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‘State Medicine’ Is No Cure-All E CALL your attention to the letter on “health insurance” in the Hoosier Forum today...not that we agree with it, but because it seems to us to set forth * so plainly much of the sincere thinking behind the various proposals for “state” or “public” or “socialized” medicine we keep hearing about. "It is true, as the writer points out, that many and grievous ailments afflict us. We don't believe “reactionaries playing politics” have anything to do with that. Some are ailments for which no cure ever has been found... although unlimited money and the best scientific brains on earth are engaged in the most intensive research to find cures.
opposite, it seems to us.
“Health insurance” could hardly change that. No government, short of the Kingdom of Heaven can “insure” that no one will get sick. So “health insurance,” actually, is just a way to provide the money to pay for treatment if you do get sick.
In Indiana, a survey we made a year or 80 ago revealed six out of every 10 people already have that payment * + guaranteed, in one way or another. The peor of course get free treatment... usually from the best doctors there are. All war veterans can have free hospitalization. Many thousands of families are enrolled in voluntary insurance programs. ..of which there are a great many, to meet a wide variety of needs...and which automatically pay the costs of any illness. They choose the plan which best fits their own requirements. y = =» . = = - THE Truman-Ewing project for “compulsory health Insurance” would merely compel everybody to pay, in added taxes, for medical care whether they wished to or
not, set up another federal bureaucracy to collect and administer it, and be, we believe, the first step toward
putting all doctors on the government payroll and under control of governmental bureaucrats.
By the experience of other governmental agencies, ft would cost many times as much in waste, inefficiency and useless “overhead” as the present voluntary systems cost. .. so medical expenses would be higher than they are now, patients would get less for their money and doctors would get less for their services. No federal project ever has produced any other result.
It would not provide a single additional doctor. . . in
out of that field entirely.
Whatever its faults...and certainly no one would pretend that it has none ... the American system of ‘medicine has produced more doctors per thousand population, better care for the ill,
_ system, anywhere else in the world.
No ong has advanced any good reason why we should now abandon a system that has proved superior to others, and adopt a system that has produced the kind of medreal care they have in Russia, or England.
Forgotten Man
citizen, was arrested by the Communist secret police of Ru#8ia’s puppet state, Hungary. Since Nov. 18, 1949,
° American.
Secretary of State Acheson impatience with ‘‘re-examinists.”
has made known his That's a slap-term. he
Department policies and actions abroad. He says they are like farmers who pull up their crops to see whether they’ re ~ growing. : At various times since Mr. Vogeler whs arrested, the State . Department has been ‘giving attention,” Rsenagerng appropriate. steps,” and
urgent
Vogeler. He said
positive” developments.
So apparently our Hungary solicy has eon vegetating very nicely. : Fact is, no representative of the U, S. government has ever been able to see Mr. Vogeler since his arrest and our “bland notes have been tossed aside. When he was “tried” — by one of those mockeries of justice, a Russian-type court—he was only nominally defended by a Hungarian attorney. >
AFTER an alleged confession that he was a spy, this « American business executive, a vice president of the International Telephone & Telegraph Co., was sentenced to 15 years in prison—by the same ruthless judge who gave Cardinal Mindszenty a life term. After the trial, last February, the State Department was hopeful that Hungary would relent and deport Mr. Vogeler, as the Chinese Communists had done in the Angus Ward case, thereby getting the State Department off the hook.
