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Evening star., 1954-10-10
American Labor Has Its Own Diplomatic Corps

Latin American Affairs goes
back to 1889. In 1914 the CIO
discussed with British and
Russian unions the formation
of the World Federation Of
Trade Unions, created in 1945;
but in 1949 withdrew from
that body. The CLOS Euro
pean embassy" was opened
in Paris in 1948. 49,.
Independent unions. particu-
larly the railroad unions. have
long had international ties
with international federatiops.
More than 40 American unions
are affiliated with international
trade secretariats.
During the war. the AFL and
CIO jointly sponsored special
labor projects. such as f1nanc-
ing underground movements in
Norway and China and buying
farm tools for Italy. They
spent more than $40 million
for foodstuffs, medical supplies
and rehabilitation. and pro-
vided working capital for
CARE.
Both the CIo and AFL have
co-operatedf closely with the
various Marshall plan agen-
cies. They also conduct spe-
cial foreign affairs seminars at
scores of summer schools and
training centers here : and
abroad. AFL's Free Trade
Union News.goes out here and
abroad in four languages.
Other Junkets
Last year Bolivia was visited
by a special CIO delegation.
Others were sent to Guatemala
to help form free trade unions.
The United Auto Workers sent
Bill Oliver to Singapore for
the Labor and Youth Confer
ence, after which he visited
other countries In Asia. Will
lard Townsend, Negro head Of
the Transport Service En-
ployes, is another recent visitor
to the Far East.
During the past decade, the
CLOS Jim Carey has made II
trips abroad. ranging from
Moscow to Mexico. DR.. Ernest
Schwarz, secretary Of the CLOS
Latin American Affairs SUBJ
committee. has been to that
area about Is times In the last
seven years.
There is still merit to the
slogan. Join the Navy and
See the World; but there's
also something to be said for.
joining q labor organization
and seeing, the world. And you
don't need 1 uniform, either.
Evening star., 1954-10-10

Some Of life's little dramas
have more far-reaching Inn
plications than they do imme-
diate effects.
Take this one. for instance.
The speaker IS Judge Henry
A. SchWeinhaut. He Is ex-
planning to q Federal prose-
cutor why. operating under the
recent Court Of Appeals re-
definition Of the insanity plea.
he Is going to order q jury to
free q house-breaking de-
fendant.
81 do not believe that the
man was or is insane. but I
am equally convinced that at
the time Of the crime he was
not mentally responsible"
And again, apparently COM
menting on the appellate rul-
ings:
1.-THE defense of insanity is
going to be used by every other
defendant who comes into this
court. We are embarked on
a new era"
What does this mean? Per-
haps not a lot in this case. A
30-year-old colored man whom
the jurist does not believe is or
was insane. threw q stone
through the window Of q gro
Gerry and was nabbed by police
covering behind the checkout
counter. He is free-perhaps
to do more than throw another
stone through another win
dow when police are not so
quickly at hand.
Judge Schweinhaut Is aware
of this.
II know I'm running q cal
Evening star., 1954-10-10
By Herbert Brotter

Before World War II our
international diplomatic re-
lations were supplemented by
the mysterious goings and
con1ings of such men as Nor
man Davis, j. P. Morgan and
the sometimes incognito Mon
tagu Norman of the Bank OF
England. Although bankers
and big businessmen still come
and go, things are different
now.
At an international meeting
in Stockholm or Rio de Janeiro
you are as apt to meet James
B. Carey of the CIO or Jacob
S. Potofsky. Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, as banker
John McCloy. In our en-
bassies in Britain, Iran, Ar
gentina, Japan or any of Is
other countries-should you
happen to be passing through
you will find not only conn
mercial and agriculture at
taches, but labor attaches as
well, And foreign nations
have their labor attaches here
In Washington.
American unions do not rely
entirely on the State Depart
ment for foreign relations, but
in various ways act as their
own state department. Wit
ness the public cablegram
which Walter Reuther of the
CIO sent the other day to the
family of the japanese fisher
man who died of atomic bomb
radia ion poisoning.
Accomplishments
What do labor's leaders
think their foreign activities
accomplish? They think the
accomplishments are great, for
the United States as well as
for the unions themselves.
Their efforts to help foreign
labor better its living STAN
dards have not only tended to
satisfy an idealistic urge, but
also to lessen competition here
from imports produced under
unfair labor conditions.
And in recent years the
labor diplomats campaign
against communism among
workers abroad has, leaders
feel. not only helped minimize
Communist inf1ltration of
American unions but also con-
.tributed materially toward
keeping our Nation free.
No legislation of Importance.
bearing on our international
relations, goes through the
Evening star., 1954-10-10

