Page 8 Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, July 6, 1946 THE GREATER OMAHA GUIDE CONTINUOUS PUBLICATION FOR NINETEEN YEARS— * hotter than a firecracker - \ /^Lvzr C.F.I. FOR THE PEOPLE’S HEALTH Tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths each year; hundreds of thousands or millions of people struggling with unnecessary physical handicaps—blind or deaf or crippled or half sick, and all quite needlessly. This is not a record for any nation to be proud of. The cost in human suffering cannot be measured. In cold money terms, the loss is likewise huge. It is in fact many times the amount required to prevent these evils. It’s no wonder that the American people are becoming in creasingly dissatisfied with this situation. It’s no wonder that they are now demanding a positive program for improving the nation’s health. Over 10 years ago the federal government set up a nation wide system of insurance against the'hazards of old age and un employment. We are now the only great industrial country which does not have similar social insurance against the cost of illness. It is high time for national action to provide cash payments in time of sickness and to remove financial barriers to adequate medical care. Joe Worker and his family illustrate the typical situation in many wage earners’ families. Joe is tired after the long war years in which he pushed himself to the utmost to speed victory. Hours were long and working conditions were not of the best. He looks older than his years, even though he doesn’t know what’s wrong with him. Why waste money' on going to the doctor, now that it is so hard to make ends meet? His wife does go to the doctor—she has a pain in her back that she cannot seem to get rid of. Maybe a specialist would be able to help her more, but she is afraid of expensive treatment. ■ — — — —- — Til TTl -- T I ITTT> ifl rifc AMVETS Club Now Featuring SPECIAL ... COCKTAIL HOUR DAILY -* 2 P. M* 7 P. M. 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They do not have many worries about him, except try ing to get enough meat and milk and bread to keep up with his appetite. Little Mary, aged 4, has not been so strong; they have made it a point to take her to the doctor regularly even though this has cost quite a bit. They have read the bulletins of the U. S. Children’s Bureau about the importance of regular examinations, vitamins, and so forth. One of these days they are going to have to have her tonsils out ,at quite a cost, but if that is the worst, they will be able to meet it. There are many families much worse off than Joe Worker’s. They have been overwhelmed by long-drawn-out illness which has cut off the father’s income at the same time that huge bills have piled up. Their small savings have been spent for doctors’ bills, and yet they have not been able to get as good care as needed. Many families live in smaller or poorer communities than Joe Worker, where there are few or no doctors. There are other families that have been especially lucky and that have had no great problems of medical care. They enjoy good health, they have a good doctor, and a nice home in a good neigh borhood, with plenty of play space. Yet even they may be over whelmed if disease strikes the wage earner. Some are now carrying hospital insurance or may be protected to some extent by a sick benefit plan negotiated by a union. But only a few of even this lucky group, those with large savings, can be sure of paying the doctor in those unexpected but all to frequent cases when a long drawn-out illness strikes. During the war, more than a third of the registrants were turned down by Selective Service because of poor health. And these rejections were all among young men. Even those who were accpted often had some physical defects, like poor teeth or bad vision, that the Army tried to correct. Why should so many young Americans be in poor health? Well, the U. S. Public Health Service tried to answer that question by studying what happened in Hagerstown, Maryland, where they had been keeping track of the health of growing children foi about twenty years. Most of the Hagerstown boys who were re jected for military service because of medical defects had those same defects when they were children. For example, thr^e-quar ters of the children who were rated as underweight and under nourished 15 years earlier were rejected by Selective Service. Half the children who were later disqualified because of eye defects naa poor vision id years earner. What’s the use of examining children, and writing down on a record what’s wrong with them? Of course, the Public Health Service doctors hoped their parents would have those defects taken care of. But how? If they didn't have the money, how could they? Several studies have shown that people go into debt' tor medical reasons more than for any other reason. That’s why insurance against medical costs is so important Illness often strikes individuals without