Mrs. Vogeler in London, he told her not to worry, that
Washington was “taking steps” and was “100 per cent behind ‘your campaign to free your husband.”
in this country and restricting American travel to Hungary; State Department has done virtually nothing. There many ways we could have put the screws on Hungary, oe done it.
ho ‘They are content. to let Robert rgott 3 IAB fRther then pull wp their mistakes.
oWATD WALTER LECKRONS HENRY W. MANZ
ripps-Howard Newspaper a NEA Serv
~ No “selfishness or greed” has interfered . .. rather the
_ fact it would tend to drive the most promising young men
and far higher national
| standards of health “and medical care than any other
YEAR has passed since Robert A. Vogeler, an American :
he has been held in Jail, unable to communicate with any
thought up for people who want to re-examine State
“taking a serious " Only yesterday a spokesman said that it was still
7 Evi notes had been exchanged but there had been ‘no :
“SIDE SAGs
A few months later, when Secretary ' Acheson saw
- Yet, beyond closing a couple of Hungarian consulates
it still apparently dedicated to a course
Our ‘Humble Thonks. Joe
THANKS for giving, Joe. You held tightly to the shrinking beachhead of Pusan when no one thought you could. And you slipped in behind the “numerically superior” enemy and chopped him to pieces when everyone was just tickled to death that you seemed to be holding your own. .
It’s been tough back here, too, Joe, and we don't think that we can buy that six-room house after all. It'll have to be five rooms, or maybe even four.
How many rooms in a foxhole, Joe?
The old lady says we have to put the garden in next spring and take care of it. Imagine that. And there's gotta be a hedge along the full 57-foot frontage of the lot. What's the frontage on the hill you took, were driven off of and took again, Joe? What kind of a furrow does.a-155 make in the rich black earth? Or a richocheting 88? And how deep is a rice paddy; Joe? until it freezes over? Or how does a turkey drumstick taste, if and when you get it, when the guy who was to have eaten the other stopped a slug a couple of weeks ago?
HOOSIER FORUM ..
National Health Program? By Alma Isbell, Greencastle . IN YOUR editorial “Still Up to the Doctors,” you said newspaper ‘has opposed the Truman health insurance plan,” you did not say why. There must be a reason, sensical you dare not print it? A nation’s wealth depends upon its people's health. National security depends upon the health of the people and everyone ~ WORK IRE -against~het terohealth-for.all.the peaple.of this nation is aiding Russia and guilty of ‘sabotage and selling this ‘dountry down the river, One and a half billion days of lost production and three million potential workers lost through total disability; between 28 and 30 million children with orthopedic or spastic defects, cerebral palsy, rheumatic fever or heart disease. active tuberculosis, epilepsy, defective hearing, visual defects and dental defects, all because the reactionaries are playing politics with their health because of greed and selfishness. Hundreds of thousands of men rejected for
How deep,
this but or is it so non-
service for
. remediable or preventable illness or defects because of greed and
selfishness. ~ # ~ n ” ~ ~ ” THREE hundred ‘thirty counties had less than one doctor per 3000 persons in 1947. Only one doctor for every 1700 persons in rural counties; 60 per cent of the nation's children live ‘in
places of less than 10,000 population, but. only 4 per cent of the country’s pediatricians are located there. Compare that with one. doctor for every 650 persons in big cities. Why? Greed. In rural areas the death rates of mothers in childbirth are !3 higher than in cities, The death rate of babies in their first year are '; higher because of greed and selfishness
. Farm: boys are not as healthy because of the expense of having a doctor come. Therefore 53 out of every 100 are rejected for sefvice The doctors have indeed done “a sorry job” of self-discipline and the reactionaries are supporting them against national security. Russia has state-controlled medicine and vou ean bet’ your sweet life they are not going to let ill Beantn ympate hamper or jeopardize their national security iy I have found patients in tears because of worry over the
LOvVery is retarded because af WOrry. over ‘medi al bila. ‘Their & and. thelr deriFe To Fat Well Ja hi — The- regetionartes are playing -into-the hands of the Ru Our nation was never so fm Jeopardy as’ now money grabbers Time ‘is rung out and we play politics with the nation's health.
becauge of the
By Galbraith
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By Frank E. Adams
The paper was late twice last week. cheap enough, but pumpkin is dear. up and our TV set went on the blink the other day. The :
Turkeys are Cigarets have gone
popcorn in the movie houses isn’t what it used to be. And we drépped 20 bucks in a poker game the other
night.
