davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1961-09-20
AARDVARKS

AARDVARkS
You'll probably never see one and
you have never seen O value like
the permanent occupancy policy Of
the CAIRO HOTEL, Washington'a
tallest bldg. TV in every rooms
daily maid service, barber shop
rm. service, sec, switchboard serV,
Large clean rooms at S14 week.
1915 Que st. NV.
HO 2-2104
Evening star., 1961-09-20
$3.50
Modern

sleek 95-in. sofa, so durable coll
back, decorator nylon fabric in
artistic colors TO choose. from.
large lounge chair. 2 step-end
tables, finished in beautiful wal
nut or lined oak and l step cock
tail table. 2 outstanding decorator
lamps, "a inches tall in a large
array of colors to choose from.
One 5-pc, dinette set with walnut
protective top and tubular steel
construction with 4 upholstered
white sparkle covered chairs. One
Ape. bedroom suite in handsome
charcoal or butternut finish, con-
sisting Of spacious dresser with
dovetail drawers and hardwood
construction with bevelled edge
mirror, large 4-drawer chest and
matching, bookcase bed with sid
~NTTV NAHp A WITTY
Evening star., 1961-09-20
ANTIQUES

ANTIQUE t, diamSnat,s or gold iswslry H
ERNEST BURK. 614 18th st. NV:
Evening star., 1961-09-20
FARM AND GARDEN
CATTLE AND LIVESTOCK
ROOMS FURNlsHED-N.W.

HORSES BOARDED-Fenced acre.
age. stream; reasonable; OlneY
area. WA. 4-43S0.
Evening star., 1961-09-17

debate on the Oregon settlement
bill in 1846, majority was still
hesitant about legislation limiting
debate. Only under the pressures
of the Civil War in the early 1860s
did the Senate decide that all de-
bate on subjects relating to the
rebellion" be limited to five min
uteS in secret session.
Although the subject came up
after the Civil War. no formal
move to curb debate was made
until 1917 Two years later dur
ing the debate on the adoption of
the Versailles Treaty, the first and
one of the few successful moves
for cloture under Rule % was
made. And it wasn't until the
1940s that steam began to gather
behind a move for stiffer limi-
tation.
The Senate in the 1920s and
1930s had an almost: benevolent
attitude towards unlimited debate.
The Federal Anti-Lynching Bill
in 1888 was smothered in a 29-
day filibuSter when the apparent
majority favoring the bill had
allowed, after numerous technical
Weddings, the opposition to retain
control of the floor by unanimous
consent. Their failure even to
complicate the filibusterer's lives
by employing all-night or long
continued sessions, prompted Sen
ator Hiram w. johnson of Califor-
mia to scorn the battle as a hoax.
He scathingly said that the pro-
ceedings might be denominated
feather duster' or a pink tea
filibuSter."
The Long SpeetoeuIors
1t was during the 1930s that
Senator Huey Long Of Louisiana
developed the filibuster into a
kind Of purposeful burlesque, re-
calling the great days of John
Randolph.
Long openly invited his audi
ence to suggest topics for his dis
cusSion. One of his favorites was
Evening star., 1961-09-17

He warned that higher steel
prices could shatter" price sta
bility and lead to restrictive
monetary and fiscal measures
which could retard recovery and
hold unemployment at intolerable
levels"
If the industry held the price
line it could go into bargaining
sessions with labor next spring
in a good position to insist that
wages be kept to a level consistent
with price stability, he argued.
Besides, he continued, industry
can absorb this new wage in
crease and still make good profits.
Industry, which apparently had
not yet made UP it's mind on any
general price increase, gave de-
cided cold-shoulder to the Presi-
dents plea.
Evening star., 1961-09-17
New Merger

Last week. following a news con-
ference held by Army Secretary
Stahr, 1t was reported that still
another move was imminent. This
involves the merger of the Stra-
tegic Army Corps and the Tactical
Air Command into a new "func-
tional" force.
The Army has long advocated
such a move because it has never
had much faith that voluntary
cooperation would speedily pro-
duce the necessary airlift and
ground support by fighter aircraft
for it's brushfire troops. -
Just how such a new organiza-
ton would fit in with the unified
command system now in effect re-
mains to be seen. Competition for
forces between the present unified
commands overseas and STRAC-
TAG command in Fortress America
could develop.
There ALSO is a fear in some
Pentagon quarters, and on Capitol
Hill, that an effort will be made
to break UP and parcel out the
Navy Marine Corps amphibious
teams and then assign Navy stra-
tegic forces, particularly the
Polaris submarine units, to a Sec
ond functional organization, a
strategic command, being advo-
Gated by the Air Force.
Evening star., 1961-09-17
Industry:
More Trouble

