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* A-<¥- ?•;<??/ Thursday, October 15,1942 THE MeHENEY PLAINDEALE& Kathleen Norris Says: Let Your Daughter Find Freedom B«n Syndicate--WNU Features. % . STATE MEDICINE During the past few years there has been much talk about "socialised medicine" or state medicine. It is an issue which every one should be interested in and which all should understand.Its final settlement will determine ,the quality of medical service that will be available, at any price, when you, your relatives and your friends become seriously ill. In> the United States, we have always had independent medical practice. The individual citizen has had Business Contract 86 By R. H. WILKINSON (Associated Newspapers--WNU Service.) Dr. Nathan S. Davis in ANA MILTON Was thinking of the future. "Look here, Simon," he said, "I've been thinking this thing over and I've come to the conclusion that it won't be good policy for us to become equal partners." "You mean you don't think we ought to buy the business?" "It isn't that. I think the busihess is worth every cent its owners are asking. But you know, Simon, you and I have only known each other a couple of months. True, we worked fine together and were pretty successful on that last proposition. But--well, I just don't think it's good policy for two ambitious Mixed Diet According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, the tiger shark goes in for variety in diet. Cases of two sharks are cited. The stomach of one contained a horse's head and a dehorned cow's skull. That of the other contained 7 leggings, 47 buttons, 3 leather belts and 9 shoes! CO- 1 • ' : V Feed Pullets Mash After pullets on range are 10 or 12 Weeks old, they should be fed a mash designed primarily for laying birds, supplemented with all the grain they desire to eat. This recommendation is reported by Prof. C. S. Piatt, associate poultry husbandman^ who 'says that 30 per cent of such a mash and 70 per cent grain is the most economical proportion of feed for growing pullets. young men to put an equal amount the right to select and employ the of money in a business." services of any licensed practitioner "I get it," said Simon. "Maybe of medicine in whom he has con- you're right." He looked at Dana fidence. Under this system of personal; medical practice, miracles have j been achieved in the conquering of .< disease. In the short period of 150 years,',' in .the United States; the average i length of life of man has been near-1 ly doubled. ' The life expectancy of the newborn child was 3j> years. It is now ' over 62 years. j During this period, typhoid fever ' has well nigh disappeared: smallpox has been subdued; diphtheria has almost been eliminated; pernicious anemia, tuberculosis, diabetes, arH BAD COMPANY The memories of unfulfilled ambitions and lost opportunities make the worst kind of company and are certainly not a desirable substitute for the joy of accomplishment. The woman who faces middle age with only "if imd '*when" and "but" to show for the things she might have done with her youth faces also the prospect of an unhappy old age filled with regrets. That is why Kathleen Norris has written this message to young girls and their mothers who love them but will not let them go. Be sure to read her answer to this letter' from a girl who has been engaged for six years. My mother suggests that Lee and / come to her for dinners at regular boarding Sites; but that would mean marketing, and dishwashing on the old terms, except jAtal we would be paying more than we can afford. By KATHLEEN NORRIS OW much claim have an old father and mother upon the time, money, yoiith, happiness of their children? It's an old question, never to be satisfactorily answered, lor even when it's all reasoned out, human hearts will solve it as affection and weakness and filial obedience dictate, and elderly tyrants will continue to have things their own way. Nina is 28; she has been the main support of a family of four for eight years. For six ef those years she has been engaged to be married; her husband-to-be is a young doctor with no very brilliant prospects; Nina has no money saved and they are wondering whether they dare take the chance «f marrying, with the possibility of obligations to his old people and hers Staring them in the face. "My father died last May, after jEfars of invalidism," writer Nina. "My mother is a strong capable woman of 66, but she has bad eyes, e£nnot read, and lives in constant fear that blindness will overtake her. My little sister Bessy went to State Normal college as I did, and I expected that her salary as a teacher would help out at home, but she married very young and now has three small babies, though she is only 23. Uncle Assists. "My uncle pays taxes and insurance on our little cottage, amounting to about $200 a year; I pay everything else. With my father's insurance money I have turned our two front rooms into a separate apartment, with a bath and kitchen. jjiiisis already rented for $40 a month. Bessy cannot help my mother; Lee,,. ^ sweetheart, makes $1,500 a year as a resident at the hospital, and is Wgihrting to have H few private patients ; not a very good chance that I could help f&y as ~ I _ 1 -- PREVALENCE OF PtTOMHEA IN EXAMINED DTNTAl CASES IN THE UNITED STATES 33S3 MALES • 4158 FEMALES - 1940 mother either, in any crisis. "I am sick with longing for my own home," the letter goes on. "It is misery-'for a man and woman who, love each other to put off