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Arkansas State press., 1949-01-14
COTTON PLANT

All churches held their Night
Watch services together at Ash
Baptist Church. Rev. w. l., Martin
is the pastor. Rev. M. l., Brooks
delivered the sermon The offer
ing was given to shut--ins.
Arkansas State press., 1949-01-14
Just Us Club Gives
New Year Party
BY c, Coolidge Brown

The "Just Us" social club COM
posed OF nine women, who rep
resent the cream of Blytheville
feminine society, gave their sixth
annual New Years party at the
lovely residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
B. M. Ivey, 1l2 f. Mathis Street,
last Saturday evening with presi-
Arkansas State press., 1949-01-14

WRITER'S NOTES: incidentally,
Mrs. K. H. Mum, III is Home
Demonstration agent of New Mad
rid County, Mo. ..... Mrs. Fannie
Mae Boone is the State Home
Economics Supervisor of Arkan-
sas.
Arkansas State press., 1949-01-14
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LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS

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b. Degree in Natural and Physical Sciences The G. Bill
of Rights provides financial assistance.
ln-Service Teachers
Special Evening" Saturday and Short Courses offered for
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Faculty
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Arkansas State press., 1949-01-14

One of the outstanding extra
curricalar achievements was the
successful fight waged by Mrs,
West with the Missouri-Pacific
Railroad Company for increased
ard belteled passenger facilities
on us train from Little Rock to
Arkansas State press., 1949-01-14

prominent religious leader. son,
George West. who is prominently
identified with the organized la
Dor movement; 2 grand daughters;
) grandsons and great grand
children, as well as host Of
friends to mourn her demise.
Evening star., 1949-01-20

they are celebrating it as such,
unmoved by the pain they infiict
on the losers.
Some of the losers really are
suffering. EX-Speaker Joe Martin,
for an example. The member from
Massachusetts, listening to a raul
cous calliope tuning up for its part
in the parade, looked downright
detected, not his normal Sunny Joe
self at all.
Cheer up, Joe," said a friend.
"It can't be that bad. -Four years
from now you'll be in again. That's
the way it goes"
Don't believe it," said Joe. mot
in four years. Not in forty, maybe.
The party that's in has all the
money, and as long as they spend
it they can stay in
Forbore Reminder.
The friend forbore reminding him
that only last year the money was
in the hands of a Republican Con-
gress and could have been spent
that is to say, used to promote a
winning programmed the Repub-
lican leaders not considered the
election a cinch.
Many of the Democratic leaders
do not share the Martin view, much
as they might like to. One who does
not is Senator and Democratic Ma
tional Chairman Howard McGrath.
Holding open house to party leaders,
big and little, who have sWarmed
here from all parts of the country,
he is not telling them that the
Democrats are in for the next forty
or four or even two years. He is
telling them they cannot win the
next election unless they understand
why they won this one.
They won on the issues, he tells
them, and he specifies the issues,
which are all of the items that Pres
ident Truman has rolled up in
package labeled the Fair Deal.
When the visiting vote-getters
want to know why he is telling
them, since carrying out the pro-
gram is a job to be done in Wash
lngton not back home. Chairman
McGrath explains. With all the
best will in the world, he points out,
the Presidents supporters in Con-
gress may find it hard to make their
campaign pledges good. The pres
sures against some parts of the
program will be terrific. and the
pressures hardest to resist will come
Evening star., 1949-01-20
Going Somewhere at Il
Barkley Believes He Can Play Big Part
In Extending Nations Social Frontiers

