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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1938 —Weekly News Review Shall U. S. Pay Your Doctor? Professional Opinion Divided ' by Edward W. Pickard— 'Domestic Modern medicine’s biggest prob lem is the middle class, too pros perous for relief, too poor to pay its doctor bills. Although 80 per cent of the nation favors government care for those who cannot pay, the potent American Medical associa tion has constantly frowned on U. S. subsidy. In Chicago, A. M. A.’s headquar ters, 30 physicians have been ex pelled since 1920 for operating low- cost clinics and advertising their services. Throughout America, de pression-ridden medics have twid- died their thumbs while the nation suffered from poor health. What makes the situation more desperate is that acute illness is much more prevalent in the low income brackets than among those who can pay. Last November a self-appointed committee of 430 doctors' revolted against A. M. A.’s high ethical standards and took the stump fa voring socialized medicine. Their proposals, all previously refected by A. M. A., included local, state and federal subsidy for public health work, hospitalization, research and education. For six months an interested pub lic has been forming opinions. Two weeks ago President Roosevelt’s na tional health conference met at Washington under able Josephine Roche, former head of U. S. health activities as assistant secretary of the treasury. Though they listened attentively to the 'Roche- program for an $850,00p,000-a-year medical program, delegates soon broke into two camps. From Mayo clinic’s Dr. Hugh Cabot, leader of the revolting group, came a charge that the practice of medicine is “medieval” in parts of the U. S. Lashed back A. M. A.’s General Manager Olin .West: “I don’t know 1 whether the medical pro fession is any more proud of Cabot than he is of the medical profes- $ion.” Added fiery Dr. Morris Fish- bein, editor of A. M. A.’s Journal: “Medical care is not the most im portant problem before the people of the United States . . . medical and dental care must always be subservient to the need for food, fuel, clothing, shelter and a job.” Last week A. M. A. found itself in an uncomfortable position. In Washington, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold announced that A. M. A. will be prosecuted as a monopoly under the federal anti trust laws, accused of violating the law by boycotting low-cost clinics. Specific grounds for the suit in volved the Group Hefilth association of the District of Columbia, organ ized last year by 2,500 government employees. Trust Buster Arnold charged A. M. A. and the Medical Society of the District of Columbia had attempted to prevent the Group Health association from operating by cold-shouldering doctors. Group Health association physicians, he said, had been (1) excluded from Washington hospitals, (2) threat ened with expulsion from the asso ciation and (3) made unwelcome at consultaUons with other doctor?. As A. M. A. prepared its counter attack, Thurman Arnold predicted the suit would have “far-reaching consequences on one of our most pressing problems.” Aviation In Portland, Ore., one day last week. Major Howard C. French of the U. S. air reserve corps posed for his picture being “dragged” into a plane bound for San Francisco. The pretense was that Major French feared flying. Next day he headed west over the Pacific in Pan-American’s Hawaiian Clipper bound for Manila. Some 2,500 miles later the ship landed in Honolulu and took off for Midway island, 1,380 miles away. Next stop was Wake island and next came Guam. When the 26-ton Clipper took off for Manila, Major French must have thought his fears were in vain. But a few hours later the Clipper’s radio went dead. After half a day of anxious waiting, Pan-American admitted the ship must be down at sea. Out from Manila went the army transport Meigs and by dawn next day heavy warships were plow ing the sea to reach the plane’s last reported positions. Finally, in a spot where the water stood 5,000 fathoms deep, the Meigs struck a significant oil slick that indicated the Hawaiian Clipper had plummeted into the sea. Aboard had been six passengers, nine crew members. Major French’s fears had not been in vain. •Capt. Hans Bertram of the (Ger man air service became the first person to circumnavigate the world by commercial plane last week when he landed in Berlin after a three- weeks’ absence. Unnoticed on his eastward trip until he reached Man hattan, Bertram crossed the Atlan tic as third pilot on Germany’s cata pult plane Nordwind. Foreign Already weary of hostilities in China, Japan