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Cotton Acreage Reduction Scheme Called S5uccess
Expected To Provide .Program
Of Mediie ForUn~ited States
Editor's Note: Th'is article, explainuig the action of the H~ouse
of DIelegates of the Michigan State Medical Society' at its mieeting
in Lansng Wednesday, has beeni written 1by Prof.Wesley H. Maurer
of th6e denirtment cf journalism for the newspapers of the state.
By WESLEY H. MUE
What' is believed by medical men to b~e the basis for the future practice
bf en e, not only for' Michigan but for the country as a whole, had
benlaid by the House of Delegates of the Michigan State Medical Society
ill' its action at the special meeting in Lansing.
The program and policies providing for this basis include:
1. The appointment of a committee on medical economics which is
"directed to study, prepare, and present for the consideration of the House
of Delegates a plan or plans for health insurance," as a means for 'distrib-
it'in the cost of medcialcare and~
fo recrtucing medical' indigency.
2t 'le"adoption of the principle of
subsidizatio,' through state or local
funde, cf physicians' admedical
rOersonnei in sparsely settled areas to
asue resonaly' =adequate medical
care in rural districts, 'and the 51.11?
ventioni, by community 'funds, tier
the care of. indigents in urban dis-
tricts"
3. The adoption of the survey cor-
r4#tets recomnmendtion to support
the .county unit plan. for pubic
health throughout wthe state in order
to' coordinate' public health servie
,and'--n, order to bring' preventive
medicine to every city, hamlet, and
rural -district in the state.
Atth samne time the committee
adopted a resolution recommending
that Uni4.riity olfcias continue to
restrict the' activitie of te Univer-'
sity Hospital to /ediational obec-
tivres. This-policy is calculated to
prevent the .University Hospital from
serving as an entering wedge to act-
ual 'staite medicine.
't© 1rotct PriatePratce
'fhese lo icie siipyy that while
Lii mr~dl professinis ~ willing t
experiment with a'social distribution
of, medical costs and with partial
stiYsdizatioh of physcian and os-
pitals in' sparsely 'settled comffiun-,
trey and in urban distrcts for ind-
gets, it will insist that private prac-
tice in all' oter respects remain in-
na sense, these policies indicate
a trend toward the socialization of
medicine wthout the politics of so-
c ~ed "state medicine." It is a co-
pr f? in between the rugged incivid-
iIisim that has prevailed up to nov
ina the medical profession 'and t °e
ire radical proposal of state med-
cine whereby .the physician, as an
employee of the state wquld be e-
1gv,4,d to provide medical services to
Ci~ tizens.
~tis, il addition to this, a declar-
tioin of the independence 'from con-
4-ercial concerns which threaten to
id tae to' the medical' pro fesson, an
to' raise the Cost 'of medical car
through expensive sellin procedures
afd &i 4defi ." Large andsmall in-
SUance comnpanies have been fever-
isht4 active in' ai. effort to forestall
actio o'the medical professions op-
position to commercial health isunr-
anee. But the National Committee
on the Csts of Medical Care, imre
redenitly the California St,teMe-
cal "Society, and now the Michigan
State Medical Society, advocate ex-
lusion, as the" Michigan, report
states, "of individual or organizations
that might engage in Health insui -
ance, fr profit"
:outry and .Uty onsidre4.
The jlliies adtoped are calculated
to. fulj li e needs otx edical Care
both i'the r 'al and 'in 'the urbk n
districts, By allowigte subvention7
of rniedcal personnel in spars'ey set-.
tle~,areas of the state, the profession
will have relieved itself ofan obliga-
tio6h wI~ct has found heretifre
dieltt perfrm unde , 4 i o or t~e o
Sys ern of ,suzprly anid demand.Te
ciilty, ,under this polcy, might
agree to tax ,itself t subd a medi-
cal, staff and for the upkeep of medi-
cal facilities, or the state mgt as-
sume part of the obligation by pro-
vidiiI part: of th funds for this
purpose.
And in allowing the subvention of
medical personnel in urban distris,
the pro'fession will have solved one
of the most' vexing probes' it has
had to face-thle care of indigents.