drugs which the neighborhood
druggists filled with the firms
products. Patients were finan-
cially trapped.
New York State Attorney
General Nathaniel Goldstein
ordered an investigation and
eventually forwarded tn e
names of 342 doctors and 230
druggists to the State Board
of Regents, which supervises
licensing. The board "cen-
sured" 1877 doctors and told
them if they did it again
they'd lose their licenses.
The Fee-Splitting Come
State governments univer-
sally appear reluctant to pun
ish any but the most grossly
unethical doctors. They leave
it to medical societies to police
their own ranks in such prob
lens as fee-splittirlg. s
What is fee-splitting?
Here's a typical example: A
man has a pain in the abdo-
men. His family doctor dag
noses the pain as appendicitis
and refers him to a surgeon
who removes the appendix. The
family doctor sends the man a
bill for $40 and the surgeon
sends a bill for 5000. Then the
surgeon slips the family doctor
$75 for referring the case to
him.
"It is immoral for a doctor to
select a specialist for any pa
tient to whom he wouldn't go
himself or send q member Of
his family. # q doctors judg-
ment is swayed by money the
patient isn't getting an even
break"
So said DR.. Paul r. Hawley,
director Of the American Col
lege of Surgeons, the other day.
All national medical organi-
zations say fee-splitting Is
wrong. Yet some doctors split
fees. Fee-splitting is illegal
in % States. Yet there is no
record of any doctor ever hav-
ing been brought to court in
the United States on charges
of fee-splitting.
For many years some doc
tors Of weak moral fiber have
been accepting rebates from
druggists, opticians. CONNER
cial chemical laboratories, x
ray specialists-even under
takers. But the highly respect
ed American College Of Sur
geons under the direction OF
Evening star., 1954-10-10

splitting is not as rare as ghost
surgery-though DR.. Hawley's
group has made notable gains
in the fight against 1t.
The American College of
Surgeons and a group of
Iowa surgeons opposed to fee
splitting of any kind recently
agreed to a plan to protect the
ethical reputation of the 220
ACS fellows in Iowa. It re-
quires that all fellows of the
ACS in that State either (1)
submit to financial audits to
prove they do not split fees
or (2) resign. The third al
tentative. If they do neither, is
the threat Of expulsion.
The fact the ACS is de-
termined to rid its ranks of
unethical members was well
demonstrated at the May
meeting Of its board of regents
when 1t expelled three fellows,
/ suspended a fourth and ac-
cepted the resignation Of q
fifth.
The action in Iowa recalls
that originated by ACS fellows
in Columbus. Ohio, in 1916 and
introduced by the Columbus
Surgical Society. With nearly
100 per cent cooperation by
all surgeons in Columbus it
said in effect: eff you won't
let a certified public account
ant check your books to see II
you're fee-splitting, Doctor,
wen have to invite the atten-
ton Of the Internal Revenue
Bureau to your income"
No Tex Deductions
The Columbus society. noting
that fee-splittang was illegal in
Ohio. told the local Internal
Revenue Bureah that 1t no
longer should, bel regarded as
an expense OF doing surgery
as it apparently had been In
the past. A doctor could avoid
an accountants detection of
+ fee-splitting by keeping two
sets of books or other methods.
!. But the prospect of criminal
prosecution for income tax
evasion was frightening. Fee
!. splitting in Columbus stopped
abruptly, say ACS spokesmen.
A follow-up survey by the
ACS in 1852 showed that Co
lumbus had truly had a cure.
Physicians argue heatedly
over the philosophy Of the Co.
lumbus plan. Some honorable
men who never split a fee in
their lives say it's better to
tolerate the evil than to pre-
vent it by direct interference
in the individuals right to free
actions. Others say direct in
tervention is the only feasible
way to halt fee-splitting.
ACS officials here have not
gone about the country order
ing groups of local surgeons
what to do. Rather, they have
tried to inspire local groups by
example and high standards.
In discussing the current
ACS action to clear the names
of its fellows In Iowa, DR.. Haw-
ley referred to the current
ACS bulletin which sets forth
the issues thus:
/. "Fee-splitting-in the
form of a single bill and a
secret kickback or a combined
unitemized bill in which the
Evening star., 1954-10-10

