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T1IK (’LARKNVIM.K TIMES. -FRIDAY. Ar<JHST .‘50, 1946
Health Insurance;
Costly Experiment
By ELIZABETH W WILSON In
Christian Science Monitor
Politicians who tell the public
that compulsory health insuram »•
would cost only 3 per cent of the
Insured workers payroll are <ncr-
OpUmistic. It would cost almost
twice that. Moreover these ex-
penses would undoubtedly increase
over the yens and won!: la a:: im-
portant factor m ultimatclj raising
the .total cost ot social insurance
to about one lfcmih of the payroll,
an eventually which. i>:p;ns con-
sider entirely possible
Even in the early years qi gov-
ernment h< .1th insurance, the cash
benefits—thest include indemnifi-
cations for wage loss lor both tem-
porary and protracted illness as
well as certain minor' benefits -
would cost almost 2 per cent of the
payroll.'The medical benefits, which
would include medical c re. drugs
and a limited amount ol hospitaliz-
ation, dental care, and musing,
would cost twice that
The proponents of compulsory
health insurance have slid that
the $7 a month which the average
worker, who makes about $2,101) a
year, would bt required to pay as
his whcle social security tax would
be only slightly more than his pres-
ent medical expenses There are
several facilities in this argument.
In the first place, the $7 a month
Would not cover all medical expens-
es. The Wagner-Murray-Dingci! bill
of May, specifically provides
that physicians, dentists. and
nurses may require each patient to
pay a small fee "with respect to the
first service or each service in a
period of sickness The worker
must realize, too. that there would
be fewer free clinics, since they
would be ostensibly unnecessary
once health insurance w • inaugu-
rated.
Because of the unavailability ol
personnel, the dental and home-
nursing benefits "shall have such
a restricted content as the Surg-
eon General shall determine." This
means that if the worker or his
family needed services outside the
“content," he would have to pay
for them.
Furthermore, the maximum
number of days in any benefit year
for which any Individual may be en-
titled to hospitalization * '•
shall be sixty"; the Surgeon Gen-
eral may increase this number as
lands permit However, in the case
of long-continued illness, the work-
er must pay.
Second, if the wprker should not
happen to like the insurance doc-
tors in his neighborhood, he would
probably follow the example of
many of his British confreres and
go to a private physician. Of cour.-e,
be would have to pay the doctor's ,
fee despite the fact ht had paid for
medical attention through
his taxes.
Third, only about half of the
expense of the system would be
paid by the deduction 1 om the
worker's wages The remainder
i x pci
wm ki
pin. mv, were.due lo malmgrtinq.
-nice the propose.: systi-.n lor the
United States would be fairly com-
prehensive from the outset: such a
large increase in. com probably
v.vild not take place here. It is
entirely possible, however. Unit ilie
cost in, say A. D 2000 would be two
or three times ...- lomu us that ot
1950.
For install, e it lias be.:: .'.limn-
ed that the cost o! the medical ben-
c.n plus the ce.: o' the cash ben-
clits pai 1 to til ..o ill the first 0
months oi illness wuld increase
from something like $4.(KX).000,000 to
$10,000.00 .Out) a : car. Worse still,
during tiie same ptnod.'the cost, Ol
cash benefits paid lo those who
•have protr cud illness would mount
from between $200,000,000 lo $300.-
000. Oil to more than $2.000,OOu.GOO.
utlitr social-insurance benefits
will also become more and more
Kitty years hence, age-1
leers, widows and orphans will
lx recciv.ng between $7,500,000,000
and $13.300.000.110J .i year. In times
ol depression, the unemployed will
get another $IV.000.000.000. Former-
ly the American worker phe-d the
German worker win. in pre-Nazi
days, had almost 30 per cent of ins
wages taken in taxes. H is not iia-
pos.ible the 'hie American worker
may • ultimately ptiv almost 25 per
cent ol in ; wage. eiUu i . irectly or
indirectly, for social security taxis
alone. Already the o n ids propos-
t-u lor lailro.id workers would cr.-.t
more than 20 jn-r cent oi their
wages—and no lie.lth iiisui.inee is
included
Of curse, the pci p uient; of the
extension ol social security bene-
fits say. "Let the general taxpayer
make up any deficit that the work-
er cannot or will not pay." There
art three cogent arguments against
this. In the first place _nly a part
of the citizens of -ne United States
would be included in a national
system of health msuiance. Today,
only a'out half of the workers are
ec .ered bv social insurance. Even
under the ixpimdO coverage <.1 the
Wagner-Murray-Dingtil bill only
about three iourths ol the popula-
tion would be covered. Is it true
democracy to use public funds to
benefit only a certain class?
