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WEEKLY NEWS ANAUYSIS , Congress Gets Control Proposals Which Would Curb Wages, Prices; Doctors Offer Public Health Plan (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) CONTROLS: Needed or Not? The administration at Washington has made its move for price and wage controls. It has asked congress to place ceilings on prices which threaten to go above last December’s level. It also has proposed creation of a six-man board to regulate wage in creases. Already, however, it was becom ing increasingly clear to the people that constantly shifting factors are changing so swiftly that some of the major points in the administra-* tion’s legislative program may be come obsolete before they are called for consideration. FOR INSTANCE, the downward trend in prices would indicate that a proposal for price control, except in some few isolated cases, might even appear ridiculous. Consequent ly, continuing decline in prices would naturally knock out any vali dity of wage hike demands. The sincerity of the administra tion is this respect might be open to question, but not seriously so. Practical politicians and people who realize the need for application of politics in government proce dures will understand that whether the government actually wants what it asks is somewhat beside the point. The real point is that these meas ures were pledged by President Truman in his campaign, and it was as early as inauguration day that administration leaders stated' publicly they meant to implement campaign pledges in every way. Now the administration is going through the motions of seeking to have adopted all the legislation the President promised the voters when he was a candidate for the office. A QUICK RUN-DOWN of the ad ministration's legislative-potential will show that civil rights, tax in creases, outright repeal of the Taft- Hartley law and socialized medi cine, all admittedly needing some treatment, are in for a rough time in congress. That being the case, it is diffi cult to understand how Mr. Truman and his advisers could make price and wage controls stick should there be no apparent need for either. PUBLIC HEALTH: Physicians* Plan There would be discussion of mo tive, of course, but whether ac tuated by the belief that socialized medicine was an undesirable alter native. or by a sincere desire to widen their field of service, Amer ica’s physicians had come up with a plan. OBVIOUSLY, the plan was a counter move in the developing battle over socialized medicine, and in it one could see some concession to the bureaucratic ambitions which, it is claimea, motivates the socialized medicine effort. First, the doctors through their American Medical association’s board of trustees, urge creation of a federal department of health, with cabinet status, which would be authorized to promote the general welfare by aiding and fostering pro grams in the field of health. This department also would contribute to Individual, family and commun ity well-being. Briefly, the program would in- • elude: PROMPT DEVELOPMENT of diagnostic facilities; health centers and local public health units; health centers and hospital services; com prehensive health education pro grams; integration of veterans’ medical care and hospitalization with other medical care and hos pital programs; greater emphasis on the program of industrial medi cine, and adequate support, with funds free from political control, of the medical, dental and nursing schools and other institutions nec essary for the training of special ized personnel required in the pro vision and distribution of medical care. In its scope the doctors’ program read like Mr. Truman’s “bold new program” for betUrment of world living. But its very generalities and extent might be the factors to doom it. With immediate medical care the greatest need of too many Ameri cans unable to pay for it, the pana cea would have to be immediate and visual. Examined, even close up, the doctor’s plan appeared to offer little toward the solution of the issue of socialized medicine. Absolved William W. Remington, who was an official of the commerce department, was absolved of dis loyalty charges following an al- ledged link to Soviet interests. He was given a new job with the de partment, but with salary re maining at $10,000 annually. DEFENSE PACT: Gilded Lily There were puzzling things going on in Washington as the proposed north Atlantic security pact came up for discussion. As any schoolboy knows, only con gress can declare war. Yet Senator Vandenburg of the foreign affairs committee was quoted as saying that if any pact were drawn he ex pected such a pact to “reserve to congress the complete right of de cision” on what to do about an armed attack. THAT STATEMENT of Vanden- berg’s amounted to nothing more than a thick coat of gilt on the lily. The pact could do no less than “re serve” such decision, because the constitution of the United States is quite clear as to what governmen tal body in the United States has the authority to declare war. The constitution does not relegate that power to a senate committee or to the state department. The point is made only to high light the trend of official thinking in federal circles. Despite the con stitutional provision. Senator Van- denberg and apparently those who draft the pact, are “willing” to let congress make any decision on go ing to war. There were other puzzling factors connected with the pact Both Sen ator Vandenburg and Senator Con- nally declared that signing the pact would not commit this nation to war in the event another pact signatory were attacked. IF THAT were the situation, the