age gross income Of $2s, ,T66
for 1851. His net income .
was $l4.098-a rise Of almost 81
per cent since 1947 and Or
more than 100 per cent since
1943.
Meanwhile the financial
gap that once separated him
from his specialist colleague
is narrowing. In 1043 he netted
little more than one-half as
much as the average special
list. In 194T he netted about
two-thirds as much. Nova
days he nets about four-fifths
as much.
The survey found that the
average" specialist had q net
income of $17.112. From
1947 to 1851 his income rose Is
per cent. He collects about 90
per cent Of his accounts. while
the general practitioner coll
lectS about IS per cent.
e. Hour Week
Doctors reach an income
peak between their 10th and
10Th years Of practice and then
their income falls steadily. the
publication said. The general
practitioner puts in longer
hours than the specialist
about 81 hours a week. The
report continued:
"The average general prac-
titioner gives sc hours per
week to charity patients as
against the 7.3 hours given by
the specialist. He gives $50 q
year to charity-as against the
specialists $500. He carries
$38, 1878 worth Of life insurance
to the specialists $4,000. And
he has $44.216 invested in
stocks, bonds and real estate
against the specialists Sat-
069."
The publication reported:
1.-THE independent doctors
net income averaged $5,806 in
1923; $3.792 in 1885; $9,186 in
1943: $l1,300 in 1947. It
reached an all-time high Of
$15,262 in 1851"
Another question bearing on
the issue:
Is there a shortage Of doc
tors today?
Two years ago President
Truman's commission on the
health needs of the Nation
estimated that there might be
a shortage of $4,000 to $4,000
doctors by 1860.
DR.. Howard A. Rusk, chair
man of the Health Resources
Advisory Committee of the
National Security Resources
Board, has estimated a short
age OF 10000 physicians be-
fore that date.
Still. there are more better .
trained physicians in the
United States. today. than in
any country in the world. That
is one big reason why so many
of them are sensitive to public
criticism of the profession.
Nevertheless some criticism
obviously is justified.
. In physical crises no layman
Is competent to pass on the
medical Judgment of any ply
sician. But in ethical crises
any layman of sound mind is
perfectly competent to pass on
the Judgment Of any physician,
Whenever a physician tries
to rise above the ethical-not {
acknowledgements of his fell &
low humans he creates public
resentments against his pro-
fessiorh The great majority Of
honest doctors thereby suffer
from the actions of the un-
ethical.
Occasionally unethical prac-
tice takes a hagrant form, as
in New York two years ago,
when the rld-Telegram and
Sun exposed a racket by ring
of unethical doctors and drug
gists who organized drug firms
and were splitting the profits.
In many cases the doctors
overprescribed or wrote need
less prescriptions for harmless
Evening star., 1954-10-10
81 chorles Mercer

v =
CHICAGo.-In the past year
|: medical costs rose seven times
faster than, the overall cost Of
living as Americans paid out
an estimated SO billion In the
quest for good health.
In the past year q child born
IN a modern hospital had q life
expectancy of 10 years while
his grandfather. born in 1900.
had an expectancy of living
only to 40.
It's true that fabulous adj
vancements in the field Of
inedical science have increased
the average life span Of Amer
deans as much In the Goth
century as that of Western
.iaaan in the preceding 1000
years.
It's also true that millions
sOf Americans today are pre-
occupied py medical costs and
sare asking questions-some
pertinent and others imperti-
nent-ahout the Nations 220,-
300 doctors.
81 BY \ far the question Of
greatest interest involves the
dollar.
Costs Are Up
The United States Bureau
of Labor Statistics reports:
In July, 1853, the overall cbn-
.sumers' price index was 1I4.7
and in July Of this year 1t was
ti5.2. In July, 1858, the price
Index Of medical care and
drugs was 1918 and In July
of this year 1t was 1852.
The Health Information
Foundation. a fact-f1nding
organization supported by do
nations. from leading drug
manufacturers, estimated an
,iual cost of medical care at
$10.2 billion-an expenditure
Of $205 for the average family.
Your medical dollar includes
many items besides your doc
tors bill, of course. Hospital
ization costs, for example, have
been rising steadily for many
years. Most authorities agree
the doctor receives a little
more than one-third of that
dollar.
There has not been q sur
vey Of physicians incomes for
any year since 1851. It will be
interesting to see when there
is another, for such. surveys
are not popular with doctors.
Contrasting Surveys
There were two surveys made
for 1851. One was conducted
by the powerful American
Medical Association - whose
membership includes about
100000 of the country's doc
tors. The other was conducted
by Medical Economics, a mag
azine published in Rutherford,
N. j., which is popular in the
profession and not directly
affiliated with any Of the big
medical organization.
The ANA poll of 5000 doc
tors, distributed and pub
lished by the u. s. Chamber
Of Commerce. showed the av-
erage net income Of all ply
sicians for 1851 was $12,518.
For those in private practice
It was $13,378. In 1851 the av-
erage net income of lawyers
was $9,375. For dentists it
was $7,743.
The results of the Medical
Economics survey were quite
different. On the basis of S.
900 doctors returns, after ex-
cluding internes, residents,
physicians over SIS and ply
sicians in Government serv-
Ice. it found the average in
doctors net income
reached an all-time high in
1851 Of $15,262.
& Medical Economics said:
1.-THE independent general
reports an aver
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1954-01-19
An Editorial
TOMORROW Io9,se9 MORE MOUTHS!

