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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-12
DOCTORS "PLAN"

1t is not difficult to se through the alternative" health insurance
scheme presented to the ANA. House of Delegates by the heads of
state medical societies. AS opposed to President Trumans plan for a
national system of disqualification and sickness insurance, the doctors
favor 48 state systems, each with its own expenses and overhead. AS
against Mr.. Truman's proposed universal coverage, they favor volun-
tary participation only.
This is no plan. 1t is a stall. Experience has shown that voluntary
health insurance, while better than nothing, costs too much. Even
when operated O. a nonprofit basis, such schemes usually charge their
costs is to spread the coverage; and that can best be done by adopting
an integrated national system.
But the strongest point against the doctors plan" is that it will
not accomplish what the people demand of medical insurance-an
equitable spreading of medical cost among sick and we'll, rich and
poor. Voluntary insurance would be open, a S at present only to those
who a afford it and have the foresight to buy it. Lowincome fam
flies would be excluded, as they are now; and 81 would millions of
borderlne families whose margin between income and outgo is so thin
that medical expenses are never met until illness strikes.
By putting forth their alternative" the doctors admit the need
for basic change in the economics of medical care. But by refusing
to face the issues they fail to meet the need-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-12
A SHOWER" FOR THE
SLOVENIAN ORPHANS
IN JUGOSLAVIA

Cleveland, OhiO-The Progress
sive Slovene Women of America
with full cooperation of all SANS
units in Cleveland are taking this
opportunity to cordially invite all
Slovene women to attend a
BABY SHOWER" for the Slo-
venian orphans in Jugoslavia on
Friday, December %, 1945 in the
lower hall of the Slovene National
Home, GAIT ST. Clair Ave, at
8 p. m.
We received definite informa-
ton from the Jugoslav Red Cross
that there r approximately
8OO,O orphaned children in
Jugoslavia of which 10000 are
Slovenes, who are desperately in
need of food and clothing if they
are to survive this coming winter.
Many of these innocent little vic
TINS OF war, became homeless lit
tie wanderers. Many are so young,
they can't even remember their
names or where their homes had
been. They only remember FEAR,
HUNGER, COLD.
Many of you are sending pack
ages to your own relatives in
Jugoslavia and the idea is won
dertul, but we also ask that you
at the same time remember these
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-12
WHO is HIDING SUGAR?
Food RatiOning Ends, but Sugar
Remains a Mystery

Housewives were made happy
by government orders ending ra-
tiOning Of all foods except sugar.
This good news, however, did not
restore the old-time plenty in gro
Gerry and butcher shops. Some
foods still are hard to find.
The sugar situation remains a
mystery. A government official
who knows the facts admitted that
sugar shipments for relief of Eu-
rope and other parts of the world
make only a small dent in the
American supply and are no rea-
son for scarcity.
Sugar production in the United
States has been encouraged by
subsidies to both growers and re-
finers. Prices paid to the big
sugar companies of Puerto Rico
and Cuba were raised during the
war to boost imports from those
two main sources of supply.
In view of these measures, the
present scarcity is hard to ex-
plain. Is someone boarding sugar
until control of its retail price
ends?
Men who know the sugar
game" say that whenever the re-
tail price goes above 5 cents a
pound, there is profiteering, and
that each one-cent increase in the
price puts 500, 100000 a year into
someone's pocket.
The big money in sugar is
made by the refining companies
and by the big plantation owners
most of them Americans - in
Cuba and Puerto Rico and Hawaii
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-12
Cost OF YuqosIuviu's SeIf-Liberotion

Statement by M. Mitar Bakch, Secretary General of the Presidium
of the Federal Government of YugoIavia:
"YugoSlaVia lost over 1919 of its population and 500 of it's
national wealth. Its economic life has been entirely disrupted and the
national income has dropped 70%.
Our greatest loss was in lives. We lost 100000 people, of whom
over 75% were shot or lost their lives in Fascist camps and death
chambers. We lost over 80 600 skilled industrial workers and miners,
and 10000 intellectuas. There are 425,000 wounded or disabled. There
100000 people were forcibly taken to labor camps. The average age
of those killed or missing was %. This gives some idea of the tremen-
dous economic loss involved.
Second in importance is the loss of our national wealth. We were
an agricultural country and agriculture has suffered most. Over
Il 100000 fruit trees and about $4,000 hectors of vineyards were
destroyed, a quarter of the pre-war total. Two-thirds of our horses were
lost; other livestock have been reduced by about 500, and small live
stock still more. Most of u agricultural implements have been de-
sroyed, damaged or looted; lie, l $50 tractors, 2,485 steam engines,
$500 threshing machines, $50, 900 ploughs, 5000 harvesting machines
and 485y0 900 peasants carts"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-12