warning, but for large groups of people, it’s easy to predict how much sickness there wT be, say, in a year. Then if every one in a large group regularly contributes a little to a common fund, each family unfortunate enough to be stricken with illness wall be able to get the right kind of medical care when it Is needed. The bigger you make the group the less each individual has to pay because then you’re spreading the risk more. That’s why the government should create one big medical insurance system for everybody. The voluntary plan§ arc all right in a small way. They help—but they aren’t enough. SUMMER ACTIVITIES HIGHLIGHT NEGRO ATHLETIC PROWESS By John M. Lee NEW YORK—Long ago, the experts who are spending their lives trying to prove that the Negro is inferior, came to the conclusion that the best way to explain away the prominence of Negro ath letes in the various branches of sports was to admit it on the basis that the Negro is more animal than the Caucasian. Well, animal or vegetable, the brown boys are still in there toppling over records in everything from ping pong to heavyweight boxing. Spotlighted this season, and top attraction for a long time to come, is the record being made by Jackie Robinson as a Brooklyn Dodger minor leaguer. Because of his personality, intelligence, ability and his position as the first Negro to break into the organ ized game, Jackie will be something of a legend wherever and whenever the game comes up for discussion. There will be somr vv’ho will look upon him as an accidnt, and there will be others in his own race who will consider him a superman. Actually Jackie is what the guv who keeps the records of the game will call a top grade ball player. Along with Jackie are two other high class performers in the great American game. Roy Campanella and Donald Newcombe are Dodgerites assigned to the Nashua Club of the New England League. Campanella, a recruit from the Elite Giants who hold forth down Baltimore way, is a faultless guardian of the keystone sack, with a quick eye and a hefty swing. He likes to warm up for his catching duties by blasting out home runs. Newcombe formerly tossed them over for the Newark Eagles, and he is pitching his way to a permanent berth on the big time train. There will be a lot of speculation about both of these boys, but what will outweigh all of the talk is the fact that they are two good ballplayers who knew what they wanted and worked hard to get it. Joe Louis who occupies the top money-making position in tty sports world has been analyzed and studied by all sorts of expert.' who want to find out why he won the championship. They assign all sorts of reasons to his success, but none of them bother to see the simple truth, which is just that Joe Louis is the best heavy weight. In basketball, track, swimming, football and manv of the hun dred other sports, Negro performers exhibit marked ability and championship form. High Schools and Colleges throughout the North, South, East and West turn up with amazing regularity, Negro boys who show excellent athletic ability. Not all of the crack performers are privileged to be heralded around the world, or to become a part of a championship team. Most of them are destined to have their prowess and acclaim remain a matter for local con sumption, but there is no denying the contribution they make to the record of the game they play. While this piece is concerned with the male of the species Negro women have also excelled in the sports world. They have proven themselves proficient in such strenuous male pursuits as football, basketball, bowling and boxing. Tuskegee Institute is the proud possessor of a one woman championship team in the person of the speed and stamina of Miss Alice Coachman who for the past several years has run her way into the athletic hall of fame. Whether or not there is some significance in the consistency BOWEN Appliance Co. NOW OPEN AT OUR NEW LOCATION • New Units, #New and Rebuilt Refrigerators & Sweepers. “Guarantee^ Repair Service— Quality Workmanship—We Solicit Your Trade” 3024 LEAVENWORTH Phone AT-2003 —_ - LOANS $10 TO $1,000 You can obtain a loan from us for almost any purpose and repay in small monthly payments. Salary loans on your signature only. We also make auto and furniture loans. We will gladly make you a small loan r a large one. 