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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Jhe American Farm Family Is How Enjoying the Conveniences and Benefits of Prepaid Hospital Care Through Blue Cross Hospital Service Plans Swine industry Develops Feed Conservation Plan C. D. Carpenter Helps Hog Growers Solve THIS , I did. Dollar a Year Clifford D. Carpenter carries the title of "special assistant to the chief of the feed and livestock branch of the food production administration of the War Food administration. For that long title, he gets the short fee of a dollar a year. He has no desire to remain a public servant. He wants to get back to his business. But he is enthusiastic over the present swine program which he and his colleagues of the industry have worked out, a part of which is the conservation, not the waste, of feed. I asked why, when his business was to sell the farmer as much feed as he could? Because, he said, "the success of the feed business lies in having efficient customers, not careless wasters. One of the ways we helped to increase the poultry output was to teach the farmer to stop waste. For instance, you have no Idea how much was saved by having the farmer put a rim on the edge of his feed troughs so the chicks would not spill almost as much as they ate, and what saved even more than that was something much simpler we got the farmer to s fill the feed receptacles full instead of brimming. f He went on at some length on this subject, especially emphasizing that the interests of the consumer and the producer are the same in the end and each profits by the others efficiency that, be pointed out, is the benefit derived from business in government, one of the good results which many persons feel will come by having businessmen in the many government agencies. three-fourth- Profitable Patriotism The whole swine program has been tailored by the businessmen" of the swine industry and that includes the farmer who raises the hogs, for he is a businessman, too has to be if he succeeds Last month, In Chicago, a group Of these men got together, representatives of hog farmers, the breeders, the veterinarians, the packers, the feed men, the equipment manufacturers everybody interested in the whole cycle from the shoats first squeal to the dining table. Its patriotic to make your herd prontabIe" was the slogan this e group worked out which was a y with a kick you can turn it around and it Is just as sen-tenc- two-wa- BRIEFS When RCAF searching aircraft locate stranded airmen but cannot get to them, a trained pigeon is dropped In a metal waterproof container hitched to a small parachute. The stranded men then send the paratrooper bird back with a message of their neds and condition, accoiding to the Canadian information bulletin, Weekly Editor Looks at Ottawa. is the story of t the in' ment that is adding to the health and peace of mind of millions Seven years of Americans. ago there were fewer than and Commentator. your plate." That was the statement once mde by a famous British mustard manufacturer. In other words, the consumers waste is the producers gain. The proposition seems logical enough and nobody could blame the mustard-make- r for hoping that you and I would be as profligate with our condiment as possible. On that basis, I was recently surprised to learn that the government had called In a man in the feed business and paid him a dollar a year to help solve the feed problem. I wondered if It wasnt just possible that maybe the consumer was going to suffer. I had a talk with some members of the department of agriculture after I learned that this gentleman had done so much for the poultry raisers that they picked him to help on the a.ine program which is as closely connected with the feed problem as the fly is with the flypaper. , "Why should you pick a man whose interest it is to have the farmer consume as much feed as possible, when there isnt enough feed to go around now?" I asked. This whole program," the government official told me, is worked out by the swine industry itself; the men who produce the hogs, the men who process them, help feed them, distribute them. Thats the point. The government merely cooperates. You had better talk to Mr. Carpenter." (1) better breeding to improve the size and quaEty of litters (2) conservation of available feed stock $ ji 3 ST I V log-ja- L V'- - 1 1 v, '"" A yl d A,.1 x,' I , rf ' - " 1 'J i st j? der the stimulation of wartime conditions, has become a $100,000,000 a year business. And, as the result of the Blue Cross Hospital Service plan, sponsored by the American Sis Is visited by Mother and Dad, Blue Cross hospital plan subscribers. Hospital association, Mr. John Q. Citizen, one of these operatives, creameries, and other From Minnesota farm bureau asso14,000,000, has the assurance sponsorship of prepaid hospital care has spread to other