wondered last week if she ha{l a second war to fight. In isolated Mahchukuo where 75-year- old Russo-Chinese boundary mark ers have long since been lost, So viet and Jap troops were making much ado over a disputed hill near the village of Changkufeng. First hostilities occurred July 11, but not until last week did the conflict blos som into full-fledged warfare. Three clashes were reported in three days. As might be expected, both Moscow and Tokyo claimed victory . and Moscow sent a “vig orous protest” which Japan reject ed. In the next skirmish Manchu- kuan detachments occupied Russian territory two and a half miles deep west of Lake Khassan, while So viet troops fled leaving 50 dead. Next day Moscow answered with airplanes, bombing railways near Changkufeng. Tokyo claimed five ships were downed and Russia did itk best to minimize the iiicidents. To some, it looked like war. Sports Although Jerome Hanna Dean had cost the Chicago Cubs $37,000 each time they used him this year, Own er Phillip K. Wrigley thought last week his investment was at least es tablishing some sort of record. Pur chased from the St. Louis Cardinals for $185,000, Dizzy Dean had pitched only five games but had won them all. Most important, however, was his mark of only 1.02 earned runs per nine-inning game. Considering that Boston’s Jim Turner led the JEROME HANNA DEAN **It teat just one of those days,** National league last year with 2.38 runs against him per game, and Lefty Gomez paced the American league with 2.33, Dizzy Dean’s rec ord appeared spectacular indeed. Chicago was just complimenting itself on this feat when Dizzy Dean took the mound against Philadel phia. First inning saw the bases loaded with a single, double and a walk. Third inning saw a harmless single. Fourth inning saw Chuck Klein’s over-the-fence homer. Fifth inning saw two doubles before Dizzy went to the shower. With Larry French finishing for the Cubs, Phila delphia won 5-4. “It was just one of those days,” said Dean. Politics During Pennsylvania’s recent fiery primary campaign, charges were made that Gov. George H. Earle’s forces had extorted money from state contractors and employees and “sold” legislation. When a Dauphin county grand jury was called to in vestigate the charges, Governor Earle sprang to action, summoned his rubber-stamp legislature and ground out four bills to block the quiz. One of them appointed a spe cial legislative committee which would supersede the grand jury and conduct its own investigation. Two days later the Dauphin coun ty court blocked fhis ambitious plan by impounding all evidence in the case and prohibiting the grand jury’s witnesses from appearing before the legislative committee. Labor Last week the national labor re lations board sent conciliators to Newton, Iowa, where a well-behaved washing machine strike has occu pied 1,500 Maytag employees since May 9. As federal peacemakers pre pared to call a parley between com pany officials and C. I. O. repre sentatives, Iowa’s Gov. Nels G. Kraschel got on his high horse. To Maj. Gen. Mathew Tinley, in charge of national guardsmen at Newton, the governor sent word that the la bor board must not convene. In formed of the ultimatum. Trial Ex aminer Madison Hill reported to Washington and decided not to fight the Iowa national guard single-hand ed. Lawyers agreed Governor Kras- chell’s troopers are supreme so long as the martial law goes unchal lenged. What he wants, said the governor, is a settlement of differ ences between Maytag and C. I. O without the labor board’s meddling. People Politely spurning cash. Count Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlow signed formal separation papers in London with his wife, the former Barbara .Hutton. To Count Kurt goes control over Lance, the couple’s two-year- old child, who will be raised as a “Danish gentleman.” Next day Countess Barbara was reported pin ing once more for the American cit izenship she renounced last yepr. •Married a little more than one year, England’s Duke of Windsor and his wife, the former Wallis War- field, only a few weeks ago found a home in Austria’s ancient Mittersill estate. Last week as workmen were busy renovating the Twelfth-century castle for-September 1 occupancy, fire of undetermined origin burned it to the ground. Notified at their temporary chateau on the Riviera, England’s former king and his wife were expected to start house-hunt ing once more this- week. •Celebrating his seventy-fifth birth day anniversary in Detroit, automo bile magnate Henry Ford spoke for the press. Fordisms: (1) “The trou ble ... is that we think the future is tomorrow. If it doesn’t come to morrow, we are not