San Bernardino Sun, Volume 43, 27 August 1937 — Page 27

SAN BERNARDINO DAILY SUN. FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1937 f AGE TWENTY-SEVEN

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Last Holder of Congressional Award in Enlisted Ranks Promoted to Officer (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 26,-The rank and file of the army today a was without a single enlisted man j holding the Congressional medal of & honor for valor. Appointment of Master Sgt. Lloyd M. Seibert, of the mechanized First cavalry at Fort Knox, Ky., as warrant officer in the regular army with the adjutant-general's department at Omaha, Neb., left the army ranks bare of enlisted men holding , the medal, Brig.-Gen. Daniel Vani. Joorhis, commander of Fort Xnox, was advised by the adjutantreneral of the army. Seibert won his medal In an enjagement near Epignonville, France, on Sept. 26, 1918, after 12 years of military service. His citation stated that "suffering from illness, Sgt. Seibert renamed with his platoon and led his nen with the highest courage and eadership under heavy shell and machine gun fire. ENLISTED IN CALIFORNIA "With two other soldiers he charged a machine gun emplacement in advance of their company, ne himself killing one of the enemy with a shotgun and capturing two others. In this encouter he was wounded, but he nevertheless continued in action, and when a withdrawal was ordered he returned with the last unit, assisting a wounded comrade . . ." Warrant Officer Seibert enlisted in the seventh infantry, California National Guard, in January, 1906, to begin his military career. He also holds the French Medsille Militaire, the French Croix de Guerre with palm, the Italian War cross, the Montenegrian Medaillc de Bravoure and the American Victory medal with bars for the Meusergonne, St. Mihiel, Ypres-Lys, and First army defensive sector engagements, Qebts to Corporation Held Up by Alberta (By United Press) EDMONTON, Alta., Aug. 26 Alberta proclaimed a moratorium toiay on all debts owed to any corporation. Phe action was directed at banks and insurance companies, and was designed to prevent corporations from collecting money to be sent out of the province within the next six months. Under provisions of the moratorium, no civil action for debts contracted prior to July 1, 1936, can be taken in any courts of the province until March 1, 1938. Corcoran Sentenced For Drug Smuggling (By United Press) I TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 26. William I E. Corcoran, 23, grandson of the founder of the Corcoran art galleries in Washincton, today awaited removal to the Federal penitentiary at McNeil island to serve two years for smuggling narcotics from Mexico to the United States. Don Haverly, of Globe, Ariz., who helped him import narcotics from Mexico, received a similar sentence from Federal Judge Albert M. Sames. Both were ordered to pay $250 fines. Two Suicide Leaps Frustrated by Police ( Bv Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26. Two planned suicide leaps from the Golden Gate bridge were frustrated by state highway patrolmen today. Officers said a 74-year-old woman expressed a desire to jump from the span "and end it all because I am tired of living." She was taken to a detention hospital. The other would-be-suicide, officers said, was a former sailor, who had one leg over the railing when he was pulled back.

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drie s one or tne ricnest girls in tne son. That's blonde Barbara Hutton, son, Lance, now 17 months old, when leaving him with his nurse. This is TODAY WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 Physi cians throughout the United States will be interested to learn of the New Deal's latest experiment, which may prove the entering wedge for socialized medicine" in America, sometimes called the placing of medical care on a "quantity pro duction" basis. Like all New Deal "experiments," the plan to provide medical care by the group method is limited in scope at first. It is to apply for the present to the employes here of the Home Owners Loan corporation and the Federal Home-Loan bank board, but it is so set up that it can just as readily be extended to all the 117,000 Federal employes here and the 700,000 or more Gov ernment employes throughout the country. Doctors have long suspected that the New Deal would seek to introduce "socialized medicine," but as surances to the contrary have come as usual from time to time from high quarters. The importance of the new experiment will be mini mized in official quarters so as to discourage opposition and the plan will be compared to various group health plans in private industry. But the new organization, nevertheless, is so directly in line with what has been urged by persons inside the administration who see the job possibilities and patronage potentialities of a medicial bureaucracy in the Government. The latest step, therefore, may be taken to mean that the campaign for "socialized medicine" has begun. MANY OBJECTIONS The objections to this form of medical care are numerous and the best testimony is that which comes from experts who have studied the health insurance systems abroad. Thus, Sir E. Farquhar Buzzard, president of the British medical association, said recently in a public address: "The chief flaw in a badly organized service, such as that which has evolved in this country during the last century, is lack of time, and both the general practitioner and the consultant, in order to earn a living wage, are frequently obliged to undertake far more work than they can deal with efficiently in the hours at their disposal." Regarding Germany, Dr. Paul G. Frank, another authority, says: "For almost 30 years, I have worked as a German panel doctor under the conditions of compulsory health insurance, and for many years I was a member of the physicians' committee. During this period I witnessed a deterioration of the medical profession. It came about by the removal of the sanctions of preferment by skill and the