The lights went of in the GAL
leries, attendants locked the doors
and the clerks put away their
papers. Senator Barkley did not
hurry. It was a very simple moving
day really; the contents of one small
desk had only to be toted to the
Vice Presidents Office down the hall.
What was interesting about him as
he worked was that while his ac-
tions signalized the end of long,
honorable career about which he is
extremely, almost romantically SEN
timental, his air was one not OF
finality but of expectancy.
The fact Is that Senator Barkley,
at II, is a man going somewhere. He
believes ne can play an important
part in the new fair hope of ex-
tending social frontiers along the
lines laid down by Franklin Roose-
welt. With any luck, he should be
right. His convictions in these mat
tiers are older, if not firmer. than
Mr.. Trumans. His long experience
gives him a practical grasp OF the
problem impossible to a younger
man. And he has the human touch.
Taking Larger View"
Already since Congress convened,
Senator Barkley's colleagues have
noticed that he is taking what they
jestingly call the larger view. They
perceived shrewdly that in the party
caucus on committee assignments,
rules, patronage, ETC., their soon-to-
be-departed leader was translatlng
the situations to be met in terms OF
the larger problem and not their
personal desires OR ambitions.
We're not individual trees to Ben
any longer" said one old friend.
We're the forest. And he is going
to move us to Dunsinane If he can.
in order to get the program over" ;"
For example. he said, Senator
Barkley opposed the increased 8-5
ratio on the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, arguing that bipartisan
foreign policy was too important to
be risked. This would account for
one of the few feeble defenses Of a
Democratic move that Senator Bar
kley ever made on the floor.
Alben Barkley will always be a
Senator's Senator. which would be
honor enough. But his will to fight
on is too strong: he proposes also,
in the late afternoon OF his life.s to
help shape the new order, A great
many hearts will be with him.
Evening star., 1949-01-20

giving hotel clerks their best chance
since the war years to be short
tempered and arrogant.
You Can't Miss.
The bars are crowded to the gun
wales, thus giving bartenders and
walters their best chance since the
war to be short-tempered and ar
rogant.~ There is about one cab for
each 1000 persons who want one,
thus giving the cab drivers their
best chance since the war to-Well,
you finish the sentence. You can't
miss.
It is, I imagine, like Louisville on
Derby Day, with dignitaries and
their ladies doubling for the horses
and the silks. Or like Indianapolis
on 500-Mile Race Day, or EPSON
Downs on Derby Day, or New Or
leans at Mardi Gras.
The only reason I can think OF
wanting to be closer to Washington
today is that if I were there I'd be
able to wave at Harry-a man who,
all by his lonesome, pulled the big
gest political upset this country has
ever known. 1t would be nice to
salute a game and gallant man. 1t
always is.
But, then I'd have to miss the
Evening star., 1949-01-20


will pass along Constitution and
Pennsylvania avenues.
And 1 won't lack for fun tonight,
either. The fellow on my left has
already handed me a card asking
me to attend the inaugural ball at
Joe's Bar and Grill. Thereu be
television as well as tables for
ladies. Informal dress and bring
your own iodine and band-aids.
Here's Dope on Richmond.
While waiting for the parade to
start some 100 miles away, might
as we'll tell you little about Rich
mond. It is on Highways | and 60,
is attractively built around bend
in the James River, and from 1861
TO 1865 was the capital of the Con-
federate States of America. Rich
mond has a mayor-council form Of
government, owns and operates its
water. gas and electric plants, and
the State library has a valuable
collection of old manuscripts. The
city has % parks and II Fairgrounds
for small children. Bank debts in
1927 $50 the fellow on my left says
amounted to s1,711 1,04s, 900, and pos
tai receipts totaled s2,197,0C0
Actually, I am just as glad that
my lack of pull and acquaintance
ship with important people got me
no nearer Washington today. I can
see it plainly, without being any
closer than Richmond, which, for
got to tell you, has capitol which
was built after designs which Thom-
as jefferson secured while he was
Minister to France.
Yes, sir, I can picture Washington
today.
The hotels are overrunning, thus
Evening star., 1949-01-20
On the Record
Public Medicine Proposal Seen as Way
To Wreck Publics Health and Purse

budget. II Congress expects to cover
costs by the proposed payroll tax,
let this columnist predict that the
costs will not be so covered.
The British system exhausted its
annual funds within three months.
None ever has been supported from
earmarked funds. This, too, must
occur from the nature of the situa-
ton.
Collective Prescriptions.
Proper diagnosis is impossible. In
England doctors ask, How many
persons here have headaches?"-
and write common prescription.
But a headache may arise from a
hangover, eyestrain, sinus trouble,
psychic disturbances, brain tumor
or a myriad other causes. In COL
lective medicine. headache patients
all get barbiturates.
Public medicine is bonanza for
drug companies, optical firms, etc,
for it always turns into medicine by
prescription-collective prescription.
Public medicine runs into infinity.
1t is as impossible to compute the
necessary number of doctors as of
patients, and constantly mounting
demands force breakdown of
medical standards, beginning with
training.
Every good physician must under
go individual training. He cannot
learn to tell one sort of heart trem-
or from another by listening to
classroom lecture. He must take
stethoscope in his own hands, listen
himself, learn under individual
guidance. There is no way of vastly
increasing the number of competent
doctors except by turning the pres
ent ones to teaching mean
while, without medical service.
A famous New Zealand physician,
recently in Canada, stated in
public interview: Public medicine
in New Zealand Is disaster. 1t is
turning our people into a race of
hypochondriacs."
1t also is breaking the public
bank.
The American Congress has not
even begun to think what public
medicine will do to the public purse
and public health. When and If it
does, it will find another way to
meet real needs.
The Vienna State Opera Company
is shortly expected to so on tour
through the Scandinavian countries.
Evening star., 1949-01-20