helpless orphans, who have no one
of their own to turn to. Take
these tired little children to your
heart, comfort and aid them also.
The clothing you donate may
be new or used provided it is in
a clean and wearable condition.
Children's clothing, all sizes, will
be accepted. Monetary contribu-
tons will also be accepted with
which material for clothing will
be purchased.
We are to have with us a guest
speaker for the evening. The COM
mittee is also arranging a program
of Slovenian songs for your pleas
ure. Refreshments will be served.
The men are also invited to attend
the social after the shower.
Won't you try and clothe a child
let this be your Christmas gift
to a Slovene orphan.
Relief Committee,
JOSIE ZAKRAJSIK,
President;
JOYCE E. GORSHE,
Secretary;
MILE BRADAC,
Treasurer.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-12
I'M SWEDEN
Sweden continues to be a

wed continues TO be a
for thousands of European refu-
gees. To date there are still
1851 900 foreigners in the country,
$4,000 of whom are Finnish chill
dren being cared for in specially
organized children's homes. The
largest group of adults comprises
$1,000 refugees from the Baltic
States. The $4,000 Polish citizens
now in Sweden are mostly victims
of the German concentration
camps brought in for GONZALES
cence. by the Swedish Red Cross
and UNRRA. About $4,000 citi-
zens of the other three Scandi-
naVian countries are residing in
Sweden at the moment: 1000
Danes, 4,400 Norwegians and $500
Firms.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-12
Should Hide Their Heads in Shame

There is not one school teacher out of 20 in my state who draws
as much money a a street "a conductor in Washington did before this
strike"
That argument was USED recently by Congressman John E. Rankin
(Dem, Miss against the Washington street car and bus drivers strike
for more pay.
1t apparently did not occur to Rankin that his words were a better
argument for raising the wages of the miserably underpaid Mississippi
school teachers.
If what he said of teachers pay in his state be true, he should blush
to admit it,, instead of Dragging about it on the floor of Congress.
Rankin, however, was warmly congratulated by two Republicans
Congressman H. Carl Andersen of Minnesota and Clare E. Hoffman of
Michigan.
man." chimed in Hoffman.
If these three prize "labor haters" had their way, neither the teach
ers, nor the street a men, O any other workers would ever get a
raise in pay-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-12
Honesty of Peoples Business

A commendable example of amazing commercial honesty is shown
by the Workers Mutual Savings Bank, a cooperative financial insti-
tuition at Superior, Wis. In our sister paper, the FINNISH COOP
WEEKLY, the bank informs Finnish American coopcrators that it can
send money to Finland, at 125 Finnish Marks per dollar.
But we do not recommend the sending of money for relief pur-
poses at present, because of Finlands prevailing financial condition"
says the bank, very emphaticaly. According to III information, a
pair of shoes, for instance, costs 1000 FINK in Finland, a suit $4,000
FINK. In our money, this would be SIG for the shoes and $120 for
the suit Over here these dollars will buy many shoes and suits -"
Tie paper urges Finnisl-Amercans to send food and clothing
instead of cash relief This despite the fact that there is considerable
revenue for the bank in handling shipments of cash to foreign countries
Can you imagine a proft-notivated financial institution spending
good advertising money to discourage people from patronizing one of
It's own services, simply because that particular service is not in the
consumers best interest ? - The Cooperative Builder.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-12
GENERAL MOTORS DOES NOT
NEED OUR SYMPATHY