again and again the time of their happiness together, and we have grown weary and impatient, sometimes to the point of almost breaking with each other, during these long years. I have not had money for pretty ttaings, for the holidays we might have had together; I have worn my cousins' clothes, schemed and worried to make ends meet until I feel like an old woman. "My mother says now that she cannot possibly manage on $40 a month, that I must go on teaching until Lee's income warrants our leaving her. Lee says that a doctor's wife cannot possibly be a teacher, that it is too much of a strain on our nerves. There is no money for a trousseau, and even with the most modest little apartment, there must be good managing on our small income. "I want so to be happy, to be loved and free and able to rest in my home as other women do! I want so to pay Lee back for these generous years of waiting! But on the other hand, there is my mother, and my aunts assure me that they would not be surprised if she were to be taken ill and die as a ~ result of the shock of my leaving. No Vacation in Five Tears. "It is five years since I have had my vacation except the Christmas vtication, for I teach in summer at _i woman's college. My mother is MCD 10 >o 35 SO 55 eo Ff MALES a good cook, and she suggests that Lee and I come to her for dinners at regular boarding rates, but that would m^an marketing and dishwashing for me on the old terms, except that we would be paying $60 a month--more than we could afford ur less I went on teaching. I am so parplexed between them all I dcn't know what to do; I long to get away from everything, and wish Lee cculd get an offer from some faraway city and I could simply walk out on the routine'and drudgery, resppnsibility and worry that have been mine so long!" The chances are that the capable, affectionate mother is making quite a martyr of herself, just widowed and with Bessy married and now Nina deserting her! And the chances ar«: also that she would tell you that her whole purpose in living was to make life easier for her girls and contribute, at any sacrifice, to their happiness. Such mothers never look back and remember just how little their own mothers' plans and desires mattered to their own youth. They stepped off happily into matrimony; they took it for granted that every young woman has a right to her own life. And so she has. If Nina's mother has to take boarders, let them be boarders other than Nina and Lee. Nina and Lee have a right to privacy, to the delights of their own home, no matter how small and plain it is.. Coming every day to the same old dining-room for dinner, hearing the same old problems of leaking faucets or broken window- blinds, what freedom is Nina going to enjoy? She will wipe the same old dishes, answer the old telephone, sit down to the same two gstr.es of cribbage just as she has den* for years. Mother Owes Apology. Nina has given enough of her life to her old people. It is her mother who ought to be grieving, who ought to be apologetic that she has managed her affairs so badly that this splendid daughter isn't to have a pretty wedding, an outfit of lovely new clothes with which to go to her ] husband. * j My advice to Nina is to get mar- j ried at once, and let her helpless i mother, her Criticizing aunts, and j her generous cousins and uncle settie all the problems that her marriage causes at home. Doctors have a way of prospering, and doctors' wives are fortunate women, because the incessant tragedies and responsibilities of the greatest profession teach a man the value of home life, serenity, affection, childhood. The years ahead will be kinder to Nina than those that have gone; hers has been the sort of girlhood that makes for a happy and grateful maturity. . a score of lesser ailments have been brought under control. American medicine gave to the United States, in the calendar year of 1940, the most favorable health recotd of its 150 years' history. It resulted--in 1940--in the highest general level of health and in the lowest death rate ever known for the United States, or for any ' comparable number of people any- j where in the world. It now appears j that the record for 1941 will be even ! better. In this country, there are some j who seek to establish political con- j trol of medicine and of medical ! practice. It is granted that their I motives are entirely honorable and I wholly altruistic; that their argu- I ments are plausible and alluring, j But the record shows that the ac- : complishment of this purpose would i hamper the medical profession in 1 the performance of its duties and so ' break down the morale and the ef- I fectiveness of the physicians--the j men who are responsible for the ! physical well-being of 130,000,0Q0 J men, women and children. | These proposals must be recog- 1 nized for what they really are. They j are moves toward the establish- j ment of political control of medical j services and the bureaucratic.dom- j ination of both the patient and the : doctor. They embody the menace of a step by step process of destruc- : tion of the system that has given \ this nation the highest level of health j ever known; that has given its peo- ; pie the most ressurcetulness, the most Wealth, and the highest standard of living in the history of the world. (From the brochure "Priceless Heritage," published by the National Physicians Committee for the Extension of Medical Service, Pittsfield Building, Chicago, 111. On request a free copy will be mailed to you.) ys "For the most part, American doctors arr determinedly opposed to this drive for socialized medicine, and I must say that I am with them all the way. State medicine, in my opinion, bears disaster for doctor and patient alike. You can not pipe out medicine to the community as you do with steam heat." DR. A. J. CROMN tnglish Physician, Author of The Citadel QUESTION BOX Send questions to Dr. NathaH s: Davis 111 Winnetka. 