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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE. DELTA. UTAH .j--- I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Truman Asserts Red Aims Split As Some Leaders Desire Accord; Dutch Firm on Indonesian Stand (EDITOR'S NOTE: When plnloni are expressed In these columns, they mre those f Western Newspaper Union's news analyst and mot necessarily mt this newspaper.) Taft Laughed PROBERS: Want More Laio Probers looking officially into the activity of foreign espionage agents in the United States were becoming irked. Too many wit-nesses had fallen back on the con-stitutional guarantee of immunity to questioning by claiming the pos-sibility of The probe group would put an end to that they would provide stifTer penalties for contempt of such groups. REPRESENTATIVE MUNDT, of South Dakota, and Nixon, of Cali-fornia, Republicans, authors of the proposal, did not specify just how much stifler they would make the penalty for persons convicted of contempt of congress. They did comment that "offenders, should be severely and appropriately punished." Existing law provides a maxi-mum penalty of one year's impris-onment and a $1,000 fine. Among "reforms" suggested for probe group procedure was pro-tection of the right of all witnesses to counsel in both closed and open session; right of the accused to testify in open session; right of the accused to submit questions. The new congress was to be giv- Usually pontifically serious, en the proposals. Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio was in an expansive mood as be chat-ted with newsmen on his return to Washington following a tour of Europe. Be praised the opera-tion of the economic cooperation administration (Marshall plan) . COLD WAR: Someone Tiring If Harry S. Truman were right, then possibility of war with Russia was less than many Americans imagined. In a "surprise" state-ment during an unheralded ap-pearance at a luncheon In Kansas City, President Truman declared bluntly that "certain leaders" in Russia "are exceedingly anxious to reach an agreement with the United States to end the cold war." THEN THE PRESIDENT lashed out with an accusation that the Soviets have violated "sacred" agreements and said their govern-ment "has a system of morals that are not moral." Deliberately or not, President Truman was baring some closeted secrets when he said during that speech that the Russians had not kept important agreements made at Yalta and Potsdam. By that statement, the President was con-ceding charges of long duration that certain commitments were made at these two parleys with the Russians which were not gen-erally known, and results of which led to accusations that American diplomacy had failed miserably in negotiations , with Russia's Josef Stalin. The President's position was far from an earlier expansive state-ment that Stalin was a "nice old fellow." HE DID NOT IDENTIFY the Red leaders who prefer an "under-standing" as he put it with the United States, but he asserted that there are Soviet top men who have no desire for war. Neither did the President say whether any overtures had been made by such Russian leaders. The President said frankly: "I made certain specific agreements at Potsdam, none of which have been kept. Certain agreements were made at Yalta; none of which have been kept." He reiterated that "all the United States wants is peace." MEDICINE: U. S. on Pan Plans for socialized medicine re-ceived a rough setback when the Hoover committee reported it had found "waste and extravagance" in the present federal setup, which it described as without "any cen-tral plan." FINDINGS of the committee a "task force" of the Hoover com-mission on organization of the ex-ecutive branch of the government were sure to be hailed with de-light by members of the American Medical association battling against enactment by congress of a program of socialized medicine. The investigating group, how-ever, made it plain in its report that compulsory health insurance was outside the scope of its inquiry. But, even so, its declaration that governmental medical agencies and its program were inadequate and inefficient was certain to be construed as whistling over two strikes on the compulsory health insurance adherents. THE FACT-FINDIN- group rec-ommended a sweeping reorganiza-tion of federal medical, services, and urged channeling of federal subsidies to the upbuilding of med-ical schools and community and private hospitals, with a minimum of supervision by the government. The report asserted the govern-ment is assuming uncalculated ob-ligations without any understand-ing of their ultimate cost, the lack of professional manpower to carry them out, or their adverse effect on the hospital system of the country. FOR CHINA: Watch and Wait U. S. policy on China, for the time being at least, appeared to be one of watching and waiting, coupled with a resounding diplo-matic silence. America had two good consid-erations upon which to base that policy: 1. THE UNITED STATES stood convinced that nothing other than direct intervention in the military situation in China would change tie course of events, and that the gov-ernment is not prepared to inter-vene to that extent. 