1t made the workers pretty sore.
With their simmer pay checks,
they found they couldn't buy as
many groceries. And they knew
that General Motors wasn't both
cred by the price of groceries.
They knew that Mr.. c. E. Will
son, the president of General Mo
tors, had increased his salary from
a starvation figure of 1898, 178 in
1941 to a decent wage of $3.50 41
in 1943.
They knew that the salary of
O. E. Hunt, a vice-president, had
been raised from ~$235,875 to
$359,519, and that another vice
president, Albert Bradley, had
been boosted from S25O,17 to
S350,432.
And sc they mace a h
proposition. Show your books to
an arbitration board, they said to
the company, and we'll agree in
advance to be bound by its de-
cision.
Not on your life, said the COM
pany. We're the judges of what
we can pay, and no outsider is
going to stick his nose into u
books.
The workers be damned, the
public be damned, said. General
Motors. But the company was
more brazen that William H. Van
derbilt ever thought of being.
Appealing to the country for
sympathy, it claimed that the laws
were too favorable to labor. Yet
under the unemployment compen-
sation law, strikers are cut off
without a cent of benefits in most
states.
AT the same time, under the re-
fund provision of the excess prof
its tax, General Motors will be
recompensed for it's losses. It is
getting strike benefits out of the
public treasury.
we are paying out cash for
being damned. General Motors
e not need u sympathy.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-12
KENESAW NJ. AND ii
in The Chicago Sun

My sympathies are with the
striking employees of General Mo
tors, and will tell you why.
When the war ended lao, 900
General Motors employees were
abruptly cut off the payroll, They
were the expected casualties Of
the reconversion period, and no
n blamed General Motors.
But the remaining 1870, 900
workers found their pay envelopes
shrunken by about 25 per cent be-
cause Of the loss of overtime pay.
These workers knew that Gen
eral Motors had made huge war
profits. They knew that the COM
pany expected to sell half again
as many cars in the postwar
period as it had ever sold before.
They thought that General Mo
tors could continue to pay the
same weekly wage scale, and for
that reason asked an increase of
80 per cent in hourly pay to make
up for the loss Of overtime.
But the company said it couldn't
grant any such readjustment with
out increasing the price of auto
mobiles. Nothing doing, said the
workers.
The workers wanted General
Motors to pay their wages, not
you and me. They knew that in
creased prices would set off a
spiral of initiation that would de-
crease the real wages of everyone.
Show us your books, they said
to the company. If your figures
show you can't pay the 80 per cent
hourly increase without raising
prices, we will back down on our
demands.
Nix, replied the company. Prices
are none of your business. Our
profits are none of your business
You'll have to take our word for
what we can pay.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-12
World Awaits Start
Of New English Policy

Britain intends to go beyond
Big Three boSsiSm and treat
France as a great power. "a ma
tons Importance, Bevin said, de-
ponds on a great deal more than
the number of its fighting di-
ViSionS.)
Britain somewhat reluctantly
accepts the new Poland and the
policy of transfer of mischievous
German populations. Bevin asks
indulgence for Italy and promises
assistance in her rehabilitation.
The Greek plebiscite is post
poned a couple of years. The
Churchill policy of supporting the
ex-king against the Fam. is
changed to insistence on really
fair elections.
A Closer Federation of Europe
Britain is trying to get along
with the Soviets in Iran on the
b of the 1913 agreement.
Britain is standing by the Dutch,
who supported Britain when at
tackled by the Japs. The future
status of the Dutch colonies should
be decided not on battle fields, but
at a conference. Britain looks ia
vorably on a closer federation of
Europe. (Bevin said, Il cannot
see a single frontier in Europe
today that is e ideally
sound.")
Finally, Britain stands for
strengthening the United Nations
Organization (by removing the
great power veto and setting up a
world legislature in order to make
it a fit custodian of atomic power.)
Obviously, Bevin's statement
wasn't perfect. It did not men
ton Palestine and the Labor par
tvs betrayal of the European
Jews. 1t did not mention India or
promise a new line toward Spain.
1t did not redefine British i'm
perialism, yet it seemed to herald
a policy which Americans ought
to support. If Mr.. Bevin means
business, maybe he has laid the
foundation for a constructive
Anglo American partnership in
world affairs.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-12
EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER
in The Chicago Sun