111. tEnciosc a self-addressed, stamped envelope.) Q.--What causes the joints to be sore in the morning? B. A. A.--Usually some form of rheumatism plus chilling and lacfc of motion while asleep. _ Q.--My fingernails peel and become pitted fSr no apparent reason What is the cause for it? C. E. A.--It may be due to nail polish, some general disease, anemia or malnutrition or to some local infection. craftily. "I'd like to be the one to put the money In, Dana, Ii waf t who discovered the thing.'* • • . . Dana nodded. "I thought you'd feel that way about it, Simon, And I'm willing to withdraw, provided, of course, that you give me a contract-- assure me of avjob during t&e next five years." / "Fair enough." Simon extended his hand. Secretly he was elated. He knew that Dana was a conscientious worker, a good salesman. Simon and Dana took the insurance company over in May. Withiri a' month's time they discovered it wasn't the profit-paying proposition both had anticipated. It was run down at the heel, so to speak. Simon was angered and not a little worried. Yet he had put too much money into the thing to let it go. By fall a little business began to come in and then a little more. During October they broke even. November showed a profit,\and Decern1 ber still a greater profit. During January and February the gross business increased in leaps and bounds. Simon, watching the weekly returns, began to lick his lips. In April he dug out the contract he had made with Dana and perused its contents. There was, he saw, a chance for complaint. The contract provided that Dana be paid a percentage of the gross business; that he should sell policies at the rate charged by previous owners. There, thought Simon, was the snag. Dana had cut the rate in order to start the ball rolling. Simon summoned Dana. "Dana," he paid, "I notice you've been selling at reduced rates. We can't make a profit that way." "That was the only way to get things going." Simon shook his head. "I'm sorry. 6>ur contract provided that you sell at rates charged by the previous owners. You ignored the clause, thereby causing no little dissension among our clients^ I'll have to let you go." "Let me go! Why, you can't do that! We have" a contract!" Simon looked at him icily. "You broke the contract, mister." It wasn't until Dana had reached home and broken the news to Hattie, his wife, that he realized what losing his job meant. The next day Dana received a letter from the insurance company in which Simon stated he had turned the matter over tb his lawyer. Dana considered various possibilities. He needed money at once. Remembering that Simon's greatest weakness was his own sense of importance, he decided on a plan. He visited , a local printer and Ordered some important looking letterheads, with his name at the top. Two days later another letter arrived from Simon. It stated that he would like to meet Dana in Attorney Harry Davis' office on Wednesday. Dana called up his printer and asked for his letterheads, and was told they weren't ready. Perturbed, Dana waited two days longer and then, upon being advised that the copy for his letterheads had been mislaid, sat down to answer Simon's letter on plain white paper. j The letter was hardly completed | : when the front doorbell rang and i Hattie admitted a small wizened ! man. "My name," he explained, "is | Davis. Attorney Davis. I'm reprel senting Simon Douglas." He paused, coughed. "Mr. Douglas says you have neglected to answer his letters. Your silence has disturbed him. He seems to think you are preparing to bring suit. And whereas there is little on which you could base a suit, Mr. Douglas feels that court action would injure his business. He is--ah--prepared to make you a proposition." Dana wet his lips. "What kind of a proposition?" "You were to receive a percentage of the gross business. The sum total of things for a year would, in normal times, amount to about $3,000. Mr. Douglas is prepared to pay you $2,000, if you will destroy the contract." t)ana gulped. The amount was twice that for which Tie had intendedf to bring suit. And a suit, if successful. might have netted him $500. After a moment he said: "Very well, I'll take the check and hand over "the contract. The money will come in handy to pay for my letterheads." And at the look of bewilderment on the attorney's face, Dana grinned. oy v.; TOK07 Vitamins for Victory • stands for vitamins as well as for victory. The minute chemical substances in food, called vitamins, may decide how straight a soldier shoots, how easily he tires, how1 steady his nerves are, or how fast his wounds heal. Airmen and anti-aircraft gunners have a special vitamih Arich diet which contains plenty of yellow and green vegetables, eggs, butter, cream, fish liver, and meat liver. Vitamin A helps eyee adjust quickly from bright light to darkness and helps build up body health to resist infections, especially infections of the nose, throat, and lungs. Vitamin Bl, or thiftnin, is known asi the "morale vitamin." 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