critical queried, what would be the use of the pact? The senators had an answer for that one—an answer reminiscent of American thinking before Pearl Harbor. They pointed out that, as Vandenburg put it, “in my opinion the mere formal recognition of this community of interest in the event of an armed attack on the Atlantic community—without another word in the treaty—would be an infinite assurance against World War III.” What the senator was intimating in effect was that with the United States a signatory to the pact, any nation would be afraid to jump either on the U. S. or another mem ber. THE SENATOR’S MEMORY seemed to be waning. Japan wasn’t “afraid” to attack Pearl Harbor. That was World War II. Germany wasn’t “afraid” to sink the Lusi tania. That was World War I. The “fear” bulwark hadn’t done so well on two occasions. Did Senator Vandenburg have some special information, or in tuition, that it would work better to prevent World War III? LONGEVITY: The Hard Way So you’d like to live to be 102? There’s a way—but it will appeal only to the rugged. A Westerfield, N. J. woman has passed the century mark with vi tality still good, interest in things about her still unimpaired. OF HER 102nd birthday party she said: “It was a most wonderful party. I felt just like I was walking on air. The house looked like a greenery. All those flowers and even an orch id. It was wonderful.” TRENDS: Dictatorial The gentleman who was talking knew whereof he spoke. When he began to express himself on dicta torships. the public might listen re spectfully for he had but lately con cluded an assignment to put down one of the most vicious dictatorships the world had ever seen. But he wasn’t talking of foreign dictatorships. Instead, he was warn ing the Columbia college forum on democracy that dictatorship was an actual possibility right here in the United States. THE SPEAKER was Gen. Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower, who was su preme commander of allied forces in the war against the dictatorships —World War II. Discussing the supposition that this nation was in danger of falling into the hands of a dictatorship with out a shot being fired, Eisenhower said he was not talking about the usual type of seizure of power by force. He was talking, he saW, about a gradual dictatorship of bureaucracy which could result from the "con stant drift toward centralized gov ernment.” “There is a kind of dictatorship,” he said, “that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought and readiness to accept pa ternalistic measures from the gov ernment, along with a surrender of our own responsibilities and, there fore, of our control over our own lives and our right to exercise our vote. “IF WE ALLOW this drift toward centralized bureaucratic govern ment to continue, finally it will be expressed ... in the actual field of operation. “There’ll be a swarming of bur eaucrats over the land, ownership of property will gradually drift into that central government, and final ly you have to have dictatorship as the only means of operating such a huge organization.” WTien a man of General Ike’s stat ure is publicly concerned over the probability of a dictatorship in the U. S., benign or otherwise, it seems it were time the public, too, should begin to look into the situation. MYSTERY: Biggest Run As one southern reporter de scribed it, it was the "biggest run in the South’s history.” One moment everything was all right. The next, disaster had struck. It happened in Jacksonville', Fla., and there was no warning of its coming. Women and girls arose in the morning, donned attractive, sheer nylon stockings and started about their business. Then, the nylons simply started coming apart. Working girls went bare-legged to lunch, carrying their stockings—or what was left of them —in their purses. A horrible possibility failed to materialize—tfie girls were spared disintegration of their nylon under wear; but there were many anxious moments as they watched the nylon stockings disintegrate on their legs. The health department advanced a theory that incompletely-burned particles of soot carried a gas which caused the stockings to come apart. At Wilmington, Del., a technical engineer for a nylon manufacturer said it's happened before in Wash ington, Chicago, Nashville and Min neapolis. He explained that the trouble was acid-bearing soot. These tiny par ticles, he said, even from ordinary coal fires, contain sulphur dioxide, sulphur trioxide and other acids. When they land on a coat or hat, the concentrate may destroy a thread, but you don’t notice it. But when they land on a stocking thread—zip! And there’s a story to make the nation’s headlines. Accused Agnes Smedley, 54-year-old Ok lahoma-born author, has been named by Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur as a Soviet agent in his recent report on a Russian spy ring. She denied the accusation. MERCI TRAIN: And Kisses Although no finished hand at the game, Kentucky’s Gov. Earle Clem ents was Yiot to be outdone in the amenities incident to arrival of the French Merci train in Frankfort. BUSSED heartily on the cheek by French representative Andre Picard, Governor Clements bussed right, back, displayed no chagrin. And, in addition to the buss, Picard received a commission as a Kentucky colonel. About reaching 102 .. . well, the lady who did it, Mrs. Katherine G. Lyon, said she was in favor of exercise and fresh air. "It’s all a matter of chewing your food properly, and getting plenty of fresh air. Anyone who is 102 years old and can’t walk at least two miles ought to go to a doctor and find out what’s the mat ter with them . . . I’m always ready to go.” Mrs. Lyon