Second, the worker, who has al-
ready paid whr. he feels he can af-
ford for social insurance, would be
taxed further in his role of general
taxpayer. It seems probable that
afiy extension of personal income
taxes will be made largely at the
expense of the lower income groups.
BURNS WIFE TO DEATL
TC- GET YOUNG GIRL
Nashville. Term., dp)— Dwight O.
Carman, 62-year-old grandfather
accused of burning his wife to
death for the love of a 16-year-old
girl, was taken into custody on a
murder warrant at McMinnville.
Tenn., 60 miles from Nashville, As-
sistant District Attorney General
Audrew Tanner announced.
Histone Desert
Church (Jets New
Indian School
By MURRAY SINCLAIR
. AP Newsfeafur. -
T u c. .s o ii. A r 1 z, — A li I n-
.'ian school, dreafn for generations
of '.lie Franciscan priests of .San
Xavier del Bac. historic Spanish
mission in tilt dessert, is to become
a reality in September.
Combining < school and a clinic,
the new building recalls the color-
ful story of San Xavier del Bac and
its .struggle to spread Christianity
m the earliest days of the west.
Since ii was founded 246 years
ago, this fabulous church in the
heart of the'desert has been plun-
dered by Pimas; served as a look-
out lor raiding Apaches: used by
Mexican soldiers as barracks, sta-
bles and barns: withstood earth-
quakes ml housed Jesuits and
Franciscans who came to Chris-
tianize the Indians of the New
World.
Now. within days of the anniver-
sary ol the arrival ol its founder,
Father Eusebio Francisco Kino,
the school building hoped for by
the men who followed him will be
opened.
Fi:under a Cattleman-Priest
Records .show it was late in Au-
gust cf 1692 when Father Kino
reached Bae. 9 miles south o[ here.
I he energetic Jesuit, cattleman and
farmer named the place San Xavier
and preached his first sermon to
the Indians by unrolling a map of
tilt world and telling them of the
great distinct’ he had come to tell
them of Christianity.
On April 28. 1700, he btgan the
task of building his mission, the
"white dove of the desert.” He al-
so held council with the Indians to
see if they could tell him whether
California was an island or penin-
sula. Eleven years later Father Kino
died on a bed of sheepskins
Half a century after work was
started the Indians revolted, killing
seme cf the priests, chasing others
south, ard and plundering San
Xavier and other missions.
Again the priests returned, only
to abandon the mission in 1767
when word catre from Spain of the
expulsion of the Jesuits.
As the priests reparted, some be-
New Guineans
Seek To Keep
War Luxuries
Measuring
Progress
In China
Faculty
Term
Is Annoi
GAZELLE BOY — This youth, ap-
proximately 14 years old, was re-
cently discovered living with gazelle,
in the Syrian desert. According to
Btdouins who came upon the boy
while hunting in a jeep, the boy
runs at a speed of fifty miles pc
hour. Bound hand and foot, he is
shown above clutching the deseiy
roots he had been eating, waiting
to be taken to a Damascus lunatic
asylum.
even if the dirt had been pure
gold, the Indians wouldn't lia\e
taken the trouble to remove it, since
gold had no value to them.
One ol the towers at the front of
the mission will always remain un-
finished. Legend says all the church
lieve, they buried or hid tremendous H“ed w Uh the exception ol
_____.... ..........a ______ ,Vw. the dome over one tower. Chiel
architect Father Ignacio Gaoni
•'.'is All economic am!