states notably that, should illness or acci- ciations. dent make hospital care necIn the cities, workers who are buy- Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North now memsome ing hospital protection pay for it by Dakota and Oklahoma, until essary for him or there are 15 in which farm bureau ber of his family, his pocket-boo- k payroll deduction. Farmers, who en- federation members may take adwill not be suddenly and roll through banks, authorize those of Blue Cross plans through vantage deducinstitutions to make periodic devastatingly depleted: And tions from their checking their unit groups. In December, or savings the peace of mind which accounts to pay the required fees. 1942, the American Farm bureau at comes from the assurance of Where they enroll through cream- its annual meeting in Chicago wrote that fact has been purchased eries or cooperatives, periodic de- into its nationwide program of work by John Q. at an average cost ductions are made from their cream a strong indorsement of the nonof less than five cents a day! or grain checks and those who en- profit group hospital care plans and (3) reduction of loss through ease and parasites (4) Improved management for greater efficiency and production. More specifically, the five things necessary to produce the feed which is necessary to reach the animal food stuff goals are these: (1) to feed no more than 14 pounds of feedstuff for one animal unit (2) to achieve the maximum use of pasture and grazing land (3) to sell the animal for meat, before It becomes an Inefficient converter of feed into food (4) to stop the loss caused by rats or spoilage or wastage In other ways However, the significant fact (5) to bring about a higher standabout this story for readers of this ard in health in animals. newspaper is that the group hosTrue Cooperation pital service plan has spread to the Those who are directly concerned rural areas of the nation and is In the production of swine are about rapidly becoming as common as it to have the information that this has been in metropolitan centers. Of meeting developed placed before course, it has always been true that them emphatically In the farm trade farmers and members of their famipapers, over the radio, In lectures, lies get sick or have accidents just from the county agents, and through as do factory workers. The same is their owm organizations, so I wont true of employees of business firms go into it in detail. But the point in villages and small towns. In that many will not realize is that fact, both classes need help and here has been a real achievement often are less able to pay hospital brought abaut by the cooperation of bill3 than are the middle class or groups in the big cities. Industry and government These hardhearded businessmen So there was quite as much reason low-cohave produced a program which for their having the benefit of planned and "prepaid hospital their action committee is going to do its best to put into effect through the care as for their city cousins having various means of publicity and edu- it. The principal reason why they cation which I mentioned. It was didnt get it sooner lay in certain factors which are the very heart unanimously agreed that the producers should plan to finish hogs at of the planned hospital care idea. Of is group 200 to 240 pounds in order to make those factors the word more efficient use of the feed and the key. First of all, enrollment of memfor the production of more meat bers in such a plan has to be through and less lard per unit of feed. They also emphasize the need of taking groups and these groups have to be full advantage of clean pastures and large enough so that, as in any insurance of this one type, their memthey point out that the saving of from 5 per cent to 10 per cent oi bers are "good risks. With the poputhe gram, and from 30 per cent to lation so scattered in rural areas, it 40 per cent of the protein supple- - seemed that it would be almost imments can thus be made for grow- - possible either to enroll people or to make collections from them. It Ing and fattening hogs. There are recommendations for the control of seemed also that groups would be so diseases, parasites and various other small and so few that each subdetailed instructions that are going scriber would be in effect an indito be available in attractive printed vidual subscriber, hence a hazardform and distributed to the hog pro- ous risk. Then, too, it was believed that the people of rural America, ducers in all parts of the country, are such indiAnd It Isnt Uncle Sam who is especially farmers, vidualists and independent thinkers "telling 'em. that they could not be enrolled in They are telling each other ior hospitalization groups large enough each others benefit. to be Comes the Blue Cross. For these, and other, reasons the Manpower Needs While everybody is talking aboui