MISSISSIPPI NEGROES c BADLY
IN NEED OF DRS., HOSPITAL
AM A Report Defeats Own Pur
pose to Show Nation Not in Need
of Roosevelt’s Plan for Socialized
Medicine
CHICAGO, Acgr. 4 (ANP) With
a delicious
cola drink
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only one colored physician for
each 14,231 Negroes and only 731
beds in general hospitals for the
>ntire Negro population of 1,009,
718, colored Mississippi is badly
in need of improved medical care,
, '.ccording to a report on Hospital
ind Medical Care in Mississipp1
-irepared by the council in medical
’d>ica‘ion and hospitals of the A
merican Medical association and
just published in the AM A. jour
nal.
Tho a ssociation has been fight
, ing President Rosevelt’s plan for
socialized medicine on the grounds
virtually all persons in need
of medical service could now ob
tain it. This report, however, in
dicates that Negroes arc not be
ins' adequately served by priv
ate medicine and unless private
medicine displays an initiative
hitherto lacking, socialized medi
cine is apparently their only sal
vation.
Negroes are approximately 60
percent of the total population of
Mississippi. In 1938 there were
1.00 hospitals in the state, 75 of
them registered, with 2,381 beds
for whites in general hospitals
and only 7.31 for Negroes. There
aro also five regis'ered hospitals
devoted exclusively to Negroes
with a total of 112 beds. In 19.34
' only 43 general hospitals accept
ed patients of both races, but to
day that number ha-< been raised
to 70. Last year of 6,698 hospit
al births just 479 were of Ncgro
l es‘
It is estimated that 75 percent
[ of the deaths from tuberculosis
in that sta e are colored. But
de.pito this, there are only 40
beds available for Negroes out of
j 450 at the i late sanitarium. The
state, says the report, needs three
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To Lecture at National Dental Convention
New York, Aug. 3—fANP) —
The School of Dental and Oral
Surgery, (indacted by arrow) of
Columbia university, at 168th and
Broadway will be the scene of
part of the dental clinics of the
National Dental Association dur
ing their annual convention Aug.
14-18 in New York City.
Tuesday, August 15th will be
taken up from 9 a. im. to 5 p. m.
with table demonstrations by
members of the faculty of the
Dental School with luncheon serv
eri in the university building as
the dental subjects covered will
include a comprehensive course in
dentistry in all its various branch
es. Faculty professors listed to
serve as clinicians are: DOCTORS
L. R. Cahn, C. F. Bodecker, EL C.
McBeath, M. Diamond, T. Roise
bury, D« E. Ziskin, Leroy Hart
man, H. P Fritz, G. B. Finch E.
H. Koch, Buchb nder, G F. Lindig,
0. R. Oman, Henry S. Dunning,
Adodph Berger, D. B. Parker, F.
S. McCaffrey, L. M. Waugh, H.
J. Hir&hschfbld, F. E. Beube, \*.
H. Crawford, H. S. Young, E. B.
Hoyt, and D. J. McLaughlin.
Friday, August 18, from 9 a. m.
to nOon the members of the asso
ciation pictured above will be a
mong those giving clinics at the
School of Dental and Oral Sur
Rer ;.
READING TOP ROW (left to
right)—Dr. O. Wilson Winters,
Morristown, Pa., Dr. Harry Hard
wick, Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. S. B
Smith, Ambler, Pa.; Dr. Raymond
L Hayes, Washington, D. C.; Dr.
Ernest B. Wetmore, Morristown,
! Pa.; Ashtown Thompson, Plain
field, N. J.
SECOND ROW (left to right) Dr.
G. Thurston Fc-refoee, Washington,
D. C.; Dr. Deckle McLean, Jersey
.City, N. J.; Dr. C. D. Maxey, New
York G ty.
BOTTOM ROW (left to right)
Dr. S. A. Hunter, Durham, N. C.
Dr. Thomas H. Walters, New York
City.
Surgical clinics will be held
Wednesday morning at Harlem
hospital, 136th and 137th streets
cn Lenox avenue under the sup
ervision of Dr. Harry M. Seldin
with the assistance of Dr. Louis
H. Fairclough, Dr Thomas H.
Walters and Dr. H. B. Delany.
Convention headquarters in pub
lic school No. P. S. 113 on 113th
street at 8th ave. (ANP)
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times as many beds as are pres
nt available.
The report also points out that
the demand for medical care a
mong the state’s 50 per en* Negr
population “is likely to be less
than among whites.” It was not
explained how this conclusion was
reached in veiw of the high death
rate from tuberculosis.
The number of general hospital
bed', for Negroes is .7 per 1,000,
while for whites it is 2.4. Con
dition; are far worse in rural
areas than in cities. The propor
tion of colored physicians, one to
each 14,221 persons for a total of
71 in Mississippi, is the highest ii
ho nation for a state. The na
tional average is 2.984 to each
physician, while for the North it
b 1,497 to one.
Tho FSA. has worked out a
plan whereby in lends between $12
an l $39 annually per fam !y for
medical care. Some Negnx s ar»
iir. ijrstood to have profited by
this scheme, but th« r: i r.o rec
ord o*' colored doctors la-’ng been
used.
But despite the lack of hosrital
.'.pace, small number of ho1 pits 1
births, lack of doc.ors, etc., toe A.
M. A. report closes by saying
that:
“Extensive inquiry among all
classes of the population including
doctors, health officers, nurses
and residents, the almost uniform
response is that there is practic
ally no one in Mississippi who can
not receive medical care regard
less of his ability to pay.”
