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Show THE PAGE TWO AGRICULTURE: Looking Ahead WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS liY JOSEPH W. LaRlNE U. S. Medical Group Hits Claim That 40,000,000 Require Care; Call Health Program Needless Electric and U. S. Steel, whose Chairman Edward R. Stettinius pre. ceded Mr. Young to the stand. G. E.'s chairman believes the excess profits tax should be modified to stop penalizing business. With $2,000,000,000 in "nuisance" taxes and corporate levies expiring MEDICINE: 40,000,000? Basis for the Wagner bill now before congress is the claim that U. S. citizens are without medical care. If passed, the measure would provide federal subsidies for care of the indigent sick, amounting to $100,000,000 the first year. Such socialization is strenuously opposed by the American Medical association, which surveyed local physicians of 747 counties in 37 states to disprove the govern- ment. Forty million people constitute the population. roughly Of 20,000 physicians surveyed, 17,000 or the physicians in territories canvassed) reported free medical service to 2,611,451 persons each year, plus 1,909,713 hours of free hospital service each year. If all physicians furnish free service on this basis, A. M. A. figured that 10,000,000 of the 43,000,000 people covered in its survey are getting bafree service. On a nation-wid- e sis, multiplied by four, this would mean U. S. physicians are already taking care of the 40,000,000 needy citizens Uncle Sam would help. Possible, though unsubstantiated, A M. A. fallacies: (1) "Free" serv-'ce- s may include those to solvent patients guilty of the good old American custom of not paying doctor bills; (2) not asking free services (nor would they ask help under a U. S. program) are thousands of medicine's "forgotten men," white collar workers who can neither get relief nor pay doctor and hospital bills. Socialized medicine is one side of the problem, but A. M. A.'s President-elect Dr. Rock Sleyster of Wis., thought he knew a t one-fourt- h ff ' ;V - - I t h. ' , p? t '- ; - V fj v; WHITE HOUSE: Menu this year, congress is scurrying around to replace them, remembering but possibly revolting against the President's admonishment that (1) total revenues must not be decreased, and (2) low income levies shall not be boosted. Already circulating are plans to tap new tax sources for $3,160,000,000 by looking to liquor and tobacco; personal income, corporation income and manufacturers sales taxes; tariffs, and taxes on state employees and securities. Wau-watos- a. RACES: X Settlement? rj During the World war anxious Great Britain enlisted Arab aid with a hasty, promise of independence in Palestine. Britain also enlisted Jewish funds by promising to make Palestine a homeland for Jews. .Twenty years after Verv " i sailles the bloody "holy war" which has British troops busy in Pal, 1 estinekept X shows no sign of abating. Last h winter an conference in London failed because delegates refused to sit at the same table. Confronted with more pressing cri ses in Europe, Britain finally decided to dictate a settlement. Released in London was a white paper decision providing gradual relaxation of British overlordship between now and 1944, during which 75,000 more Jews would be allowed to enter Palestine. Then, with population standing at 40 per cent Jewish and 60 per cent Arab, Britain would try to get delegates together A. M. A.'s OR. SLEYSTER to frame a constitution for the new Is it all worth while? independent state. more basic side. Nationally known Observers thought Britain's haste to reach a settlement had precipias a brain authority. President Sleyster pointed out that 10,000,000 of the tated chaos. Since 20 years' expenation's 130,000,000 people bear in rience have demonstrated that Jews their bodies seeds which may re- and Arabs will not live under the sult occasionally in a feeble-minde- d same flag, it was quite obvious child. Holding that mental troubles Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain are the "greatest unsolved medical might have made more permanent problem," he gloomily commented peace by following the original plan: that medicine's strides in prolonging Creation of independent Jewish and life have cost "far more than the Arab states separated by a British neutral strip. goods are worth" if such protection from sickness brings unwillingness to battle against economic troubles, SPAIN: u i Arab-Jewis- W Two years ago, on June 3, 1937, a king married a commoner at Monts, France. Still exiled from his native England, apparently resigned to a life of inconsequence, the duke of Windsor lives contentedly in France with his American born wife, the former Mrs. Wallis W ar field Simpson. Some day he hopes to return to England with "the woman I love." Meanwhile the Windsors make the most of an uncomfortable situation. 