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The midland journal., 1946-11-08

Seventeen additions to Veterans
Administration hospitals have been
completed as part of VAS big hospi-
tai construction program for the
care of 20,000,000 potential veteran
patients.
The midland journal., 1946-11-08
U. s. PATENT OFFICE RESUMES
BY j. E. Jones

Washington, D. c., November A.
The United States Patent Office has
returned from it's World War tour"
to Richmond, Virginia, and the or
ganizaiton is now back home in
Washington. 1t was chaperoned on
the final trip from Richmond back
to Washington by 1000 employees.
Ordinarily the number of applica-
tions for patents in peacetime aver
aged about $500 a week. But the
war side-tracked and held up most
applications. Now the Patent Office
faces an accumulation of $4,000 ap-
plications.
Our American industries never did
sell the United States down the
river" through cartel agreements be-
tween manufacturers in opposing ma
tions; neither did they transfer
patent rights in combinations of sep
arate firms for the purpose of main
tanning so-called pools" and mono
poles. The fact remains that there
never has been a scandal in the Pat
ent Office.
A patented invention gives the in
ventor the exclusive right to make,
use and vend' an invention for the
term OF seventeen years throughout
the United States and it's Territories.
AS matter factswe have the pat
ent law system to thank for most of
the progress and rapid development
of production" in the United States
Dear reader, you do not need to
wait any longer to get a patent on
that "brainckild" of yours.
Auto Dealers On Firing Line
While the people who make aauto-
mobiles have had plenty of grief in
the last year, striving to get into
something like adequate production
in the face of the handicaps of recon-
version, strikes, material shortages,
and price controversies, their counter
nmmbers-the distribution workers
of the industry-have been taking it
on the chin as well.
Dealers along Americas main
streets at last are daring to hope that
before too long tke heat will be Off
that customers will quit swearing at
them-that once more a man will be
able to leave a car in his show win
dow TO" more than Is minutes with
out being accused of boarding trans
poftation or batting a black market
trap.
The midland journal., 1946-11-08

approximately 10000 veterans are
studying agriculture in the nations
schools and colleges.
The midland journal., 1946-11-08

Red antipathy doesn't extend t
meat.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09
Within These Walls

There noticed of late increase in unfavorabe crit
cs of State hospitals for mental diseases From all
ports it would that the best good 1t is
unfortunate thing that sick people who must be placed
such institutions cannot have better In
the State is bame in others the institution. There is
nothing pitifu than this condition. inadequate
sufficient for the DID, INDECENT and mentally unsound
It is the many times that those who at
ford unable to the This week the
Hartford Courant comments this matter in editorial
titled, "Bedlam 1885, and this article in turn comments
Life Magazines gruesome perturbation of unfavorabe
conditions.
In many instances the impersonal attitude Of
regular hospitals is accented in mental hospitals Nat
ura the system of treatment has to be pretty specialized
and there is feeling that the majority of such hospitals
do not provide the best in equipment and medical 1t
often stated that the hospitals do not recompense suf
GENTLY for the amount and type Of work. All these things
do bear investigation We know that the hospitals not
large enough accommodate patients that need special
There not enough of them The private santarums
for many.
Recently there has been published book, Snake Pit,
that deals with this subject too pleasant reading it is
true and here you find yourself deeply in sympathy with the
central character who had the misfortune arrive
of these mpersona institutions where the
posedy good in fact it good but wasn't kindness lack
ing, if you would be in sympathy with the author.
# While appreciate what have in state hospital
equipment need in every other state
hospitals equipment perhaps and something just
little better for those who obliged to live for short
or long time within the combining walls of state hospital
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09
Start Toward a New Era