Under the _old systepi, physiians
have been' compeled,'in order to re-
main consistent with their ecoomic
beliefs, to bear a large burden of this
care throighi the giving of their serv'-
ices gratis.- Aso, this policy wasgen-
eralty in operation to protect the
prpssion from state medicine. Un-
der the new "system, the care of indi-
g'e~ts wpuici dependtl in part upon
the philanthropy of physicians, 'hos-
pitals, anid the community in g'eneral.
The. problem of indigency will' also
be, partly solved, by the health insur-
ante system.
The committee, in pointing, to, the,
A'
defects of health insurance, as learn-
ed from a car'eful study of systems
now operating in 40 countries, ex-
pre'sses the: conviction that these de-
fect s are not inherent in the princi-
ple of health insurance. The House
of Delegates therefore adopted the
recommenations of the committee,
outlining in general form certain pol-
icies which the plan or plans, ulti-
mately' to be considered, should em-
body. These are :
1. The plan should provide for free
choice of physician by the in-
sured.' This w~ould prevent the
systemi' of health insurance fromi
interfering with individual ini-
tiativ&e.
2. Th'e limitation of benefits to
thos~e of medical service. One&
of, thbec~tjins' to health in-
surance is that the benefits of
inisurance are negated by thle
paraitical tendenicies of' those
who woulld pose illness for the
sake of cash benefits froim- their
insurance. This would, of course,E
raise the total cost of medical'
care. Byr excluding cash benefits
to medcal services, the' cost can'
be' kept, down'1 to what actually
is needed.
3. Th~e contr~ol by the profession
of medical service, This is di-
re'cted against 'the possibility
that some' powerful third partyi
might dictae to thle profession
mi e 'd'i c a I policies, treatments,
items, of a purely professional1j
amo~unt of hospitalization~, anda
other items of a purely roes
sional, nature. fs
4, The exclusion, of individuals or
organizations that might enge
in healthi insurance for profit.
The committee oni medical eco-
nomnics will, it was announced, im-
mediately~ set to work~ to formulate
a program in accorda.nce' with the
report as adopted by the House of
Delegates. Unless unforeseeni obsta-
cles develop, the commirittee should
have ready a specific program for the.
consideration of' the Michigan' State
Medical Society, in its annual meet-
irng in September.
F edae"'ral, tState
FNo ---r ees Un~ite
(hi Kid-napings
-Associated Press Photo
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, "Gxeorge N. Peck, administrator of the farm act, and
Oscar' Johnston, finance administrator for the act (left to right), are shown poring over cotoA records
just before announcing that the camp~aign to reduce acreage was successful
Berlin Opera Withholds
Libretto Writer's Name
BERLIN, July 14. -(A)J- Georg
Vllerthun's militaristic,, patriotic
'Tl)c Voluntcer Corporal," is run-
ninrg successfully at the Civic Opera
without mention of the writer of the
libretto.
"The policy of the ostrich hiding
his head is being' pursued," writes
Alfred Schattnmann, musical critic
for' H-ugenberg's "Montag," in com-
menting upon this omission. "Ru-
dolf Lothar, the text writer, is sim-
ply not mnentioned because he is non-,
Aryan."
Frarnce hIGay
Celebr~ation Of
N a i n l F t'PARIS, July 14.-( 'P)- A hundred
bombipg and pursuit planes, dipping
low over Paris in a huge parade of
military and air strength, officially
opened today the great ncational fete
of Bastille day. President Lebru.n
reviewe~d the army in front of the
Invalides Soldiers' Home.
Frenchmen danced ini the streets,
drank beer and shot off fireworks in
'the traditional rebelry 'mnarkinig the'
holiday, which corresponds to the.
American independene. day anid
which will last until Monday morn-
ing.
tFlags of the allied countries were
unfurled on public~ buildings' and the
various national mnonumuents, music
was to be hear~d everywhere and in
all the squares street dancing, last-
ing' all davy and' night, was the prin-
cipal maniifestation i oy ,
Today was the 144th anniversary
of the -taking of the former prison.
on July 14, 1789, as a climax to'
e'vents 'that led up to the French
revolution.'