Recently Britain's foreign sec
rotary, Ernie Bevin, said a mouth
full. If he can act as we'll as talk,
then the world may begin to pull
out Of its present sidespin.
Provided he is not just making
a grandstand play = as some are
insinuating-Mr. Bevin has really
a n the long-aWaited
change in Britain's world outlook.
To realize what this means one
has to look back on the policy of
the Conservatives who ruled Brit
ain most of the time between 1918
and 1945. Never has a country
been worse directed.
These gentry - many of them
filled with high moral purpose
supported Mussolini and Hitler.
Franco and Schuschnigg, Metaxas
and Pilsudski. They backed Italy
against France and anybody
against the Soviet Union. They
did all they could to build up
arrogant Germany. They stood for
integral British imperialism.
Three Items on the Credit Side
British Tories S a b O ia g ed
Brands plan for uniting Europe.
They were against any strengthen
ing of the League of Nations,
When the Nazi-Fascist crisis came.
they threw the whole thing over
after expelling the Soviets. I'm
questionably, they unwittingly
helped bring on the war. On their
credit side were just three items,
two of them due to Winston
Churchill: A show of loyalty to
Ethiopia, the offer of federal union
with France, the heroic decision
to fight on after France went
under.
Many people who hoped that
the Labor party victory last July
would bring an immediate re-
versal of the disastrous Tory line
have been disappointed. Bevin's
speech shows, however, that a new
British policy has finally been
formulated. Slowly but surely it
should be put into operation. Here
are a few points:
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-12
THINKING OUT LOUD

According to Uncle Joe, the far
mer and the city teller are pretty
much alike. They're just ignorant
on different subjects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-07

basic training at Norfolk, Va, no
went overseas In May, 1914.
His brother. Robert. rs, Is q dis
charged Navy veteran. Mrs. Wellen
is employed here with the American
Publishing Co.
Pvt. John G. Walsh, %, U. 8. M. c.,
whose wife, Mrs. Henrietta B.
Walsh, and daughter, Joan, 4, live
at 3706 Longfellow street, West
Hyattsville, Md, suffered head
gunshot wound In action with the
9Th Marine Division on Okinawa
June IS. He is now back on active
duty.
A native Of Washington, Pvt.
Walsh attended Taft Junior High
School here and was graduated
from Mckinley Technical High
School in 1871. He was prominent
in high school athletic activities.
He entered the Marine Corps IN
August. 1914, and went overseas last
March.
A borther, Capt. William Walsh,
n, is with the Army in italy. Pvt.
Walsh's parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam M. Walsh, live at 1908 New.
ton street NE.
Pvt. Henry A. West, U. s. M. c..
whose wife, Mrs. Lucille F. West,
lives at 1913 Dix street NE, has
been wounded in action, according
to today's Navy casualty list.
The following men officially re-
ported wounded in today's Navy list
have been subjects Of stories In The
Star prior to this time:
Sergt. Leroy C. Newhouse, o. s.
M. c. r., whose wife, Mrs. Helen NJ.
Newhouse, lives at 1874 Thirty fourth
street Sc, June %.
Corpl. Henry F. Smith, U. S. M. c..
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph L.
Smith, 1109 G street Sc. June "a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-07

that had disintegrated. The curly
haired major shrugged and said
81 never worry about those things. "
Maj. Bong was working on an oil
painting of his attractive wife In
his spare moments. Mrs. Bong, 81,
who majored in art in college,
taught him the rudiments.
viii Fly Body Home.
Today she was preparing to ac-
company her hero husband on his
final flight. An Army transport will
bear the body to Superior. where
the majors parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Bong; two Of his brothers and
four sisters await his return.
At the Bong farm home, the
flyers family was stunned by the
news of the aces death. His father
told callers the family did not care
to talk about it now"
The parents of the flyer, two OF
his brothers and four sisters, were
home when they learned of the
fatal crash.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-07