Most of General Motors pro-
ductiOn was shut down last week
because of a dispute over local
working conditions. President
Kennedy urged a settlement by
tomorrow.
The major steel companies
responded TO the Presidents plea
not to raise prices because Of an
automatic wage increase set for
next month. Their reply: They
haven't decided.
Despite, a three-year pact call
ing for an annual wage increase
and other economic benefits de-
scribed as liberal" by Walter
Reuther, United Auto Workers
chief, most of the giant General
Motors Corp, the worlds largest
manufacturing firm, was shut
down last week by labor troubles.
More than 250,000 of the 3lO,O0O
workers in the 129 GIN plants
throughout the country stayed
away from their jobs. Their com
plant: Lack of an agreement on
local issues, including one for
adequate relief" breaks for per-
Evening star., 1961-09-17
Fish as Answer to Food Problem

without desire for life. Observers
are not aware that these people
are sick"
Doctors and nutritional experts
have known for long time how
to treat these diseases. 1t is sim
ply to make sure the victims eat
about an ounce Of animal protein
a day.
Thus, in areas Of the world
where meat, milk and fish are
plentiful, there is rarely found
case of protein deficiency.
But in the interiors of Asia,
Africa, and Latin America, these
diseases abound. due to a scarcity
of those products.
Most of these lands are not suit
able for animal breeding, so any
hope of increasing meat and milk
production is slim, but almost all
the countries have large areas of
fish-producing waters that could
solve the problem, If full use could
be made of fish proteins.
A principal shortcoming in the
past has been that fresh fish
perish easily and because Of poor
transportation and cooling facili-
ties, few inland natives benefit
from rich coastal waters.
This problem-of utilizing the
fish potential of the world-has
led the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization to as
semble a group of 400 delegates
from 80 countries this week in
Evening star., 1961-09-17

sonal needs-time to go to the Law
atory, for example.
BY yesterday, satisfactory terms
had been found at So plants. And,
in the wake of an urgent plea by
President Kennedy, hopes were
high that the entire GIN empire
and its satellite plantS-many of
which also were affected-would
be back to normal by tomorrow
or Tuesday.
Mr.. Reuther, while saying he
regretted" the walkouts, vigor-
ously backed his co-unionists in
their demands for "a minutes
daily relief time.
I'VE haven't made GIN under
stand that when they pay a
worker. they don't own him." he
declared.
Next on Reuther's target list:
Ford and Chrysler. The GIN ma
tional economic package, includ-
ing a pay rise, company payment
of hospital-medical insurance
higher pensions and other fringe
benefits, is likely to be approved
by the other companies. But they
may also run into difficulties ever
local working condition issues.
Evening star., 1961-09-17

committee from the floor of the
House Of Representatives.
Heord on 40 Bills
Last year the ANA testified or
delivered statements on bills 40
times, but only five bills were
crucial enough to contact Con-
gressmen.
If the AMA's voice in Washing
ton seems strong and unified.
elsewhere the group seems to
speak with a thousand tongues.
It is in reality a loose confeder-
alton of some 1000 local and
State societies, often reflecting
the various degrees Of liberalism
and conservatism of various parts
of the country.
The ANA has little centralizer
authority. It's only professional
weapon is to deprive a doctor of
membership. which may hurt, but
may not mean disaster.
Even in competing for a doc
tors time. the ANA sometimes
fails:
One poll of some 1900 local
societies showed that rural So
cieties had the best meeting at
tendance records, big cities the
worst.
In 368 societies, less than half
of the members attended meet
ingS regularly. In 73 societies, less
than a quarter of the members
attnded regularly.
1t is usually the older, better
established doctor who finds his
way up the ANA ladder from the
local to the State societies to the
national policy-making house of
delegates.
1t is a fact that 68 per cent of
the members of the house of de-
legateS are IS years of age or
older. Yet only some 26 per cent
of the ANA members at large are
in this age bracket.
How the Boord Works
Between house of delegates
meetings, the burden of ANA
policy is carried by the board of
trustees which meets every six
to eight weeks. Its decisions guide
the ANA staff.
How well does this system speak
for the individual doctor?
A sampling of doctors in 1857
showed: Only third thought a
majority ran the ANA. Nearly
half said they thought the ANA
was run by few doctors.
ANA officials explain it this
way: The delegates, after study
Of reports and discussion of prob
lens are in better position to
Evening star., 1961-09-17

