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Show u i i.Ki.v M.u s t (. in' jo-irii ir. i.ni'.wv. U. S. Medical Croup Hits Claim That 10,000,000 Require Care: Call Health Program Needless 1 1:1)1 I OIL' A SOI I: M tirn opinions are rxprrd in lhfe column.-, lhy ! arr thiiii; of tlirr nt-w analyst and not n-i ily of tins newspaper.) j Ifeltr jse'l f, Wti'.ern N at,jf:r Union. j MKmeiNK: l.i-.i i f..r Uir Wn!M-r riuw t,.-f-.i- n,w:r.-.i ii tti claim that 40. J' (j'.fj II. S. cUl'T.s are withuut r i j . -. 1 1 c-. 1 c.ir.-. If i,.n,-d, the n.'-.n-ure wmi! 1 i.rovul.r f.'ti-rul suh ii'lu-J I .r cue i,f ttie lnihi-rit tick, iKi.'.iin'ih,? t.j $1U0 000. 000 the first year. Smh s.jri.ihatmn in stri-rm- ii.ly i..pjni Ly the American Mi -. Inr.i I u ts'iriatiiai. which surveyed I a al .hy.iiriain ut 747 counties in ::7 ulati t tu (Improve the government. govern-ment. Forty million people constitute roii.;hl one fourth the population. Of liu.ooo physicians surveyed, 17,000 lor one fourth the physicians in territories ter-ritories canvassed) reported free medical service to 2, 011,451 persons each year, plus 1, 1)00,713 hours of free hospital service each year. If all physicians furnish free service on tins tiasis, A. M. A. fiured that 10,0110,001) of the 43.000,000 people covered in its survey are fietlinR free service. On a nation-wide basis, ba-sis, multiplied by four, this would mean U. S. physicians are already taking care nf the 40.000.000 needy citi.ens Uncle Sam would help. Possible, though unsubstantiated, A M. A. fallacies: (1) "Free" services serv-ices may include ttiose to solvent patients (,'uilty of the jjood old American Amer-ican custom of not paying doctor bills; C! not risking free services (nor would they ask help under a U. S. program) are thousands of medicine's "forgotten men." low-salaried low-salaried white collar workers who can neither get relief nur pay doctor and hospital bills. Socialized medicine is one side of the problem, but A. M. A.'s President-elect Dr. Itnck Sleystcr of Wau-watosa. Wau-watosa. Wis., thought he knew a .- . - ... X- . ; - J I ft 1 A. M. A.'s DK. SLEYSTEK Is it all worth while? more basic side. Nationally known as a brain authority, President Sleystcr Sley-stcr pointed out that 10,000.000 of the nation's 130.000.000 people bear in their bodies seeds which may result re-sult occasionally in a feeble-minded child. Holding that mental troubles are the "greatest unsolved medical problem," he gloomily commented that medicine's strides in prolonging life have cost "far more than the goods are worth" if such protection from sickness brings unwillingness to battle against economic troubles. CONGRESS: Taxes Most U. S. business men have an opinion on why the nation is glutted with idle capital. Their explanation: explana-tion: Too much federal spending and excessive business taxes discourage dis-courage new enterprise. By coincidence. coinci-dence. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney's temporary national economics committee com-mittee began investigating this problem prob-lem just after the senate passed its huge farm bill, inciting a new congressional con-gressional argument over economy and tax revision versus early adjournment. ad-journment. Though the senate junked President Presi-dent Roosevelt's Florida ship canal, its farm bill spending spree gave the house courage to pass the record rec-ord S773.4Cv.000 naval appropriations appropria-tions bill. Tax revision apparently has a green light from the White House, but last January's anti-sycr.ciir.g anti-sycr.ciir.g talk has been forgotten under un-der pressure of 1940 elections. Xet gain: Nothing. If this is a neutralizing factor. General Electric Chairman Owen D. Young discussed a greater neutrali;-er neutrali;-er before Senator O'Mahoney's committee. com-mittee. His argument: Government should remove threats and restraints re-straints to business, thereby making mak-ing the administration's spending policies elective in putting idle capital cap-ital to work. Said he: "I do not believe be-lieve in . . . giving a stimulant and then neutralizing it." meaning that spending should only be used to boost lagging purchasing power. Crux of Mr. Young's argument against the undistributed promts levy is that most industries must expand with earnings retained for that purpose, pur-pose, an experience cf both General f!