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I THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. lU+cttonta ^own (l&pxvitesi h WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNUi WNU Washington Bureau, 1619 Kje St., N. W. Doctors’ Lobby Fights Socialized Medicine AX/' HAT happens, or what does not ' ' happen here in Washington ofttimes gives cause for wonderment if congress, if leaders in the fields of economics, of agriculture, indus try, labor, socia. relations, etc., actually know what the people are thinking, what the people of the na tion want or need. It is easy for persons down here in the nation’s capital where events happen so fast and with such far-reaching effect, to lose the "common touch.” And the cause for most of the blindness and the out-of-focus per spective is self-interest and the self ish activities of various pressure groups. At the present time, there is a tremendous lobby functioning against the extension of the social security act to include m'edical care and hospital insurance and other protective features for low income groups. This lobby is spearheaded by an organization known as the National Physicians committee, with headquarters in Chicago. Every effort is being made by this opposition to defeat the provisions of the new social security amend ments, all in the face of the wants, needs and desires of those for whom the benefits are intended. Labor is solidly behind the new social securi ty proposals and a survey just com pleted by the department of agricul ture indicates that this same con cern is voiced by farmers the coun try over. Hospital insurance The survey shows that more than four-fifths of the nation’s farmers favor more public med ical clinics in rural areas, and more than three-fourths want to subscribe to some flat-rate pre payment plan to cover possible hospital bills and the cost of doctors and nurses for them selves and their families. This is the hospitalization insurance feature of the new proposals. The answers to the department survey indicate that farmers gen erally are conscious and concerned about the need for better rural med ical and health facilities. They are aware that farm youth, 18 and 19 years old, showed the highest re jection rate in the selective service for physical, mental and education al defects of any occupational group ... 41 per cent, compared with an average of 25 per cent for other groups. Many factors, the survey shows, contribute to bad rural health . . . the shortage of medical and sanita tion facilities and the lack of physi cians, dentists and hospital serv ices. Many of these rural folks are in the low income groups which would be reached by the new amendments, since in 1939, approxi mately 3,000,000 out of the 6,000,000 farms in the country produced less than $600 worth of farm products. The records show that out of the 3,070 counties in the country, in 1940 there were 1,200 counties contain ing a total of more than 15,000,000 people, which had no hospitals at all. And there were only about 1,800 counties with any organized pub lic health service, and most of these inadequate. According to the estimates of the surgeon general of the United States, there is need now for some $2,000,000 in hospital construction which would provide for 1,000,000 jobs including doctors, nurses, technicians and assistants to keep them going. Medical Ccnru Wanted Animal husbandry, consolidated schools, roads and bridges, soil conservation and crop insurance, agricultural experiment stations, vast agricultural laboratories and many other material objectives are fostered through governmental help for the benefit of the rural areas. Many, many farmers, how ever, believe that assurance of medical and hospital care for them selves and their families are more important than building roads, con structing dams or saving soil, and that no price is too high for a healthy, vigorous and productive people. The statistics show that although the death rate from all causes for the last several decades has been lower among rural people than ur ban folks, deaths from some pre ventable diseases such as typhoid, diphtheria, malaria and pellagra tend to be more numerous among rural people. Moreover, the death rate has been going down rapidly in the cities, but relatively slowly in the rural areas. The records show that folks in the rural areas are ill oftener and for longer periods than city people. Under the social security law there are now 36,000,000 insured workers against unemployment. There is no insurance for farmers either for unemployment, old age or survivors’ insurance. The new act would extend these latter two pro visions to include farmers, pro fessional people, domestics and others not now covered by the law. EDITOR’S NOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement with tha Washington Bureau of Western Newspaper Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. IF, Washing ton, D. C, is able to bring readers this weekly column on problems of the veteran and serviceman and his family. Questions may be addressed to the above Bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent column. No replies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear in this newspaper regularly. Speed Up DUcharge With the rate of discharges from tile armed forces soon expected to exceed 500,000 per month, several organizations, among them the American Red Cross, are taking steps to expand services to the vet erans to make easier the path from uniform to civilian clothes. The latest move of the Red Cross is the enlargement of the field di rectors’ staffs in hospitals and the installation of full-time paid field di rectors in veterans administration hospitals to work with Red Cross volunteers now serving in these hos pitals. Many veterans in their haste to get home often pass up the service available at hospitals and separation centers and often regret their haste, for the army and navy and other organizations have provided trained personnel to inform the veteran of all his rights, to help him plan his future and to advise him in many fields. He should take advantage of these facilities. Questions and Answers Q. What members of an army man’s family are eligible for medical care? Mrs. I. C„ Downsville, La. A. The war department says that the wife and children are normally eligible for medical care, but if a mother, father, or minor sisters or brothers are living within the sol dier’s immediate household and are dependent upon him for support they too may be eligible for medical care. Q. My son was killed in action and I sent in a claim for a pen sion several months ago and haven’t heard yet. 1 am sick and not able to work and I need some help. What can I do? Mother, Dalton, Ga. A. If your son was unmarried and you were his beneficiary and de pendent upon him you are entitled to compensation. If he was married, his widow is entitled to the pension. Suggest that you write again to the Regional Office of the Veterans Ad ministration at Atlanta, Ga., and ex plain your case. Sometimes action is slow, but if you are entitled to a pension it will be retroactive from the time you made application. Q.—My son enlisted in the air corps in June, 1944. He was called in January, 1945, and passed all the exams at the induction center. When he received all his "shots” he was sent to a hospital and he was given an honorable discharge March 8, 1945, due to his heart. Is he eligi ble for G.I. benefits? A.—If the injury or ailment of your son was received or aggravated by his service, he is eligible for G.I.' benefits. You may determine this by having him apply for a certifi cate of eligibility. Generally speak ing a person must have served in the armed forces at least 90 days in order to qualify for benefits under the G.I. Bill. Q. As I understand it, all World War II veterans who have been honorably discharged from the services are to receive a bo nus or payment of $1,040. They are to receive this in $20 a week payments or $520 a year. As I am writing this I am serving time in prison, but I was given a medical discharge from the service in 1942. Will veterans who are serving time in any in stitution receive this money if they were honorably discharged from the service? No. 18850, Illinois State Penitentiary, Me nard, 111. A. You have been misinformed, since no veterans receive a bonus. They do receive mustering-out pay up to $300 and if they do not obtain employment after applying to the United States Employment Service they may receive unemployment compensation up to $20 per week for a maximum of 52 weeks. If you received a medical discharge, it may be possible that you are en titled to draw service connected dis ability payments. Suggest you take the matter up with your prison phy sician for application to the nearest regional office of the Veterans Ad ministration. If you have an honor able discharge, the fact that you are in prison will not make any dif ference in obtaining any compensa tion to which you are entitled. Q. Is a veteran’s dependent child, living separately, entitled to a part of his mustering-out pay? B. S., Geneva, Ala. A. Mustering-out pay is given di rectly to the honorably discharged veteran, $100 at time of discharge, if he has served less than 60 days; $100 in 30 days if he has served 60 days and no foreign service, and an additional $100 in 60 days if he has had foreign service, a total of $300. Q.—Can you tell me what fuel is used to power the new jet-propelled P-80 called the "Shooting Star”? A.