2. There is, in the United States, an inaccurate assumption thai American economic aid is a fool-proof solution to the difficulties of other countries; that this aid, if put into a given country as raw materials are put into a machine, would suddenly be processed into an effective, finished product. Life was not precisely like that es-pecially in China. To all of which might be added these two additional factors: 1. The United States was caught in this dilemma: If it issues a statement supporting the National-ists, as Mme. Chiang Kai-she- k urged, it might merely associate itself with the collapse of the pres-ent Chinese regime without pre-venting that collapse. 2. On the other hand, if it ex-plains why it is not granting further aid to Chiang, and pub-lishes what has happened to previ-ous aid, it might hasten Chiang's collapse. Hence, the attitude of watchful waiting. INDONESIA: Dutch Stubborn Stubbornness is a characteristic trait of the Dutch and Holland was running true to form. Despite announcement by the United States, from which she is receiving Marshall plan aid, that the inva-sion of Indonesia must stop, the Dutch said, in effect, they'd think the order over. THE UNITED NATIONS was concerned, but a Russian step to the fore in demanding a cease-fire order and troop withdrawal in 24 hours did the Indonesians no good. This time, the U. S. ab-stained from voting and the Rus-sian proposal lost. BEST COWBOY: Vo Film Star The .small fry could bellow and complain all they liked the best cowboy was not Gene Autry or Roy Rogers. Instead he is Gerald Roberts, Phoenix, Ariz., who was top cow-boy world's champion, to get tech-nic-for 1948. The Rodeo Cow-boys association announced Rob-erts was the best cow-boy of the year, and they had the records to prove it. ROBERTS won top honors by leading the 2,100 professional cow-boys who were scored in the asso-ciation's system for 575 rodeos in the U. S. and Canada. The scoring system was based on one of the most impressive fac-tors in any American competition the dollar. One point was scored for each dollar won in competition, and Roberts ended the 1948 season with winnings of $21,866 in cash awards. There was no arguing with that sort of record. Prodigal's Return However, the American position was difficult of understanding, and the statement of American delegate Philip Jessup did little to clarify it. "I decline to be put in a false position by other delegations," he said. "The record of the United States on Indonesia is before the world." BUT ALSO BEFORE the world was the issue of American pre.'tige and the integrity of the Marshall plan. America stood for help for Indonesia; America controlled the powerful weapon of economic aid to the Dutch. Yet, America, as yet, had delivered no ultimatum to the nation whose foray into Indonesia was being helped by American dollars. And the American dele-gate had declined to vote for a cease-fir- e order in the Indonesian fighting joining Great Britain in the vote declination. Whatever else was true, and re-gardless of motives, the assertion of the Soviet Ukranian delegate appeared to be true. He charged: "Without United States financial help, the Netherlands would have been unable to wage war in In-donesia." Operation 'Tactful' Sociology was looking up. The Australian Legion of and Women had taken up the task of helping young veterans and their wives with " troubles. They started a scheme to enable veterans forced by housing short-ages to live with parents-in-la-to exchange homes with others. Spokesmen for the legion said many English marriages had been saved from disaster by a similar scheme operating in Britain. They found couples could live happier with strangers where they were paying guests. MARSHALL: How Long? The question of who would be President Truman's secretary of state was concerning official Wash-ington and the diplomatic centers of the world. Ailing Gen! George C. Marshall was ordered to rest, observe strict dietary instructions. Evidence was largely at hand that the President was reluctant to trust the touchy problems of international policy in less experienced hands, yet the chief problem persisted: Could Marshall carry on effectively