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t Page Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE As Washington Sees It. . THE NATIONAL SCENE Special to The Chronicle. Washington, D. C.—During this past week in Washington the sjoot- :ight of publicity has been tprhed on the question of public health. > So diverse is the opinion on the question that not only congress, but the medical profession itself has been split wide open. Indications now are that the congress may take some action—for instance, to pro vide for more hospitalization, medi-r cal centers and other essentials of the proposed measures—but there: 15 little chance of a meeting of the minds in this session on the highly-' (ontroversial subject of compulsary medical insurance. Publication, only recently, of a - .an approved and sponsored by the American Medical association, which has, until this year, denied there was .red for such a plan at all, has 'Umulated discussion and brought to focus the state of the nation’s 1 health and the question of what to about it. Is this question a matter I ■ler private solving? Should it be .uj.c with state^fitFMocal funds, if .iTT Should it be done with :ed- eral funds, plus the private compul- .'icn of an insurance plan? There are already three important measures in the Congress. Senate Bill Xo. 5. .-dgned by five senators; the Cellar bill jn the House (HR 34SbJ' > i the Dinged bill in the house (HR The latter bill is almost iden- al with the Senate Bill. Both are (im.mstration bills. The AMA bill - scheduled for introduction soon. The puncipal difference in the \MA measure and the admlmstra- - :. n bills D that the administration ; Is provide f m finance of hospitals i t.a.ning of new medical person- t A.t.i government grents and of •n ulsory health insurance with a ree pe cent payroll tax split one •’.e-hal: pe: cent from the em- .• y« i and one and one-half per cent m the employer. The AMA bill contemplates fi- . ing tnc measures with local and -• t ( tumi.- almost exclusively and • n’a. y p: n ate health insurance n. similar but less costly than the B u* Cros' or other similar plans. The Tact that the federal govern ment .ilieady spending something like two billion dollars annually for ne.d’.h services, including the vet- t'c.ns' administration costs, is s^nd- :.g up the plans to adopt a program w.rich tne proponents say will bring ..oout better health conditions and t :ninate much of the present w ending Whether this is true re mains to be seen. The fact is, how- tr. that congress is vitally con cerned about the state of the na- ticn’s health. Surveys show that on any given day there are' approxi mately seven million Americans ab sent from their work due to illness or some other disability, a tremen dous drain on earning power and production The Social Security ad ministration says the cost to the na tion as a result of this absenteeism due to illness is about 27 billion dol lars annually.* Tne president's committee on na- t.onal Employ- the- Handicapped week, which is October 2-8, is con ducting a national essay contest among secondary school children, • Tiering $2,000 in prizes and closing Ap. .1 30 of this year. Any student m tnc 11th or 12th grade in public or prviate school is eligible. Sources ui ..'formation concerning the con- tC't are state offices of employment rervice and vocational rehabilitation and local otf.ce> of the civil service : mmission and the veterans’ ad- mm.stration. Judges o.' the contest ace Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Secre- ta. > Labor Maurice Tobin and the Un.te i States commissioner of ed- u_ tiop. Tc'Tim my before the House post- o.'f.ce comm.ttee on the proposed pc. -tal rate increases said they were "punitive" and would cause deficits. Principal witnesses the past week included many magazine publish ers. including Walter D. Fuller of the Curtiss Publishing company and A. E. Winger of the Crowell-Collier company. They claimed the pro- posed increase of second class rates would cost their companies more than twice the amount of their pro fits m the first year and more later on. According to old-timers here, there is every indication on Capitol • hill that despite the excellence of the work and recommendations of the Hoover commission, it will not be adopted by congress. Instead, there is every likelihood that con-1 gress will give the president author ity to make his own suggestions for betterment of the government s agencies. The president, however, is known to favor many of the propos als and suggestions of the Hoover commission. ready for the mending, bring the box along and you will have the es sential buttons for those .clothes which need them. A sponge