-ill revolution is in .progress ill 1
Au.-tralian mandated territory ^~jaguar ^
Vw Guinea, where Australians. *^*vfP* jEffe' '*'
mu. ans and Japanese waged *
■"me el ilie most bitter struggles of
R amounts lo a struggle between R|. .. L-g ’*’?■ 48 V*
■ handful of w hite adininistraiora. j [
1'-liters and traders trying to re-! • %.. .. v u
•ore pre-war standards and 1.000.- 1
non unorganized na.ives trying to 1 tf. --SBy-t.
i' tain the comparative luxury !
Mandards they had during the war, §nSBjMJSM£*V - . m w answiL..- : ' ma.%
when working for the armed forces. **”"
The natives were paid about $6.-! ^ r Ljh ", < )
000 000 during the war in wages; K/' 'W'.'l ' JUjIk? W."}' *v -»• 1
and compensation money. They now ! gW***, •“ -jA- ~ , j*mBa
• m- silling bark on this money and i ‘ -fc ST",
resisting calls for labor unless of- i j- ^ ^
Before the war. they were paid , k W' '
But durinu HL TOMMki't \ ■■ '.'.be *" y
Ihey were paid up lo $2 50 a fspfc
.....mil. and want this rate rontin- ' m t T
it'd. During the war. they were W* f ,iitinftV'7
lid on such European foods as! ; : MWi»r » t ii Il>f " i*8*4** C'“ " W >
1 limed meat and fish, and devel- y ' ■
' pod a liking for them. Now th-v ! , '.*r:73fci3k-'Mj
' how no inelinal ion to gel bark to ' . Jf :
■heir pre-war dir of sweet pot a-
B"lon the war liiey wi-e pro- *J****~^' * ^
"I'll well lap-laps, a wrap- _ ■* >*.* , . ^ " i ■ ,5.
around skirt, costing about five \ * - * v" " '■? , >V ^
('( fits. During Ihe war the Aus-1 ' ■* * ’ ' ' -q
t-alian Army provided them with j
lap-laps of good English cloth i TERRIER AND ROOSTER TANGLE—Mutual dislike is the uppermost
costing up to one dollar. They I thought in the minds of these pets belonging to 13-ycar-old Frances
now have the taste for good qual- ‘ Nixon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Nixon of Fabens. Texas. Ev
Nanking — Chinese gam
j experts assisted by AuteriotB 'A
nii inns arc trying to unravdi .•
age-old snarL-of china’s
and lniasurei _
Centuries ato some emperor, i
hike lax revenue, changed the
mi the unit for nicaeurffljjS
•of t xc.s in the form of gralnr
Sucrecding dynasties inen
■ n' in i for measuring
:,i» in Kind. Gradually this system
I was extended to units of weight
and im th as well as volume.
After the birth of the Chtaeee
republic officials sought to stand-
ardize weights and measure*-'They
found thousands of different Units
in use. alike in
! name ku> dill emit in application.
1 he last Kuoinintang cvngreea^*.1
M'jdcd upon nationwide adoption ft"
lllie metric system. But the
|over will take time. £o an ini
; solution was worked out, k;
the iiLf'-two-thre system
j the unit of volupie equals one
two units of weight equal one
| gram and three units of
equal one meter.
! It isn t quite so easy as
I though. While the system Is
pally used throughout lndi
China, agricultural areas stiH
to the old units, which vary
village to village, from tradn
trade.