de-spite his serious ailment loss of a kidney through operation? THE PRESIDENT appeared committed to a policy of letting Marshall stay on, or, rather, keeping Marshall on the job de-spite any desire of the latter to give up his post. A close associate of the Presi-dent was quoted as saying the chief executive was willing to wait until Marshal recovered sufficient-ly to do a full-tim- e job, even if that should require months. Rob-ert A. Lovett, said not to "gee" as well with the President as Mar-shall did, would continue to act for Marshall while the latter rest-ed. SOME OF THE President's friends declared that if he should finally decide that Marshall can't carry the load, he probably would like to have Chief Justice Fred Vinson take over. To do so would mean a great persona sacrifice for the Kentuek-ian- , for his position on the court is permanent, while an administra-tion change might leave him out in the cold and Vinson is no young man, either. r Xx .i ? vj,' Jimmy Dykes, former third baseman er the Philadelphia A's and manager of the Chicago White Sox, gets welcome hand- shake from Connie Mack after Dykes signed up as coach of the Athletics. WOMEN: Fewer Home Fewer American married women were staying at home. In a com. Plete reversal of the war years married women worker, in the na tion topped single women holding A report by the federal census bureau showed that there were in he labor force-th- ose looking for working and work-ab- out married women and 5.900.000 2000 Public Health Bill Faces Tough Battle in Congress By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. The dim roar of an approaching battle in congress is being heard over the horizon. The struggle will concern S.1320, the national health insurance and public health bill. This measure was opposed in the last session by an organization formed by the American Medical association which turned out to be, in terms of dollars spent, the biggest lobby in Washington, and that is a record. as much the business of the whole people as freedom from persecu-tion, censorship, or any of the other restrictions our ancestors came to America to avoid. I won't go into the history of the bill. It was written after years of study, six years of public hearings before congressional committees. Those who have opposed the meas-ure have made their chief argument a contention that it would be anoth-er step toward a socialized state, that it would indeed socialize the medical profession. On point one, the supporters say truthfully "that argument was once raised against the public schools, city water-work-municipal sewage systems, electric light and power plants, which are now accepted as a matter of course." Under the national health insur-ance bill, the federal government would collect the money and man-age it along with the social security fund which it does now, disburse it to the states for the services ren-dered by the doctors and approve of the various state set-up- The actual arrangements for the services of the doctors who would go right on with their private practices as well if they wanted to, would be made be-tween doctor and patient. The patient, unless his family doc-tor refused to join np, would have his services Just the same, only they wou'd be free. The doctor wouldn't have to accept any patient he didn't want. Part of the money would go to the states for research, medical education and various preventive services. How much would it cost? One and one-hal- f per cent of your Why does the medical association oppose the bill? Supporters of the legislation say cause the major-- f 1 ity of the doctors, " " . 'si like the majority of the people in i. V the country don,t '1 xs" understand it. f'x i Many doctors I K think it would foul ..""""Siflf UP their practice I " ' i 1 ' medicine with X politics. Many also ' $ t say it would de- - ; stroy normal pa- - J n re i. in. rgVj lations because BAUKHAGE Patient would have to take what medical treatment he could get on an assembly-lin- e basis. This latter assumption is based on a misappre-hension of what is actually in the bill which I'll mention later. The former charge is a predic-tion and can't be answered categor-- s ically. I can understand it. When I was in college, I got a summer Job on the Chautauqua daily. Chautau- - qua ii a pretty big summer commu- - ' nity, and health is important. A young medical student friend of mine whose father had a pull got the Job of Inspecting cowbarns of farm-ers supplying milk to Chautauqua. I made the rounds with him once. He examined the bovine living con-ditions thoroughly and some were pretty Tile. He made notes and put them in a report recommending that purchases from a particular farmer be