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NATIONAL HEALTH CONFER
ENCE FAVORS DEVELOPMENT
OF NATION HEALTH PROGRAM
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Dr. Geo, W. B. Bowles, T. Arnold Hill
and Dr. Louis Wright—Speak
Washington, July 28 (ANP)—Three
Negro organization were represented
at the National Health Conference held
in Washington last by the President's
Interdepartmental Committee to Coor
dinate Health and Activities. The con
ference which was attended by some of
the most outstanding medical men in
the country as well as representatives
of organized labor, agriculture, wo
men’s clubs, civic groups and other lay
organizations, heard Dr. George W.
Bowles, president elect of the National
Medical Association, T. Arnold Hill
who spoke during its session on Tues
day.
The conference had been called to dis
cuss the report of the President’s Inter
departmental Committee. The commit
tee is recommending expenditures for a
public health program which by the end
of a ten year period will reach the stag
gering total of 850 million dollars a
year. The Federal Government will
expend half of his amount and the rest
is to be provided by lobal governments
provided the plan is approved by Con
gress at its next session.
The positon of organized medicine
has not been crystalized. Dr. Irvin
Abell, president ot tne American Medi
cal Association promised “the whole
hearted ooperation” of that organiza
tion while Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor
of the American Medical Journal and
usually the spokesman for the doctors
of the country was inclined to question
the whole pibgram. 1 Dr. Fishbein
charged that the program was based
upon the assumption that there still
would oe as much unemployment and
inability to pay for medical services
ten years from today as there is now,
a viewpoint which he challenged.
The attitude which the colored of the
nation would take was not finally sta
ted although Dr. Bowles expressed the
appreciation of the need on the part of
the Natonal Medical Association mem
bers. Despite the fact that in propor
tion Negroes are more generally the
recipients of public medical aid than
other groups, some 35 or 40 per cent of
Negro patients being cared for by pub
lic atencies, the position of Negro doc
tors who have the depression keenly
and who might stand to be affected in
income more than other doctors must
needs be considered. Additional gov<
ernment aid in medical care seems in
evitable, however, and the manner in
which Negro medical men will either
embrace it dr oppose it will undoubted
ly be one of the questions considered
at the National Association meet in
Hampton next August.
Negro leaders have expressed sat
isfaction that the National Medical
Association has shown its proeressive
ness by takinfi part in the deliberations
and keeping abreat through its officials
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of the latest development in the field
medicine.
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ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
Happenings That Affect the Dinner
Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills
of Every Individual. National and In
ternational Problems Inseparable from
Local Welfare.
—
Hitler’s technique when he feels
the time is ripe for a new German con
fuest is simple and invariable. First,
he makes strong demands for conces
sions from the country in question. If
these are granted, he makes still stron
ger demands. This finally reaches a
point ^here the demands become so
sweeping that the country can not
grant them without becoming a virtual
province of “the new Germany.” So
Hitler is refused—and this provides
him with what he regards as a justi
fication for military display and ag
gression.
Hitler used that technique with
Austria. Now he is using it in an at
tempt to achieve his purposes in Czech
oslovakia. The democratic Czech gov
ernment does not want war. It is has
made great and important concessions
to Hitler, and to the internal Nazi
group led by Konrad Henlein, who
shuttles back and forth between Ber
lin and Prague, and is apparently in
the closet touch with Hitler, Goering,
Goebbels and other Reich officials. Now
Henlein, with the open backing of Ger
many is making demands that, grant
ed. would revolutionize both Czechos
lovakia’s foreign and domestic policy,
and go a long way toward turning her
into another Nazi dominated totalita
rian state. These demands have been
refused by President Benes.
So much for the facts. Now for
the possibilities. In her newest adven
ture, Germany is supported by Poland.
She apprently has no othe rally of im
portance. Czechoslovakia’s chief ally is
France, With whom she has a treaty
that makes French military participa
tion automatic if she is invaded—and
recent dispatches indicate the Paris
foreign office is prepared to stand by
this treaty to the limit. France and
England have lately entered into an
accord which makes British military
cooperation with France virtually in
escapable if either is forced into war,
declared or undeclared. And lastly,
Russia is bound by treaties with both
France and Czechoslovakia to fight on
their behalf when Der Tag arrives.
Thus, Germany’s aggressive action
—culminating on May 21 with the
masses of troops near the Czech bor
der—can mean only one of two things.
Either she believes that the Czechs
will succumb to a darling bluff—which
does not seem likely now—or she be
lieves that she is nearing or has reach
ed the point where she is strong enough
to fight Russia, France and England.
All three of those countries are suffer
ing from internal trouble of one kind
or another
In any event, Germany’s latest ac
tion has completely disrupted the
brief and ominous quiet that has hung
over Europe since the “anschluss” with
Austria. It has again indicated what
so many correspondents in touch with
affairs 'have long said—that yvar is
inevitable, and that the question facing
Europe now it not whether it can be
prevented but how long it can staved
off. Certainly Hitler’s attempt to exert
German control over Czechoclovakia
has increased the chance of a European
war starting this (year.