The personal aircraft industry today about where the
automobile industry 30 and for the
SON. Inexpensive produced had to wait upon the
construction of improved highways throughout the country
venient arports to be built. And now, with the signing of
the bondoar Federal Airport Act the of private fly
ing really to have dawned.
About $500 of the counrys 1880 Incorporated urban
already have landing fields The airport appro
priaton (Which municipalities must match $3.50 basis)
will add 5000 seven-year period besides
proving 1900 existing fields r.,,-. ..,,
This is only start of But it should encourage
the resumption of activity by aircraft manufacturers which
drastcaly curtailed by the cuback military
1t should stimulate competition thus the price of
personal planes downward toward point where they will
within reach of mass market
AS the market grows volume production and continued
competition should give rise to further research and
sutng advance in safety, simplicity efficiency and COM
FORT But the market probably grow where
all these things be realized until the plane
more limited in his choice of places than the
owner today.
That brings up the problem of the 10000 communities
which will still be without federal aid for airport after
the Civil Aeronaucs Administration chosen the site of
5000 new fields the basis of need and probably consd
eratons OF national security What the 10000 do?
Well, many of them could do what the town of Eldon
Mo- has done Eldon built arpark-a name coined to
designate small simple landing field sufficient to the need
of small panes-whch will be dedicated next month 1t was
financed by $4,000 municipal bond issue which costs the
Eldon taxpayer about extra mill every tax dollar
Such an investment would TO be sound one. An
arpark In smaller community will attract business the
held just as airport does in big CITY, It will help pro-
vide JOBS for the many armnded and atraned veterans
who desire to remain in aviation 1t will bring money
and people to town. And small way it should help
to speed the day of safer cheaper private flying
many who eagerly looking forward plane of their
own
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09
COP. Not TOOHappy


passed around at the convention, though Senator
TaftS office here explained it was personal letter
Apparently the Senator did not expect it to get out
It is interesting for a number Of reasons, this
excerpt will show:
with regard to Wisconsin, I hope LaFollette is
successful. get with him very well and would
have no difficulty in agreeing with him social
to me than he will be to Senator Morse Wayne
Morse, r., Ore).
Furthermore, Tom Coleman wisconsin Repub-
lican chairman appears to be tied up with Sassen.
don't think LaFollette will get into that
pagn because he disapproves strongly of Stassens
foreign policy"
Now Senator Morse is one of the small liberal
group of Republicans in the Senate He has praised
Bob LaFollette most highly, and more than once,
one who could be depended on to go along with
does domestic issues though not always on foreign
policy. Senator Morse has declared the Taft
wing of the Republican Party, openly on the radio,
and in writing once in article for the LaFollette
weekly The Progressive
This letter very revealing as to Senator
Taft. The Ohio Senator is persistent gentleman
He lets up That coupled with his fine intellect
makes him perhaps the single most effective Repub-
lican in Congress and in the party leadership. He
will be most formidable factor in the 1913 Pres
idential convention and misses opportunity
to lay the groundwork.
He is out to beat Harold Stassen and ne let it
all slip out here, of the neptitudes for which
he is well known. He seems to speak authoritative
w. too, about the LaFolette attitude toward Mr..
Stassen
Bob LaFollette seems in envable position in
his newly adopted party that is, If he can be re-
elected which is much to be desired for his service
is needed in the Senate.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09

labor Proprietors, the self employed and
domestic servants, excluded from these figures.
The Department Of Agriculture collects from its
crop reporters estimates the number of farm
workers and their wages
Unemployment figures come from three sources.
The Bureau of the Census runs sample survey on
the number of unemployed and the size Of the labor
force month by month. Its figures not obtained
by counting noses however. but by check on 1000
families in So sample areas covering 125 counties.
But when you consider that there are about 40
million families scattered 5000 counties of the
United States, you that only little
onehaf of percent OF the population is counted.
and that the multiplying factor is pretty big.
Using the Bureau Of Census figures. March re-
turns show 2,7OOO00 unemployed in labor force Of
5566OOOO both totals constituting highs since
WI Day
The other two sources of unemployment figures
are the Social Security Board and the Veterans
Bureau The Social Security Board collects figures
from state unemployment insurance benefit pay
ments. They show "a March average Of l,573,0OO un-
employed collecting job insurance.
The Veterans Bureau pays out unemployment
insurance under the CT Bill of Rights to ex-sodiers
and sailors unable q find work At the end Of
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09
How Many Unemployed? By Peter Edison