suspended until the barns were cleaned up. What happened? Be got a harp call-dow- n from his supe-rior. After that, inspection con-sisted in opening cow-bar- n doors, holding the nose, and looking the other way. earnings up to $3,600 which your employer would match. If you are you would pay three per cent up to $3,600 of your own earnings. And that, say the bill's proponents is no more than you pay now (on the average) to a voluntary group health agency if you belong to one and it's less than you would pay to a private physician. Physicians' rates and mode of payment will be established by the vote of the majority of the physi-cians in the given area or locality. Since the worst shortage of doctors is in rural areas, it is expected that with assurance of adequate pay through the na-tional insurance fund, more physic'ans will be attracted to those areas. Also the fund will help to expand local public health services, rural hospital and 'ambulance service. Aside from the poorer health in farm communities, maternal mor-tality is higher and, as every farm-er knows, accidents are high. There are 54 deaths per 100,000 population on farms, only 20 per 100,000 in in-dustry. In the controversy over this meas-ure both sides point to the experi-ence of other countries. They claim the national insurance system was inaugurated in Germany in 1883. One American Medical association member says medical care declined under it. He probably knows more about it than I, but the statement was certainly a surprise. Similar complaints have been made against a similar plan which has just been inaugurated in Bri-tain. But a recent poll taken in Eng-land says 91 per cent of the physi-cians have joined up which would seem to show they approved of the way it works even if they opposed it in the beginning. And the people voted it the most popular measure passed by the present government. The British Medical association did not oppose the bill as a whole but fought against certain portions, par-ticularly those which they thought might make them "servants of the state." These facts I have checked as nearly as I can and I do not believe they will be disputed. As to the opin-ions, they remain as such. And you can't look into the future. From what I can learn, the supporters of the bill believe that it will be one of the first introduced in the new con-gress, that it will reach the floor by February and that the chances for its passage are good. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwy-rndrobwllllantysiliogogogoc- h is said by the National Geographic Soci-ety to be the longest place-nam- e in the world. But it's no good for a cress-wor- d puzzle. ' Coconut chips are now available in e tins. They may be used as snacks for bridge parties, but the red, white and blue ones still will be preferred for poker. ' You'U never find a sandpiper and a fiddler crab playing in the same orchestra. That happened many years ago, and I have heard that Chautauqua county is noted for its model dairies, But there is always a lurking sus- - picion that when a politician puts his finger in the pie it turns sour. The only specific answer to this charge of politics that I have dis-covered is one offered in a pamphlet gotten out by the Federation of Women's Clubs which says: "the plan allows for the representation of the people paying for it." Perhaps a better answer lies In the fact that the American Federa- - j tion of Labor and the CIO, both of whose leaders know just about as much about how politically-controlle- d institutions operate as any organization heads in the country, favor the bill. It has been supported by many individual doctors and by the Physicians Forum, and the Committee of Physicians for the Improvement of Medical Care, But what is "it," this national health insurance bill? Are you fa- - miliar with its purpose, what it pro poses to do and how it proposes to do it? Let's go back. What was the most ghocking revelation in the World War II draft statistics? I'd be will- - lng to bet the thing that most pain- - fully surprised the whole country was that one-thir- d of our youth of military age was unhealthy. Out of fifteen million regis trants, five million were re-jected for physical or mental disabilities. Rural residents as a group were even less healthy. Forty-on-e out of each 100 rural registrants were turned down as 4-- It had been hist the op-- ; posite in World War I when farmers outdistanced city folk in good health. From these figures, we suddenly discovered that the American youth wasn't such a hale and hearty in-dividual as we had thought. Later, ss you may not know, we learned that 325.000 Americans die every year who could be saved with prop- - er medical