1 Clam cocktail Calve'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 NEWS s WEEK 'iriilirffli'iiij r - By LEMUEL F. PARTON YORK. An ecstatic young newspaper woman, reporting on Dr. Herbert Feis of the state department, averred that his dream-..- . XJEW Above: They frequent- - -- pJ I Vfef ly appear at public ceremonies, as when this f picture was taken with Maxime Real del Sarte, who presented them l with his medallion of Queen Victoria, uhich ( will become part of a monument to be erected at Biarritz. Right: An unusual camera study j of the duchess. , f- - Taxes Most U. S. business men have an opinion on why the nation is glutted with idle capital. Their explanation: Too much federal spending and excessive business taxes discourage new enterprise. By coincidence. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney's ifSt fl ' Ed-oua- . . i : f 'lU.l uZwl Jff 4' V 1 ' '1 VrTf ' PI 1 , f i j -w Picture - ' ft ' -- iAv p --,,: t - ' sCamd ' ' v1 1 - 3 ifyh ":irj ) I i h ' I . v , " -- . : t y " fit t 'jr A . W , Above: Night club life like this has recently become less im- . i. rr., f .. Grace Moore, American singer, who stirred a controversy among British, at the Riviera when she . t i .i royaiifnon' gave i ne aucness ine or of a deep curtsy in public last winter. Below: Last autumn the duke and duchess of Gloucester visited the Windsors in Paris, giving rise to reports that Edward and his wife may soon return to the British Isles. L.iri i , !i j f " , s V .'.! Sfn AMBASSADOR GREW lit 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. ts constrained to point out , . . that conditions in the Shanghai area are so far from normal . . . that there is totally larking a basis for discussion looking toward an orderly settlement of the complicated problems involved." Placing the shoe on another foot, the V. S. Ignored Japan's demands for a greater mcrsure of Control in the sctt!( merit's P' lit ral and ecoin !ead that nomic l..' d mn-d- .rj Japan return to the f ."' tr.- K tnnd J a,if ;,' ai's o. how 'v;n2 nort.i '1 ? ' ' 5 l hmd urn. in ' ft 4 jfctf ... CI l l A. n r 'J Life's Battle X7"E ish mathema tician. like Is stretchable, unlike the swingtime or springtime of youth all of which was expounded in different terms by the aging Montaigne and in this time zone there may be written off. or at least discounted, much im minent disaster; and somehow in this temporal king's-- x irresistible bodies may meet immovable masses without any bystanders getting hurt I have known wise old gentlemen who carried their In one in the pocket and their Tau-tim- e other. Such Is the (in Tau time) Lucius N. Littauer, whose $3,000,000 Littauer center is dedicat ed at Harvard. His foundation was established to "bring about a better understanding among mankind." It was Mr. Littauer who, as congressman from New York, sponsored and established the United States bureau of standards. It worked out nicely. Uniformity In machine appliances and spare parts was easily attained. Moving from machines Into social adaptations and adjustments, Mr. Littauer found human variables could not as yet be calculated like metal variables. Hence his new bureau of human standards at Harvard. Like the late Chauncey M. Depew, he has been honored by statue in his own town, during his lifetime. The town Is Gloversville, N. Y., where, after his graduation from Harvard, he picked up his father's His glove manufacturing business. later years have been absorbed in his manifold philanthropies, to which he has given many millions of dollars. Thinking in Mr. Milne's long stretch of time, he is calmly assured that. In due time, all will be well with the world, but that "we must oppose absolutism in any guise, from any source." His father, a native of Rrrs-laGermany, passed on to him hrritace of Carl Kehurj liber-aliwhich perhaps could be fittingly measured against Frits Kuhn's Importation. Just In passing, he p'avrd on Harvard's first football learn and rowed on its first rrew bai k in his Tau-tim- e days. toward perpetuating the moral life of humanity. We are descendants, and somebody is responsible