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■ . ■ V • ^ ^ S X , v - ' . ■- a' 4 - THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1938 w—mmmmmmmmm —Weekly News Review” Shall V. S. Pay Your Doctor? Professional Opinion Divided .by Edward W, Pickard A. M. A.’S PRESIDENT IRVING ABELL, EDITOR MORRIS FISHBEIN 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. ■ ’y 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 dled their thumbs while the nation suffered from poor health. V/hat 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 rejected 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 $850,000,000-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 whether the medical pro fession is any more proud of Cabot than he is of the medical profes sion.” 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 Health 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 consultations with other doctors. 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 •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 had a second war to fight. In isolated Manchukuo 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 its best to minimize the incidents. 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 mu jutt one of those days." National league last year with 2.38 runs against him per game, and Lefty Gomez paced the American le.'gue with 2.33, Dizzy Dean’s rec- ora 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, stunmoned 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 this 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 year. •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 op 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 hf 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-da; 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 later 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 caUed Mrs. Sarah Jackson, Denver bee catcher. Systematically locating three queen bees, Mrs. Jackson soon had the entire swarm safely packed away. Tloyd ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADUNES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! “Mountain Doom” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: Samuel Johnson of Brooklyn, N. Y., has two hobbies, and one of them was bound to get him into trouble sooner or later. Sam’s hobbies are skiing and mountain climbing and two more dan gerous sports I don’t know of. You know what sort of a game skiing is. Anyone who has ever seen a news-reel of a bunch of ski jumpers doesn’t have to be told it’s a good idea to pay up your insurance before you try it. Mountain climbing is a little more than twice as dangerous as skiing. It’s a yarn of mountain climbing with which Sam busts into the.club as a Distinguished Adventurer. For a good many years, Sam has lived abroad, chiefly in Italy. And one day in July, 1931, way up in the Italian Alps, he had a little adventure that almost Culminated in his living nowhere— neither in Italy nor anywhere else. Climbing the Doufoure Peak. On that July day, four Italians—a doctor, a lawyer and two engineers —along with Sam, himself, set out to climb the Doufoure—the highest and most difficult peak in the Monte Rosa chain of Alps. They started out without professional guides, for all of them thought they v:ere suf ficiently expert at climbing to get along without them. That says Sam, was the first mistake. Sam takes time out here to explain that it was absolutely necessary to reach that peak before eleven a. m. For from that hour to one, in the afternoon the sun is at its height, melting the snow and letting loose great avalanches that come crashing down the mountain-side carrying thousands of tons of rock, dirt and ice along v/ith them. The five men climbed until daybreak. “And all at once,” Sam says, “the strenuous work we had done climbing to this point, was well re warded by the magnificent spectacle that unfolded before our eyes. The early sun was shining on Monte Rosa and because of some phe nomenon the whole mountain chain became a deep rose color—the hue that gives those peaks their name. We kept on going. By seven o’clock, after trying to make headway in snow two or three feet deep in places, we seemed still to be a great distance from the peak. That didn’t worry us. From the position we were in it was next to impossible to judge dis tance—or even our direction. But by nine o’clock—” Lost and Cut Off by Avalanche. By nine o’clock that peak didn’t seem any nearer than it had at seven. They knew they were lost then—and they were thoroughly fright ened. They were at an altitude of about twelve thousand feet, and a night spent in the intense cold at that level was pretty sure to be fatal. A terrific avalanche roared past them. “To build a fire,” says Sam, “is impossible. There is nothing to burn. Nor is there any other protection from the sub-zero