How much would a dozen of eggs, with ham, bring
in Korea, Joe?
How many minutes of sleep would 20 bucks buy in a night attack by the little killers with rice rations
in their baggy pockets? Sure, thanks, Joe.
We could scream it from the housetops, but all the history of wars fought and yet to be fought would send back the hollow echoes of the words we speak and write.
We are the phonys, Joe.
in a bloody, stinkin’ world.
You are the only real thing
Mstertais are getting scarce for some of our luxury
items.
Ve don’t know whether there will be a new car to buy _ we -can afford one-— How much steel is there in a bayonet, Joe?
—or_a new TV set How
many bullets does it take to kill a man?
Sure, thanks, Joe.
Thank God for giving us you.
Remove the Trucks? .
By Mrs. Russell Hart, Clermont
. TRUMAN HEALTH PLAN
IN REGARD to the article written by Vern F. Vader about
“mass murdering monsters” do you pick up a paper, Mr.
on our highways, Vader,
How many times without reading about a
freight or passenger train injuring or killing a carload of people?
Tru 'K Y highway
drivers are the safest and most courteous on the road. all the funds paid by. “the truc king industry in taxes and permits went for pbuilding highways, the best highways in the world.
we would have How are all your commodities
delivéred, Mr. Vader? If vou remove the trucks from the high-
ways, how are you going to get them?
Everything you eat, use
or wear comes all or part way by truck.
Oh yes,
my reason for this letter. I have three small children who walk to school in. the * of these-monsters” and they-stop-and-wave at the truckers:
I'm.a trucker's wife and ‘shadow The
American Trucking Association gives awards each year at a banquet for the truckers and there are very few who don't get
awards and a bonus check.
All trucks and truckers should not
be condemned for mistakes that have been made by a few.
Streamlined Santa By Charles Ww. Burton,
911 E. Maryland .St.
WHIL E Wwe genuine Americans groan under the weight of taxes, we have to go without so we can play benevolent Santa Claus to the foreign nations who love us only for. what they can
grab from our generous pockets. We are paying for this .gigantic blunder.
The stofm clouds
are gathering. The day of rec Koning is coming, just as sure as
there is dav and night.
Payday will come and somebody will be
praving for the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide
them forever
and no one day
SHR. see . so this year’s great Thanksgiving Day rest | | He's blessed.
URP—SORRY .
WASHINGTON, Thanksgiving story; turkey to read it.
Nov. 23
ti me Fhanksglving's exery day... eh-day whieh Tse
. and humbly give thanks to Ged . ..
~and nat just merely
.. I'm happier to
Jive calm and pearefully ¢, .
«+o I'll add to all the for all the years By Ben Burroughs.
“Tin glad to greet the above the rest , . each and every.one of us .
BUSINESS . Cae
. By Earl Richert | Cotton Prices Shoot
To Civil War Record
_ Producers Worry About What Extra High Prices Will Do to Future Market
WASHINGTON, Nov, 23—Only three weeks ago the cotton industry was pressuring Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan to send. cotton prices upward by relaxing export controls. He did—two days after the election. Now cotton prices are higher than at any time since the Civil
_ War-—around 44 cents a pound.