for us. We are progenitors, and We are responsible for somebody. QUICK iU, ESSENTIAL LIBERTY tea-tim- e. T-ti- tCunsui'duted ARE constantly speaking of the "struggle for life," and calling life "a battle"; but we do not see that our very existence, and the fact that we have a battle to fight, are due to the struggles and triumphs of those who have gone before us. We think that some strange thing has happened to us, and that our lot is an unusually hard one. But such thoughts are altogether unworthy. Our fathers found life as hard a battle as we do, and if they had not fought we should not be alive to fight. Every stage of human history is the outworking of the same destiny; and it is in fulfilling ours, and entering well info the struggle for 'life as arranged for us, that we do our part distin- 8uished Brit" m ' 10-in- the u, I 6307 Think how your finest china will sparkle on a filet cloth formed of these luxurious squares and what could be more appropriate for a dinner cloth than this choice grape Crochet these design? squares (smaller in finer cotton) of mercerized string. Make a scarf as well. Pattern 6307 contains instructions and charts for making the square; materials needed; illustration of square and of stitches. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th St., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, address and pattern number plainly. explained by E. A. Milne, a ormg HumanVariablea Into Uniformity - A . .v' - Pattern PHILOSOPHERS getting on in life 1 are apt to think in as contrasted with our workaday Tau time, both of which are currently nupvm i k I V? Pk'illz- thinking of rubber and tin. John Masefield had some such thoughts in mind when he wrote This poet, however, "Cargoes." scans only trade balances, and his dreams are precise and statistical. Dr, Feis is economic adviser to the state department, and it was he who schemed the barter deal by which we would acquire needed rubber and tin and get rid of the necklace of millstones hung around Uncle Sam's neck In the form of that d government-ownesurplus of bales of cotton. The news from London is that the barter deal Is under way, Prime Minister Chamberlain having informed parliament that negotiations have been opened. Wheat also will be included In the bargaining, as England needs both wheat and cotton as much as we need rubber and tin. Here may be a working commodity axis, which Machiavelli so vehemently declared was always more important in the long run than any political axis. And, incidentally, Dr. Feis has read Machiavelli. He is a hold-ove- r from the Hoover regime, appointed to his present post by Secretary Stimson, who was impressed with the insight and information in Dr. Feis' book, "Europe the World's Banker." He has been used by the department in clarifying confusion and in boiling down vague policies to definite procedure. Dr. Feis is a New Yorker with a Harvard Ph. D. He was professor of economics at the University of Kansas and the University of Cincinnati and direc-torcof research forthe council or foreign relations. Like many men given to meditation, he smokes a pipe, blows rings and comes out of the haze with an Idea or hunch as sharply defined as if it had been cut by s lapidary. e, -. 1,.,..,1,MI,1raWpl.W.,.,,.- Anglo-Frenc- one-fourt- , j. Thus far Japan has met little resistance from western n g , V'" 5 A n temporary national economics committee began investigating this problem Just after the senate passed its huge farm bill, inciting a new congressional argument over economy and tax revision versus early adnish. Rejecting direct journment. Though the senate junked Presihelp, Senor Franco joined the Axis dent Roosevelt's Florida ship canal, and turned to international bankers. Seen recently in Paris was Paul its farm bill spending rpree gave Van Zeeland. former Belgian prethe house courage to pass the recnaval appropriatord $773,420,000 mier, internationally known econoions bill. Tax revision apparently mist and banker, sounding out prihas a green light from the White vate French banking sentiment on a $100,000,000 loan to Franco Spain. House, but last January's talk has been forgotten unPlanned by French, Dutch and of the loan der pressure of 1940 elections. Net Swiss firms, would be underwritten in France, gain: Nothing. If this is a neutralizing factor. where bankers have overridden govGeneral Electric Chairman Owen D. ernment objections. Premier r Daladier wants no truck with Young discussed a greater neutrahz-eFranco