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It is a sine way to rid the mind and body of dangerous poisons. The lessons learned on the field of sport will come in handy in latef life. Athletics develop the mind as well as the body, and a good athlete is the possessor of some fine reflex actions. Training the mind and the body to function at their highest levels is the surest way to combat stupid racial propaganda. To survice it is necessary to be alert and be able to act swiftly. Now that spring is here and summer is on the way, let’s start building a finer generation of ourselves by giving the youngsters a chance to take part in sports. A man held in custody here and identified by Sheriff Forest Cast'e as Richard Russell Thomas, 42, formerly of Chicago, allegedly con fessed last week to the brual slay ing of six year old Suzanne Deg ■nan n Chicago last January 7th. Thomas, male nurse and musician s shown here in the sheriff’s of fice at Phoenix as he wrote a note which was. forwarded to Chicago 'oboe for comparison with the Degnan ransom note. MERLE E. HANSEN REPORTS ON AFC CONVENTION AT DES MOINES PASS ANTI-DISCRIMIN ATION CLAUSE I have just returned from a veterans convention. A veterans convention without seeing a sin gle drunk, without a parade, where no one dropped water bags from hotel windows, and where waitresses could maneuver about without having their skirts ripped off by a funny man with a cock hat and a tin horn—no not even any funny hats. I was proud that I was a member of the American Veterans Committee and I felt that I was a part of an important epoch-making event. But before going into the con vention I would like to go into a little background of AVC to give you an idea of what we were try ing to do at Des Moines. About S years ago three GI’s and two officers got together by mail and decided that if veterans were to attain jobs, peace and freedom that men were winning all over the world, they must form a vet erans organization which wouldd do the job. However, they didn't feel that it was fair to draw up a cut and dried organization to shove at the veteran when he re turned and say—here it is you want to join or don't you? Instead ihey felt that veterans should have the opportunity after all the :g -tin" w>- done and men were back to set down together and draw up the kind of organization which would gi"e us that mo-c democratic and prosperous Amer ica in a world organized against war. Before Des Moines it was just what the name implies—a committee. In committee form it had growr/to 60.00 members with 300 chapter in 45 states and over mas chapters all the way from Tokyo to Berlin. The organization had grown so large that it wa. not possible for all or members to set do- n togeCmr and talk i* over -o a -''tern of delegates had to be evolved and out of that 850 delegates met in Des Moines re presenting the 60.000 members. To assume that it was a ouiet affair because C’ere was no drink ing or rowdyne"- would be a very wrong impression indeed. Caucu ses were in session all night lorn and when Cm nominating, nlat form and constitution committee adjourned ’mmenti were carried on on an in',:vidua.l basis Thoma° L. Ptoses saH thin convention wac something such as was never seen before by this writer in 25 vear of covering national and state po litical and other conventions. Even as few conventions (our state Farmers Union Convention ♦his vpor hem" mv first) as I have attended it impressed me as being something more than just the ordinary kind of convention. It was a bunch of serious veterans who realized the seriousness of our times. Then when a veterans organi zations goes on record against a bonus, that’s news. The AVC’s motto is “citizens first, veterans, second” and therefore we believe that the welfare of the veteran is inseparable from that of the com munity, the nation—the world. AVC not only went on record as being against discrimination of any kind but we showed by action that we really meant. Only a few hours after we had passed our anti-discrimination plank, a local restaurant refused to serve one of our Negro delegates. As soon as the convention heard of the in cident it set up a committee to investigate and about fifty dele gates, lead by Oren Root, Jr., (former chairman of the Wilkie Clubs in 1940) picketed the place, chanting “‘Jim Crow must go”. The police captain was summoned and the proprietor of the cafe was arrested for violating the state anti-discrimination law. The whole demonstration was extreme ly well conducted and lasted only about half an hour. Then several hundred dollars were collected f*r placing an announcement in the local papers thanking the city authorities for their cooperation and reminding them that the AVC practiced what it preached. Charles Bolte our present chair man was re-elected chairman by acclamation—except for one die hard dissenter. The real fight was on the vice-chairmanship. Harri son, founder of AVC, ran against Norris Helford. Harrison winning out. The offices filled were that of a National Planning Committee and which contains a number of exceptionally able men. Some of them are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Oren Root, Jr.; Robert Na than; Michale Straight; E. J. Kahn and Cord Meyer (Harold Stassen’s advisor at the San Francisco {Con ference). Our speakers included Henry, Wallace, Harold Stassen (an AVC; member), Representative Monron-I ey, Bishop B. J. Sheil and Walter j Reuther. We strongly endor'ed World Government TVA-type authorities for the Missouri and Columbia Valleys, 75 cent minimum wage and veterans