care. About twenty per cent of our peo-ple can afford all the medical care they need. Half our families those with an Income of $3,000 a year or less find it hard, if not impossible to pay for even routine medical care. Thirty per cent of onr fami-lies in the $3,000 to $5,00O-a-ye-bracket would have to go Into debt or make other sacri-fices to meet the cost of severe or chronic illness. So you can see why America is twenty-thre- e per cent unhealthy. From the beginning Americans have believed that sound minds are the responsibility of the state, hence the public school system. A sound mind isn't much good in an unsound body. So, say the supporters of the national health insurance bill, it is logical and thoroughly in keeping with American principles to tax ev-erybody so that everybody can get medical care. They argue that free-dom from persecution by germs is j.V'"'!"rtijcf jj " Man Playing the Typewriter: From the Headlines: "Krivitsky Slain by Reds in 1941, Chambers Says" . . . From this col'm of Feb. 17 1941: "New Yorkers Are Talk-ing About: How only two months ago Gen. Krivitsky the U S. via Canada after a years wait for permission) sang lustily to his wife and child as they crossed the border. And how chums now say: 'Why a man so happy two months ago should kill himself, we can't understand.' " "Lend an Ear," the new revusi-ca- l click at the National Theater, was showered with many posies the most quotable orchid being John Chapman's: "It is so good it does not need any names to carry it but should make some!" Song hit man D. Rose's latest ditty is "Manhattan Square Dance" a hippity-hoppit- y tune Most chuckle-worth- y episodes in the film, "Paleface," are the cross-fires between Bob Hope and Jane Russell. . . New Yorkers raving about the Yuletide choral music in Grand Central depot and the Christ-mas trees decorating Park Avenue with Rockette Girl-We- Point pre-cision. . . . They are also hurrah-ing the Music Hall's annual reprise of "The Nativity," an g spectacle. . . . Will Rogers' sharp-est sarcastickle, aimed at the re-viewers: "All it takes to be a drama eritic is two seats on the aisle!" Why producers get migraine headaches: A full page ad in Variety reprints a swellalujah review for a movie which ap-peared in its Hollywood daily. But in the same Issue Variety's New York critic raps it! Prov-ing you can't boy a not'ee with an ad which founder Sime al-ways argued. . .. . Have another illusion shattered: Despite Las-sie's girlish monicker she's a he. Egad, a caiine female im-personator! . . . Collier's pub-lisher Chenery wires that the mag isn't for rale and that he's sure we "wouldn't knowingly publish incorrect Information." He also says he counts on "our" sense of fairness for a correc-tion. We wish we could say the same for Collier's. One of the tastier lookie-cookie- s in the flickers is Geraldine Brooks. She can also act. . . . This is the time of the year when gazettes and mags waste space listing the . . . The hoary feature should be bottled and peddled as a sleeping potion. . . . Television's progress has many radio jumpy. . . . There will always be room for ra-dio programs, however. . . . The ihowfolks' "bible" notes that be-cause of technical obstacles 40 per cent of the nation will always be without televiz. .J . . The animal fvisecrackers in the cartune called "Hiawatha" make it one of the best An ABC commentator (out of the Capital) reported that Presidential frmy aide Harry Vaughan "tossed all the protests into the wastebas-ket.- " The 250,000 American Gold Star families must have winced if they heard that. ... We reminded Vaughan that no person holding of-fice can accept a foreign medal without permish of the congress. . . . Vaughan's alibi is that "nobody complained" when Argentina med-al'- d Generals Bradley, Devers and others (It eluded us). ... We re-ported that Argentina (during the war) helped kill U. S. seamen and thers by permitting Hitler and Mus-lolini- 's ships to refuel in Argentine waters and to protest to the White H..o.use about Vaughan's decoration. So he "tossed the protests into Dasket." . . . Gold Star families, please send this to the President Bob (CBS) Troufs deft handling V.., tr ( Who Said shindig. That."') h.eps it quizip. Py. . . . Jimmy's Duranting is always . S'ggl'-gette- r. But the lithping on his program is strictly Jones ever listDen " the affable Spike to playbacks of his rad.o tokes? Oh, Spike! You need loke. . . . The girls tell you the most expensive perfume is "Joy." One more broadcast for the finest iponsor we ever had, Andrew Jer-K?n- : V Sbiteen . . . Dec. 4, 1932. . . . He's a .7?i.R?Ublican and h never edit-- New Dealer once. . 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