And many prominent cotton men are worrying about cotton prices being too high for the long-term good of thes industry. “Forty - five cent cotton would play right into the hands of, the s y n t hetics,” said John C. Lynn of the American Mr. Brannan Farm Bureau ,. blamed again Federation — an organization ‘which was among the group seeking to have the ban on ‘exports lifted. “And 45-cent cotton would just about make our cotton the highest priced in the world.” Mr. Lynn said the Farm Bureau wants farmers to get a reasonable price for their cotton. “But 40 cents is a reasonable price,” he said. Mr. Lynn blames Mr. Brannan for much of the sensational rise in cotton prices (nearly 4 cents a pound) since the export curbs were relaxed. Mr. Brannan approved export of an additional 1,350,000 bales of cotton by next Mar. 31. Mr. Lynn said the Secretary should have relaxed the export curbs a little at a time. : " o =
“THE Secretary went from one extreme to the other,” he said. The first extreme, he said, was the limiting of exports for the August-March period to only two million bales, an
act which sent cotton prices
downward. As things stand now, a total
CHINA
of 3,496,000 bales of cotton can be exported before next Mar. 31—a rate which if continued for the April-August quarter would permit cotton exports as large as this year’s record of 5.7 million bales. Cotton exports have a major bearing on domestic. cotton prices because of this year’s poor cotton crop. Heavy exports will leave less for home consumption. Agriculture Department oMicials contend: that the rate of exports now contemplated will leave a. “safe” carry-over of cotton into the next harvesting season. But they aren't sure how much cotton will be needed at home. » = LJ » THE specter of price controls also is hovering over the cotton industry. And the industry wants to avoid price controls if at all possible. . Heére again the real danger point is considered to be 45‘cent cotton. : “If cotton gets to 45 cents and above, then the governs ment almost certainly will have to control cotton prices and the prices of cotton goods,” said one industry spokesman. Effect of the current high cotton prices. will be felt by consumers next spring and summer, A textile industry spokesman said the higher prices would add millions to the cost of cotton goods. He said the retail price of cotton goods had been hammered down recently by competition but that higher prices are inevitable, The government parity (fair price) on cotton is 31.87 cents a pound. Farmers now are receiving about 42 cents a pound, or 132 per cent of parity.
By James Daniel
U. S. Keeps Sharp Eye
On Red Rubber Supply
WASHINGTON, Nov.
23—U.
S. officials are paying close
attention to a great spurt in the buying of natural rubber by the
Chinese Communists.
While Russia herself has been buying less rubber in. Southeast Asia, her Chinese satellite has expanded purchases to what our officials consider a “‘startling” extent. The situation is being discussed by our gov ‘ernment and the
British, with a- view toward putting export controls on the movement of rubber produced in Malaya and sold through British colonies to Red countries. a Up to the outbreak of war in Korea, the Chinese Reds stayed out of the rubber mar-
Rubber prices were low and unemployment on rubber
ket.
plantations was creating an ideal situation for Communist agitation.
» ” » THEN suddenly the Chinese Reds entered the rubber market. They have been buying increa%¥ing quantities of rubher despite skyrocketing prices which recently have run five times akhove the "average price for 1949.
Representatives - of rubber
Uncle Sam is thie streamlined Santa Claus for the whole world, = Srowers here say it's. possible that some Chinese merchants are hoarding rubber because GRATEFU LN ESS of reluctance to accept precariNy Ss AL THOU G H one day is ‘set aside . . , to thank « I Above TTT ie Things He's given us... for His re
ficials say the rubber market wietxor unpredictable that keep: ing almost. any kind of curs
rency is safer. This leaves
ing same
rubber...for ‘possibly. the reason we have been
. By Frederick C. Othman
Ready to Fool Like a Big, Stuffed
The editor said IT had to write a I said ye$, but everybody'd be too full of So why’ not skip the whole thing?
Haw.’
I still think I'm right and if vou read this piece, it's a sign you've got indigestion on account of too much mince pie, in which your wife didn't put enough rum,
What I'm’ getting at is that I'm all fed up with Thanksgiving as a day for gastronomic orgy. I am properly thankful
for all the good that. the year’ brought me, but I don't see,
why I~must memorialize this by "eating until I feel like a stuffed owl.