the history of this country-far
more difficult than those faced by
Abraham Lincoln or any other
President since his day.
Mr.. Truman is more aware than
most people in this country think
of the heavy sea he will encounter
not only at home, but particularly
in the storms now raging across the
Atlantic and Pacific. His statement
in the first speech Of the inaugural
week that Senator Parkley and I
have a tremendous responsibility, a
greater burden than ever assumed
before in the history of the country
shows that he Is keenly aware OF
the problems which face his admin
istration.
Pitfalls in Foreign Field.
Those closely associated with him
in the White House say that while
his inborn optimism has not left
him, his smiles are more wan than
in the past and his concern with
problems over which he has no con-
tIOl ducduy 10 HclS1AAlS lNoNAS oi
him. He has been atie to make a
blue print for domestic matters
which ne, Congress and the people
can control. The legislation which
he is proposing to Congress may or
may rot be accepted. This is a
matter of compromise, and mis-
takes which he may make can be
mended.
But neither Mr.. Truman nor the
country has any control over de-
velopments abroad, and he is aware
of the pitfalls which he undoubted-
ly will encounter in the near future
in the foreign field.
Because he adopted the sugges-
tions made to him by his foreign
policy advisers, the 80th Congress
went along with him and approved
the billions to be expended for the
economic and social recovery of
Europe. The present Congress un-
questionably will continue that
policy. But spending billions abroad
when the Eastern bloc is doing its
Evening star., 1949-01-20

longed to all modern Democratic
leaders. From today on Sen
ator Barkley will be Vice Presl-
dent of the United States, presiding
officer of the Senate and by cour-
tesy a welcome guest at all meetings
of the Presidents cabinet.
For many reasons these oppor
tunities will not be to Senator Bar
kley mere pleasantries. His expert
ence and qualifications give MIN a
special opportunity to constitute
himself a link between the White
House and Capitol, desirable con-
nection all too noticeably missing
during the early Truman years.
And as the embarrassing upset OF
the previous hour showed, the
Senate administration majority is
not the kind Of rod and staff that
will comfort the President in all
the hard situations that lie ahead.
Air of Expectancy.
Senator Barkleys expression was
calm and thoughtful. as he raised
the lid of the old-fashioned desk
which has been his pulpit, his battle
station, his second home OCCASION
ally his Armageddon and his Water
loo. since 1887. With immense pla-
cidity, he began methodically to
sort the reference books. the sheaves
of notes, so heavy with memories of
legislative wars lost and won. Oc-
casionally. as is the Senate custom,
he snapped his fingers for a page
and handed him a pile OF stuff,
with instructions for its disposal.
Evening star., 1949-01-20
This Changing World
Truman and Barkley, Despite Smiles,
Aware of Momentous Years Ahead