temperature, or from the icy blasts of 'wind that sweep the mountain all through the night.” They climbed for two more hours—and by that time they were all but exhausted. They stopped to rest on a ledge of rock, and suddenly a terrific avalanche roared past them not a hundred yards away. It was eleven o’clock—the deadline for mountain climbers—the time when they ran for cover if there was any cover to run to. “The slide,” says Sam, “crossed the path of the trail we had made coming up. If we had been delayed just a few minutes I rather believe our bodies would now be reposing on some glacier under a thousand tons of rock and ice. We didn’t dare travel after that. From then until three o’clock we sat huddled on the ledge expecting every moment to be carried away by another avalanche. At three we started out again, trying to find the lost trail. We didn’t find it—and to make matters worse, the sun was sinking rapidly and it was getting colder by the second.” Took Refuge in a Cave. The situation was serious. Sam and his companions decided some thing certainly should be done about it. But what? None of them knew. They held a consultation and agreed to hole in for the night—take a chance on being alive in the morning. Three men rose to find a suitable place to dig in, but two of them lay still on the ice—too exhausted to move on. , With difficulty the others got them to their feet. Practically carrying them, they moved on across a glacier, looking for a cave. Although they didn’t know it then, it was that move that saved aU their lives. They found a cave and huddled into it. They didn’t dare go to sleep. They’d freeze to death. Their food supply had run out by that time, and the gnawing pains of hunger added to their intense misery. The suffer ing of that night, Sam says, no one could ever describe. But at six in the morning they saw five black figures moving across the ice toward themi'l The black figures were five professional guides. Down in Macugnaga someone with a pair of powerful binoculars had seen them as they pushed across the last stretch of glacier. The guides—men of remark able endurance—had climbed all night long to reach them before it was too late. They literally carried the five men down the mountain and rushed them to a hospital, where oae member of the party had a leg amputated, another a hand, and a third, all the toes of both feet. But Ipckily for Sam Johnson, the sawbones didn’t have to do any work on him. Copyright.—WNU Service. Cameras Barred by Village Hating cameras and loathing pho tographers, villagers of Staphorst, in east Holland, have forbidden strangers to take pictures there. Two young visitors who were taking snapshots recently were knocked down and badly beaten. Staphorst is a picturesque place, the people wear old-fashioned, quaint costumes and the houses are painted pale blue. The villagers recognize all this, but resent the invasion of their privacy by candid camera ama teurs. The Chinese Li The Chinese li, a measure of length, is the equivalent of one one- hundredth of a day’s walk; on the level, this slightly exceeds one-third of an English mile, but in hilly country it might be as little as one- eighth of a mile. Colors of Dawn, Sunset The colors of dawn are purer and colder titan those of sunset because the reduced dust content of the at mosphere causes less sifting of the light rays. Many Moth Families Most people Call moths butterflies, yet there are about nine times as many moth families as butterfly families. Because butterflies fly by day, while moths are night flyers, the former are common sights to the most casual observer. There are, however, numerous ways of telling them apart. Butterflies fold their wings high over their backs when at rest, while moths fold theirs down flat. Butterflies have club- shaped antennae, while those of moths are feathered. Highest East of Mississippi Mount Mitchell, in the Black mountains of Yancey county. North Carolina, 6,684 feet above sea level, is the highest point of land in the United States east of the Mississippi Marijuana Cured Like Tobacco The leaves of the marijuana weed have seven or more narrow taper ing petals. A drying process sim ilar to that used in readying tobac co “cures” the vicious weed for smoking purposes. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool L.esson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. e Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for August 14 THE RELATION OF TEMPER ANCE TO CHARACTER LESSON TEXT—Proverb! 4:10-23; I The*- salonlans 3:6-8. GOLDEN TEXT—Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.—Proverbs 20:1. PRIMARY TOPIC—What a Wise Man Said. JUNIOR TOPIC—A Wise Man’s Way. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— How the Use of Liquor Affects Character. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— How the Use of Liquor Affects Character. Childhood remembrances are commonly sweet and precious—but some of them are vivid on the pages of memory because they relate to dangerous and distressing things. Among the things decent people avoided like the pestilence when the writer was a boy was the saloon. To be seen entering such places was to mark one’s character, and to be a frequenter of them was to be lost to all that was good and holy. High sounding and very pious were the assurances that when pro hibition was repealed we would nev er see the return of the saloon, out we have them in multiplied nunv- ber, and with a shameless appeal to women as well as men, to our growing girls and boys as well as to adults. Clever advertising has sought to make it “smart” to drink, and “manly” to be able to “carry” liquor. It is for that reason that it is of the utmost importance that we develop strong and intelligent char acter in our boys and girls—so that they may not only appraise the vicious “booze business” for what it really is, but also have the strength of character to fight it, not only for themselves, but for their weaker brother. They should know and proclaim that the saloon, whether it be called an “inn” or a “tavern,” is always a “bar”— “A bar to Heaven, a door to Hell; Whoever named it named it well.” I. Developing Strength of Charac ter (Prov. 4:10-23). Solomon, the writer of many of the Proverbs, constantly stressed the importance of gaining wisdom. A man may be a perfect encyclo pedia of information and yet may lack the wisdom to apply that knowledge to life. Dr. Hight C. Moore, in Points for Emphasis, pro vides a most helpful outline of this portion of Proverbs 4, which will assist the reader and teacher. He suggests that we must (1) “accept the challenge of a worthy goal, v. 10,” by listening as a son to a father to the words which shall give us a long and happy life. Then we must (2) “follow the way of wis dom, w. 11-13.” It is a way that has been tested by those who have preceded us, and they have found it to be the right way. This will en able us to (3) “avoid the way of the wicked, w. 14-17.” Note the dreadful picture of those who not only do wickedness but delight, in leading others into their evil paths, in fact they cannot sleep unless they have misled some poor souL Shun that path, and (4) “irradiate the path to the larger life, w. 18, 19.” The way to life is a light path “that shineth more and more.” The way of the wicked is stumbling and darkness. The devil and his fol lowers are trying to make young people believe just the opposite. Let us teach them the truth that they may (5) “heed every syllable of all the words of God, w. 20-23.” Give attention to God’s Word; lis ten to it, read it, keep it hidden in your heart. The heart in Scrip ture stands for the very center of man’s spiritual being, out of which are all the issues of life. Evil thoughts, unholy desires and ambi tions hidden there will ultimately be revealed ii^ overt acts of ungod liness. Even so the Word of God hidden there will bring forth life in all its abundant beauty and strength. The young man or woman who is thus taught God’s Word in the home and the church will have an im pregnable defense against the wiles and temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil. II. Exhibiting Strength of Char acter (I Thess. 5:6-8). The Lord is coming again I Paul was constantly looking forward to the day of His coming. It was not his lot to live until the Lord came, but he was not mistaken in looking for Him. The Lord has tarried, why only He knows, but it is the judgment of many excellent Bible expositors that the next great event to take place in divine history is His return. What a glorious hope! But while we await His coming we are not to sleep as those round about us. Watchfulness, sobriety of life, these become the Christian. Cer tainly nothing of the drunkenness of our day is to enter into the life of the Christian. He who be longs to Christ does not drink of the devil’s “fire-water.” But far more than that is in mind here, for the Christian is to go on in faith, love, and hope until he becomes “on fire” for God, burning with the passion of the Holy Spirit, not only for his own life, but for the salva tion of the lost and for the develop ment of true Christian character in those who have taken upon them selves the beautiful name of “Chris tian.” ^ CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT SILOS A DOLLAR SAVED In feed cost is s dollar added to your profit. Cut feed cost with SILVER SHIELD SILOS. Write for valu able silo booklet CANNED DOLLARS. Lamneck Predaeta, Ine., 51* Dahlia Are te, Celambas. Ohio. OPPORTUNITY How wonlJ' yov like to receive 100 letters a day. eac^i containing 10c. We will send S formulas apd plans for 10c and a stamp. GraJuua Servioe, Bex 215?, Miami, Fla. 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