One of the main things I'm’
thankful for now is that T live neither in Texas, nor Arkansas. The hapléss citizens of those great states have got to celebrate two Thanksgivings this year--one today and one next week -—and no telling when they will finish up with the last of the turkey hash. EJ » TURKEY, in my expert opinfon, how. My the Federal Experiment tion at Beltsville, Md., talking about developing bet: ter turkeys with bigger breasts and shorter necks, but. I claim the white meat still is dry, while the dark is full of mys-
Sta-
_. terious bones that are dangerous as stilettos.
' These gentlemen even have
> 4 .
is an over-rated bird any-" sciefftific friends at
keep
published a book on the art of carving a turkey, available at the Government Printing Office, but to profit by it a fellow has got to have a steady hand like. a dentist and tools as sharp as a surgeon's. Even then he's bound to splash gravy on his wife's best lace
tablecloth and catch hob after .
the tompany's Zone home.
THE stuffing that goes into turkeys, in my still expert belief, "is an abomination. No self-respecting oyster should be stirred in with chunks of SOggY bread, while the only proper place .to eat chestnuts is straight from the roaster on
the street corner any really cold night, ' ‘ : My mother used to turn
our kitchen into a shambles for days, making mincemeat. No telling how many times I
- nicked a finger, chopping the
citron. I must admit the re sult of. all this effort tasted fine going down, but the inevitable result was a stomachache. Too much suet, probably.
Now Hinesment Invariably
w
. seems to come out of a glass Jar. No suet at all, but too many rasins. Indigestion still guaranteed.
Ed ~ » THE aftermath of Thanksgiving dinners I don’t mind so much any more, now that I
am the proprietor of an-elec-tric dishwasher and a garbage - chopper upper. The bones slide . down the sink .and go garumph, while the box with the hot water ay nine Puial”And in-
they treferente that the Chinese Reds are buy- .
stepping up our purchases—as a military stockpile. Either
that, or they're buying rubber
{or Russia. Last month the Chinese Reds apparently acquired 24.000 tons of rubber. This is about 30 per cent of this country's monthly purchases. 8 2 =n RED CHINA acquires Malayan rubber either by buying
~HHroUgh tHe British cotony ot
Singapore or by buying rubber shipped from Singapore to the British colony of Hong Kong and then reshipped to the China mainland. There are no export controls at either place, our officials say, and the rubber trade is carried on mostly by Chinese.
Red China’s direct Malayan...
purchases in the first six months of this year amounted to 20 tons. China presumably got most of 5457 tons shipped to Hong Kong. Hong Kong's own requirements for use in the colony are around. 2000 tons a year. ? ~ » ” . OUR Commerce Department officials say they expected Red China to buy more rubber in the latter half of 1950 to make ‘up for not buying in the first half. But they add that 24+ 000 tons in October was ‘“nothing ‘less than startling.” The natural rubber bureau here, which represents the rubber growers, says it would be beppy If ‘no rubber went to Red--areas:
to Indonesia and . Siam, alterirative rubber“ markets where the bureau. says the local governments already are “wobbly.”
more important from my personal viewpoint, also dries ‘em. So what, I'm really thankful for this day is my bride, who has decided to go along with me on my idea of a Thanksgiving menu. We're eating pork chops and cranberry sauce. This latter is the one thing about Thanksgiving I al-
ways approved. It comes out ;
of a can. No fuss; no muss and tastes fine. The fellow who's worrying me is the editor. If he reads this dispatch, my guess is that he won’t want one written next year. But I know him well. He's a turkey and stuffing man.. He'll be so sleepy he'll not get around to looking at it. He never has. I doubt if he ever will,
Ing forever more.
Barbs—
IN FRANCE 39, 995 persons have been given prison sentences and 2071 condemned to
death since 1945 for collabora-
tion with the Nazis. IT IS much more desirable
.. to be the second husband of's, widow than the first.
A DOUBLE chin devel when a couple of women .
In addition, Red
—But-it Tears that ts Ifthe 1.8. HeiTiados the Bri IPAS A AX POT am the--Chinese- Reds -mright—turn
I'm doomed to: the typewriter on Thanksgiv-
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