Evening star., 1938-10-26
TUCWELL, M0[{Y
ARGUE Sd TERM
Flshbein and Cabot Debate
Group Medicine in
Forum Talks.

NEW YORK, Oct. 26-Two former
members Of the New Deal brain trust"
met yesterday in public discussion of
the question: Shall we break with
tradition in third term for Presi-
dent?"
They were Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell,
chairman Of the New York City Plan
ming Commission, who said a third
term was a good idea, and DR.. Ray
mond Moley, professor of law at Co.
1umbla University, who said it wasn't.
The opponents, both close advisers
to President Roosevelt in his first term,
met on the platform at the New York
Herald-Tribune Forum on current
problems.
DR.. Tugwell said he believed the
moral" opposition to third term
comes almost wholly from those who
think Government, and especially its
executive branch, ought to be kept
weak"
DR.. Moley asserted that a mere
disclaimer" of desire for more power
was not sufficient. declaring: The
only disclaimer that deserves credence
Is renunciation
Group Medicine Debated,
Speaking from the same platform,
DR.. Morris Fishbein, editor of the
journal OF the American Medical As
soclatlon, and DR.. Richard A. Cabot.
professor emeritus of clinical medicine
at the Harvard Medical School. de-
Dated the comparative merits of gro,,n
medlcal practice and private medi-
cine.
Dr. Flshbeln criticized a recent re-
port OF the Interdepartmental Com
mlttee on Health and Welfare, created
oy congress on President Roosevelt's
order. which called for a national
health program at an annual expen-
diture of $850,000 900 and the creation
OF a compulsory sickness insurance
plan to cover the entire population.
OBVIOUSLY such an agency. once
created. would constitute the largest
division OF our Governments work for
the people" DR.. Fishbein said. 1T
may well create a bureaucracy with
100000 to 100000 employees for its
maintenance. The concept is the
most far-reaching entrance of Gov
ernment into the personal life of every
citizen that has even been contem-
plated in this or any other country"
DR.. Cabot Dissents.
Dr. Cabot favored group medicine
for the following reasons:
For the patient, group practice is
superior because, in many cases, an
oculist's diagnosis can be made only
by group of cooperating experts who
have the aid of many laboratory tests
and several expensive machines. The
patient Of the private physician
can rarely afford to pay for the ma
chimes, the tests and the consultations
which IN group practice he gets for
comparatively small yearly subscrip-
tons.
without group practice" DR.. Cabot
continued, no accurate diagnosis is
possible. Without accurate diagnosis,
treatment Is a farce. Unnecessary
operations, unnecessary suffering and
unnecessary loss Of life are the re-
suit"
Dr.. Robert A. Millikan, world
famous scientist, declared the Ameri-
can voter must learn Ito discount
completely the man, whoever he is,
who talks glibly about social justice
End helping the common man as
though nothing were involved other
than an attitude of good will"
"Class War" Rejected.
The chairman of the California
Institute OF Technology's Executive
Council said social progress depends
upon rejection Of the erroneous doc
trine Of the class war which the
demagogue Of high and low degree is
preaching continuously to uninformed
workingmen.
Representative Martin Dies, Demo-
crat. Of Texas said the sending of
Nazi, Fascist and Communist agents
into the United States by Germany,
Italy and Russia was "in keeping with
the new methods of undeclared war
which foreign nations have evolved"
I'VE have already reaped part of the
harvest in the form of sit-down strikes.
violence, demonstrations and riots" he
said.