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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1938
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—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.
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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.” ^
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