interested.” (2) “There is nothing ahead for this country but prosperity.” (3), “Busi ness is all mixed up with! utterly false elements.” Meanwhile in Washington the national labor rela tions board found the Ford Motor company guilty of Wagner act viola tion by “spying and discrimination” at its Buffalo, N. Y., plant. •Douglas Corrigan, who, left New York flying to California and ended up “by mistake” in Ireland, took a boat for home and announced he was afraid of being seasick. In Washington, U. S. department of commerce officials radioed the hom ing aviator news of his penalty for an unauthorized transatlantic flight. The penalty: A six-day suspension of Corrigan’s commercial pilot cer tificate, conveniently arranged while he is on shipboard. •At Indianapolis, John Pierpont Morgan III had his appendix re moved after being rushed from a nearby farm where he had been pitching hay incognito. Notified of “Jack Morgan’s” real identity, neighboring farmers said the twenty- one-year-old youth “seemed to be a willing hand, but a little green.” Miscellany ©At Dayton, Ohio, seventy-one-year- old Jeanette Reber Taylor sought her birth registration to apply for old age pension. Clerks thumbed back through musty registration vol umes, found Jeanette Taylor was No. 1 registrant in No. 1 volume. •Guilty of squandering his wife’s money, guilty of murdering two women at Elmont, N. Y., last Janu ary,. John Reo confessed his crimes to his sweetheart, Mrs. Florence Termond. Last week his wife, Ma mie, visited John Reo at Sing Sing where he awaits death August 15. Upshot was Mamie’s letter to New York’s Gov. Herbert Lehman: “If there could be a way ... I would gladly die in his place. Could it be made possible?” •Southampton^ England, turned out last week to welcome two luxury liners arriving the same day. Ger many’s sleek Bremen ran aground entering the harbor, finally got off with the aid of tugs. A few minutes ’ater the Queen Mary, caught by wind and tide, almost split a long wooden jetty. •At Denver, thousands of bees came from nowhere to settle on the swank Brown Palace hotel, covering one side up to the seventh story. After a four-hour battle by employees pro duced only swollen noses, somebody called Mrs. Sarah Jackson, Denver bee catcher. Systematically locating three queen bees, Mrs. Jackson goon had the entire swarm safely oacked away. By LEMUEL F. PARTON I EW YORK.—England pioneered the businessman - diplomat— shrewdly and effectively, it would seem. Many of her best fixers and negotiators Beat Fixers throughout the Have Stake world have been In Deals men who had a personal stake in the outcome of their operations. They were not disinterested, per haps, but no more were the tradi tional diplomats who knew protocol, perhaps, but nothing about oil. America followed with Nor man H. Davis, a financier who became an effective European swing man under five Presi dents, and then came Spruille Braden, engineer and industrial ist who was our ambassador-at- large in Latin America until he became minister to Colombia last April. President Roosevelt, agreeing to act as an arbitrator in the Chaco dispute, picks Mr. Braden to repre sent him. In his own private indus trial diplomacy throughout South America, the husky and gregarious Mr. Braden has proved himself an excellent pacifier and trouble shooter. He knows the score in oil, copper, rubber, minerals, hides and what not, and this ma- Braden Wise terialized and par- In Latin ticularized diplo- Diplomacy macy has made him useful in dip lomatic representations at various South American conferences. He has been working on the Chaco set tlement for the last three years. In his youth, he did a short turn in the mines near Elkhorn, Mont., his native town, and then went to Yale and became a mining engi neer. He was a second-string halfback at Yale, but a first string engineer and promoter from the start, elec trifying Chile for Westinghouse, or ganizing the Bolivia-Argentina Ex ploration corporation, branching out widely in South American develop ment and finance. He desperately wanted to be minister to Chile, but was consoled with Colombia. He is forty-four years old, re membered in New York as the fastest and hardest-working handball player around Jack O’Brien’s gymnasium, in which he combated a tendency to plumpness, creeping up on him m bit in late years. He was married in 1915 to the beautiful and socially eminent Se- norita Maria Humeres del Solar of Chile. They have three daughters and two sons. Their New York res idence is the former George W. Per kins estate at Riyerdale-on-the-Hud- son. • • • C ARL J. HAMBRO, burly presi dent of the Norwegian parlia ment, is in America for a lecture