SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 19Q TWOY TiE MICHIGAN DAILY .. _.. Health Insurance Plans WITH NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE looming as an important election issue, and of vital concern to many people, we were fortunate in having the issues on the subject clarified recently by three authori- ties, on the program of the lecture series on "The Quest for Soucial Security." There can be no argument that our pre- sent system adequately enables all classes to obtain necessary medical care without placing undue burdens onethe victims. Nelson H. Cruikshank, an AFL social in- surance official who spoke in favoreof pub- lic health insurance, quoted figures develop- ed by the American Medical Association's Bureau of Medical Economics to the effect that in 1939 a self-supporting family could not afford a full maesure of medical care until its income went over $3,000 per year, or $5,000 at present dollar values. That unex- pected medical costs can financially wreck large numbers of families is pretty obvious when we realize that the average income in the U.S. is $3,200. The great desire on the part of fami- lies for some form of protection against these unexpected setbacks led to the birth of various private health insurance plans. But the way these plans are set up makes them unable to provide protection for the people who need it most. According to Cruikshank there are 26 mil- lion people afflicted with chronic diseases and another 11 million people over 65 who are considered bad risks and are not allowed to participate in most of the private plans. For those who can get coverage the cost is usually from $80 to $85 per year for a family. But the average private insurance plan only pays from 33% to 40% of a fam- ily's annual doctor bills. Private plans pay only one-sixth of the country's annual medi- cal bill. Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: WENDY OWEN Because most of the private insuranced plans operate on an equal payment basis, have relatively high rates, and can not accept the people who need the protection most, as they now function they are no tca- pable of providing adequate comprehensive protection. For this we must look elsewhere. Is some form of public responsibility for the costs of medical care the answer? Dr. Paul R. Hawley, director of the Am- erican College of Surgeons, didn't think so. He attacked the belief among proponents of public plans that their plans would be better able to make use of preventive me- dicine. In fact he denied that except in the case of cancer there is any advantage at all to preventive medicine. It just does not seem possible that a person can't benefit from periodic checkups through which diseases can be detected in their infancy or antici- pated and prevented. I wonder if Dr. Hawley waits for the pain of a toothache before he gets dental treatment. Dr. Hawley's strongest objection to public health insurance was that it would mean a sacrifice of quality for quantity. This is not necessarily true if a plan is devised that will allow for competition among doctors. As Otto Kahn-Freund, of the London School of Economics explain- ed, the British Health Service with its sys- tem of per capita payments to doctors has this feature. In order to obtain their max- imum number of patients doctors have to render a high quality of service, for if a' patient feels there is something more to be desired he is free to change doctors at will. There is no reason to believe that an American public health plan wouldn't in- clude this feature. Our private health insurance plans have not been adequate and they are not likely to be in the future. The British National Health Service is succeeding. There is no reason why an American public health plan with administration costs as low as possible, flagrant abusers subject to punishment, and provisions for competition among doctors- can not succeed. -Paul Marx ON THE Washington Merry- Go-Round WITH DREW PEARSON W ASHINGTON-The United States now has definite evidence that Russian of- ficers are leading North Korean troops in battle, Maj. Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, direc- tor of milita-y assistance for the Defense Department, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee behind closed doors this week. Lemnitzer declared that the Soviet of- ficers are top-ranking generals who serve as division commanders or higher. "There is no question about it - they are in the field and have been identified," the Defense official reported. Whether lesser Soviet officers down to the rank of captain and lieutenant also are seeing duty in Korea has not been determ- ined, chiefly because we have taken so few prisoners to date. We will know more about this, Lemnitzer said, when we start driving the North Koreans back and prisoners are captured in larger numbers. Lemnitzer predicted that the long-await- ed push-back would be accelerated by sev- eral factors: 1-Our own troop reinforcements, plus the landing of 'additional tanks, planes, ar- tillery and other equipment. 2-Help from our UN allies. We would be getting help "soon," Lemnitzer said, but didn't specify from the allies. 