make considered judgments than
are members at large.
However well the ANA repre-
Sents the diverse opinions of
thousands of United States doc
tors. it does speak for them in
national forums. And through the
ANA come most of the unified
moves to improve the profession
and to solve its problems.
Now the ANA is trying to get
states to implement a law that
provides Federal money for distri-
button on a state level for the
medical needs Of elderly people
the state deems as needy and I'M
able to pay for their own. -s
1t is a plan the ANA hopes
will fill need it knows exists
and at the same, time keep the
hand of Government out of med
ical care.
Meanwhile, the ANA is keeping
up its fight in congress to stop
the Government from providing
medical care through social Secu-
rity.
Again this year, as 1t has for
the last 10 years or so, the ANA
has condemned the practices of
some doctors who boost their fees
when cases are covered by Health
Insurance. 80
VioIotors and Ethics
1t has also suggested strongest
action against those doctors
those few, it emphasizes-who
have violated m dical ethics
something which is easier said
than done) -
To back up its grievance COM
mittees which handle patient
complaints at the local and state
level, the ANA is urging addi-
tional committees: one which
would oversee physician costs, and
have actual yardsticks for these
costs with which to confront
either patient or physician. An.
other committee to decide wheth7
er a patient had been sent to
hospital without sufficient rea.
son, or kept there too long. Still,
another committee to handle
complaints from insurance COM
panies.
Some individual societies are
experimenting with health plans
of their own. Several, like Port
land, Ore, offer health insurance
for residents who pay premiums.
The premiums go into kitty
from which doctors are paid.
When the kitty is low, doctors are
expected to trim charges ac-
cordingly. H-
Evening star., 1961-09-17

Americans have difficulty In
meeting their medical care costs
particularly for major illnesses
and medical emergencies.
1T firmly believes that we must
see to it that every person re-
ceives the quality and quantity Of
medical help necessary to meet
his needs regardless Of his ability
to pay"
The same winds Of change have
led to the charges Of supermarket
medicine.
Today you might go to your
doctor with fever. pains. a per-
sonal list Of debilities, to return
to bed with an arsenal Of anti
biotics and comforting drugs.
Yet before many Of these drugs
were discovered. it might have
taken the presence Of the doctor
and his constant personal atten-
tion to bring you through.
And today, too, there is so
much to know in medicine, prob
Evening star., 1961-09-17

ably no one man can contain it.
Now there are specialists, count
less specialists. All but blotting
out the familiar features Of your
family doctor. or so 1t may seem.
Medical care becomes a con-
cert by full orchestra, instead Of
the artistic solo of the one man
band.
1t may be better medicine, but
these factors have changed the
public image Of the doctor.
The Secret of Core
The late DR.. Francis Peabody
of Harvard used to tell his medical
students years ago "the secret of
the care of the patient is in CAR
ING for the patient"
Now some doctors are wonder
ing what happened to DR.. Pea
body's humaniStic concept Of doc
tor and patient.
THE secret which many prac-
ticing physicians do not know is
Evening star., 1961-09-17

recipes for cooking. For hours the
Senate, which Calhoun had once
described as incompatible in the
history of legislatures for its
dignity and decorum" of debate,
listened to the Senator from
LouiSiana's theories on the frying
of oysters.
In June, 1885, Long talked for
1512 hours in an attempt to force
an amendment to the proposed
extension of the National Recovery
Administration. At one point he
interrupted himself to request
that every Senator be made to
stay and listen to him.
But Cactus Jack Garner, who
was then Vice President and pre-
siding, replied:
I'm the opinion Of the chair,
that would be cruel and unusual
punishment, as forbidden in the
Bill of Rights"
AS great a nuisance as Long
sometimes was. he was never sur
Evening star., 1961-09-17
Word to the Workers

