Milford chronicle., 1947-09-19
Washington Letter
j. E. Jones
NOTHING WRONG WITH
THE ATOMIC R0MR

Washington, D. c., September
An official committee known as the
United States Atomic Energy Com
mission is beginning an investiga-
tion into various fields of Industrial
health and safety with the hopes of
gaining specific control of radio,
logical hazards and atomic energy,
and using their knowledge on behalf
of health and public safety.
However, the atomic bomb keeps
Russia shivering in its boots, and
that's enough to expect.
There isn't any chance of using
the atomic bomb for any purpose,
unless Russia forces us to employ
it in preserving the peace of the
World.
The United States NEVER AT
TACKS-but it always wins its
wars.
SURGEONS DRAFT TELEVISION
Thousands of surgeons, at the
annual meeting of the American
College of Surgeons just held in
New York, have witnessed dem
onstration of what may became one
of the great new methods for teach
ing the latest and best surgical
techniques in performing all types
of operations.
For its first large-scale tryout,
the Radio Corporation of America
took its televisiOn equipment into
a hospital operating room and tele-
vised a series of operations per-
formed over four days. The televi-
zed images were shown on receiv.
ing sets in a New York hotel, more
than a mile away from the operat
/: ing room.
AS the surgeons of The New Yorl
Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
performed the operations, the mem
bers of the American College o
Surgeons gathered about the man!
television receivers in the hotel
Several hundred surgeons saw al
operation at each sitting, day afte
day.
Way back in 1913, founders of tn
American College of Surgeons fel
, it would be helpful to any docto
to observe at first hand the work o
! outstanding practitioners of his art
But the American College O
: Surgeons found that only few doc
: tors, at any one time, could ge
close enough to observe a felloN
practitioner operate. Even amphi
; theaters, especially built to per
: NIT clinical observation, have pro
: we'd unsatisfactory. Medical movie
n have been a partial answer.
Now television supplies yet anC
ther means of visual education an
5 the medical profession has gres
s hopes for it. Perhaps the most al
tractive thing about the medicf
= telecast is it's immediacy. Doctor
4 like other people, are subject [
e the dramatic pull of something ths
n is happening right now, this mil
ute.
1t is not difficult to visualil
groups of medical men, in the M
distant future, sitting about recei,
O ers and watching famous surgeon
performing both routine and raj
? operations. That'll give surgeons
{ rare opportunity. It'll have sall
S tary effect on the whole medic
q profession.
= TAXES AT WARTIME PEAKS
y Do not fail to remember that IL
recent Congress passed laws
IL lower rates of taxation and tn
l. President Truman vetoed that LEI
islation. The political talk at Il
time was to the effect that the Pre-
$ ident would recommend tax redu
1t tion before the political pot begil
to boil in the Presidential electiC
- of 1948. That's a safe bet!
~ The American taxpayers have h;
IL tough scratching trying to keep I
Is with the Government. Our Nation
n debt is 260 billion dollars, the t.
= of all borrowing in any country.
;" An able authority in Washingtt
y says that prices of the United Stat
are high because the World
ir mand is high. And, labor rates ha
=, grown because the cost of livi
= has risen.
j. We are buying our own food pT
re ducts and foreign countries are al
buying American foods - becau
NJ they haven't anywhere else to {
- We give 'em the money!
Unless we find some way of G,
ting back our feet and operating
f. "a more sensible way than we ha
n been doing for years, this Unit
States of ours will be caught in
very bad depression. You know WI