did not stipulate that walking two miles a day was the entire answer. METALS: Stronger For those who use metals, there was good news. Dr. J. H. Holloman, General Electric research labora tory scientist, reported* that metals eventually can be made from five to 10 times stronger^ Metals are made up of tiny grains. A break always begins at a high temperature with micro scopic cracks along the boundaries. It is prevention of these cracks that will strengthen the metal. THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. MIRROR of your MIND How Ideas Are Born By Lawrence Gould Answer: If you’re thinking of “original ideas,” all that we can be sure of is that they don’t “come into our minds” out of the wild blue yonder; they rise out of the “uncon scious.” Basically each idea starts from a wish or “drive” and repre sents a real or imagined way of get ting satisfaction for it: an invention, for example, may start With a wish to save yourself work, to win fame, or to make money. But little is known of the mysterious process by which we put two and two together so that an idea eventually "takes shape.” scious wish to be dependent on some Stronger person, and the reason this 'wish seeYns so dangerous is that once he gave full confidence to someone—probably one of his par ents—and felt he was betrayed or “rejected.” Are there people whom you cannot “win by kindness”? Answer: Yes. There is a type of person who is thrown into a panic by being treated too kindly and he will shun you like the plague if you attempt to do him favors; he firmly believes you want to “put him un der obligation” to you and thus rob him of his “freedom.” What he really is afraid of is his own uncon- Can your body make your mind sick? ' Answer: Yes," says Dr. Armando Ferraro of the New York State Psy chiatric institute. He feels that psy chosomatic medicine has empha sized the mind’s effects on the body to the point where it tends to ignore the fact that physical conditions may produce mental disturbances. A disorder of tire “autonomic nerv ous system” which controls our movements and sensations may arouse states of "anxiety” such as occur in anxiety neurosis. What we know as mind and body are two aspects of one organism and what ever injures one affects the other also. | KEEPING HEALTHY \ Preventing Heart Stroke By'Dr. James W. Barton \4 ANY years ago, one of the med- ical journals published the story of a businessman who had be come mentally deranged. He was taken to a farm and treated entire ly as an animal—regular meals, regular exercise and regular sleep. In a matter of months he was restored to good mental and physical health because of this regularity of the same life as an animal—plenty of the right food, and the full amount of sleep to give rest needed be cause of the hard physical work. It is not surprising, therefore, that physicians are prescribing some what similar treatment for their cases of high blood pressure which cause heart strokes (coronary thrombosis or occlusion) and brain strokes (apoplexy). Men will not have coronary oc clusion in the dangerous age (ex cept if they have infections) if: (1) they take daily physical exercise; (2) learn their foods (do not gain weight, take a low fat diet, do not eat more than they need for the amount of work or exercise taken); (3) keep a quiet mind; and (4) get eight hours’ sleep, leaving worries at the office. There is so question but that if the middle-aged ifian or wom an would take daily physical ex ercise, which creates a natural appetite and prevents constipa tion, he or she will have rich pure blood circulating through out the body, feeding needy tis sues and carrying away wastes which could damage heart and blood vessels. Naturally, also, the man or woman wh< can sleep peacefully and not be restless because of office or do mestic problems, is going to rest heart and blood vessels and prevent a rise in blood pressure. Restful sleep is like having a battery re charged. It is the rise in blood pressure that causes most attacks of coronary occlusion or heart stroke. ★ HEALTH NOTES ★ The doctrine that alcoholism is a sickness has provided drinkers with a handy alibi, according to Ed ward J. McGoldrick Jr., director of New York’s Bureau of Alcoholic Therapy. The most important thing in effecting a cure is that the pa tient must want to be cured. There should be more psychiatric clinics like Bridge House in New York City. With death rates from cancer re ported on the decline, there is strong reason for optimism, accord ing to Dr. Louis I. Dublin, second vice president and statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance com pany. This is largely because wide spread publicity has sent many per sons to cancer detection centers or to their physicians at early stages of the disease. Schools Seen Facing Losses In Real Estate NEW YORK.