-'tr:c and U. S. Steel, whose Chairman F.dard R. Sti-ttini'js pre. ci-l.-d Mr. Your:;,' to the stand. G. F..'s chairman bi heves the excess profits tax should be modilied to stop penal. zifig business. With 000, 000, 000 in "nuisance" taxes and corporate levies expiring 1 I ' . .- ' V: , . i' . 'i i l t - - v, ' ... ? r. , J LlJ-A c A OWEN I). YOUNG If Ity Hculrulize a stimulant? this year, congress is scurrying around to replace them, remembering remember-ing but possibly revolting against the President's admonishment that (1) total revenues must not be decreased, de-creased, and (2) low income levies shall not be boosted. Already circulating circu-lating are plans to tap new tax sources for $3,100,000,000 by looking to liquor and tobacco; personal income, in-come, corporation income and manufacturers man-ufacturers sales taxes; tariffs, and taxes on state employees and securities. se-curities. RACES: Settlement? During the World war anxious Great Britain enlisted Arab aid with a hasty, ill-reasoned promise of independence in-dependence in Palestine. Britain also enlisted Jewish funds by promising prom-ising to make Palestine a homeland for Jews. Twenty years after Versailles Ver-sailles the bloody "holy war" which has kept British troops busy in Palestine Pal-estine shows no sign of abating. Last winter an Arab-Jewish conference in London failed because delegates refused to sit at the same table. Confronted with more pressing crises cri-ses in Europe, Britain finally decided decid-ed to dictate a settlement. Released in London was a white paper decision providing gradual relaxation re-laxation of British overlordship between be-tween now and 1944, during which 75.000 more Jews would be allowed to enter Palestine. Then, with population pop-ulation standing at 40 per cent Jewish Jew-ish and 60 per cent Arab, Britain would try to get delegates together to frame a constitution for the new independent state. Observers thought Britain's haste to reach a settlement had precipitated precipi-tated chaos. Since 20 years' expe-" rience have demonstrated that Jews and Arabs will not live under the same flag, it was quite obvious Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain might have made more permanent peace by following the original plan: Creation of independent Jewish and Arab states separated by a British neutral strip. SPAIN: Manna From France What happened to Loyalist Spain's huge gold reserve is a perplexing mystery, especially to money-hungry Gen. Francisco Franco, who needs it to rebuild his war-torn nation. na-tion. Part of Spain's gold rests in U. S. banks, another and larger part in France. Rumor has it that still more was shipped secretly to Mexico to support fleeing Loyalists. Several months ago France and Britain hoped to woo Dictator Franco Fran-co away from the Rome-Berlin axis with reconstruction loans which neither nei-ther Italy nor Germany could furnish. fur-nish. Rejecting direct Anglo-French help. Senor Franco joined the Axis and turned to international bankers. Seen recently in Paris was Paul Van Zeeland. former Belgian premier, pre-mier, internationally known economist econo-mist and banker, sounding out private pri-vate French banking sentiment on a $100,000,000 loan to Franco Spain. Planned by French. Dutch and Swiss firms, one-fourth of the loan would be underwritten in France, where bankers have overridden government gov-ernment objections. Premier Ed-ouard Ed-ouard Daladier wants no truck with Franco Spain unless a permanent neutrality agreement is extracted in return. Lif.ie does General Franco care about Premier Daladier" s attitude, however. Thoroughly angry over Spanish gold held in French banks, equally angry ever the 40.0C0 Basques who are drawing 15 francs a cay out cf funds brougb with them from Spain. Franco would gladly borrow from private French bankers. Ke might even find it expedient ex-pedient not to repay the loan until these bankers talk their government into returning Sp3''n's gold. ACKia I.'ll Til.: Looking Aluiid j LJ5t y -jr s ij:.'