Following industry's cool reac-
ton, Mr.. Kennedy released an ex-
change of letters with David J.
Mcdonald, head Of the Steelwork-
ers Union, in which the latter
broadly promised to pay heed to
the interest Of the stockholders
and the public in contract nego-
tiations next year.
In his letter to Mr.. Mcdonald.
the President made it plain he
wanted a settlement within the
limits of advances in productivity
(output per man hour and price
stability"
Mr.. Kennedy did not say the
steelworkers should not demand
a pay rise, but the union is on
notice to be reasonable.
Thus, Mr.. Kennedy has launched
all out psychological warfare
against the threat of a new in
flationary wage-price spiral. If he
is scrupulouS in exerting equal
pressure on management and
labor he is likely, to have the
public's support.
Evening star., 1961-09-17
Must Meet Costs

While each side (the admin
istration and industry could spout
a variety Of figures the better to
back up its position, Roger Blough,
United States Steel chairman,
quoted an official 1860 Govern
ment report prepared by Prof.
Edward r. Livernash of Harvard
on the cost-price relationship In
steel, which concluded:
Obviously, while price policy
can be debated in the short run,
in the long run all cost increases
must be met. Steel has done no
more than this"
The steel industry has not raised
prices land has even lowered
Evening star., 1961-09-17
Harassed Doctors Cast Around for New Public |maqe

the powerful therapeutic influ-
ence they exert in the lives of
their patients" explains DR.. Leo
H. Bartender, Baltimore pSychi-
artist and head Of the ANdA's
council on mental health.
They are so frequently blind
to the intense feelings their pa
tients have for them and the way
In which these feelings dissolve
so many Of their symptoms.
II strongly suspect that these
feelings Of trust, love and de-
votion are often far more respon-
sible for the success Of the treat
ment than the prescriptions, the
injections and the other forms
Of treatment they administer"
Governments Role
For some years, especially since
the end Of World War II, there
have been repeated plans before
Congress to bring government into
the medical care picture.
To fend off such plans, the
ANA set up a lobby In Washing
ton. Today, Of q general Wash
ington staff Of IS, there are four
registered lobbyists: a doctor, a
lawyer and two former newspaper
men.
In moments Of crisis in the past,
the ANA has registered as many
as eight lobbyists.
Every day when congress is in
session, a staff member pores over
the congressional record, noting
bills Of possible interest to doc
tors.
Within three days the ANA has
copies of those bills. They are
analyzed by a lawyer. Six times
a year the 12-doctor committee
on legislative action meets to
advise the AMA'S course on these
bills.
The ANA may do nothing. Or it
may offer data. Or it may offer to
testify for or against. In cases
close to the ANIA'S heart-notably
anything that smacks Of Social
lied medicine"-the lobbying staff
goes to work.
Member doctors in States are
modified to work on public opin-
ion at home, to wire their own
Congressman, or to essage
friends in Congress.
If a doctor has patient who
is a Congressman, then he may
call that Congressman to press
home his point.
ANA lobbyists also find ready
allies in other lobbying groups
and their combined pressure can
be very strong. Once it was strong
enough to kick one bill back into
Evening star., 1961-09-17

Register, sternly wrote that the
careless ease which he displayed
in speaking. always lolling or lean
ing against something. brought
to mind the Arabian Nights En-
tertainmentS."
But" Niles continued they
have a regular design which his
speeches do not"
Calhoun refused to control
Randolph. as a matter of princI-
pie, by exercising the right of the
Vice President at that time to de-
eide all questions of order without
debate. Calhoun argued that the
right to call to order on questions
of debate belonged solely to the
members of the Senate and not
the chair.
Monumental FiIibuster
The following years produced
some of the most monumental
filibusters in American history.
But even after the two-month
Evening star., 1961-09-17

costs and a lack of warm under
standing from doctors.
Tighten up on extravagances in
disqualification and drug prescrib-
ing, pay closer attention to pa
tients and take a human approach
to their problems, it advised doc
tors.
These things, it said. would
please our patients and might not
do us bit of harm as we face
into the winds of change"
The winds Of change have been
blowing over modern medicine for
some time.
Retirement Factor
Today, for instance, there is a
whole class of patients, older peo-
pie. with growing medical needs,
yet because of early retirement,
less Of an ability to pay.
DR.. Leonard Larsen, president
of the ANA, says:
THE ANA realizes that many
Evening star., 1961-09-17
BY JOHN BARBOUR
Associated Press Staff Writer

