The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 11, 1945, Image 26
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RoTolution in Medicine It
Taking Place in Natipn
An American medigal Irevolution
It on its way! The armed forces
are taking approximately one-third
' of our practicing physicians with the
result that tome form of socialised
medicine is coming into widespread
being, writes Michael Evans in a
pocket-size monthly magazine.
By January 1, 1943, almost every
doctor under 45—and many in the
45 to 55 age group, will be in uni
form. 'The situation for civilians,
according to Assistant Surgeon Gen-
I eral Mountain, may truly be said to
I be desperate.
“What’s going to hiyppen to us
when we’re sick?” millions of Amer
icans are asking
With 50,000 out of our 181,530 rw-
uh
istered physicians in khaki and w ..
I the concentration of workers in war-
industrial communities, problems
are arising which must be met, t^
- " article states eiiipliaticallyr
The answer may be socialize
medicine—which the American Med
ical association has been fighting so
bitterly for so long. Today, how-
fver, the AMA has no chciice in the
matter. Medical care must be re
allocated to care for the needs of
civilians. The U. S. Public Health
service and other federal agencies
under Paul V, McNutt, chairman of
the Manpower board, are assigning
doctors to towns as they are needed.
And the AMA is assisting the gov
ernment, whether it will or not. Re
cruiting of physicians for the armed
services has been placed in the
hands of the American Medical as
sociation. And under an arbitrary
but technically voluntary basis, the
AMA is assigning physicians to spe
cific localities. Federal and federal
ly sponsored clinics will come too,
promises the article.
Oregon Takes Action on
Rural Fire Protectioft
War and its companion threat of
incendiary fires has stimulated for
mation of rural fire protection dis-
Jtricts in Oregon until nearly every
city in the stale now^ follows some
arrangement for aiding rural areas
in case of fire, the American Mu
nicipal association reported.
, Sixteen new rural fire protection
districts were formed this year up
"‘ to BepfemBer I and 40 more are
being considered, while in 1941 only
three were added to the’ 20 already
in existence.
In some cases the arrangement is
an informal one, with rural resi-
■ dents contributing toward cost of
equipment; in others, jural residents
seeking protection make a formal
contract with the city providing for
specific payment and protection.
Advantages of organizing the dis
tricts, most of which are formed
under state law, are these: All
people within the boundaries are
assured equal protection; all pay
proportionately for benefits, since
costs of the fire protection district
comes out of taxes on property pro
tected; better protection is afforded
because the district usually is strong
enough financially to purchase or
.contract for effective equipment;
and a legal entity is established
which can carry on business deal
ings usually necessary to set up ef
fective protection.
Usually the city is headquarters
for its rural fire pro-
for equipment
taction districts. In most towns, the
existing fire department benefits
from formation of a rural district
by revival of interest in fire fight
ing; by new, efficient equipment;
and by an increased fire-fighting
force made possible through con
tributions of the rural district. , The
rural area, in turn, benefits by se
curing services of men experienced
In fire-fighting and the use of city
•quipment and headquarters.
Lake Ladoga Vital Link
In Leningrad’s Life-Line
Importance of Lake Ladoga on the
. Xieningrad front is shown by an Axis
attempt to seize an island in the
lake.
Winter passage on the ice-bound
lake is by motor trucks. Ice begins
ta form in October, and remaining
wtil May, piles up to heights of 80
fees along the shore. For summer
movement of passengers and goods,
tenders fitted - with motor car en
gines are used.
Lake Ladoga, long a news-maker
as the scene of clashes between
Russia and Finland, is Europe’s big
gest, approaching Lake Ontario in
area. It is almost equally divided
between the two countries, and is
used by both.
On three sides the lake borders
the Karelian region added in 1940
to the Soviet Union as a prize of
the war with Finland, and regained
in 1941 by Finland as an Axis part
ner. To the southwest, the Karelian
isthmus extends between the lake
and the Gulf of Finland. On the
gulf coast .,of this .vital strip are
Mtuated key ports of Russia and
Finland—Leningrad and Viipuri (Vi-
borg), respectively.
Lake transportation was well
served in normal times with rail
ways and canals. Rail lines almost
ringed the lake. Skirting the south
shore is the world’s northernmost
railway, the 900-mile Rtissiaq line
connecting Leningrad and Mur
mansk, Arctic port of entry for sup
plies ^tal to Russia’s war effort.
To the south, on the Russian side
of ttie lake are several canals. One,
built in the early I700s, links the
, Neva and Volkhov rivers.
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