3-A change in the weather. Heavy rains, approaching a monsoon, are expected to subside soon, Lemnitzer reported. The stormy, sloppy going has been a big advant- age to North Korean native troops, and a severe handicap to our planes. * * * MORE BUDGET INCREASES CONGRESS HASN'T HEARD the bad news yet, but President Truman's request for another four billion dollars in arms aid is just the first installment in an announced plan to spend 20 billion dollars arming Western Europe. The plan has been laid before the North Atlantic Council at a secret meeting in London by Charles M. Spofford, the Amer- ican delegate. However, no mention has yet been made to the senators or Con- gressmen who must appropriate the money. Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense John- son has warned senators privately to ex- pect a total military budget of 30.5 billion dollars, plus 4.5 billion dollars in foreign economic aid. This is more than President Truman requested for the entire govern- ment including defense and foreign aid prior to the Korean war.- TWO VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN BRUISED EGO and faint hearts are blocking President Truman's insistence that Virginia's Martin Hutchinson be a member of the Federal Trade Commission. The bruised ego is that of efficient Sen. Harv Bvrd. who i stmil rankled hasae "In view of the Korean war, perhaps we had better let the Hutchinson confirmation fight drop.. Mr. Truman looked coldly at his Con- gressional leaders and said: "I don't know what the Korean war has to do with Martin Hutchinson, a de- cent man who worked his way through col- lege, won top honors in his profession, and has raised a family. I don't think the Kor- ean wax has a thing to do with it, and I want him confirmed." Even after this lecture, Les Biffle has been urging both Vice President Alben Barkley and Senator Lucas to find a job for Hutchin- son that won't require Senate confirmation. NEW JAP >ARMY? JUST FIVE YEARS after Japan's surrend- er, President Truman is now considering a prbposal to reactivate five crack Japanese divisions as a bulwark against Communism in the Far East. The suggestion to rearm our former ene- mies was made by Senate majority leader Scott Lucas at a private White House conference. He was reminded, however, that the new Japanese constitution pro- hibits its people from bearing arms, and would also violate the surrender terms of the Japanese Army. In contrast, Russia has put thousands of ex-Nazis back into uniform and formed a Communist army in East Germany - all in defiance of the Potsdam agreements. In fact, the backbone of the North Korean Army is made up of Koreans who served in the Japanese Manchurian Army which the Russians were supposed to disarm. Instead, Russia kept these Koreans under arms and sent them first against the Nationalist troops in China, now against American GI's in Korea. It probably would be impossible to equip and indoctrinate a new Japanese army in time to serve in Korea. However, General MacArthur's headquarters might pick up valuable information on Korea from the Japanese who policed that country for 45 years. Many Japanese officers spent their entire military careers in Korea, and are experts particularly on Korean guerrilla fighting - one of the chief problems haras- sing American troops and supplies. Though the American occupation army consulted these Japanese experts in con- nection with administering South Korea af- ter V-J Day, General MacArthur has ignor- ed them since the outbreak of the fighting. Political leaders are uneasy about re- activating Japanese divisions, for fear world opinion might frown on it; also for fear the Japs, themselves, might turn on us. President Truman has agreed to take the matter under advisement. THOMAS L STOKES: Lobbyists WASHINGTON-One of the problems fac- ing the House Select Committee to In- vestigate Lobbying Activities, as it seeks to strengthen the existing, admittedly inade- quate Lobby Registration Act, is whether to include specifically in the act various types of organizations, not now registered, which some members insist are clearly in the lobby category. They go under the designation of com- mittees, councils, foundations, institutes, and the like for this or that, claim education or publishing objectives, and enjoy, for the most part, exemption from taxation on one ground or another. Their technique chiefly is the publishing and distribution of pam- phlets by the hundreds of thousands dealing with matters before congress, but usually with little or no information about who is behind them and how they are financed. It's a new sort of technique that is assuming increasing importance. Those explored by the committee are alike in their anti-New Deal-Fair Deal at- titude and in that their financial support is largely from big corporate interests. The exception is the Public Affairs Insti- tute, which receives contributions from labor organizations and says so specifically in publications they finance. The head of the Institute, Dewey Anderson, told the committee he thought such organizations, including his own, should come under the Lobby Registration law. The committee chairman, Rep. Buchanan, (Democrat, Pennsylvania) has insisted that backers of such organizations should be dis- closed to the committee in the public inter- est. This has met resistance from some or- ganizations, among them the Committee for Constitutional Government, directed by Ed- ward A. Rumely. This group has distributed a half million copies of John