The importance of' the fall' of the i
B.astille,' whose st smre o
onily ba commemoerative pillar, has'
been.i exaggerated,, French~ historians
say, by legend andl popular imagina-
A crowd 4of about 1,Q00ersona;
after several rie and cannoni shots,
swyarm~ed. inside, the jail with little'
resstacefz~mthe 3.0 Swiss guards
and 9,5 agedi sleirs who occupied it.
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Activity On The Wallace Farm
Will Shortly Increase 100-Fold
DES MOINES, July 14.- (R') - A has been; managing the farm since
busy 435-acre farm north of Des 1923.
Moines-a farm where crops and "We agree pretty well, and I have'
livestock are expected to return 4always hated to bother Henry~ with
profits, and do-is preparing 'fbr its 'questions, especially now,"'Newlin
'big push". of the summer season. says. "Our ideas on running a farm
It' is the farm oif the nation's sec- coincide in a general way, and Hen-
retary of agriculture, where Henry ry is quite a ®hand to let the other
A. Wallace is just plain "Henry" to 'person~ handle the details.
his neighbors, known, as a manl who "When my ideas haven't agreed
kniows how to farm and make it pay :with his' in the past,' he usually has
despite price slumps. talked me out, of them-he's good
Soon activity at the Wallace, farm at that."
will increase a hundred-fold as 212
acres of corn 'begins to sprout tassels.
About 250 men will be put to work Klondike Kate To Weed
cutting off these pollen, bearers. One After 'Wait Of 40 Years
row in three, that containing corn
to be used as the sire plants in~ pro- VANCOUVER, B. C., July 14 (')
du.cing this year's crop, of hybrid seed ,-A secret romance~ born oni Christ-
corn, will. keep its tassels an~d shed mas Eve in 1900, 'in the gold rush
pollen on thle silks of plants in the days at Dawson-with long years of
adjoining two rows, from which seed absence fromn each other since-
corn' will be harvested. brings marriage to Klondike Kate,
Half T Seed Corn the belle of'the dance halls, and John
Almost, half the area of Wallace'sMasnanAsknmer
farm' this yeari devoted to hybrid The silver-haired. Matson, who re-
corn for seed which is' sold-7,000 mained in the northland working his
bushels of it in 1932-to farmers claims but all the time recalling the
throuighout the Midwest, vision of Kate, was at the boat dock
Fory aresareplanted in oats this morning to meet her on her ar-
Forgctfrh;2 acres are pat'rival from Seattle. They will be wed
ed in rye and will be seeded to al-
falfa in August after' the rye is hiar- "We've corresponded the past
vested. Another 40 acres are in four years," he said, "and two weeks
permanent pasture, 35 acres now are ago she came to Vancouver to meet
growing alfalfa, 45 acres are de- Me."
voted to a timber reserve.
The farm is neither a show place, Two years of research and work
a. country estate nor an experimental will be devoted to [making a histori-
plots Its 'buildings, while modern cal map of the Mother Lode district
even to electric lights and power, are of California, showing old trails,
of the type found on many Iowa wagon roads, ferries and mining dis-
farms. tricts of 1849.
Three, Stores-1In Town
To Handle Hard Liquor
Licensed along with 228 othier
Michigan drug stores under the new
state law allowing doctors more 'free-t
dom in the prescription of alcoholic
beverages, threee Ann, Arbor .firrmsI
will be ready shortly to supply, them.
Licenses have been issued. by: the
state to' Mack% & Co., 'Kolander's
Drug Store, and Cahow's Drug
Store, and many other, applications
are 'being considered.
CIEY AIR SPQIL B'
WASHlINGTON.-(.q'-Th~e bureau
of standards~ has found that the-'pa-
per of books stored in city libraries
deteriorates more' rapidly than the
paper of: an iden~tical volumie whic~h
has 'been ikept in 'couritry institutions..
This i~s ascribed. largely. to 'the pros- '"
enee in city air of sulp~hur diioxie,
an acid forminig gas resultin~g fro~m
the, combustioni of fuel.
DETROIT, July 14.-VP)-With r-
Zppr'iisa1S of assets in) Detn-.,~
closed' banks completed, IHoWarc; I.
Stoddlard, chief of the Rleconstruci-
tion Finance Corporation's extutilk
ers ini Michigan, e'xpec~t; work'to pr--
ceed without delay' inC orgaijizat ion
and reorganization of outstate bar';,
New banks are to be organized
ten industrial' centers, Stoddavl<
said, naming some of them.