homing in the Wy att Housing Program. Merle E. Hansen Field Secy, for NeT r. and la American Veterans Com. ODDS AND ENDS OF SERVICE COUNT SO VERY, VERY MUCH Perhaps its nothin more than «a refreshing gla:j of ice water But toe little things—the odd 3.nd end.: of servirc—very ofte 1 much, according to Em ma W. Raddang Mrs. Reeflan, acting directoi here for Girl Scouts, has announ ced the organizaion has stepped back into a pre-war hospital aid program. As the result, nine sen ior Girl Scouts have taken up part time dtity at Methodist Hos pital. They are: Grace Kreps; Sally Bond; Carol Albertson; Mary Lou Carnaby, Yvette Cos tello. Barbara Carnaby; LaDonna Ketchmark; Constance McCandl ess and Barbara Frederickson. . A wartime organization, known as “Tops” was jointly operated by the Girl Scouts, Camp F V Girls and Girl Reserves. It stood for ‘Teem Offering Patriotic Ser vice”. But their special dut” hospital-3 nd child care centers stopped almost with the end of the war. The bad ’•e'fcrg'ed ~cr viee like this in the yearn before ' ' r - ‘ it was the thought that it should be continued t post va. : \ Mrs. Redd n sajd. It is hoped that next year t e sciv • : ;e extended into. owner nospnais. Inasr^u-u t’ e ri 1 Scouts cTi Omaha i- a ho srmmity Ch; t service .-'.-mncever” endeavor >-| being made to perfo m a service i to- • .d the eoai ,7..ere everybody benefits. Whether its n refreshing glass! of water Lroug'd to ’a patient’s! bed'i e o • a h iti: is tcry res ' to little tots in the chi? ’ren'o w these bit; of se vice are the ult: mate re irt o coar-unity inter e.'t. Mr ■ “*0 ’ n aid. It might well be performed ' any lay k .n ..ithout trainin' B it the ital aide progra: must meet crrt’in requirement First a g>l to he conside e must be 5 years of age. She mu j take a ; re’i innv” co-’r-e in ho pital prosed T1 i' irvclves gz:: eral matters o o :tul etiouett. punct ia- tv, nccc 'ity for main taining quiet need for being chee ful. Directing the activity a:e Mrs. L. W. Dreeves, Cir’ Scout super visor for senior girl projects, and Miss Etta Lubberts. a supervisor at Methodist Hospital. The girls, however, work under direct sup ervision oc the latter. Schedule calls for serving two half days a week. Services performed include sue’’ items as carrying travs to ward where the nurses receive them, a* ■ n~‘n f’o—er' running errands for patients, reading to patients j -m-ist in '•mu ;ng patients in the j children’s wards, assist in prenar- i ng child en for their meals, help in the distribution of reading ma- j terial. Girl Scout service, however, is not limited, to hospital duty alone. Sue Pierson, Julie Zelenka, Shir ley Walniak. Earbara Engelhardt and Joan Clapper are assisting this summer at Visiting Nurse babv stations. With the minimum age require ment also 15, these girls follow indoctrination similar to their hos pital aide collegues. At baby sta tions their service principally in eludes keeping charts, weighing babies, or serving as receptionists. They serve two half days per week on a schedule at one of the following: Side Side Terrace Homes, Christ Child Clinic, North Side Clinic and Trinity Cathedral Clinic. Whether it is hospital or baby station service. Mrs. Reddan has found that girls have derived per sonal benefit. . Many times it has started them into a nursing career, she said. PLENTIFUL FOODS Foods expected to be plentiful in Midwest retail foods stores during the month of July are list ed by the US Department of Agri culture as potatoes, onions, heavy tom turkeys and lemons. Meat areas also will have an abundance of early peaches from the south, and California peaches will put in an appearance late in the month. Cantaloupes and watermelons pro mise to be more plentiful than last year. And eggs will generally be in good supply unless present shortages of poultry feed severely curtail production. Heavy withdrawals of fowl, broilers and roasters from cold storage have taken place during the last month, but cold storage stocks of turkey still remain large and constitute a valuable backlog of protein food for dom estic consumers. Cold storage fish also continue large, and the new fishing season is maintaing stock well. Supplies of fresh fish are generally plentiful in metropolitan market centers. Research by poultry specialists of USDA’s Bureau of Animal In dustry holds news for nutrition minded consumers. Their tests de monstrate that breast of chicken THE FOCKETBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE By PlLGWli __... . >_j I I y WlAlNE WAS -me FIRST ■state to vote PRy, in i946 39 % OF ALL MANUFACTURING PLANTS ARE LOCATED IN 5MALL CITIE5 AND TOWNS • I 200.000prospective euysp.s VJ/U KEEP ON /.PI TINS FOR THEIR NEW - CAR* .D’JE 70 THE COP)L j STRIKE. / ^ V/O “4 A **2.V WAS 80RNJ RFCENTiyV \ , .'1 Al"'..E Ftyi.'JS 19,000 V FEET AZS\iE LA PAZ, BOLIVIA One SLICE OF BREAP THROWN AWAV 1 VJEENLy B/ EACH AMERICAN FAMILy EQUALS WASTE OF IOO MILLION IOAVES OF BREAD yEARl) BURDETTE