March, 1,7O4 256 vets were its rolls. When you
add this total to the Social Security Board figure
you up with total of 3,2770O0 collecting job
insurance, and this is half million greater than the
census survey indicated Something is wrong with
this picture somewhere.
AS for the trends, the Army and Navy are
close to the four million mark combined strength
and they have about two million more to demobilize
Other federal government employment is still high
at 2343,OO0, and certainly should be brought down
to some extent.
Strikers are not counted as unemployed, though
strikes since vi Day have had as many as 100000
idle at time.
The winter wave OF strikes has resulted in an
increase in the average straigh-time hourly to
a new high of $l.03 an hour in manufacturing. But
10 percent reduction in the average work week,
eliminating most overtime, has reduced the take
home pay by an average of IA percent 4.ss
Quit rates and labor turnover are still high. being
over six percent for nonveteranS and eight percent
for vets. Up to the beginning OF the coal strike the
highest separation rate was reported in mining.
not going back to tho mines.
The building and trade industries have shown
the biggest increase in employment 900 EACH and
still rising
Farm labor always picks up during the Summer.
The peak for 1915 q little IL million, two
million above the March level The average monthly
farm wage for the nation was put at $3.50 with
board 1914 without rejecting the shortage of farm
labor. What is happening to farm boys being cis-
charged from the armed services is not clear One
BIS survey Of 5000 sample histories indicated
many farm boys weren't going back to the farms
In the first seven months after vi Day, more
than million women who had held jobs during the
dropped out Of the labor force according to the
survey. The BIS. sample survey reporsed
over half Of the women war workers laid OF Is un-
able to find work. 49,
Older workers have been finding re-employnient
difficult There is considerable migration. which may
not settle down for year.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09


course. considerable political fmflamrnery. For they
knew that Bob merely taking practical political
course He wanted to come back to the Senate. His
Progressive Party shot to pieces The Democratic
Party in Wisconsin distinctly the sad sack side
The natural course for the Wisconsin Senator
was to go back to the Republican Party which. after
ALL the party of the LaFollettes before the
late Senator Bobs father, broke all ties in 1924
But Bob was much more eager to adopt the Re-
publican Party in Wisconsin than it was to adopt
him, it now turns out. Which brings to last week
end when the Republican state convention ignored
him completely-except for a long vote-and handed
the Senatorial nomination to ex-Marine and state
judge, Joseph r. Mccarthy
That is not too disturbing. Bob can still in
the August Is primary
But an interesting and amusing development at
that convention provided another chapter in the
struggle over Bob LaFollette This came out in "a
letter written by Senator Taft OF Ohio, the recog
nzed leader of the Republican Partys conservative
faction, to friend in Milwaukee, Lester Bradshaw.
This letter was friendly to Senator LaFollette. 1t
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09
In Today's Mail