earliest plans for hospital care demobilization, it seems strange were concentrated in the big cities that mobilization in many fields is where large industries, whose emstill far from being complete. There ployees were numbered by the thouare crying needs for man and worn-a- n sands, offered the best opportunity power in two phases of the war for handling such insurance on a effort causing seHous trouble. group basis. Then came the organiThe National Advisory Committee zation of the Hospital Service Plan for Aeronautics, which is the federal commission of the American Hospigovernments experimental and sci- tal association to sponsor the "Blue Blue Cross is entific research organization, needs Cross movement. Without this comple- a genera term which Identifies the 1,500 men. ment, the NACA director of per- 77 group plans for hospital care sonnel says the development and which meet the standards of comproduction of new and improved munity service, professional sponsorship, aircraft is being hampered. organization and financial solvency and which have The need is localized in laboratories at Langley Field, Va., Moffett been approved by the American Hosassociation. Field, Calif, and Cleveland, Ohio. pital Not only did the Blue Cross moveEngineers, physicists, chemists, ma- ment expand the planned hospital chinists, toolmakers, sheet metal care idea in the cities but it was instrument workers, makers, engine for its moving chiefly responsible mechanics, electricians, pattern makers and other skilled tradesmen out into the country. It spread to the smaller cities and towns first and are needed. then out to the farms. Its true that At the same time, the National farmers are independent thinkers Womens Advisory committee of the but, as one of the pioneer woikers War Manpower commission reports In the rural field has stated, they that the womens corps of the variare also shrewd buyers and are ous armed services are falling far to take to something once its short of their enlistment quotas and quick value has been proved. So now many thousands of women also are farmers are being enrolled through needed in areas of labor shortage. with which they do business banks, The committee is uiging womens and which are willing to cooperate, organizations throughout the country through their farm bureaus, their to undertake the recruitment job as granges, their farmers unions, co- a major war effort. dis- r s 4 I if h its Specific Measures y i " iwt 6. true its profitable to make a patriotic herd. 600,000 of those Americans. These experts decided that there Today there are more than was plenty of feed obtainable In 14,000,000 more than one-ten- th America to meet the war goals, prowhole our of population vided that certain conditions are and likely that by the carried out. They agreed on four number principles, all of which lead to mak- end of the year that to will 18,000,000. risen have efficient which they producers ing all decided is both patriotic and This movement is group profitable. These principles are: hospital insurance which, un- farmer-busine- ss roll through the grange, farm bureau or farmers union pay their fees on a quarterly, semiannual or annual basis, mostly the latter two. How the Plan Works. J Although there are 77 different group plans for hospital care and they differ from each other in some minor details, here is the , essential method of their operation: The hospitals in a certain region city, county or state guarantee hospital service to Blue Cross subscribers, whether they are members of groups in factories, city offices, educational institutions, clubs, union organizations or farm groups, who have agreed to pay a certain amount for this service at regular intervals. This amount varies somewhat according to the group plan. Membership costs from $7.20 to $10.20 a year for one person and from $15 to $24 a year for the member and his family, including his wife and all unmarried children under the age of 18. In Minnesota, where the pioneering work in farm enrollment was done, there is a plan which offers a man complete coverage for himself and 50 per cent discounts for his wife and children at $12 a year, plus $3 for each adult dependent. In return for these payments the insured, or member of his family, who has to go to a hospital gets a e room, his meals, general nursing, anesthetics, special diets, dressings, laboratory tests. and operating room charges. (This does not include, however, the physicians or surgeons fees.) He can enter any one of the countrys approved, registered hospitals, that is those hospitals recognized as meeting the standards of the American Medical association or state and local agencies. If for any reason one of these hospitals cant take him in because of lack of room, some of the plans pay back double the years premium, but many of them provide cash payments for home care equivalent to