—Kerosene. Tomatoes, Mushrooms, Eggs and Rice Cakes Make Good Lunch A tomato treat that’s hard to beat is this one in which cottage cheese is used for stuffing. Frilly sand wiches can be made by spreading thinly sliced bread with mayon naise, seasoning the lettuce and roll ing up the bread. Lunch is often one of the most neglected meals of the day because the whole family is not at home to eat it. Then, too, many homemak ers feel they just don’t want to both er fixing something palatable and attractive. But, let’s look at it this way. Lunch, according to nutritionists, should contain at least one-third to one-half the day’s calories, and the proper balance of proteins, carbo hydrates, vita mins and miner als. This doesn’t mean that you have to spend a lot of time prepar ing this noon-day snack, because, chances are, there are plenty of things in the refrigerator, ready to be made into satisfying, nourishing lunches. Now that food rationing has eased, it might be a good idea to invite friends in for a quick lunch; or, bet ter still, have a plan whereby you invite four to six people over for noon-time, and then have everyone take turns having each other to luncheon. It’s a neighborly way, and you will be sure to get into bet ter luncheon habits this way. Here is a colorful salad plate that makes a quick and easy lunch. It looks pretty, too, on gay, informal plates. Stuffed Tomato Salad Plate, v (Serves 6) 6 large tomatoes 14 pound cottage cheese 1 cup chopped cucumber 3 tablespoons real mayonnaise Parsley Scallions Lettuce rolls Section tomatoes to within 14 inch from bottom. Mix cottage cheese, cucumber and real mayonnaise. Fill tomatoes. Serve with scallions and lettuce rolls. The rolls are made by spreading thinly sliced white bread with mayonnaise and then placing a lettuce leaf on each slice. Sprinkle this with salt and pepper. Roll up and fasten with a toothpick. Occasionally we all have some leftover rice in the refrigerator, pos sibly after a chop suey dinner the night before. What about crispy, golden brown rice cakes for lunch, served with apricot jam or marmalade, and some spinach made delectable with a cream sauce. There you have nourishment plus in addition to a colorful and contrasting menu. Rice Cakes. (Serves 6) 2 cups cooked rice (14 cup un cooked) 1 beaten egg 2 tablespoons flour Lynn Says Hints for the Home: Sugar bags make good dishcloths. Cut, hem and launder before using. A dishwashing apron is easy to make out of oil cloth. Cut to pat tern, bind the edges and you will have a water-resistant apron. Old pillow cases are excellent for protecting the tops of clothes while they hang in the closet. Use this tip for putting away out-of season clothes. Odd bits of linoleum make nice covers for kitchen or laundry ta ble and may even be used as shelf covering. Old socks are excellent for ap plying wax to furniture; they may be used for cleaning silver ware, too. If you are crowded for space, build a blanket bin across the narrow end of a hall, underneath the windows. This is good to use in storing clothes, too. Fold the latter in clean tissue paper to prevent wrinkling. Lynn Chambers’ Menus •Country Omelet •Swiss Spinach Rye Bread Asparagus Salad With Cheese Dressing Prune Cake Beverage •Recipe given. 1 tablespoon melted butter 1 teaspoon salt Dash of pepper 1 teaspoon sugar Mix all ingredients together in or der given. Drop by spoonfuls onto hot, greased griddle. Saute until golden brown on each side, turning only once. •Swiss Spinach. Into 2 cups of finely chopped spin ach, blend 14 cup very thick, well- seasoned white sauce (flavored with onion and a dash of nutmeg), just enough to hold spinach together. Eggs can always pack a nutri tional punch into lunch and still keep a meal on an economical plane. You’ll like both of these suggestions, one served hot, the other crispy cold! Sunshine Egg Salad. (Serves 6) 8 hard-cooked eggs 1 cup finely diced celery 14 cup salad dressing 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon scraped onion Salt and pepper Celery curls 6 thick slices of tomato Salad greens Chop eggs, but not too fine. Add celery, dressing and seasonings. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Press into molds, and chill before serving Unmold each on a slice of tomato in a bed of salad greens. Garnish with celery curls, paprika and additional salad dressing, if de sired. •Country Omelet. (Serves 5) 2 cups diced, cooked potatoes 3 slices bacon 14 cup minced ohion 4 eggs, separated 2 tablespoons top milk 1 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon chopped parsley Brown potatoes, bacon and onion together in a frying pan. Cool. Beat egg yolks slight ly, add milk, salt, pepper and chopped parsley. Beat whites until stiff and fold into egg yolk mix ture. Heat frying pan, add 2 table spoons shortening into the pan. Pour in egg mixture. Cook over low heat until lightly browned on bottom (about 15 minutes). Brown top slightly under broiler and serve. There’s a surprise in store with mushrooms de luxe that will make guests ask for more. An all vegeta ble luncheon like this is served with a smooth, creamy mayonnaise sauce made by mixing mayonnaise and milk and heating together. An easy, point-free' luncheon is made with mushrooms and served with vegetables. It takes only about 20 minutes to bake. Mushrooms De Luxe. (Serves 6) 12 large mushrooms 34 cup dry bread crumbs 1 tablespoon chopped green pep per 114 tablespoons chopped onion 1 teaspoon chopped parsley IVi teaspoons salt % teaspoon pepper 14 cup real mayonnaise 14 cup milk Wash mushrooms, remove stems and chop. Mix chopped stems, bread crumbs, green pepper, onion, parsley and seasonings. Brown in 2 tablespoons of the mayonnaise. Fill mushroom caps. Bake in a moderately hot (400-degree) oven 20 minutes, or until tender. Serve with vegetables and mayonnaise sauce, made by heating remaining mayon naise with 14 cup milk and cooking until smooth. This is cooked over low heat, stirring constantly, 5 min utes or until hot. A dressing for tomatoes, equal to none, is made by merely sieving well ripened avocado and seasoning with lemon juice and garlic salt. This will reduce the pressure on hard-to-get salad oil, ordinarily used for dressings. Released by Western Newspaper Union. THEY’RE MAKING CARS AGAIN! (Virst New Model Car Rolls Off Pro duction Line.”