/ doctors care: or if sudden severe
| illness strikes us OF our families,
we must Scrape and sacrifice in or
Ger to pay our doctor, or beat"
him out of his bill.
Most of this trouble can be laid
t. the high cost of medicine under
the feeS-for-service setup. The re-
sultant trouble not only harms us
as patients, or as neutrality-suspicious.,
or as neutrality-suspicious., but it
hurts the country as whole.
Many OF us early become unable
to work, or burden on our FAM
lies and our community. OF we die
before we Should-When little pre-
Ventive medical care would have
saved us.
We also have the shameful spec
tacle of our people wasting millions
OF dollars each year on patent med
icines. Most of these either do us
no good or keep up from going to
our physicians for proper care.
Why don't we go to our doctors?
because he will charge plenty and
ne is most likely to prescribe medi-
cine, which runs up the bill. So we
shun the man who is qualified to be
our health counsellor. With his
training and skill he is the logical
guardian OF our health. But. be-
cause of our custom of paying him,
we consider him in the terms of
repairman. We go to repairmen
only when we have to; not always
when we should.
Thus, the present system of pay
ing our doctor does not promote the
widest spread of medical care to
the whole country or to all the
people.
Plainly change is needed. if pri-
vate medicine is going to serve us
al. There are several roads open:
State medicine, where the doctor is
public Official as in the armed
services; cooperative medicine,
where the people organize a health
society and employ their own medi-
cal people; state medical associa-
ton sponsored voluntary health
insurance plans; the inclusion of
medical care in the Blue Cross hos
lltal plan, and the Social Security
insurance plan.
The last named plan is the one
which is included in the Wagner
Murray-Dingell bill. 1t is the one
which would benefit the whole peo-
pie; and when put into use, it will
be most welcomed to the medical
profession.
Why? Because it would really
solve the problem of spreading the
benefit OF medical care for all of us
without destroying the freedom of
our doctors as private professional
men. 1t means that they will be
paid for services rendered-paid in
full And we will be more willing
20 call on them.
Yours respectfully,
ROBERT B. BICKEL.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09

lot other interesting public relations eyenses bv
this lobby have since been uncovered including the
fact that the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company
paid club dues and entertainment bills for its exec
tiveS at various Oklahoma golf cubs-al at the ex-
pense of the consumer.
However, the most effective lobbying done in
Congress for many years is by those two spokesman
of the so-called Cotton Bloc Senators John Bank
head of Alabama and Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma
who, while vigorously opposing curbs cotton have
been trading either personally or through their fam
Lies, on the cotton market
Senator ThOmas's cotton trading has been
through Robert Harriss of Harriss and vose, 60
Beaver Street New York, with the account carried in
the name of the Senator's WIFE, Edith Bob Harriss
is an old and intimate friend of the Senator's and
OF other Senators in the Cotton Bloc At one time
Harrss handled the cotton trading of Senator Bank
head of Alabama, and was also extremely close to
the late Senator Cotton Ed" Smith Of South Car
oina.
Harriss first became prominent on the WASH
lngton scene when he was purchasing agent for
Father Coughlins silver speculations After becoming
friendly with Harriss the radio priest starter Wig
orous campaign for the reconciliation of silver,
and later 1t was disclosed that Father Coughlins
secretary Amelia Coils, had purchased 100000
OF silver and was the biggest holder of silver in the
country.
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma also was great
silver-nfation enthusiast and did his best to tack
a silver amendment the Work-Relief Bill in 1886
This was at about the same time Father Coughlin
was specializing in silver and when Bob Harriss was
close to both men, Senator Thomas also seems to
have bent for other kinds of speculation and during
the early days Of the proposed that the wars
cost be paid by national lottery.
His recent cotton SpeculatiOns, however.
pecaly interesting and appeared to be closely related
to his speeches on the Senate floor.
Mr.. Harriss, who handles the Thomas famiy's
cotton trading account is in and out of the SEN
ators office every week or So They very
friends The Thomas purchases never go more than
5000 bales, which is the legal limit for cotton,
and usually the Thomas trading is through pools
which generally run up to 10000 bales
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09
Penalizing Free Choice

The Administrations national health insurance program
which is embodied in the Wagner-M Murray Dngel bill now
under by the Senate Education Labor
Is Deng brought out into the open as implement
to socaze the medical profession The plan aims to tie up
the nation with nexbe state medical system supported
py enforced tax payments and controlled by political pa
tronage.
Concern has been expressed by Senator Allen Eender
q louisiana over the fate of existing voluntary medical
surance plans compulsory Federal system adopted
On the question of whether there would be completely free
choice OF doctors promised by the bills proponents he
points out that while patient would be free to turn to
aoctor OF his own choosing the patient could benefit under
Ine health insurance plan only he chose doctor who had
agreed to work under the government plan
oucn condition as this would force every who
is practcng medicine to eventually agree to work under
me pan because the average patient could not
aIord to seek the services of doctor private practice
Wnne paying taxes on compulsory health insurance This
would De like paying doctor bill twice The bill as it stands
using devious to destroy the private practice of the
program where political dictaton will guide it's destiny
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09
WRITER THINKS WAGNER
MURRAY BILL is
THE ANSWER TO THE
NATIONS MEDICAL
OUTLOOK.