utmost to wreck the free-enterprise
system as well as individual political
freedom is, he is aware, not enough
these days.
His personal experiences in his
deals with the U. S. S. r. have not
been pleasant and Mr.. Truman
knows as we'll as many of his ad-
visers that the Kremlin's word and
promises are not worth the paper
they are written on. But because
a handful of so-called liberals and
"progressives," either through igno-
rance or other more dangerous rea-
sons, insisted that the administra-
ton must try in every possible man.
ner to resume negotiations with the
Kremlin, Mr.. Truman was COM
PEELED in the past to make conces-
sions to that vociferous minority.
Drive for Appeasement.
Now he expects to be faced again
with a drive to return to the ap-
peasement policies which brought
us into the present dire predica-
ment.
Russia has given indications Of
being a party to this campaign
which the Kremlin hoped would
at least set back even the present
costly but still very incomplete ma
tional defense program.
Moscow broadcasts are blaring
daily the most vile attacks against
the rotten imperialism" of the
United States where IAN under
privileged population of tens of mill
lions lack doctors, hospitals, schools
and teachers" and where "a handful
of men live on the fat of the land
and at the same time the vast
ma jority of the population is starv-
ing and being exploited by the ruth
less capitalists" At the same time
Moscow stooges in Paris and Rome
are rendering olive branches to the
United States. In Washington the
Soviet Embassy's Information Bull
letin, which in the past repeated
faithfully the attacks of the propa-
gandists from Moscow, has all OF
a sudden changed it's tactics. In
its last weeks issue it printed warm
greetings for a happy new year
to the American people. Under the
signature of an unknown stooge,
Boris Isakov, it went on to say
that peace was wonderful and ex-
pressed the hope that 1949 will see
decisive steps toward the accomplish
mont of that dim
What the bulletin says is gen.
orally of little consequence. But
in this particular case, and coming
at the same time that Togliatti and
Thorez were smiling at the Amer
ican "warmongers," it has a definite
that the dummy cam
paign may be started by the Krem-
lin to see how far the American
people and the administration in
will fall for empty ges-
lures backed by no factual indica
ton for a real understanding from
Moscow.
Evening star., 1949-01-20

be emphasized is Dorothy Thompson.
that the statement of need never
implies the remedy. The advocates
of public medicine have failed to
describe the problsm and have
rushed to that universal panacea
for everything, Let the Govern
ment do it," drawing entirely false
analogies between the Governments
capacity for success in one field
and another.
1t is argued: 1--WE have free pub
lie education; why not free medi-
cine?"
Problems Differ Radically.
But the problems are radically
different. The school question can
be collectively solved, while medi-
cal care, if not to be worthless, is
a strictly individual problem, as
diverse as there are human per-
sonalties.
In education, the state undertakes
to give instruction to persons be-
tween certain ages, under a fixed
curriculum of subjects, and accord
ing to agreed-on standards. The
number to be taught is statistically
computable; the amount and dura-
ton of the, effort are defined, and
the cost, therefore. can be budgeted.
Education is administered in classes
and, according to the standards
adopted, the number of teachers
necessary also Is statistically ascer-
tainable. Nor are the students
educated according to subjective
standards of what each thinks.
None of these, standards or COM
putable needs is present in public
medicine. 1t undertakes to furnish
service to every citizen of any age
who is sick, or who thinks he is sick.
Possible diseases or phases of them
are almost limitless and range from
hypochondria through thousands of
organic disturbances to psychoneu-
rosis.
In each person several Affections
may be combined and each symptom
may arise from score or more of
causes. Almost no human being,
over a certain age. is perfectly well.
AS result of these facts, the ex-
perience of public medicine, In every
single country where it has been
adopted, is that doctors Offices and
clinics are thronged with persons
who are as well as their years jus
tify, but, whose demands can wreck
the treasury.
No system of socialized medicine
ever has been able to Eevise a
Evening star., 1949-01-20
On the Other Hand
Chairman McGrath Takes Leaf
Out of Real Estate Lobby's Book

from their home States and dis
tricts. What is needed, therefore, is
counterpressure.
Learned From Hobbies.
The national - chairman appar-
emily has learned something from
the lobbies that had the greatest
success in the 80th Congress. The
real estate lobby didn't stop the
Taft-Ellender-W Wagner bill by whis-
pering in the ears of gullible Sem
ators and Representatives or by
taking hungry lawmakers out to
dinner. They did lit by putting the
real estate, and related interests
back home to work, bombarding
their own Representative with per-
sonal letters, kilograms and phone
calls. 1t was made personal matter
between the Representatives and
the local v. I. Ps directly con-
cerned.
Just so the party leaders who en-
list themselves in this Democratic
lobbying enterprise will know what
tney are taking ABOUT, chairman
McGrath has launched an educa-
tional campaign for their benefit.
A few days ago he put in the mail
$4,000 copies of four-page letter,
each with the salutation, Dear
Fellow Democrat" The letter simply
restates the Presidents program
and quotes from his latest speeches.
1t is the sort of thing usually seen
before an election, not after. But
Chairman McGrath concludes by
saying, 80 read this letter. Read
it again. Then give it to others to
read. All of us must play our part. "
And this is just the beginning of
the educational campaign.
copyright. 1a49. G;obe syndicate.)
Australian estimators say 600 Aus
Evening star., 1949-01-20