—Headline.) Hail, Queen— Debutante of the Detours, Emblem of the future. Omen of traffic jams to come, Reminder of happier days, First new model since ’42! * Sister you look swell! They’ve changed your shape again. No lady could stand that operation So often and stand it as you do. You look better from the front. . . . And the rear view ain’t any worse. Them auto engineers Understand beauty treatments. . . . You're durned purty! Yowsir! Global War Gert Was a superdooper. . . . She did more than was hoped for. She amazed the engineers, Stunned the owners And flabbergasted the service sta tions. . . . She even outdid the advertising writers! » She helped win a war. She was in there punchin’ always, And there’s many a fight in the old gal yet. • Lissen, Babe of 1945-46. . . . If you can hold a candle to Gert You’D do! • • • THE BASEBALL FANS TO A LOSING CLUB (In the Japanese manner) To the Club Owners, Managers, Pitchers and AD. Gents: Being as how our club has turned out to be one of the worst clubs in history, taking last place at the start of the season and holding it nobly to the finish, we, the fans, now pros trate ourselves before you in deep humility and boundless sorrow * The pitching was sandlot stuff, the fielding would not stand up in the One-Eye League, the longest hit of the year was a two bagger on open ing day and the management should of stood in bed. All of which hurts us deeply on account of we fully un derstand that we alone were respon sible. We had nothing to say about the batteries, the schedule, the strategy or the coaching. All we did was to pay in and show we could | take it. This was a rare privilege and we are to blame for every- j thing. In this hour of disappointment and chagrin we apologize, especiaUy to : his August Presence, Tim Maloney, ' the manager, to their Imperial | Majesties Cunnihan & Jones, club owners, to pitchers Ganz, Snaffu and ' Crummie for the lousy season and for the fact the club wound up in last place. It tears our hearts out when we think of what they must be suffering. With bowed heads and with tears streaming from our eyes we accept full responsibUity for every lost game, wild throw, error and strike out, trusting that the club owners, manager and players will be noble spirited enough to forgive us. » We know that the star pitcher “Lefty” Bizzle, every time he was picked and sent in to pitch against anybody, proclaimed himself as a man of peace, and opposed going through with the game at all. Never at any time in the season did he really want to pitch. In the high nobility of his patchless spirit and love for the team and the fans he always cried, “Include me out of this.” Losing every fight by scores of from 18 to 32 to 0 he was e^er an exponent of brotherly love. * The club owners, the managers and the coaches also showed in their matchless benevolence they were for harmony and understand ing. And so it is with deep sincerity that we apologize for having ever caused them to think seriously of a winning baseball team. In the dust on our knees we express our pro found sorrow for aU the worries we have caused them. In All HumiUty, The Cash Customers. P.S.—We also think the outfit, especiaUy that bum who struck out with the bases fuU, should now con centrate on science and the arts. • • • The famous estate of J. P. Mor- v gan at Glen Cove has been rented to Amtorg, the Russian purchasing commission in America. We trust there is something in the lease pre venting the Russians from singing the Volga boat song in the Morgan swimming pools, doing Russian dances in the floral beds or having aU the china done over with a ham mer and sickle design. • * • THOUGHTS ON JAPAN It is our fear that in most cases the fel lows being held as war criminals will be put on trial at a time when they can get off on a claim of old age exemption. • Now that the war is over we can’t help wondering whether next season will see the Japanese acrobats back in the circus labeled as Japs and not as Burmese. * We have it on excellent authority that the emperor’s horse is in bad repute for accepting the result as a total defeat and not feeling particularly grateful to any body for it. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for October 7 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. LOVE FOR GOD AND' LOVE FOR MAN LESSON TEXT—Luke 10:25-37. GOLDEN TEXT—Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with aU thy mind; and thy neighbor as thysell.