tour. There is an interesting cut back in his career. Predicted At Geneva, in Collapse 1927, hp staged Of League a spectacular de- * bate with Austen Chamberlain, in which, speaking for the small states, he vehemently in sisted that the league must find a way to restrain strong aggressors, or else find itself impotent and dis credited in a few years. With equal vehemence, Mr. Chamberlain proclaimed t^e **• trustworthiness of the strong states and their humanitarian aims. Warning Mr. Hambro against overt restraints by the league, he said, “Along that road lies danger.” Mr. Hambro was the most distin guished recruit of the Oxford group movement in 1935, and has since been a leader of the movement in Norway. Returning from a luncheon attend ed by Dr. Frank Buchman, founder of the movement, in Geneva, he told of the mystic exaltation of the com pany and later announced his ad herence to the group. Although a conservative, Mr. Hambro is the president of the La bor party of Norway. For many years, he has been leading the fight of the smaller nations in the league. Arriving in New York, he remarks dryly that Norway is old-fashioned —she has a surplus in her budget © Consolidated News Featui es. WNTJ Service. Platinum Once of No Value Old prospectors like to tell how they picked “native lead” out of their pans and sluiceboxes, and what they said as they threw it away. They are still saying things, for this much despised substance was actually platinum, which had .little value years ago. Counterfeit ers used it extensively because of its heavy weight, and gold-plated platinum coins are still in existence. In 1828-45 Nicholas I of Russia is sued platinum 3. 6 and 12 rouble pieces that are highly prized by the coin collecting fraternity.—Detroit Coin Club. Australian cowboys “mustering” cattle. Stock Ranches of the 'Down Under' Continent Measured in Square Miles Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.—WNU Service. UT in the more remote regions of Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia, and in the arid center of Australia, cattle properties are still measured in square miles, not acres. Picture a single cattle station larger than Massachusetts and Con necticut. Look at it also as a band five miles wide extending all the way from New York to San Fran cisco; or, fantastic thought, a land path more than a mile wide all the way from the farthest side of Aus tralia to Maine! For it is 13,000 square miles! One cattle man, whose station lies on the Queensland-Northern Terri tory border, tells you quite casually that it is a 125-mile horseback jour ney from his back porch to the back line of his property. Like many of the older holdings, none of his land is fenced, so the cattle often stray far afield. During the summer months they move southward into the prevailing winds to rid themselves of the my riad flies that pester them. Conse quently, the station hands often have the task of riding 250 miles to get their stock back to their own property. The herds also may wan der 40 or 50 miles in the direction of storms if they lack water. Early one morning a Geographic staff writer flew out to a cattle sta tion, 300 miles into the Queensland interior, landed in a field near the house, and taxied up to the gateway. What One Station Is Like. The station was not lar£e as many' of the inland stations run, but it was a goodly block of land—1,200 square miles—pasturing 25,000 head of stock! As he rode its ranges, he saw one herd of 1,500 steers that had just arrived from a four months’ trek of a thousand miles down from the gulf country. *From. ,the fattening paddock where they grazed to mar ket was still another 200-mile ovet- land journey. Upon food and water hinges suc cess or failure. How many times tragedy has' stalked beside dried- up water holes and parched, pas tures! Whole herds have perished in rigorous seasons and the stren uous labor of cattlemen has come to dramatic nought. As shearing is the big event on sheep stations, so mustering for branding and sorting is the chief activity on cattle ranches. Herds on this property are han dled from 15 mustering camps and it usually takes four to six months to complete the work. Here, where life is attuned to the* ceaseless moan and bellow of cattle about water holes and in branding corrals, the American Wild West is reflected in ten-gallon-Stetson hats that have come into fashion in the last few years. But the swaggering cowhand with a handy lariat and a pair of six-shooters strapped on his thighs is unknown. Australian cattlemen, instead of roping their beasts for branding, in most cases pen them and hold them in a system of gates. Why “Duffing” Is