Flynn's "The Road Ahead," the book which has been wide- ly used in campaigns against Fair Deal can didates in primaries, notably in the South. AN INTERESTING organization delved in- to by the committee, which got littlg publicity, is the Foundation for Economic Education, a deluxe sort of outfit with head- quarters at Irvington-on-the-Hudson, N.Y. It enjoys plentiful financial support from many of the nation's blue-ribbon corpora- tions and includes representatives of them among its trustees, along with some eminent economists of conservative caliber. It puts out very handsome booklets that give no clue to the foundation's financial backers; among their targets are rent con- trol, the Marshall Plan, Point 4, and TVA -utilities are prominent in the founda- tion's supporters. suVoluminous records and correspondence submitted to the committee by its president, Leonard A. Read, formerly with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Cham- ber of Commerce, and National Industrial Conference Board, illuminate its activities and aims. They reveal his own energy in lining up heads of big corporations through exchange of personal letters and a travelogue of lunch- eons and dinners, as well as the active inter- est of some of the big business executives a to subjects covered. The foundation distrib- uted pamphlets to teachers in leading col- leges and organized a college-business ex- change program through which fellowships for 30 teachers from 25 colleges were financ- ed last year by business firms. It established contacts with Reader's Digest, which re- printed two pamphlets. It tied up with the kingpin of the real estate lobby, Herbert U. Nelson, of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, which distributed 500,000 copies of "roofs or ceilings" against federal rent control, and it has kept in close touch with members of Congress. IN THE FOUR YEARS of its existence the Foundation has received $1,175,000 in con- tributions and $172,000 from sale of books and pamphlets. The list of contributors in- cludes, for that time, $50,000 from General Motors; $40,000 each from Chrysler, *U.S. Gypsum, Consolidated Edison, E. I. Du Pont de Nemours, Gulf. Oil, Marshall Field and Co., Montgomery Ward, Sun Oil, and United States Steel; $37,600 from Republic Steel; $35,000, B. F. Goodrich; $22,500, National Steel; $20,000 each from Armour and Co., International Nickel, Libby-Owens Ford Glass Co., and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; $19,832.98 from Lammot Du Pont, and so on down the line to include a host of major corporations and officials at lesser amounts. The record led Rep. Albert (Democrat, Oklahoma) to say to Mr. Read that, while he was not sure the Foundation should be under the Lobby Act, "however, I do feel that unless organizations as effective as, yours in influencing legislation can be cov- ered by a lobbying act, the lobbying act is not worth the paper it is written on .. . I think you are far more effective than the average buttonhole artist, so-called, around the Capitol." . Because of its technique, its prestige and its influence, the Foundation will be ex- plored further in a subsequent column. (Copyright .1950, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Casualty Lists AMERICA'S first casualty list from the Korean front contained 11 names, and inevitably it was a depressing thing. Even though these men died for the right, for justice, for freedom, it was saddening to think thpv hwi tociA . of oi1 r . . l ettei'4 TO THE EDITOR The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of general interest, and will publish all letters which are signed by the writer and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length, defamatory or libelous letters, and letters which for any reason are not in good taste will be condensed edited or withhe'd from publication at the discretion of the editors. Reply to Gold .. . To the Editor: THE LETTER of Samuel N. Gold published in your August 3 is- sue is the most disgusting ex- ample of the Moscow party line to appear in your letters to the editors column this summer. This outrageous perversion of the real- ities made my blood boil and should not go unanswered. I do not know who this Mr. Gold is. He is not listed in the Student Directory or the Ann Arbor phone book. I assume therefore that he is one of those "missionaries" sent out by the Communist Party head- quarters who occasionally pop up on our campus to spread the latest' gospel of lies and falsehoods con- cocted within the walls of the Kremlin. Evidently he does not live in a small farming town or suburban community. That is re- grettable. If he'did, he might have discovered that the discrimination on the basis of residence which he preaches is without foundation: there are Communists and fellow- travelers in those places too. I resent the aspersions he casts on the loyal people of the United States who support wholehearted- ly the United Nations fight in, Korea for the survival of liberty and human decency against Mos- cow-inspired aggression and tyr- anny. As for oligarchy, which means government of the few, the best example of it is to be found in modern Russia where a small clique dominates 200 million peo- ple. May we just hope, to quote Mr. Gold's words, that the people of Russia and its satellites cannot be fooled forever, that they