NATIONS MEDICAL
OUTLOOK.
IS FairvieW st.
May 8, 1916.
Editor of The Democrat: ...
We are hearing a lot now about
organized medicines stand on the
Wagner Murray Dingell measure
which would put our doctor bills
on prepayment, or social security
basis.
The spokesman for the American
Medical Association are "agin" the
bill. But they seem to be putting
up poor argument-or no argu-
ment at all, and are relying on the
much overworked slogan, free en-
terprise", to carry them through.
OF course not all the medical peo-
pie are opposed to the bill and the
idea behind the bill-which is to
make medical care possible for all
the people in these United States.
The few outspoken doctors defy
the ANA for they know full well
that the fee system neither provides
nor encourages ALL the people to
secure all the possible medical care
they need.
I should like to give the patients
circumstance in present-day medi-
cal economics. After all, the bill is
proposed to help the people get bet
ter medical care than they are
now getting.
Without doubt, we in the United
States have the worlds greatest
facilities for promoting the health
OF the people. And, because we are
richer in material resources, includ-
ing food, we do enjoy the highest
standard of health among the great
powers.
Yet, millions are denied the
chance-or at least, they are not
encouraged to grasp all opportuni-
Oles-to secure, when they need it,
complete medical attention.
Evidence of this is plainly shown
IN our constant drives to raise
money for the relief of people in
advanced states of tuberculosis,
cancer and other ailments; or, to
aid the families where the main
cause of their poverty is ill-health;
often, ill-health that might have
been prevented had the patient re-
ceived medical care early enough.
Need one bring forth the we'll
known facts about the millions of
young men who were rejected for
military service because of physical
defects?
In many regions of our vast coun-
try, there are no doctors within
reach of the people living in them.
They are too poor to support doc
tors.
Many of us, in the more wealthy
sections. are forced to accept char
ity medicine, or to go without a
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09

But, as a preliminary, it is
necessary to go back a few weeks
when the Senator led his Wiscon-
sin Progressive Party back into
the Republican fold. There was
much rejoicing over the lost who
had returned. The hosannahs
welled up from all elements with
in the party nationally, right, left
and middle. 1t proved, so they
said, the sterling worth of their
party. 1t was another sign the
party was on the way back.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09

utility big-wigs who have been
trying to block distribution of
Government power in competition
with private power from the Nor
folk and Denison Dams on the
Texas-Oklahoma border and in
Arkansas.
The name 'Nylon Lobby"
comes from the fact that Ham
Moses. president of Arkansas
Power and Light, arrived in WASH
ington with a promise of nylons
for the wives of Arkansas Sena-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09

the situation Is going TO get worse
or better. But when it comes to
pinning down facts, the figures
are at variance, and about all
that can be reported are a num-
Der of trends which indicate
terrific amount of milling around,
a concentrated effort to get set
tied.
The Bureau Of Labor Statistics
collects figures on the number Of
workers employed ink nom agricul-
tural industries, dealing with
omor and hoias.c c.laik r.n&nr ard
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-05-09
Waterbury
OF the Past
Is Years Ago

In order to aid in the acute UNI
employment crisis, the city was en-
ploylng number of persons includ-
ing . men to dig a ditch at the Iso-
latlon Hospital on WATERFOWL Ave-
nue..
The Waterbury Dry Goods Com
pany held a Spring Sale.