Washinoton D. C, January 1854 = Find way TO
food and ab+aon the millions of Europeans Africans and
Asans not by Gift but by the honest sweat of their own
effort wotand the turmoil that generates revolution na
chy will subse This the considered belief OF
scientist who has studied the battle between the human
it, inspiring address to the nations State Agricultural
Commissioners Dr. Robert WhteS+evens nutrition scientist
at Ledere Laboratories Pearl River NJ ~ lifted the curtain OF
famine shroudnq world that produces about 4O per en
of minimum needs food and fbers and let light shine
through 49,.
Perhaps the County Agents of today said Dr. White
Stevens The of great host OF men and women
who will 90 out from America in years TO not to conquer
men of other lands but TO lead them by the hand to
backward peoples of the earth how TO help themselves rane
than +rync to feed them off the farms OF America hoPeesSY
impossible task on the face OF it, . . .,I, !.
To indicate how impossible Dr. WhiteSteVens resorted 70
Arithmetic There approximately two billion people
on this earth and despite and famine, disease and dssfe
La nrber increases bv at least 40 million mouths to
feed and new bodies to cofhe and shelter each January S
The farms of the world total two billion acres ano OY
en+ vord wide AVERAGE methods" Dr. Whife-SteVens cal
cuIs+es five billion acres would be required to support "e
present population "at a bare subsistence level
The solution he thinks. only lie in worldwide aPPl'ea
on Of +he knowledge now available to agriculture; and the
continued search for improvement SOIL plants and anma
including INVESTIGATION of areas OF TODD and fper pro-
duc+on so-caed barren lands, lakes. microbes
undomes+icated plants and animals and insects
In spite of Americas tremendous strides toward scientific
agriculture Dr.. White Stevens admits that not quite
up TO scratch here home. "f all the knowledge the
books fully applied the farm he said three times
agricultural production could be accomplishing on
half land cultivated in the w. S. But because OF our
agricultural education system have been able to ho" the
world tremendous progress already.
Thus he thinks, the worlds best hope of full dinner
pail lies the capable hands of Americas County Agricultural
Agents. They must plant the seed of knowledge in fertile
ground before the discoveries of research be harvested
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1954-01-19
WITH A BUCKEYE IN CONGRESS
BY clarence j. Brown Member Congress District

President early week submitted to Congress his
amendments Taftary propos
President recommended Congress pro-
flexible supports for basic farm
products earmaing of farm urplsse for
and eight reduction total Under the
would
from IS to parity basic produced 9o
number of Senators states have out IN
proposal Farm organizations are ooeo as
cent parity price support program
dent last week. would relax
taken under Government supervision to
called Other suggested changes
eRs and union leaders labor dispute sign non
speech to both management
and labor simplifying the requirements for union reporting on OF
initiating ar oI we
included in collective matters ana
funds included IN eoce OAR
of improving their stanoaro
requested Congress to enact Legislation
Academy to that branch OF our
Annapolis the Army ana
Schenc of Dayton and your hoe
be located in the Miami valley OF e
of Ohio" birthplace and cradle of aviation
certain there will be UNIVERSAL Military
enacted during this session of Congress- and
military service President Eisenhower out in
plan strengthen the present military reserve ss
proposal eliminates possible need for universal mill
tary training.
a speech Secretary of State Dulles
American policy meeting Communist
American where Communist
will air and naval
nation AS pointed
before the of retaliation is the greatest de-
by former president Hoover two or three
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1954-01-19
JANUARY 10