will wake up and overturn the oppres- sive government ruling them. I also resent the sneering tone he uses in his unjustifiable attacks on Jasper B. Reid and Alvin B. Lewis. I am certain that these gentlemen . . . have the best in- terests of our nation, and not those of foreign dictators at least, and that they prefer the Stars and Stripes to the bloody red rag made in Moscow. -Fredric H. Harf . .. . "It's Not A Security Council Seat That Bothers Me" .. . -. - nual SRA fall leadership training retreat will meet at 4:30 p.m. to- morrow at Lane Hall. All student religious organizations are invited to have representatives at this meeting. Botanical Seminar: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Rm. 1139, Natural Sci- ence Bldg. F. D. H. Macdowall will speak on "Modern Concepts of Photosynthesis." All interested are invited to attend. Lectures Survey Research Institute. "Studying Attitudes in Their Per- sonal Context." M. Brewster Smith, Department of Psychology, Vassar College. 4 p.m. Tuesday, Rm. 131, Business Administration Bldg. The Quest for Social Security. "Jobs and Social Security." J. Douglas Brown, Dean of the Fac- ulty, Princeton University. 4 15 p.m. Tuesday, Rackham Amphi- theater. Linguistic Institute. "Salt River: Facts and Fiction about the Origin of a Political Phrase." Hans Sper- ber, Ohio State University. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Rackham Amphi- theater. Chemistry Lecture Series: Wed- nesday, 4 p.m. Chemistry Bldg, Rm. 1300. Prof. P.A.S. Smith, Uni- versity of Michigan. "The Value of Classical Bond Formulations to Organic Chemists." Concerts Student Recital: Jose Bornn, pianist, will be heard at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Rackham As- sembly Hall, in a program of works of Bach, Beethoven, and Ravel. A pupil of John Kollen, Mr. Bornn will present the recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree. Open to the general public. Student Recital: Mary Fowler Jones, Organist, will present a program at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in Hill Auditorium, in partial ful- fillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree. A pupil of Marilyn Mason, Miss Jones will play works by Bach, Dupre and Messiaen. Open to the general public. Stanley Quartet, with Benning Dexter, pianist, will present its final concert of the summer at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in theRack- ham Lecture Hall. The program will include Mozart's Quartet in D. Minor, K. 421, Quintet for piano and string quartet by Alvin Etler, and Beethoven's Quartet in C ma- jor, Op. 59, No. 3. Open to the general public. Student Recital: Ruth Oberholt- zer, organist, will play a recital at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in Hill Audi- torium, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. Miss Oberholt- zer is a pupil of Josef Schnelker. Compositions are by Buxtehude, Strungk, Couperin, Bach, and Reubke. Open to the general pub- lic. University Symphony Orchestra, Wayne Dunlap, conductor, will be heard in its annual summer con- cert at 8:30 p.m. Monday in Hill Auditorium. The program will in- clude Folk Overture by Peter Men- nin, Three Ballads from the Cat- skills by Norman Cazden, member of the School of Music faculty, with David Ireland, solo violist, George Webber, cellist, and An- drew Lisko, violinist; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra composed by School of Music faculty member Homer Keller, with Robert Hen- derson, pianist. Following inter- mission, the orchestra will play David Diamond's Overture to "The Tempest," Samuel Barber's Essay for Orchestra, and Knoxville: Summer in 1915, with Leslie Eit- zen, soprano; Jubilation Overture by Robert Ward. Open to the gen- eral public. Exhibitions General Library, main lobby cases. "Trochiledae, Family of Humming Birds," by John Gould,: supplement, 1887. (July 27-August 18). Museum of Archaeology. From Tombs and Towns of Ancient Egypt. Museums Building. Rotunda ex- hibit, "The Coal Flora of Michi- gan." Exhibition halls, "Jungle Arts, Crafts, and People." Law Library. Legal cartoons (basement, July 24-August18). Michigan HIitorical Collections. 160 Rackham Building. "Tourists in Michigan-Yesterday and To- day." Museum of Art. Oriental ceram- ics (June 26-August 15). Modern graplfic art. (July 2-August 15). Clements Library. Michigan rar- ities. (August 1-18). Events Today Graduate Outing Club: Meet Suntlay, 2 p.m., Northwest en- tran cesRackham. Swimming. Bring cars. . of M. Hostel Club: Sat.-Sun., August 5-6: Overnight Cycle Trip to Pinebrook Hostel, 20 miles away. Meet at League at 3:00, Sat. Come with pass, food, sleep- ing bag. Call leader, Stu Todd, 3-1100, if plan to go. Everyone welcome. Coming Events Square Dance Group meets '- 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at Lane Hall. Naval Research Reserve: Meet ing 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Wood Utilization Laboratory. Swimming in evening: Departure time and sign-up sheet will be posted on Lane Hall Bulletin Board. Probable departure time will be 5 p.m. Wednesday. Bring packed lunch. University Community Center, Willow Village: Mon., 8 p.m. - Nursery Board Meeting. Tues., 8 p.m.-Wives' Club Meet- ing, Bingo Party. Wed., 8 p.m.-Church Executive Committee. Thurs., 8 p.m.