kept in the kitchen is handy for use for wiping finger marks off cabinets. Simply dip the | sponge in soapy suds and run over j smudges. Then rinse the sponge in clear water and run over the same areas to remove soapy marks. To renew corks for thermos bot-' ties, drop in a pan of boiling water,! cover for a few minutes and the corks will come out almost like new. To prevent die drain on, the 1 kitchen sink from clogging, always run hot water through it as fast as; possible after washing dishes, and grease and food particles will be washed out of the pipes. Stains on sinks are easily removed by covering them with lemon juice or bleaching fluids. Let the bleach ing agent stand for several hours or overnight if the stains are deep. Never apply moisture to ranges while the enamel surface is still hot, or the finish may crack. If grease splatters on the range, it may be wiped with a dry cloth or absorbent paper such as a paper napkin. RECIPE OF THE WEEK Hot Cabbage Slaw (Serves 5) 2 egg yolks, slighten beaten V4 cup cold water *4 cup vinegar 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon sugar >2 teaspoon salt 3 cups shredded cabbage Combine egg yolks,, water, vine-j gar. butter, sugar .and salt. Cook slowly, stirring constantly until mix ture thickens. Add cabbage and re heat. Cotton Manufacturers Protest Against TIoocT Textile Exports Palm Beach, Fla., April 2.—The American Cotton Manufacturers as sociation today urged on the Econ omic Cooperation administration policies calculated to prevent flood of^ftipbrted texucts; Spokesmen for the industry con tended that the U. S. foreign trade policies are a serious threat to the South’s industrial future by direct stimulation of textile manufactur ing abroad. A resolution adopted by the as sociation said the apparent policy of providing modern equipment to the low-wage foreign industries was a direct threat to the employment of hundreds of thousands of Amer ican textile Workers. It was pointed out that textiles are the main manufacturing em ployment in the South and that as a result of the rehabilitation of foreign industries at the expense of the American taxpayer the Southern economy would be grave ly affected. Spokesmen suggested that the re habilitation of the war-torn foreign countries could be accomplished without placing too great a burden on a single segment of American in dustry and on the economy of a single region. The industry, spokesmen said, has been disturbed also by aspects of the trade policy which would tend to make domestic markets more readily i accessible to foreign textiles. In re cent months there has been a sharp decline in U. S. textile exports. REDS GET NEW CHIEF OF ARMIES Moscow, March 25—The shakeup of Russian leadership gave the S0V7 iet armies a new chief today—Mar shal Alexander M. Vasilevsky, bril- warrior and tactician. As in other recent shifts, the pres- idum of the Supreme Soviet an nounced without explanation that Vasilevsky was taking over from Marshal Nikolai A.. Bulganin as the minister of armediorces of the So viet Union, the highest military pose in all Russia. (Six portions of Gilmore’s story, telephoned to London from Moscow, are missing, presumably held up the Soviet censor.) Bulganin, who had held the minis try since he took it over from Prime Minister Josef Stalin March 4, 1947, will ratain his post as deputy prime minister in the council of ministers. He apparently also will continue as a member of the powerful, policy shaping Politburo. Vasilexsky, personally well known to Gen. Eisenhower and British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, ran uo an impressive record in World War II. From the rank of major general he rose in not much more than a year to general of the army! Jan. 18. 1943. and became a mar shal and chief of staff not long after- 1 ward. His new promotion raises him from the post of deputy minister of armed forces. - His troops smashed the German Veronezh front on January 17, 1943, and he led the successful Soviet campaign in the Crimea in 1944 that liberated Sevastopol. He is one of the most decorated of Russian sold iers, and twice received the award of Hero of the Soviet Union. He sat among the top half-dozen members of the supreme command THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1949 .FM. J ^I^SgBBg which mapped strategy in the criti cal days of the war and engineered the Russian drive to Berlin. Vasilevsky started his military ca reer in the Czar’s army, serving with a Cossack regiment in Wprld War I. He aided with the Bolshevik for ces during the revolution and joined the Red army, becoming a student of large-scale military operations. 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