Embrey attended Elliot Junior High
School here until month before
he joined the Navy in July, 1914. He
went overseas last February.
Seaman Embrey's brother, Marine
LIST 1t. Thomas F. Embrey, jr., %
is on duty in the Pacific.
S/Sergt. william ]. Gallagher, "A
U. s. M. C. r., whose wife, Mrs
Doris L. Gallagher, lives at sos
xenia street Sc, was wounded
slightly in action on Two Jima.
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Sergt
Gallagher was educated and en-
ployed there until entering the Ma
rine Corps in March, 1914. He came
to Washington when he was as.
signed to the Naval Research Lab
oratory at Belleview.
A brother, John. II, is in the
Merchant Marine. Mrs. Gallagher Ii
employed here with the Chesapeake
g. Potomac Telephone Co.
James v. Wellen, %, pharmacist
mate 2/c, U. s. N. R., whose wife
Mrs. Philemena Mary Wellen, lives
at GA Upshur street NV, was
wounded May 10 on Okinawa, dur
ing action with the Sd Amphibioas
Force. He is now home on con-
valescent leave.
Mr.. Wellen was born in Wash
ington. He attended Eastern High
School here and worked in the Vet
Grams Administration before joining
the Navy in October. 1912. After
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-07
Starter and Maid
Deliver Baby Girl
| At Bus Terminal

A bus starter and a maid we're at
tendants when a 6la-pound baby
girl was born in the women's lounge
at the Greyhound bus terminal at
2:05 am. today. Mother and child
later were reported in excellent con-
dition at Gallinger Hospital.
The mother is Mrs. Constance
Goheen, Is, who formerly lived at
1113 Eleventh street NV.
She, her husband James and two
of their four. other children were
in the terminal with tickets for
Martinsburg, w. Va, when the stork
approached. She went to the lounge.
The maid called the starter and
the birth was successfully accom-
plished. The starter asked Grey
hound officials not to make public
his name, and the maid followed
suit. The ofiicials complied.
Mother and child were taken to
Gallinger Hospital in the Emer-
gency Hospital ambulance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-07

Is a sick person and must be regard
ed as such.
This is an effort to salvage and
reconstruct everything he has
worked and aspired to and we will
try to help him do that"
DIR. Seckinger "Gratified."
DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger, deputy
health officer, told the group of pa
tients and volunteer workers, "It is
this type of effort that is most graft
flying to the local Health Depart
ment."
The clinic is operated from 7 to
9 pm. Mondays and Thursdays in
the Municipal Center Building. APP
pointments are arranged by Mrs
Sylvia Halpert, psychiatric social
worker with the Mental Hygiene
Bureau, at National 5000, extension
2194.
Volunteers aiding DR.. Miller and
his assistant, DR.. Ruth Stocking,
in the clinic include representatives
of Alcoholics Anonymous, who will
offer membership in their group to
those they feel are sincerely DESTROYS
of getting out of their alcoholic
"ruts," and who will do volunteer
beside work with hospital cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-07
Ninety Take Citizens Oath
Before Justice Mcguire

Approximately 90 persons, several
Of them servicemen. were sworn in
today as American citizens at a
naturalization ceremony in District
Court.
Justice Matthew r. MCGUIRE, who
administered the oath, stressed the
significance of citizenship in a brief
address.
John Wattawa, chairman Of the
committee on citizenship of the
District Bar Association, guest
speaker, told the prospective citizens
that their priceless gift Of Amer
lean citizenship" will bring them
more protection and opportunity.
Mr.. Wattawa stressed particular
" the significance of American citi-
zenship at the present time.
The National Guard of Honor OF
the American Legion presented col
ors at the ceremony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-07
Anton {. Kern, Official
OF Rice BAKING Co., Dies

Funeral services for Anton c.
Kern, So, district manager Of the
Rice Baking Co., will be held at 8
pm. tomorrow at the s. H. Hines
funeral home. Fourteenth and Har-
ward streets NV. Burial will be In
the Abbey mausoleum.
Mr.. Kern died Sunday in Doctors
Hospital after a stroke which fol-
lowed a years illness. He was born
and reared In the Northeast section
of the District and entered employ
ment with the Rice bakery more
than Is years ago. He resided at
103 Madison street NV, and was q
member Of the Keller Memorial
Church.
Mr.. Kern is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Mozelle June Kern; a sister,
Mrs. Lena v. McInnis, and three
brothers. John P. Kern, Harry L.
Kern and George G. Kern, all resi-
dents of the washington area.