In Pontiac, he said: a new bawlk
is to take the place of First National
Bank, while progress is being' mad
on a new bank in Jackson. In' Grah~i
Rapids, he said, a new bank is to r'e-
place Grand Rapids N'ationalh with<,
50 per cent paym~ent, to depositovand hl rn ai s a_
ings Bank 'is being~ reorganie.
In Flint, $400,000 will be advanced
by the R. F. C. for anew ban, aug-
menting locally raised capital.
Examniners ar~e. workig njt~ atle
Creek, Stoddardl said; but, expect soon
to move to Saginaw.
He did not nam~e other cities.~
Imnhdidate results antliiatId wei'!:
two'-ftild: F'irst, the form'an of o
new bank by Edsel Ford and ass, -j
ciates with an initial capital of-
250,060 to take over a groutp of sUb-_
urban banks, and ultimately, it w;+
believed, to take over assets of fth
old Guardian National Bank ; ,!
Commerce; anid second,- the eu !iy
release of 20 per cent to deposit, s
cent to First National Bank-Def _
depositors. Distribution of 40' jew'
cent of' depositors' funids already ''
been made by both' institutions,
The ultimate fate of' the old Fii'st
National today was problemati cal i.
Local financiers' have refused t :
afar to discuss its future, but wkel- in-
formed' circ'les here believ'ed th_:t
efforts already .are under way aon.
the lines of a reorganization' of th!at
bank, 'with' f proposed capft lyazi
of $15,000,000., It was believed thu1
the Ford group mnight also be a ct'
in' the formation of' this seconr;n
bank.
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It is stitt possibile to obtain
a copy of the--
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racketeering. and especially kidnap-
ing.
"Most likely, the expected repeal
of the eighteenth amendment," he;
says, "is 'drivinig ci'iminials into this
n~w field, as they foresee the loss of;
a good living 'through the sale of
liquor.
"Legalized beer has already de-
rijved 'many of'. them of their usual,
illegitimate employment,"
This view is echoed by Senator
Royal S. Copeland, chairman of the .
senate committee to investigate rack-
eteering.
Pleading for a revival of temper-
ance 'education, he says: "The pas-
sage of the eighteenth amendment
caused a breakdown in old-fashioned,
moral education. Parents. said the
issue was solved and instructions of
morals and temperance disappeared.
'there must be a revival of it."
The current wave of kidnaping
has been sweeping ahead ever since
the young son~ of Col. aria Mrs.,
Charles "Lindbergh was abducted
from his' homje at Hopewell,.'N. J."'
on March 1, 1932.
Since then the sinister ,trail.,of the
"snat'ch" gangste~r has slUink'through
every part of the nation froth New
York to Los Angeles, frQ~fi = Har-
wichport, Mass., to Atlanta, Ga.
Already 11 abductions have shock-
ed . the nation this year, and only
fthe speedy, indefatigable action of
federal and state officers is quelling
a wave of anxiety among potential
victims.
The kidnapers have been especially
active this year in the middle west,
Farm Does Well
When Wallace spent part of one
day in late June inspecting the crops,
he found corn almost waist high-
well in advance of that' on most other
farms., It showed a heavier' stand
and cleaner color.
.He saw oats almost ready to be
cut for hay, a practice uised to save
labor and obtain maximum feeding
value, and alfalfa almost ready for
a second cutting.
A few cattle generally are fed out
during the winter, a few carloads
of lambs are fed and marketed, the
dairy is operated on a strictly busi-
ness basis, and the seed corn busi-
ness is growing rapidly in volume.1
Manager J. J. Newlin, who has
known Wallace for 20 years-since
their days at Iowa State College-
their list of victims in that section
including Peter Myers, Jr.,, of War-
ren, 0.;Jerome Factor and John
Factor, ofn Chicago; Mary McElroy,_
of Kansas City; William Hamm of
St. Paul, and August Luer, of? Alton,
Ill.
Perhaps their boldest stroke since
the Lindbergh case- was the kidnap-
ing of. young, O'Connell, scion of one
of thnemost. politically prominemt
clans in the east.
(Tomorrow:. Steps Toward Break-
iig Up The Racket)
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