The report did not state how
many, if any, Negroes had been
questioned on this matter.
375 NYA Youths
Win College
Honors
Philadelphia. Aug 4, (ANP) —
Three hundred and seventy -five
college students receiving NY A
aid won honors at commencement
during June, according to Walter
S. (lowing, state administrator
for Pennsylvania, in a recent re
port covering the 86 collegiate in
stitutions in the state (including
Lincoln university) which parti
cipated in the program.
Of the 375 students mentioned,
12 won Phi Beta Kappa keys, one
being the valedictorian of his
class; 29 were elected to the hon
orary engineering society, Tau
Beta Pi; 10 others were elected
to Pi Gamma Mu, honorary social
science society; 14 were graduated
magna euni laude; and 10 other
students received various honors
and prizes at the commencement
exercises.
A total of 100,719 students re
ceived NYA aid during the past
school year, a large percentage of
whom are colored. Approximate
ly 2 percent of the students of
Lincoln university benefit from it
in addition to a large portion of
the Negro students attending mix
ed colleges.
Of the 86 participating colleges
71 report increased enrollment
duo to NY A.
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The ANSWER TO THE PIC
TURE ON PAGE 11 is—
Mr. C. C. Galloway, dressed up in
Hallow’en costume.
SOLtilOX ) TODAY'S
HEXOQRAR
New Stars Shine
at Nat’l AAU.
Meet
I incoln. Neb. Aug. 3 (ANP)— ;
Two colored stars who loom er
probable members of the 1940 U.
P Olympic team were uncovered
here last Monday and Tuesday
a*, the 1st annual National A. A.
U. track meet. They are Joe Ba
tiste, hurdlng high school boy from
Tucson. Ariz., and Norwood “Bar
ney” Ewell, Penn State freshman.
At the same time several of the
old reliables came through, among
them Bill I.acefield of Los Ange
les and Lilbut'n Williams of Xaxier
while others fell by the wayside, j
Batiste, who came to the meet
unknown except for his immediate
vicinity, astounded the assem
in the junior championships Mon- j
day by setting a new record of '
14.4 seconds in the 110 meter high
hurdles and then pushing Marsh
Parmer, Texas Tech white boy, <
to a 14.2 victory in the final. Next
day in the senior events Batiste
showed even more class by trim- j
ining Fred Wolcott of Rice, Allen 1
Tolmich of Wayne, Farmer and
other stars to win in 14.1. It is
understood that the young star
plans to enter Ohio State in the
fall of 1940.
Ewell is not exactly an un
known, for as a high school stu
dent he won several national ,
sprint championships and during
the recent indoor season he set a
new world record in the 50 yard
dash. But he was not expected to
defeat Clyde Jeffrey of Stanford
who all spring has been pushing
Jesse Owens’ world record in the
200 meter dash. Yet Ewell whip
ped Jeffrey by a foot in the fine
time of 21 seconds flat. Mack
Robinson, second to Jesse Owens
at Berlin, failed to survive the
preliminaries.
Bill Lacefield retained his broad
At Least She's More Than 50
Eliza Goodlet (above) doesn’t
know her age, but says she’s past
75. She was the oldest woman at
ihe Omaha Urban league picnic
July 26 held at Elmwood park for
persons erore than 50 years. One
hundred ninety oldsters picnicked
from noon until 4 p. m.—World
Herald Phc>to_
jump championship won last year
while a student at UCLA by leap
ing 25 feet 5 and one half inches,
just four inches more than Bill
Waton of Michigan, second, and 4
and three fourths ahead of Ed
Gordon, 1932 Olympic champion,
who was third. Lilburn Williams
tossed the shot 53 feet 7 inches
for first, just seven eights better
than Watson who was second also
in this event.
Long John Woodruff of Pitt,
800 meter champion, withdrew to
give Curtis Giddings of New York
U. a clean shot at the title and
the chance to go to Europe this
summer on the American team,
but Giddings failed to place.
Woodruff did run the 400, but was |
nosed out by Erwin Miller of
Southern California in 48.3 sec
onds. Jim Herbert of New York
U. was third and Fred Alliniece
of Prairie View, who Monday won
the junior championship in 48.5,
was fourth. Archie W'illiams, Oly
mpic champion, finished out of the
money.
Herbert Thompson of New Jer
sey, Barney Ewell and Mozel El
lerbe of Tuskegee were second
third and fourth in the 100 meters
behind Jeffrey who won in 10.2
with a stxonog tailwind Ben
Johnson, last year's champion,
failed to place.
For the first time in eight
years no colored athlete won or
tied for the high jump champion
ship. Mel Walker and Dave Al
britton, former Ohio State stars,
leaped 6 feet 7 to tie for third.
John Borican, indoor sensation,
failed to place* in the 400 meter
hurdles.
Giddings, in the junior events,
was second in the 800 imeters.
Batiste tied for second in the high
jump at 6 feet 4 and W. A. Ar
rington of Michigan State was
fourth in the broad jump at 23
feet 1 inch.
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NOTICE PLEASE
The Omaha Guide wishes to
state on and after July 29 your
paper will be 12 pages instead of
8 pages with four new features.
You will get your paper on Fri
day instead of Saturday. If the
mail man misses you on Friday
don’t you be without your paper,
just call We. 15:7 s.nd we will
gladly send you your paper at
once and thanks for the call.
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