-Choir. Ceramis. eWives' Club Board Meeting. Churches Congregational - Disciple - Evan- gelical & Reformed Guild. Supper Congregational Church 6 p.m. Dr. Roger Heyns of the psychology de- partment will speak. ,Michigan Christian Fellowship: 4:30 p.m., Lane Hall (Fireside Room). Rev. Erno Van Halsema of the First Christian Reformed, Hudsonville, Mich., will speak on the subject: "A Christian Prayer." University Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Washtenaw: Service Sunday at 10:30, with sermon by the Rev. A. Scheips. Gamma Delta, Lutheran Stu- dent Club: Supper-Program at the Center, 1511 Washtenaw, at 5:30. "Christianity Behind the Iron Cur- taru," led by Miss Leona Eisele. The Lutheran Student Associa- tion will meet at 4 p.m. at the Student Center, 1304 Hill Street, and leave from there for the Ham mett Cottage, Strawberry Lake where a picnic supper will be serv ed followed by devotional service University Community Center, Willow Village: Sun., Aug. 6, Vil4 lage Church Fellowship (intert0- nominational); 10:45 a.m. Church and Sunday School. 4 p.m. Wives Club Picnic, Riverside Park, Ypsi- lanti. Lookin'up. 'There are now 221/4 million peo- ple o t work in Britain - 22,000 more than at the end of 1949. The unemployment figure remains very low and is actually below its level a year ago. It represents a pro- portion of 1.6 per cent of the total insured employed population. A 41 a h r DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN l Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice toiall members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the Office of the Summer Session, Room 3510 Admin- istration Building, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Saturdays). SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1950 VOL LX, No. 30-S Notices Recommendations for Depart- mental Honors: Teaching depart- ments wishing to recommend ten- tative August graduates from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and the School of Educa- tion for departmental honors should recommend such students in a letter to be sent to the Regis- trar's Office, Room 1513 Adminis- tration Building before August 24. Attention August Graduates: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, School of Education, School of Music, School of Public Health: Students are advised not to re- quest grades of I or X in August. When such grades are absolutely imperative, the work must be made up in time to allow your instructor to report the make-up grade not later than 11 a.m., August 24. Grades received after that time may defer the student's graduation until a later date. Edward G. Groesbeck A representative of the General Motors Corporation will be at the Bureau of Appointments Wednes- day, to interview August graduates who expect degrees in Electrical Engineering. They are interested in men who are taking degrees in either power -or electronics. For further information and appoint- ments for interviews call the Bu- reau of Appointments Ext. 371. A representative of the A. C. Spark Plug Division of the General Motors Corporation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin will be at the Bureau of Appointments Thursday to inter- view August graduates of the Elec- trical and Mechanical Engineering schools. They are interested in selectronics majors in Electrical 3 n- gineering and in Mechanical En- gineers interested in production of electronic equipment. For further information and appointments for interviews call the Bureau of Ap- pointments Ext. 371. Doctoral Examination for Mah- moud Sidky Mohamed, Physiology; thesis: "Intestinal Motility and In- testinal Blood Circulation," Mon- day, August 7, 4017 Eas Medical Bldg., at 3 p.m. Chairman, J. W. Bean. Doctoral Examination for Sid- ney Earl Cleveland, Psychology; thesis: "The Relationship between Examiner Anxiety and Subjects' Rorschach Scores," Tuesday, Aug- ust 8, East Council Room, Rack- ham Bldg., at 2 p.m. Chairman, D. R. Miller. Doctoral Examination for Rich- ard Sanders, Psychology; thesis: "The Relationship between Exam- iner Hostility and Subjects' Ror- schach Scores," Tuesday, August 8 at 2 p.m. Chairman, D. R. Mil- ler. Doctoral Examination for Don- ald Gordon Duncan, Mathematics; thesis: "Some Results in Little- wood's Algebra of S-Functions," Tuesday, August 8, 3006 Angell Hall, at 3:20 p.m. Chairman, R. M. Thrall. Mathematics Colloquium will meet Tuesday, August 8, at 4:15 p.m. in Rm. 3011 Angell Hall. J. Korevaar, Visiting Lecturer from Holland will speak on "Entiire Functions as Limits of Polyno- mials." The committee to plan the an- 1,_ '1 Fifty-Ninth Year Edited and managed by students of tbe. University of Michigan under the ~autftority of the Board in Control of. Stident Publications. Editorial Staff Philip Dawson.......Managing Editor Peter Hotton .........City Editor Marvin Epstein.........Sports Editor 'pa'at Brownson .........Women's Editor Business Staff Roger Wellington.. . .Business Manager WalterShapero ...Assoc. Businessa Mgr Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited to this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matters herein are also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor. Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Subscription during regular schoe. year by carrier. $5.00. by mail, $6.00. 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