DEFEATS HOWARD KENNEDY IN TRACK MEET By Edna Mae McIntosh In this modern age, th-'ro v - been great emr’'"s:s • . hastening the child to the day v ' he accents a completely grow -■ diet. The younger a gi\ n < can reach mi’"stone in food habit training, tne proL-.l parents are. So intent are parents on arc'-" plishinar this t'. -y sc:.. lore sight of the tact that f might be periods, even in tl e of clci"r children, when a re . .. to infant or small - child li-. would be desirable. Examples of such times rf stve's would be teethirg periods, vai' ■ digestive disturbances, r.r. 1 c ’ ” .llnesses. At such times, a r v will frequently welcome a ftotl ik« doesn’t require much cl.e.v ,r.g a goes down easily. A return to some of the well known baby foots would be th easiest way for the mother to mt these special needs. But these chil dren have acquired an eye for a* tractively % prepared foods ar would not always be content wifi undoctored canned foods. T' <* r cipes below suggest interc-tir^ but easily handled foods. Cereal Milk Drink */, cup ready to serve baby cereal 1 n, cups milk, very cold 2 Usaspoons sugar Vanilla or Chocolate Syrup Combine ingredients ard b""‘ well. When served very rr id ' effect is that, of a thick mu.. _ which doesn’t “melt.” Hot Carrot-Ade 1 bouillon cube 1 2 cups boiling wat^r can otrained carrots Dissolve bouillon cube in boiling w. :sr, add the strained carrots r.r, stir until well mixed. Sene warn as a beverage or soup cr for a t *wt-"n-meal feeding. is an excellent source of niacin— the important anti-pellagra 13 vitamin, and the concentration is particularly high in the breast meat of young chickens like broi lers and fryers. In chicken breast the niacin concentration compares favorably with pork liver and beef liver, which have been recognized as among the richest sources of this vitamin, these specialists re port. The dark meat, however, is superior in riboflavin and thiamin. Fruit lovers can revel in the knowledge that peaches, a favor ite for home canning and for eat ing fresh will be plentiful this season. USDA’s crop experts say that the 1946 peach crop is the second largest on record—only 1 percent than last year's hamper production. The heaviest. supplies are due in July from the 11 sou thern peach states and from Cali fornia The early crop will include Some thirty-five boys represent ing the Burdette playground and the Howard Kennedy playfield in a track meet at the Burdette field Wednesday, June 26, 1916. W. Gray, the only double gives promise of being one of the better track men ever produced in the Omaha high schools. Burdette scored 32 1-2 points to 27 1-2 for Howard Kennedy. SUMMARY: 50 yd. *lash: 1st McHenry (HK) 2nd Bimms (Burdette); 3d Triggs (HK); 4th Drake (Burdette). 100 yd. dash: 1st Watkins (Bur dette); 2nd Stevenson (HK); 3rd Taylor (HK); 4tli Fairchild (Bur dette). 220 yd. dash: 1st Taylor (HK); 2nd Watkins (Burdette): 3rd Stevenson (HK); 4 th Williams, | (Burdette). 440 yd. dash: 1st W. Grav (Bur dette); 2nd Triggs (HK); 3r l Mc Henry (HK); 4th Fairchild (Bur dette). High jump: 1st W. Gray (Bur dette); 2nd Carter (Burdette); \ 3rd Battles (Burdette); 4th Lee (HK). 440 yd. Relay: Tie between Bur dette and Howard Kennedy. (Bur dette relay team Bims, H. Gray, Williams and Watkins); (Howard Kennedy relay team MrHenry, Triggs, Stevenson and Taylor). an estimated 38.5 million bushels of freestones and 20.8 million bu shels of California clingstones. Good supplies are expected alao in August from the middle Atlan tic and central states and again in September from Michigan, New York, New England, and the north western states. Home canning of peaches will be particularly im portant this year, because the sup ply of commercially canned fruits is not expected to be large enough to meet consumer demand in the winter and spring ahead. Department cookery scientists have offered suggestions for using our major plentiful potatoes, not only as an alternate, but as an ex tender for wheat flour in baking bread. Only a small quantity of potatoe can be used—about one cup of mashed potatoes to 5 or 6 cups of flour. Te mashed pota toe is thinned with potatoe water then mixed with the softened i yeast cake before the flour is stirred in to make a dough or a | sponge. Home bakers may prefer however, to extend their flour sup plies with oatmeal, or com meal finely ground, which may be used to replace as much as one-third | of the flour in a standard recipe for white bread. There are so many potatoes available from the 75 million bu shel spring and intermediate crop and so many different ways to prepare them, that homemakers will find it practical to use them following this policy offers every homeaker an opportunity to con tribute to the welfare of humanity because it will make more wheat and flour available to feed the starving nations abroad. Phone Us Your Social- Local News DA'NITE Service j We Are READY! 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