—Many colleges and universities are endangering their endowments by investing in real es tate, industry and business vent ures, in the opinion of a consider- eble number of responsible educa tors and financial authorities. The trend toward the purchase of non-educational enterprises has in creased tremendously in the last few years, a study conducted by The New York Times has shown. In some instances colleges have in vested as much as one-third of their funds in businesses and other prop erties. If a depression comes, or if busi ness in general goes into a reces sion, these invested funds may be in jeopardy. It has been pointed out that in the late twenties col leges and universities invested heavily in mortgages, only to find that after the 1929 crash their hold ings virtually disappeared. Tax Authorities Concerned That both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Bureau of Internal Revenue are concerned with the loss of Federal tax reve nues resulting from this invest ment trend is increasingly appar ent. A year ago the House commit tee held a series of hearings oa revision of the Internal Revenue Code. Several of these hearings were devoted to the question of how to deal with colleges and universi ties that owned commercial con cerns and paid no taxes on their in come. When he appeared before the committee, John Gerdes, former chairman of the New York Univer sity Alumni Fund, explained the position of his institution in acquir ing businesses valued at close to $50,000,000, in this manner: “New York University has al ways been handicapped by a lack of funds. Its endowment is very small compared to that of other institu tions, and the percentage of its in come received from endowments probably is one of the smallest in the country. We should like to sup plement that income, and that was our purpose in acquiring these busi nesses. Public Service “Those of us who have engaged in these projects are doing it in a spirit of public service We are giving our time and attention in the hope of developing a source of income for New York University which will enable it to continue and expand its public service in New York City.” One member of the committee observed, in noting that the univer sity “saved” $1,500,000 in taxes that would have gone to the Fed eral Government if the businesses had remained in private hands: “The action taken is so extraordi nary and so revolutionafy in con nection with ,these corporations that have been taken over that it occurs to me probably the whole system of tax exemption for edu cational and charitable organiza tions might seriously be threatened if this precedent is allowed te spread.” German People Found With Little Interest in Politics PASSAU, GERMANY. — “T h e people are not interested in poli tics.” This sentence recurs repeatedly in reports from towns and villages throughout Germany. It shows the problem U. S. Military Govern ment faces in trying to spread democracy among people who never have learned or understood that they have a personal interest in their country’s politics. A Military Government officer pointed to a report from Zulzbach, a small Bavarian town near here. It Contained the usual line: “The people are not interested in poli tics.” Then it added: “They are worried, however, about Germany’s future.” “There’s our real problem,” said the officer, Marvon Glossop, of Winchester, 111. “What we must do is convince them that by taking an intelligent part in politics, by choosing their officials wisely, they can shape their country’s future.” Many methods have been tried. The latest is a series of “democra tization meetings” reaching even into the smallest of villages. The villagers meet to talk over their problems—local, state nation al or even personal. They discuss how they—or their government— should handle these problems. Poor Quality of Output (alls Soviet Factory Men MOSCOW — Soviet courts have handed out prison sentences of five and seven years to factory man agers who produced goods of poor quality, according to the Soviet press. The newspapers carried a special communique to the prosecuting at torney’s office listing seven cases in which factory officials were given stiff penalties for failure to make their production meet standards of quality. Other cases were listed as under investigation. No, Thanks A N INSIGNIFICANT little man with a melancholy moustache and watery eyes approached the cir cus manager. He said he had an act. “See that thousand-foot tower? I’ll jump off of it, landing on my head on that cement block under neath it.” “Go away,” the manager said. I’m, too busy to bother with luna tics.” But a few minutes later someone screamed and, looking up, he saw the man on the tower, preparing to jump. “Don’t do it!” yelled the man ager. “This is what I mean.” came the faint answer—and a moment later the little mannurtled downward, hit ting the block head first. After a moment he picked himself up. shook his head, and started to walk away. The manager ran to him and grabbed his arm. “That’s a won derful act. You’re engaged.” ’Y’ve changed my mind.” “But you’ve got to sign!” the manager howled. “You’re sensa* tional! I'll give you five hundred a week.” “No.” “But you offered me the act! What’s the trouble?” “Well,” said the little man, rub bing his forehead, “you see, that was the first time I ever tried it, and it gave me a bit of a head ache.” THOUGHTLESS Jean—WheK; did you get that bump on your Viead? John—I was serenading a girl un der her window and she threw me a rose. Jean—Piffle! A rose wouldn’t do that! John—She torgot to take it out of the pot. Meddling Willie,” said his mother, “I wish you would run across the street and see how old Mrs. Brown is this morning.” A few minutes later Willie return ed and reported: “Mrs. Brown says it’s none of your business bow old she is.” Braggart “Say there. Jinks,” roared the Top Sergeant, “why weren’t you out this morning?” “Because,” replied the quaking private, “I threw my ankle out of joint last night.” “That’s no excuse!” boomed the Sergeant. “I’ve turned out for drill after having my whole body thrown out of half a dozen joints!” TWO FOR DOC “Doctor,” said the patient, “I’m afraid my wife is going crazy.” “What seems wrong?” asked the doctor. “She wants to buy a goat.” “Let her buy a goat.” “Bat she wants to keep H in the house.” “Weil, let her keep it In the house.” “But a goat has an unpleasant smell.” “Open the windows.” “What! 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