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By David Lawrence substitution of preferment to con venience. The same line of reasoning is ex pressed by Dr. William J. Mayo of the Mayo Brothers clinic in Minne sota, who wrote recently: "We of the medical profession are determined that we will not be subjected to political interfer ence. We will not sacrifice the spiri tual values of our profession for the small material gain held out to us by political and social expert menters who are attempting now to control the practice of medicine. We refuse to be dictated to by men who are not physicians, who do not un derstand the sacred obligations of physicians and their patients." DISCOURAGE YOUTH The way "socialized medicine" would develop would be to discour age younger men from going into the medical profession and take away from those who have built up a practice many of the patients who ordinarily come to them. It is true a large number of doc tors would have to be employed by the Government in any national scheme of "socialized medicine," but the selection of these doctors by a political spoils system would only be a worse step than the aplication for Government jobs of doctors not good enough to build for themselves a firm reputation and adequate practice in their own communities. If, for instance, all Government employes in Washing ton were to be cared for medically under some sort of group plan run by the Government, why should any good doctors stay here? Why should any new ones come here from the best medical schools to replace those who are retiring? Immediately there would be a destruction of incentive and a break-down in the quality of medical care available to the people of this whole community. The new plan to be put into effect next month by the "group health association" among the Home Owners Loan corporation employes calls for payments of $3.00 a month for men with families and $2.20 a month for single persons. "The service," it is promised by one of the officials in charge, "will include medical and surgical ex aminations, including examination in special departments, such as eye examinations, laboratory tests and X-ray examinations. In each case, complete medical and surgical care will be given. "Hospitalization is to be given in a semi-private room for a period of three weeks during a single illness, without additional charge." The staff of the new clinic is to be headed by Dr. Henry R. Brown of the tuberculosis division of the veterans administration and it is

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"planned to hire a staff of about six or seven physicians. The charter of the new organization is not restricted to the em ployes of the Federal Home Loan bank board and Home Owners' Loan corporation who are to par ticipate in the group health scheme, but, if successful, the project can be extended to all Government cm ploycs inside and outside of the national capital. The dues do not include cost of medicines, drugs and surgical appliances nor the ex pense of dental work, oxygen tanks, radium and deep X-ray treatments, blood transfusions or special nur sing service. It is not planned to treat certain types of surgical or nervous disorder cases or to fur nish treatment after the medical director recommends confinement in an institution in mental, tuber cular, drug or alcohol addiction cases. HEALTH INSURANCE The whole experiment, however, beginning now on a small scale, dovetails with reports current last November that the social security board was studying the possibility of adding a national health insur ance project as a part of its program. Comprehensive health insur ance, of course, would be borne by the taxpayers and it is estimated as likely to cost 5 per cent of payrolls. The social security board has authority to make research studies on "related subjects" and health insurance is held to be one of these. The New Dealers are seeking to pattern their plans on projects in foreign countries, but prominent American physicions, like Dr. Floyd S. Winslow, president of the medical society of the state of New York, says of the experiences of the Europeans: "Many physicians are required to see 40 to 60 patients a day some average 100. This is far too many. Why do not British doctors complain? It should be remembered that health insurance has existed as a part of the government in England since 1911. British physicians who see its great defects are 'cagey' in their public statements derogatory of a system in which (Continued on Page Thirty-one) MenlGETtfiGon r-tfcL TOUNGER QUICK WAY 'I Dl 72. I WIS all In hut 0trT miirklv vara m ftm Tifror." V. J. O'Boyle, Detroit. OSTRKX mntatns orjtanle itimulant. obiainH from raw oysters, which pepi ymi up, starti to work AT ONCE; alio 4 other inTijtoratora advised bv loading doctors. Safe, plcwant tablpti. Get II OSTOEX today for T!r. If w deliphted. maker refunda prirs of thla package. wi nsK a penny, uei new pep loaay. OSTRfJ(J-Tfc Mew Raw Oysf er Tonic Sold by Sontag anu Thrllty Drug Storei. O .