CHICAGO.-Today there is a
curious medical contrast: the
patient seems fine. But the doc
tor is uneasy.
For, although United States
medical care is. perhaps the
worlds finest, many United States
doctors are worried:
Worried that their public image
is slipping.
Worried that older people with
growing medical needs but a
lessened ability to pay may turn
to Government for help.
Worried that this foot on the
door may permit Government to
oversee all medical care.
Worried about dissatisfied pa
tients. and where their dissatisfac-
ton stems from.
And finally, worried about the
need to remember the human be-
ing in the specialized, drug filled,
expensive. automated and imper-
sonal house that medical prog
ress has built. It's been called
an era of supermarket medicine.
Public opinion polls, letters
from patients unhappy with their
medical care or cost of it. at
tempts by Congress to tie phases
of medical care to social security,
all seem to bear the same mes
sage.
It is of concern to many in
dividual doctors, and it is of con-
Germ to the American Medical As
sociation which represents some
1876, 900 of the 250,000 doctors in
the United States.
Need for BuiId-Up
In never-before published
study in 1859, the ANA was told
by pollsters it hired: Build up the
standing of the profession as a
whole.
This is not an easy task be-
cause many peOEIe NSz per CenIJ
have had an experience with a
physician that was so unsatisfac-
tory that they would not go back
to him"
And a special committee of the
ANA reported this year:
To-day it would appear that
the public is looking with an in
creasingly critical eye at failings
and delinquencies of the phySi-
clan. Irrespective of the cause for
this situation, the demands of
the public must be viewed realis-
tically and met honestly"
In a recent editorial to doctors.
the New York State Journal Of
Medicine, citing an informal poll,
took note of complaints of high
Evening star., 1961-09-17
BY BERNARD GWERTZMAN
star Staff Writer

A recent United Nations report
said that "conServatively" 500 mil
lion people one fifth of the
worlds population-are suffering
from protein deficiency diseases.
However these ailments are
called "marasmus" in some
areas, "kwashiorkor" in others -
the results are the same: A stunt
ing of growth, a wasting away of
muscles. and puffed up stomach.
A noted Mexican doctor has
written that hundreds of thou
sands of Mexicans suffer chronic
hunger hunger inherited for ccn-
turies which has deteriorated their
mental and physical human char
acteristicS. This chronic hunger is
not the penetrating and painful
hunger which is mitigated by a
bowl Of beans or by a pile nf tor
tillas. It is the inherited and old
hunger of the tissues and cells of
the body which never had avail
able the quality and quantity of
food necessary for the organism
to build up reserves and to per-
form its activities.
Evening star., 1961-09-17

pressed. However, a move for
cloture during one Of his numer-
Gus filibuSters did fail by only one
vote. Senator Henry F. Ashurst
Of Arizona was not far off in
assessing Senator Longs 1885 Sen
ate-popularity rating to be about
as great as that of a cockoo clock
in a boys dormitory at 8 o'clock
in the morning."
Evening star., 1961-09-17

ton, according to Prof. Franklin
L. Burdette, author OF "Filibuster-'
ing in the Senate" the only book
on the subject, will not lie wholly
in a set of rules" 1t must depend
in part upon the election OF
legislators with a keen sense of
public responsibility, men who will
never allow political strife to
thwart a need for action" >-
Evening star., 1961-09-17

Nevertheless a proposal. at that
time, to limit Longs speech was
not adopted. Senator Millard Tyd-
ings of Maryland, although not
a member of the filibuster, OPP
posed the proposal in the name Of
fair play"
This inherent heSitancy in the
Senate to limit debate is perhaps
the filibuster's strength. The solu-
Evening star., 1961-09-17

some) in the last three years,
while absorbing two wage in
creases. 1t does not want to COM
NIT itself on absorbing a third,
even though foreign competition
and the inroads Of other metals,
such as aluminium, might force
it to hold the line or even reduce
some prices. In a nutshell, its
position is this: Let the price be
decided in the market place,
Evening star., 1961-09-17
Warning on Steel Prices

On September 6. the President
wrote long letters to the heads of
IL large steel companies asking
them not to raise prices even
though another automatic wage
increase, under a labor contract
signed last year, takes effect Oc-
tober /.