Rare. “Do you have any cattle rustling?” you ask. “We call it ‘duffing’ here,” replies the manager. “But it’s very rare. Distances are too great; it doesn’t pay.” One story that you hear stands out as an excellent example. It seems that two men desired to increase their stock, so when rains had filled water holes along the way, they rode 250 miles to a station and drove off about 300 cattle. The ranch owners and police tracked the animals down and brought them back, together with the culprits. The men were then committed to stand trial in Darwin, nearly a thou sand miles away. Eventually one man pleaded guilty and was sen tenced to five years’ imprisonment. For lack of evidence, the other man was released. But by the time he got home again he had traveled nearly 3,000 miles! Far out in the interior, remote from railways and easy means of transport, station homes have few er amenities. There are no electric lights, no refrigerators. Water in canvas sacks is cooled by evapo ration on the shady verandas. Yet life is pleasant, and afternoon tea is an established custom. The radio, magic destroyer of dis tances, brings the world’s news and music to the family living room. Across the Vast region, popularly dubbed the “back of beyond,” ether waves crackle in the evening with friendly chatter between neighbors perhaps 50 or 100 miles apart, for many stations are equipped with hand-operated radio sending sets. Out here the airplane has likewise proved its worth, for flying doctors now race hundreds of miles on their errands of mercy. Now and then, too, a flying parson may drop in on a station to hold a service. Stock Routes Well Maintained. The government maintains a sys tem of stock routes and tends them with religious care, for they are the arteries of a far-reaching enter prise. Across dry areas they wind and twist to touch every available spring, stream, and billabong. Australia’s land map is sketched with a number of these long snaky paths whiclj radiate out to railways and seaboard cities. One begins up in the tablelands of Northern Terri tory and reaches out to the railheads of Longreach, Winton and Charle- ville to serve Townsville and Bris bane. Another starts up in southwestern Queensland, swerves through the northeastern comer of South Aus tralia, and follows down the west ern boundary of New South Wales until it contacts the railway at Cock- burn, to find eventual outlet at Ade laide. A third trail connects the Kimber ley region of Western Australia with Wyndham, whose meatworks op erate during the winter months. In Western Australia, too, another seemingly endless meandering line ties the railheads thrust out into the interior with the expanses of North ern Territory. • On these tenuous channels, hun dreds of miles in length, you see streams of steers moving out to ward the ports, eventually per haps ,to provide chilled beef for the London market or bully beef for British Tommies or jack-tars. Unlike Argentina, where wild herds once roamed and men needed only to round them up, the Aus tralian cattle industry has been built up gradually from small beginnings of half a century ago. Frozen- meat contracts have provided the impetus. In recent years, however* Aus tralia has seen new handwriting on her economic wall.* 'With ’ im proved refrigeration facilities and fast ships, fresh chilled meat has come to England from the Argen tine. Against it frozen meat cannot compete. Learning to Chill the Meat. So the commonwealth has turned to its scientists to learn whether it, too, can deliver chilled beef to the London market, a distance handi cap of 13,000 miles. In the Brisbane abattoirs experts have tackled the problem. With test tubes and refrigeration cham bers, and with bacterial, fungal and yeast growths under their micro scopes, they are learning the condi tions necessary for meat to main tain its full freshness and color dur ing the month-and-a-half that it must be on the high seas. Romance is in their refrigerators, which are controlled to fractions of a degree, and their pipettes re flect future profits, because these quiet workers have been remark ably successful in their experi ments. Several trial shiploads of meat, sent in 1934, arrived in London without deterioration. To this heart ening assurance, the operators of various meatworks quickly react ed ; plants are being altered to meet the new requirements. Less spectacular, perhaps, but doubly more profitable than the herds that roam the interior, is the dairy stock pastured in the fertile coastal belt, mainly in New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. Approximately a sixth of the coun try’s cattle are bred for their milk products.