One plaee to watch now is England.
Chamberlain is growing shakier, and
the resent cabinet shakeups have fur
ther weakened! his prestige. There
have been a number of byelections
since the resignation of Eden—and in
every one of them the government’s
candidate has been beaten, even in con
stituencies that were regarded as safe.
Some experts are saying that if Cham
berlain is forced to call a general elec
tion which labor and liberal M. P.’s
are seeking now 'his government will
fall. Should that happen- there will, of
course, he no more British conciliation
with Germany and Italy—and there
will be renewed British support behind
the League of Nations.
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JOB MAKER —
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Few of us think of it—but the
capital stock fire insurance industry
is a major job maker in the United
States.
This industry has more than $902,
000,000 invested in manufacturing,
transportation and the light and power
industries. According to John W.
Hanes, a former member of the SEC
an investment of $7,000 is required to
provide one job in modern industry. On
that basis, the fire insurance compa
nies’ investments in the industries
memtioned maintain 128,956 persons in
productive employment.
The remainder of the companies’
admitted assets, invested in other fields
would account for jobs for about 165
000 persons in miscellaneous activities.
The industry’s local agents and
employes number 150,000. While these
people are not directly employed by
the companies, their business is made
solely by the stock fire insurance agen
cy system.
Lastly , if the 50,(XX) persons em
ployed by the companies in their head
offices are added, a grand total of al
most 500,000 jobs, all pending on the
existence of the stock fire insurance,
industry is reached.
It is impossible to estimate the in
direct employment created by stock
fire insurance but it exceeds the direct
employment. Every productive job
helps to make another productive job.
Every steadily employed salary work
er, through his spending, helps to
create employment and opportunity
for other such workers. Employment,
like purchasing power, spreads out in
a gigantic curve, extending into every
enterprise, and every section of the
country.
We all know' fire insurance’ contri
bution to business credit and stability,
but few' of us think of it us a great
job maker as well.
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CUT AWAY THE UNDERBRUSH
The real cause of the railroad pro
lem is that for more than thirty years
we have not allowed the railroads to
be run as a business under fair and
equal conditions of competion, observ
ed J. J. Pelley, president of the Asso
ciation of American Railroads. They
have been regulated as if they were a
monopoly, while at the same time the
public resources have been used avish
ly to create and subsidize competing
forms of transportation—by land, wa
ter, and air
We hear much of the lines being
overcapitalized—yet in 1910 the indus
try had outstanding bonds and stocks
with a total par value of $987 for each
thousand dollars investmented, as a
gainst $721 per thousand in 1936. The
ratio of debt to investment for bonds
totaled $606 for each thousand dollars
of investment in 1910 and only -442
per thousand in 1936.
We hear much about the industry
fixed charges being excessively high.
Yet in 1937 fixed charges were less in
proportion to revenue than in any year
prior to 1917—when the industry was
most properous. . ?
Lastly, as everyone knows, service
has improved in every way, and start
ling progress has been made in operat
ing efficiency.
The only solution to the railroad
problem appears to lie in a revision of
our regulatory philosphy. The lines
must be allowed some of the privileges
of their competitors. They must be gi
ven rates adequate to meet costs, and
they must be given greater latitude in
“pricing” their product which is trans
portation. As Mr. Pelley said, once the
railroads are given a square deal, “yon
will no longer have to worry about the
‘railroad problem/ ”
It is believed by many that a sp&- \
ial session of Congress will be called
early in the fall to deal with railroads.
It that happens, the senators and re
presentatives will be wise if they cut
away the underbrush of fallacy and
unsubstantiated opinion surrounding
railroad affairs, and go straight to the
heart of the issue—which is reasonable
rates, and a flexible and fair system of
regulation that will treat all transport
tation agencies equally, penalizing and
favoring none. 4
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PREVENT WINTER FIRES NOW
Now is the time to get ready for
winter comfort, while the heating plant
is out of service. Many a December
fire has been prevented in August.
Your furnace should be thorough
ly examined by an expert, cleaned, and
necessary repairs made. Flues, chim
neys and fireplaces should be given si
milar attention. All this work should
be done in a first class manner—short
cuts don’t pay.
Another excellent plan is go on a
still hunt through the house for debris*
Litter in the basement—rickety furni
ture you stored away in the attic and
forgot—greasy rags and waste in the
garage — accumulations of junk in
drawers and cupboards—get rid of it
now. Such accumulations are fire’s fa
vorite breeding places.
Next inspect lamps, electric cords '
and other equipment which is used lit
tle this time of year. They will have to
carry their heaviest loads during the
winter months—and any defect may
result in a disastrous fire. And again4
call in an expert—it’s cheapest in the
long run. Amateur electrical repairs
are .often worse than no repairs at all.
When this work is funished, you
will have a more comfortable home as
well as a safer home. It’s no sport to
have your heating plant break down
when you need it most—because of
neglect and inattention. And no one
enjoys awakening in the middle of the
night to hear the crackle of unchecked
fire.
In brief—do your winter fire pre
venting now! •
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