— Luke 10:27. “What shall I do?” The question of the lawyer in our lesson is a query which is on the lips or in the minds of miUions of men and wom en each day. They want to do right and want to be right, but their lives lack the direction which only faith in God can give them. Never does the question go more deeply than when it concerns man’s eternal welfare, as it does in our lesson. Always that question in dicates that man is not able to de cide for himself, and needs the guid ance of someone greater and wiser than he. This should lead us back to God, for only He can fully answer it. The story of the Good Samaritan tell us what we must do to show our love for God and man, and gives a demonstration of how it is to be done. I. What to Do (w. 25-28). The lawyer (a student of the law of Moses, and hence a theologian rather than an attorney) was pos ing a question to try to entrap Jesus. He was apparently not much con cerned about eternal life and as sumed that it could be obtained by doing something. We know that eternal life is a gift (John 1:12; Rom. 6:23), but if the man wanted to have it by doing, Jesus was ready to meet him. In response to Jesus' question (v. 26), the lawyer gave Him what the Jews regarded as the summary of the whole law. The man who can perfectly keep that law will have eternal life, de clares Jesus. But note that you must do it, not just talk about it. And you must keep the whole law, “for whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all” James 2:10, R.V.; see also Gal. 3:10). Observe that the commandment, so highly commended by our Lord, concerns a true love for God which shows in an active love for one’s fellowman. Love is the only thing that can save our bruised and bleeding world. How sad it is '..hat in such an hour of need there is so little said in the ihurch about love and it is practiced even less. It is the forgotten fundamental of all the fundamentals of faith! Let us begin to preach it and practice it! II. How to Do It (vv. 29-37). It is one thing to realize that one ought to do a thing; it is quite an other thing to do it. Here we have what may have been an actual inci dent given by our Lord as an object lesson of the right and the wrong attitude toward a fellowman in need. 1. The Wrong Attitude (w. 29-32). The lawyer’s effort to justify him self by diverting attention to the word “neighbor,” which he felt needed definition, showed that he could not do the thing expected of him. The reason for man’s failure lies primarily in his own weakness and inability to do what God re quires, but is also revealed in his pitiable and futile efforts to justify himself. The one who seeing his sinfulness and his utter inability to keep God’s law casts himself on the Lord is ready to receive the gift of eternal life. But the one who tries to defend his position and justify himself has shut the door on God’s grace and mercy (see Luke 18:9-14). The parable of the Good Samar itan answers fully and finally the question, “Who is my neighbor?” by making it clear that anyone who is in need, regardless of race, social position, condition or re ligion, is our neighbor. The priest and the Levite doubt less had plenty of excuses for not helping the wounded man, but let us remember that excuses, while they may count v/ith men, mean only our condemnation in the presence of God. 2. The Right Spirit. It was the spirit of Christ that made the Samaritan* show a com passionate and sacrificial interest in the needy man. Only Christ can make you and me like that. His love .in the heart is the only “good neighbor program” that will ever work. Statesmen, philosophers — yes, and the man in the street — of our day are looking hither and yon for an answer to the world’s need. They all sense that we must have something great, and tender, and powerful to unite the hearts of men, or we shall soon be in conflict again. The next time we may well write civiliz ‘.ion off the globe. What is the answer? Love! First, a real love for God, then love for our fellowmen of all nations. The answer to the world’s awful problem is a revival of Christian faith; without it we perish. Garden Flowers for Gay, Cozy Kitchen IT IS all a myth that your new kitchen must be cold and clini cal. It may be as gay and cozy as you like and your modern equipment will settle right down and be perfectly at home. So, if; you have ever wished that you ( could have bright flowers on your cupboard doors, drawer fronts 1 and canisters, go right ahead. YouJ can even have them twining, around the window and door frames and on the furniture. What is more, you can paint them your self with the painting pattern shown here and have a lot of fun doing it. i These garden posies are of the type used in all peasant art—simple in design, gay in color. All you have to do is to trace the outlines from the pattern snd' then fill them in following the color guide. The pattern may be used over and over, and there are motifs of different sizes. * • * Note—This Garden Flower Painting Pattern may be obtained by sending 15 cents with name and address direct to: , MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer IS Enclose 15 cents for Garden Flower Painting Pattern. 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