The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-24

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[ gan statistics on distribution Of
children in rural and urban areas;
number and distribution OF pedia-
tricians and number of general
practitioners graduated since 1890;
mum n of hospital facilities, health
centers, prenatal clinics, child CON
| ferences and the method and rate
/ OF pay; number of county and dis
/ trict health departments; status of
/ public and pediatric nursing: sta
| tus of school health servicers.
The plan will key in closely with
| the postwar health center net.
work recommended by the Pepper
subcommittee on wartime health
and education. Pepper stresses the
need OF local hospitals to be linked
with district hospitals and district
hospitals lined with large base
teaching hospitals in one large
state wheel of prevention, diagHes.
tic and curative services.
All OF this is expected to help
the state study become incorporat-
ed into the maste blueprint
Concerned over confusing and
conflicting stories about the At
lantio Charter, Congressman Bar
tel Jonkman, of Grand Rapids. says
Il believe one of the greatest con-
tributions Mr.. Roosevelt can make
toward unity OF our people and all
peace loving peoples; toward the
speedy winning OF the war: to-
ward a deterrent and outlawry of
the scourge OF war. is to dig I'D
not an Atlantic Charter. or any
charter, but what Churchill called
a simple rough-and ready wartime
statement of the goal toward which
the United Nations mean to make
their way.
Mr.. Jonkman is member of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee.
II would seem that Frank +.
Hook. of Tronwood. would not have
time to do much else than attend
committee meetings. His Michi
gan colleague, John Dingell. who
has charge OF getting the best COM
mittee assignments possible for
Democrats in the Middle West.
managed to put Hook on five COM
mittees.
The best spot-and the one the
Upper Peninsula Democrat part
icularly desired-was on the Labor
committee. This should liven up
the executive sessions because his
arch Republican enemy, Glare
Hoffman, is also a member.
The other committees on which
HOo1 will serve are: civil service.
patents. claims and war claims.
Prior to the last two years when |
John Bennett represented the 18th |
district, Hook served on the agri- /
culture committee. but he now pre- |
fers labor since manpower PROB |
lens are critical and unemploy- !
ment threatens later in the post. |
war days to come.
Hook says the most important |
problem facing Congress is ito |
provide a stable highly produc-
tive post war economic system and |
it is no exaggeration to say that an |
international peace depends on |
post war full employment"
Meanwhile. Hook will fight TO .
abolish the Dies Committee to in
vestigate un.American activities. |
already set up in the first days OF |
the new Congress He has asked |
the Rules Committee to grant hear.
ings.
Hook contends the FBI. the |
Army and Navy intelligence can B..
ably handle any un.American &C. |
tivities, and that Congress will just
disturb its unity so necessary in /
wartime.
John Dingell. Detroit Democrat. /
Is sponsoring a bill to give mem. |
bers OF the 18th Congress a suitable |
medal for war service. He isn't .
fussy about the kind OF medal. but
does favor a decoration for the war .
Congress