the amount that the hospital care would have been worth. However, there have been very few instances when a Blue Cross member couldnt get into a hospital becaue the number of these institutions which participate in the plan is 2,500 with 80 per cent of the bed capacity of all the hospitals in the United States open to the public. Reference has been made to the pioneering work done in Minnesota in rural enrollment in hospital plans. It began in 1938 under the auspices of the farm bureau in Hennepin county with 42 family contracts for a total service coverage of 90 persons. Since then farm bureau memberships in that state have increased to 6,200 contracts with 22,400 persons covered for hospital care. These, in 325 local units in 61 counties, have found the plan highly successful and satisfactory. There are 87 counties in the state and a total of 1,200 farm bureau units so that s of all the counties In Minnesota now have units enrolled in the Blue Cross and more than one fourth of the units are already protecting themselves against sudden hospitalization costs. low-inco- st semi-privat- non-prof- it ' t. growing moveone in the country By BAUKIIAGE WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. When I learned that a former feed man had been the moving spirit in drawing up the present swine program which you'll be hearing about shortly, I recalled an adage I once heard in London: The profit in the mustard business is in the mustard you leave on AvAi Released by Westers Newspaper Union. Problems; Program Tailored by Cooperative Business Men of Agricuiiure. News Analyst G jpqMJlUW By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Washington, D. C. PROMOTIONS ARMY BLOCKED The army is pulling all sorts of wires backstage in the senate to break the against permanent wartime promotions especially those of General Somervell and IMW-- ' WWWtGX three-fourth- other rural health developments that lead themselves to farm family unit aetion. However, the farm bureau is not the only agency through which the hospital plan is being carried to the farms of the nation. In Hillsdale county, Mich., the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance company, a cod operative, was used as the group through which to put the hospital plan into' operation. In northern Illinois, the Northern Illinois Hospital service, serving 11 counties and their small towns, ranging in population from 300 to 1,500, have worked In with Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs, with womens clubs, PTAs, Veterans of Foreign Wars posts and home churches, farm bureaus, bureaus and granges. As a result in these 11 counties more than 4,500 farm families, representing 13,500 individuals are Blue Cross members. Combined Business Groups. In North Carolina a great many of the small groups in the small towns are enrolled as combined business groups. This type of enrollment means combining many small businesses Into a group, getting 75 per cent or more of the employes in these various small concerns to become members of the Blue Cross. In some of these combined groups, as many as 800 persons join. These groups consist of drug stores, grocery stores, warehouses etc. The FSA has also been active in cooperating with the Blue Cross plans in North Carolina and other states in bringing prepaid hospital care to low income families. , Indicative of the way in which small town and rural America is enlisting under the Blue Cross banner are these facts taken at random from many examples. In one Iowa town of 592 population, 445 or 75 per cent have enrolled in a hospital care plan and in another town of 4,405, a total of 2,214 or' 50 per cent have joined. In one Wisconsin community the local power company acts as collector and remitting agent and the people of the community who have enrolled pay for this insur-anc- e along with their monthly elec-tri- e bills. This town has a population of 1,000 and out of a possible 450 persons employed in the town, 155 have enrolled, there being 105 family contracts and 41 individual contracts. Such instances could be multiplied indefinitely. From all of which it is evident that rural America is indeed shrewd buyers and quick to take to something once its value has been proved." As for proving its value, ask the Blue Cross member in New York state who was recently hospitalized for 53 days. His contract covered him for 23 days of one contract year and 28 days of the new year, a total of 51 days. His total hospital bill was $300.55, When he was ready to be discharged from the hospital, he was handed a hospital service credit of $238 30, That meant he had to pay in cash to the hospital only $12.25. It s a thrill that comes once in a lifetime," he said. And then, quite naturally, he added, "I think service is a great idea." already-establishe- hok-pit- Membership Grows From 500,000 to 11 Million in Seven Years