Spain unless a permanent before Senator O'Mahoney's committee. His argument: Government neutrality aRrecmcnt is extracted in remove threats and re- return. should Little does Goneral Franco care straints to business, thereby making the administration's spending nbi ut Premier Dalailier's attitude, policies effective In putting idle cap- however. Thoroughly angry over ital to work. Said he: "1 do not beSpanish gold held in French banks, over the 40,000 lieve in . . giving a stimulant and equally angry then neutralizing it," meaning hai Basques who are drawing 15 francs spending should only be used to a day out of funds brought with Franco would them from boost lagging purchasing pi.A.r. Crux "f Mr- Ymirg's nn; inv,; g'-- !'y horrow fr"fi ; riv.i'e French b.:re:er-!- . H" nrr.' t fv;i fiA. ,.x. Bgmnst the undistributed pr"iH oe nt not to n ii.iy tiie loan until ;:nd is that most industries must i ri. merit banker talk the.r th; with earnings retained for tMt i an experience f both Gen ra! iri'u rt'iiniini.' Spain's )!d. ' 'AS !V tfsl-- I What happened to Loyalist Spain's huge gold reserve is a perplexing mystery, especially to money-hun- . gry Gen. Francisco Franco, who naneeds it to rebuild his war-tortion. Part of Spain's gold rests in U. S. banks, another and larger part in France. Rumor has it that still more was shipped secretly to Mexico to support fleeing Loyalists. Several months ago France and Britain hoped to woo Dictator Franco away from the Rome-Berliaxis with reconstruction loans which neither Italy nor Germany could fur- ' , ' V$.& Xf Manna From France CONGRESS: " f '5 M. M .fe-3;;- fa, J ASIA: Rebuff ls THIS v 'iff i H fa ; "re-tltsty- Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay forwarded 1,300 invitations for the garden party her husband will give for the visiting sovereigns, leaving 13,000 other would-b- e guests sulking out in the cold. democracies in such bold land-steaas 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 A few days later she landed marines in the international settlement (Kulangsu) of Amoy after a Japanese naval commander charged his life had been endangered in a street brawl. If Britain thought of following precedent and bowing to Jap demands, the U. S. also followed 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 by bouncing back to their Using But One Square Ketlect Uteyes fleeted the soul Poetry; Mind on ol a young He Rubber and Tin SheVey." may look that way, but the chances are that he is s President and Mrs. Roosevelt like simple food. When White Housekeeper Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt translated 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" menu scheduled June 8 when Britain's No. 1 citizens visit the No. 1 U. S. citizens: Of Mercerized String, WHO'S if 2ndAnniversary 0, OWEN D. YOUNG Why neutralize a stimulant? low-salari- fir Last year's agriculture act requires quota elections on the quantity of wheat each grower may sell when the supply reaches 1,021,000,- 000 bushels. At the same time, surpluses would justify lowering of acreage allotments. Only a few weeks ago the bureau of agricultural economics predicted wheat supplies would reach 1,018,900,000 bushels by July 1, only 2,100,000 bushels short of the level at which marketing quotas could be enforced for 1940. A good crop this season might have driven surpluses over that mark, giving the administration an embarrassing job of clamping down on wheat farmers during election year. But unexpected dry weather in the spring wheat belt helped Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace 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 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 well under the mandatory quota figure. To further placate rebellious farmers during election year, he decided to let them plant 62,000,000 acres next year, 7,000,000 more than in 1939. Justification: estimate for The 974,000,000-bushe- l this July 1 is 47,000,000 bushels under last year. 0. one-fourt- h : Thursday, May 25, 1939 NEPHI. UTAH S. Windsors Mark ex-ce- (EDITOR' S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. TIMES-NEW- Featur WN'U Service. I can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin. ''TpITEY that NERVOUS? Do yon feel wo nervotn yon want to scream? Arc you erou and irritable? Do you scold tboee dearest to you? 11 your nerves are on odrs and voa feel u need a rood renermi system tonic try ydia E. 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