.-.l'..r a':t re- : ';..res f; '.a ti--.'.. j or: 'J.e q.an-t.'.y q.an-t.'.y i, f v.-.-jt ej::: tr-A-.r r.iy sell 1 v. .-..-n e s-;.;.:y reaches 1 '.:). f.'.'J L-.-:.i.-!i. A, t.-.e ;j:: e t.me, ex-ce-.s sriacs '',.!i ,'-t.fy Lit:- ! of a'::tj a" tmer.ti. Cr.iy a f.r'jv w.-i-kj -aii tr.e t.r-rjj if ar:- CL.l'.'ral tc j.'.orr..cs pre'-i.et-rd v.:.eat ! suppl. i-s w.,i;M ri-jch I.CI3 . t'.O bia,.-.i-:s by J-ily 1. o.-.iy 2.1 rJ.'.'.O bu-.hels short of the level at winch marketing quotas cuulj be enforced f-.r 1'JIO. A good crop this season rr.Uht j have driven surpluses over tnat mark, giving trie administration an embarrassing job cf clamping down cn wheat farmers during elect. on year. But unexpected dry weather in the spring wheat belt helped Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace Wal-lace justify radical changes in the department's original estimates: Original July 1 carryover figure was 275,000.000 bushels; Mr. Wallace dropped it to 270,000.000. Spring wheat was first placed at 200,000.000 bushels; Mr. Wallace made it 160,-000,000. 160,-000,000. Total current year's crop was first placed at 743.900.000; Mr. Wallace made it 704.000.000. Instead of 1,018.900,000 bushels, Mr. Wallace therefore got a July 1 total of 974,-000,000, 974,-000,000, well under the mandatory quota figure. To further placate rebellious re-bellious farmers during election year, he decided to let them plant 62,000,000 acres next year, 7.000.000 more than in 1939. Justification: The 974,000, 000-bushel estimate for this July 1 is 47,000,000 bushels under un-der last year. WHITE HOUSE: Menu President and Mrs. Roosevelt like simple food. When White Housekeeper House-keeper Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt translated trans-lated into English several menus served Britain's King George and Queen Elizabeth during last year's Paris visit she discovered they, too, liked simple food. Announced in .Washington was the "typical American" Amer-ican" menu scheduled June 8 when Britain's No. 1 citizens visit the No. 1 U. S. citizens: Clam cocktail Culw's head soup Broiled filet of flounder Mushroom and wine sauce Sliced tomatoes Boned capon Cranberry sauce Peas Buttered beets Sweet potato puffs Frozen cheese and cress salad Maple and almond ice cream Coffee Meanwhile the lady of British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay forwarded for-warded 1,300 invitations for the garden party her husband will give for the visiting sovereigns, leaving 13,000 other would-be guests sulking sulk-ing out in the cold. ASIA: Rebuff Thus far self-righteous Japan has met little resistance from Western democracies in such bold land-steals as Hainan island and Canton. In early May, Tokyo informed British and American ambassadors that she wanted greater voice in rule of Shanghai's vital international settlement. set-tlement. A few days later she landed land-ed marines in the international settlement set-tlement (Kulangsu) of Araoy after a Japanese naval commander charged his life had been endangered endan-gered in a street brawl. If Britain thought of following precedent and bowing to Jap demands, de-mands, the U. S. also followed precedent prec-edent by setting Japan back on its heels. Within 24 hours American, British and French marines were pulled ashore at Amoy, a gentle hint which Japan's bluejackets accepted ac-cepted by bouncing back to their l v. J AMBASSADOR GREW He answered Japan in hind. own warships. At the same time, in Tokyo, U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew expressed his government's views on Shanghai: "The government of the U. S. is constrained to point out . . . that conditions in the Shanghai area are ... so far from normal . . . that there is totally lacking a basis for discussion looking uward an orderly settlement cf the complicated problems prob-lems involved." Placing the shoe on another foot, the U. S. ignored Japan's demands for a greater measure of control in the settlement's political and economic eco-nomic lLt'e. demanding instead that Japan return to the settierrent land lying north cf Shanghai'! Soochow creek. |