TUESDAY, JANUARY
Auxiliary Madison meeting Legion Home F. M
Ct Patrc<'s P T. A. meeting Parish Hail. 7:30 P. M
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20
Public installation jefferson IOoF and Coral Rebekah
odg at High School, 8 P M
Happy Club meeting home of Mrs T. P Speas-
maker South Main ST. Mrs. P E. Bacon
entertain Lafayette WSCS at Bishop Hall
-. 49,, ,,o.
Church. 7:30 P. M
THURSDAY, JANUARY 81
London Chapter OES Masonic Temple P. M
London Mrs Churlus Grove p M
FRIDAY JANUARY %
Science Hill Grange meeting at Grange Hall at P. M
meeting ST. Johns Parish Hall 9:3o r M
SATURDAY, JANUARY %
Dercreek Polio Lafayette School, $3.50 dance and
8 p M. ... T..
SUNDAY, JANUARY "a
Methodist Youth Fellowship midwinter institutes for lnerme
Seniors Chiicothe
MONDAY, JANUARY 25
London Club Charter Dinner
Club House $50 p M
FRIDAY JANUARY % -, -
Young Peoples rally Pwood Church of Christ in Christian
Union.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1954-01-19

and Savings Company at Pomeroy,
who will be named Honorary Vice
President for Life.
f. B. Mcconnell, manufacturing
vice president of The Standard Oil
Company COhio), will be the
speaker at the January % lunch
con. He is chairman of the Conser-
vation Plan Committee of the AS
sociation.
Experts on forestry, land use
and water uses, and representa-
tives of industry and government
will gather in Cleveland for the
three-day session to discuss prob
lens of flood and soil erosion, low
water and profitable farm forests.
The Christmas Tree Growers
Council, an affiliate, will meet
January %.
The Timber Industry Committee
for which Robert r. Patton is for
ester, will make its annual report
on log grading, forestry training
camps, tours and conferences.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1954-01-19
Manufacturers Group
Issues Tax Calendar

Manufacturers of Ohio will
find tax due dates for 1854 easily
identified in the 18th Annual Ohio
Manufacturers Association I ak
Calendar" said Don w. Wiper,
Executive Director of the Associa-
ton in Columbus. The Calendar
will reach the membership of the
Association Monday, IL January.
He continued, 1.-The seventy-one
days in 1854 on which multiple
filings and reports must be made
are accented in red"
These seventy-one days include
reporting and payment of the
Truck Highway Use Tax" COM
monty referred to as the axle tax,
as well as taxes on Ohio manu-
facturers' property; income (fed-
eral, state and municipal); sales
and use; unemployment compensa-
ton; workmen's compensation;
franchise; and others.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1954-01-19
Forestry Group
Meets January 28
At Cleveland

The 51st annual meeting of the
Ohio Forestry Association will be
held in Cleveland January 70
through 80, with large public at
tendance from all over the state
for the major events on Friday,
January %, at Hotel Cleveland.
Members of the Association will
join with the members of the
Cleveland Farmers Club at a
Joint awards dinner that evening,
to honor nine Ohio farmers select
ed for the excellence of their
farms and farm forests.
Roy Battles, assistant t. the
Master of the National Grange,
Washington, D. c., will be speaker
at the dinner, talking on 'The Ru-
raj Public Relations Dilemma"
Presiding at the dinner will be
Howard M. Wells of Wilkesville,
president of the Ohio Forestry AS
sociation, and Dudley w. Page,
president of the Cleveland Farm
ers' Club.
The Association will honor a
past president, Theodore T. Reed,
president of the Farmers Bank
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1954-01-19
Your
Election
Laws sss
--Bv Ted W. Brown =
Secretary Of State OF Ohio

In the past, many of Ohio's
voters in registration areas have
been disfranchised because of
their change of name.
This has happened when per-
son went into Common Pleas
Court to have a name changed and
more often, when woman chang
ed her name through marriage.
The law requires the Cler k
of the Common Pleas Court,
in the first Instance, and
the Probate Court, in the second
instance, to notify the Board of
Elections and requires the Board
of Elections to cancel such per-
sons registration.
In numerous instances, persons
changing their name did not
know about this legal require
ment and were disagreeably sur
prised when they went to the
polls at the next election to find
that their registration card was
not there.
The Secretary of States office
augmented by recommendations
coming from various Boards of
Elections, passed on to the Leg
islature a number of suggested
changes in Ohio'S election laws to
relieve such situations.
Under the legislation adopted
by the General Assembly, which
went into effect January l, the
Board of Elections is required to
notify these persons whose regis
tration cards are removed be-
cause of a change in name that
such action is being taken. This
will allow the voter to go to his
Board of Elections office and re-
register, thus eliminating many
disappointments and misunder-
standings on election day.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1954-01-19

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