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to throw out the plan claiming
1t wasn't fair to non-members who
had to pay more than Blue Cross
card holders.
The campaign worked In a goodly
number Of hospitals. The Blue Gross
was given notice to dish up with
more money FL. or vamoose.
Sitting back were the rival hos
pitalization plans :. watching the
fur fly and murmuring that
their only interest were non-members
:. who were paying the long dollar.
As the situation stands today these
rival companies are all poised to
sign up the cash customers . who
are supposed to be tearing up their
Blue Cross cards and getting in line
to sign up with the rival companies.
It's swell idea If it would
work.
However, it's our prediction that
the Blue Cross crowd will see the
handwriting on the wall and
before they lose top spot on the
totem pole they will offer the hos
pitfalls a better deal.
And when all the wash is hung
out on the line the Blue Cross will
still be carrying the ball.
The rival companies shouldn't
really be unhappy about this :.
because they insist their only in
terest is to protect John @. Tax
payer.
Back Again
LAST TIME we looked Freddie
Gilman was still on the payroll.
Even he is beginning to wonder
about this. His stuff keeps coming
off the wire from Washington. To-
day, he is daffier than usual.
Brownie says he is cute :. which
is good enough reason for letting
him spout off while you listen.
Don't go calling Congressman and
me old fogeys. We know all about
the telephone and how Don Ameche
invented it a while back In Holly
wood.
The apparatus for talking over
copper wires is an interesting nov
city, but we doubt that it is here
to stay. We are ignoring it.
You think I'm spoofing? Haw. Let
me tell you about the opening meet
ing of the second session of the 9th
Congress:
The chaplain read his prayer. The
clerk read a note from Sam Ray
burn saying he was stuck in Texas
for couple Of days and what about
electing Rep. John w. Mccormack of
Mass. as temporary speaker Nc
Cormack said he didn't think the
members could vote on that until
there were some more members. The
bells changed, the clerk called the
roll, and 100 extra congressman
rushed in through the swinging
doors.
They voted 235 to nothing in ia
vor Of John w. then they applauded.
Mccormack banged his gavel and
told 'em to be in order. A little gent
in a black coat burst through the
main door. walked half way up the
center aisle and bowed from the
waist.
He said he was a messenger from
the Senate. He said the Senate beg
ged leave to announce to the House
that 1t had set up shop and was
ready to start business. He bowed
again and hoofed back to his head
quarters.
The representatives proposed and
adopted law Quicker than you can
say '"telephone") authorizing inter-
i'm speaker Mccormack to notify
President Truman that they were
at work and awaiting his. er, plea
sure.
Mccormack appointed six rep
resentatives to take the news to the
White House. They walked out IN
dignified manner. suppose they put
on their overcoats Git was cold day.
and headed down Pennsylvania ave-
nue. with the dispatch. 1t is un-
thinkable that they resorted to
Ameches device. At least if they
did. they cheated on tradition.
They adopted unanimously a sec
ond law authorizing the speaker to
send his messenger on a journey of
about 400 feet to tell the Senate that
the House even now was ready to
grind out the laws.
I was sitting all this time on a
stool in the balcony directly over
McCormack's head and I cannot of
my own knowledge say what went
on In the Senate. My spy reports,
however, that the senator's went
through a similar routine, which
reached its climax with appointment
of their committee to let President
Truman know they also were at
work.
It is q hazardous Journey from the
Capitol to the White House, but
both committees had native pllides