Protection of Americans C. by Baukhnpe The U. S. army will need 75,000 to 100,000 men monthly to maintain its peak sttength of 7,700,000 persons. according to the war department. The navy will need 400.000 additional pci sonnet by September 1 to git the navy, marine corps and Coast guard up to peak strength oi 3,500,000 . Huy War Bonds , and their families against the costs of hospital care was extended to more than 13,000.000 persons in 1943, when 2 600,000 additional participants m the United States and Canada e'ected to enroll tn Blue Cioss Plans. This figure is exclusive of 750,000 suspended cmitiacts held by subscribes in the armed forces, who may" renew pioteetion upon their return to civilian life. These facts aie revealed by ! Rufus Rorem, director of the Hospital Service Plan commission, which the activities and approves the policies of 78 Blue Cross Plans located in 33 states and seven Canadian provinces. The proportion of family dependents enrolled has steadily iricren-cd- , from 37 per cent in 1937 to the present 51 per cent, thus indicating a giowing desue by cummemai, and industrial employers and employees to protect their wives ngrl-cultji- General Patton. The senate military affairs committee some time ago proposed a policy against rushing through permanent promotions in wartime, arguing that temporary promotions were sufficient and that permanent promotions could come after the war when the senate and the public could survey all of an officers record. Some senators still remember the manner In which General Pershing was jumped from the rank of captain to brigadier general after he married the daughter of Sen. Francis E. Warren, then chairman of the military affairs committee; and they recall also the resentment this caused in the army. However, the policy of blocking permanent wartime promotions is being opposed by the armys efficient lobby on Capitol Hill; and recently, a new move was made to put through promotions for Generals Patton and Somervell. Their names had been before a subcommittee which was adamant Patton is now against promotion. only colonel though holding the temporary rank of lieutenant generaL SomerveEs rank is similar. So Chairman Bob Reynolds of the military affairs committee put their names before a subcommittee Including himself, Elbert Thomas of Utah, and Warren Austin of Vermont. Significantly sandwiched in between Pattons and Somervell's t, names is that of General now a prisoner in Japan, whom every senator is anxious to promote. So it will be difficult for the subcommittee to promote one without the other two. Wain-wrigh- Mon Making Notes In a Night Club: Islands of celebs . . The L cla;;l off-ke- y i of converse plates and bruising the boogie-woo- . . Brow, from table to table, colyl searching for. paragraphs. Cast" pearls before swine, ha ha. d gers curdled with age eruisuw 1 Eke battleships that have just L" launched. . , Bores anchors tables waiting for the check to picked up. . . Nibbling on a ,l0e' dish of hope, flops sitting fi0r twiddling their thoughts. . . pw gals wrapped in tight gowns, ti put every curve in italics. . . Drur'. riveted to the bar making pnv tragedies pubHc. ho-hu- m v In secluded corners, lovers ft, gling happiness at the tip of tlt hearts. . . Biggies draped acre chairs acting as if they were throne. , . . Movie stars making entrance' like a parade of ovt an invisible carpet of stares. Members of the j greeting each other with snubdue. expressions. . . Cigaret gals whom, LoveEer than many of the around them. . . Trouble makers trying to create a bonfire scandal by rubbing two ugly wh., pers together. , . The monologue ci a visiting Hollywood producer pun, tuated by the expressive eyebros Of his Esteners. one-wal- king Ufted-punk- y oi The Magic Lanterns: Packed tb more action, "Buffalo BE1 is a biografilm of a fabulous Amencsj during the pioneer era when mac best friend was his McCrea stars. Linda Darnell s Maureen OHaras beauty are asn citing as the gun play. . . The 4 B Town In its knee-pant- s days pr vides the background for Knicitr bocker Holiday." Nelson Eddy baritone contributes a bouquet Junes in full bloom. . , The purge: short yarn, "Address Ih GRILLING GENERAL HERSHEY anti-NaDraft director Lewis B. Hershey known, becomes a vivid film stuc and manpower boss Paul McNutt of the present Nazi degeneratio: came in for some rough handling re- Paul Lukas adds to his acta; garding the bungled draft situation laurels. . . Raiders of Red Gap buzzes out of Moviebqrgs at a closed-doo- r meeting of the house mihtary affairs committee the other with more sting than honey. . Hot Rhythm is what Hollywo: day. Members took their hair down and said a lot of things that have can turn out in its sleep. Listing 5 been rankling in their bosoms about cast would be more of an expc conflicting draft orders which have than pubEcity. promoted confusion. The