SclldUO , fdillSIl~
e d into t h e
cloakooms with
unusual alacrity,
as they have a
habit of doing
after a contro-
versy all but
one. He had a.
date with his
tory.
Senator Alben
w. Barkley sat
down for the last
time by right in
the front row,
west aisle seat
Evening star., 1949-01-20
New Irrigation Method

Mexican citrus growers in the
Nueva Leon district this year
adopted a new irrigation method.
like one used in California, using
a big portable water pump which
can irrigate about so trees at a time
in a manner similar to rainfall.
Evening star., 1949-01-20

faSnlOneQ DeHO-
cratic rally. No
matter how nom
parti is a n the
President m a y
try to make it,
no matter how
deeply he may
feel his obliga-
ton to all the
people, his inau-
guration is SIM
ply the climax OF
a at party
victory so far as
ost Of h e
city's visitors are
concerned And
Evening star., 1949-01-20

Ing IN RlcnmOnd.
I didn't c a t C h
the wrong bus or
get off at the
W r o n g station.
This Is " h e r e
the ticket I got
for the inaugu-
ration of Presi-
dent Trum a n
calls for me to
sit. Good seat,
too. Calls for a
pine plank in the
second row, less
than 100 miles
from where the
inaugural parade
Evening star., 1949-01-20

posed new budg-
ct, and is sup
ported by hu-
manitarians who
recognize t h a t
m a n y p e o p | e
who need medi-
cal care are un-
able to get it at
a price they can
afford. This col
umn does not
deny this, and
later will pro-
pose some ameli-
orationS.
But what must
Evening star., 1949-01-20

Both men smiled
and waved hap
lily, alt h Q u G n
they fully real
ize that their
task is heavier
than that which
has t,efallen any
Presid mt and
vice President
of the United
States.
Mr.. Truman is
fully aware the
next four years
will be the most
burdensome and
Evening star., 1949-01-20
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. All


festivities at Joes Bar and Grill
tonight, and those who were thers
the night following the first battle
of Bull Run say it Is a place fell
low shouldn't miss.
Distributed by McNausht Syndicate, Ine.)
Evening star., 1949-01-20
Br Constantine Brovn

Dense crowds OF people from all
over the country cheered President
Truman and Vice President Bark.
lev with genuine enthusiasm today.
Evening star., 1949-01-20
Bv Doris FIees0n

The gavel fell Tuesday on con-
fused and rather sheepish Senate
which had unexpectedly killed tax
exemption for inaugural tickets. The
Evening star., 1949-01-20
By Dorothy Thompson

Public medicine-"fr medical
care supported by tax on pay
rolls-has been demanded by Presi-
dent Truman, appears in the pro-
Evening star., 1949-01-20
Bv L0weIf MeUeff

This town this week is no place
for a Republican. Folks of that
ancient faith find themselves in the
midst of something akin to ain old
Evening star., 1949-01-20
McLennore-
Views Big Parade
In Richmond Bar
By Henry McLemore

RICHMOND, Va.-This is the
Big Day in Washington-but I am
in Richmond.
There is no mlxup about my be-
Evening star., 1949-01-20

Australian estimators say 600 Aus
tralians will commit suicide in the
next year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-07-21
Pleasant View

Mrs. Leonard Zimmerly who has
been quite i'll at her home was ad-
nitted to the Cleveland Clinic, Tues
day for observation.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Watkins
Of Columbus and Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond Rickly and family of Liberty
Center were visitors in the Rickly-
Reichenbach home, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Harris at
tended funeral services for her cous-
in Donald Ridge at Toledo, Wednes-
day. The young man was killed
near that place in an auto-truck col
lision early Monday morning.
Mrs. Dale Moore and children re-
turned to their home IN Detroit the
first of the week after spending
several weeks in the home of her
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Zim-
merly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Stewart visited
Sunday in the home of her mother
Mrs. William Gettman of Ottawa.
The Friendly Couples class en-
joyed picnic at the Lewis Wyn-
koop home Sunday evening.
News want-ads bring results.