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But Those Who Failed to Vote Right Will Have Trouble 'Explaining' at Home (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. Postmaster-General Farley told a press conference there would be no administration reprisals against Democrats who failed to support the Roosevelt program, but that such Congressmen would have "a lot of difficulty explaining" to their constituents. The Democratic ' chairman refused to comment on the demand by Senator Guffey, Pennsylvania Democrat, for defeat of Senators who opposed President Roosevelt in carrying forward his aims. "Every member of the United States Senate has a right to express his views on any subject he sees fit," Farley told his first press conference for many months. "It isn't for me to criticize or say kind things about them." G. O. P. CLAIM 'SILLY' Asked if Guffey represented the administration's views in his speech, Farley replied "No," that the Pennsylvania Senator had made it plain he was expressing his own views. Farley characterized the forecast by Republican Chairman Hamilton that the Republicans would gain in next year's congressional elections as "silly." He said he was convinced after a visit to every state, except two, within the past three months that President Roosevelt was "just as popular as when he was elected last November" and that if there were an election tomorrow the Chief Executive would "carry just as many states as in 1936."

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-Elmer Davis has often argued that what this country needs is to be run by a strong-minded middle-aged woman, so I hasten to add my voice to the diminishing chorus which whispers that Miss Dorothy Thompson should be our next President. As a professional columnist, she knows all the answers and can skim over the most difficult and complicated national problem with a coast-to-coast nonstop prosestyle. And she is the only selflabeled antl-Fascist, anti-Communist who can dismiss democracy whenever it runs counter to her wishes. Why stop with Miss Thompson? If one skirt is good for government, a whole lot of petticoats would provide an even greater protection for the integrity of our Constitution. Why just cross our fingers against the follies of the future when we can double-cross our ankles as well. ALL-WOMAN RULE I take pleasure in proposing the first all-woman national adminis tration in American history: For Presidentess: Miss Dorothy Thompson, for reasons best known to her press-agent. For Vice-Presidentess: Walter Lippmann (Oops! sorry!) For secretary of state: Miss Elsa Maxwell, whose knack for amusing the idle rich of two continents renders her an ideal successor to grim Mr. Hull. If our foreign policy is to be any louder and funnier, we ought to call in professionals. For secretary of the treasury: Doris Duke Cromwell, the richest woman in the world. If Andrew Mellon was "the greatest secretary of the treasury since Alexander Hamilton", because he was one of the four richest men in America, Mrs. Cromwell is a natural for this job. For secretary of war: Gloria Vanderbilt, whose fighting spirit is famous in England and America. For secretary of the navy: SHREDDED WHEAT WHEAT BISCUITS SOLD EVERY YEAR

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By Jay Franklin Eleanor Holm. The job calls for a good swimmer and party harmony requires an expert at backstroking. For postmistress general: Miss Dorothy Dix, who is practically a postoffice in herself. For attorney-general: Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth. They'd have to find a place for a Roosevelt in the cabinet, just to make it kosher, and she couldn't do very much harm in the department of justice. For secretary of the interior: Miss Tallulah Bankhead. For secretary of commerce: Barbara Hutton, on the theory that the heiress of the 5-and-10 ought to be able to support and defend the profit motive against all customers, foreign and domestic. For secretary of labor: Kathleen Norris, because her heart is in the right place, because she works hard, and because she believes in motherhood. REMARKABLE TRIBUTE It is indeed a remarkable tribute to Miss Thompson that it should be so easy to think, off-hand, of an entirely feminine corps of administrixes to supplement her intuition in handling the affairs and sensing the needs of a nation of 125,000,000 energetic people, spread out over a large and variegated continent. It would be possible to continue almost indefinitely with suggestions for minor appointments in the first A SMART USED "If you've ever gone shopping for a used truck, you know as well as I do that it is not an easy job," says William L. Wolff, milkman. "But I've got the answer now. Don't shop around any more go to a Dodge dealer instead. There are two reasons why I say this. In the first place, Dodge dealers sell a lot of new Dodge trucks so they're bound to get a lot of good used trucks in trade. So they have plenty of stock to select just what you want. "In the second place, they have a new buying plan one that absolutely eliminates all guesswork. All you do is look for the Dodge deal-

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all-female administration but perhaps the presidentess should be allowed to fill some of the jobs herself. Phooie! In other words, the hot weather silly season is upon us and the "boom" for Dorothy Thompson is one of the best jokes of the decade. The only point at which one might express an air-conditioned surprise is that Miss Thompson, whose stern treble recently rebuked Mr. Roosevelt for playing "cheap politics" when he named a southern liberal to the supreme court, should have permitted her press-agents to play a very cheap sort of commercialism with the Presidency of the United States. But perhaps the proposal la just part of a new Tory propaganda campaign to destroy the dignity of the Presidency itself, by rendering it ridiculous in the eyes of those who might for a moment believe that there is any real danger of Miss Dorothy Thompson's becoming our chief magistratess. (Cnpyrisht, 1937)

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