Networks: Fred Allens cor After the meeting adjourned, the committee announced that it had re- crack about the fellow wearing fused to approve a labor draft bilL overseas cap, a sports jacket, kh, Inside fact, however, is that formal pants, suede shoes, etc., action against the labor draft was just turned 26 and does taken only after the committee had know if hes coming or going beard a furious grenading against first rate. . . Radio jesters have n the Hershey-McNuteam, including versed a show business traditic. a demand that both be fired and reStooges used to be the butt of n comics quips. Now radios stoop: a placed by single draft czar. Chairman Andrew J. May of Ken- are given the most generous pc tucky, Rep. Walter G. Andrews of tions of the punchlines. . . Nora New York, ranking committee Re- Corwin, one of the few radio write publican and Reps. Ewing Thoma- who drape radio drama with k son of Texas, John M. Costello of pants, deserves a salute for his to1 California, Leslie Arends of Illinois pendence. He informed an lute and Forest Harness of Indiana all yiewer that he has turned dc got in some forthright licks against sponsors for fear they won't allc the fumbling of the manpower and Uim to write what he thinks. In'1 draft program. Nothing is impossible. On The assault was led by Texas Please this week erudite d admitted he didn't know. Thomason, who declared that one man should be put in comThe Intelligentsia: When the H plete charge of both military and industrial manpower with the nation aid Tribune changes Moscow com at war. spondents (which is not frequent only the man leaves Moscow. BebJ him he leaves a lease on con MYSTERIOUS HOSPITAL There is something awfuEy mys fortable apartment, grocery reqiu ierious about the war departments tions, an old fur coat and a sf d determination to get rid of the sedan. All these must" Breakers hotel in Palm Beach as main in the name of the newspa; an army hospital, and the extent to . . . Paul Porter heard that Geor Which General Biddle Jean Nathan, the critic, Attorney seems anxious to cooperate. a new show. . . "The In order to unravel the mystery, observed Paul, "must ba the Truman committee caEed upon hit some actor on the head!" Biddle for the Breakers hotel report Sophie Tuckers autobiography The be Doubleday-Doranprepared by his young Assistant Attorney General Norman of These Days," natura LittelL LitteE, who is in charge of . . . In one London humor mag S'e lands acquisition, had pointed to the Is a cartoon of a British officer wa toolishness of spending a lot of moning with a WAC. The caption: dan you get your teeth into tj ey making a hotel into a hospital and then turning it back to the Flor. Idea of middle-aislin- g it with me Ida East Coast raUroad just when . . . The Overseas Press Club is 1 we are on the verge of a second up and wiE start fighting ir front and do not know what our many newspaper and radio ra casualties wiE be. the fronts, who are not But when Biddle received the Tru- wear campaign ribbons. man committees request, he got in touch with Rudolph Halley, its Midtown Vignette: Several s( acting Chief investigator, and asked him sons ago an orchestra leader co to withdraw the request. posed a bundle of good tunes. Halley name complied. Naturally, he put his But next day, when members of them. . . Which his rivals PE Eve Truman committee heard about holed when it, they called up the justice departthem around. . . When the ment and subpoenaed the LitteE re- poser finally sensed the reason, port. resolved to use a nom de handle Whereupon Biddle promptly surAfter a long interval he rendered. He asked that the subTake It Easy. now being thruS poena be withdrawn and he finally by the Crosbys, the Sinatras. orc sent the LitteE report to the comShores and many leading mittee. Meanwhile, the army is hold- tras. . . Take It Easy l Jc; ing up its plans to evacuate the tered by "Albert de Eru Breakers. Cugatl t zi i beca.-he- tt two-fiste- ond-han- two-fiste- d d. hr01-- , song-plugge- CAriTAL CHAFF Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer, U. S. side to Lord Louis Mountbatten complains that he has been sitting in New Delhi with nothing to do but read Sandbmg's Life of Lincoln." is one of the top strate-pst- s Wedemejer in the U. S. army, spent six rears in Germany, where he knew Seneral Yodel and other Nazi field marshals. But Instead of being put in a place where he could advise on strategy against Germany, he was sent to India, a country about which D. ae knows little. Sallies in Our Alley: Choo Johnson met Lucius Beebe a du Bois. . , Youre one man.( I would never marry asked Lucius. not? Why What," was her retort, known as Choo Choo VI a Dunninger asked Jerry Draft?' you in the dunno," said Jerry, I ha'cn , a paper for three hours!1 . heard at the Little Ea,m u Hitlers birthdav makes him in one respect. He is now the said, Uving rati" |