyn Turner, Hazell Sampley,
Glenna Mae Culpepper, Mary
Jane Scoot, Nettie L. Warren,
Joyzell Canfield, Jewel
Chance, Lillie B. Foster, Shir¬
ley A. Foster, Peggy Reese,
Burnice Rush, Barbara Furg¬
erson, Sara Furgerson, Lula
Mae Furgerson, Dorris Furg¬
erson and Opal Turner. Mc-
Bryar Funeral Home of Fort
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South Broad Street
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
G R A H A IVe
GRAHAM BLADE CO.
1275 MARKET STREET
CHATTANOOGA,
Payne, Ala-, was in charge of
arrangements.
DAVIS—NETTIE SHERRIAL, in¬
fant daughter of Mr. Burnice
and Cleo Davis, of Trenton,
passed away nine hours after
birth March 15. She leaves to
mour her passing, the parents;
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Burt Davis, of Chaives, Ala.;
Mr. and I^rs. Houston, of
Trenton; her * great-grand- F.
parenis, Mr. and Mrs. D.
Wooten, and a host of other
relatives and friends. Funeral
services were held March 16,
at Town Creek Church, with
the Rev. Houston Poe officiat¬
ing. Interment was in the ad¬
joining cemetery. McBryar
Funeral Home, of Fort Payne,
Ala-, was in charge of funeral
arrangements.
The public is going to find
out pretty soon just how much
virtue there is in the diet that
prohibits eating red meat.—Re¬
public Bulletin.
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