Government experts have
the Chinese foot has varied
the ages from 19.3 ccntimeMlfc
cloth and will not easily change 1 since Scooter was a pup and Ready, a Rhode Island Red rooster, a chick. 577 the bushel from 476 ciihi«
ack to the cheap pre-war quality. liu'-v have adopted this attitude towtord each other. The rooster doesn't —•- _
They have gained an exagger-
ated sense of money values. Amer-
ican and Australian soldiers would
often pay them up to one dollar
each for a tropical fruit, for which
they were lucky to get one cent
before (he war.
timeters to 5.130 and
like the terrier's bark and shows it. in the top picture anil, forces the dog from '85 orient me* m 1 cun
to take to his heels as shown below. These "fights" generally end with grammes to 1,940.^
the terrier yelping after Ready sinks his spurs into the dog s back. <NEA
Photo)
13-YEAR-OLD ID.ABEL
BOY KILLED
dutch waistline
WIDENS IN PEACETIME
Pvt Jack Mikel. w ho is stationed
at Aberdeen, Maryland, arrived
Saturday to spend a fifteen day
furlough with relatives.
i Amsterdam —(/Pi— No official
statistics show the increase in the
average Dutch waistline, but there
, are other reliable signs.
A year ago the "placeurs," the
functionaries charged with the dis-
tribution of the seats at tlie circus
could pack 3,400 spectators on ihe
unnumbered wooden benches. This
year the placeurs can pack hardly
3,150 people on the same benches.
I label. Okla.. — James Willi*,
j ear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. f
Willis of Ultima Thule, Okl*..
instantly killed when a sb ‘
being cleaned by his older
accidentally discharged. ,. —
--0—;— m
Red River National m«a fl
wealth in gold collected from the
Indians over many years. With the
coming of civilization, men spent
tremendous effort in digging for
this “lost” Spanish gold. It is still
being sought.
Ten years later Apaches swooped
down from the north, killing and
plundering and taking over San
Xavier as a lookout. Then, along
other abandoned missions, it was
taken over by the Franciscans.
The foundation of the mission is
a bed ot stone, six feet or more
deep.
To the Indian women was as- 1
climbed to the top to finish the
building himsglf. Losing his ba;
'ence, he is supposed to have crash-
ed to his death. In his memory the
tower has been left the way he last
saw it, according to folklore.
1 Another report says the King of
Spain had ruled that a tax must be
paid upon the completion ol each
| church. To avoid this payment, it
is claimed, the Priests left off one
tower dome so that it would never
1 be finished.
They built well, and strongly. The
would be met by a similar tax on ;
the employer. This would amount, j -o-
Virtually, to a compulsory wage KANGAROO PRICE LEAPS
boost tor the employee. Many econ- j HUNTERS FILL POCKETS
MBtet believe that such a levy -
would so upset the economic sys- 1 Sydney —<ZP)— A great demand
tern that, in the end, the worker in the United States for kangaroo-
would have to pay both his own and feather shoes is bringing record
his employer $ taxes. prices for skins of the Australian
this might happen in any one of marsupiols.
a number of ways- The price of In the Armidale district of norUi-
goods might go up, and his wages eastern New South Wales, hunters
buy less The employer might sub- sh<* 13,090 kangaroos in the first
signed the task of bringing the
rocks to the mission from moun-
tains many miles away.
No Rests Countenanced
Patiently the women trudged
original doors and pulpit, among
other things, are still in use.
The bell clappers, it is said, are
made from a meteorite which llash-
__ed out of the skies and landed
across the desert, where surface ldc "fis5*011'
temperatures reach 155 degrees in . The Franciscans were also driven
the summertime, perched a boulder the enureh during Mexico’s
on their head, and walked back j^V0,1' independence from Spain,
again. These were sacred stones, i ^°!c many of the sacred
which could not be allowed to touch
Waldrcp
Ins.
Agency. I‘i,one otld
SujcLsxnJbuuL VffaatA
Sirloin Steak «£»*•A........................u £7C
Round Steak A ........ u, 5?
HAMBURGER
THIS STOKE WILL BE
OPEN
LABOR DAY — MONDAY, SEPT. 2ND
Fre$h Ground Beef
Ideal for Meat
Loaf, Hamburgers,
Meat Balls, etc.
articles of the altar from the
church, keeping them in their mud
huts until the priests returned.
stitute machinery for some workers,
and cut production to lay olf
Others. Unemployment would re-
*ult, and a wage cut would follow.
Certain economists contend that
the resulting wage plus the em-
ployer’s tax would just equal the
former wage. If such a contention
la true, the worker will have to de-
cide whether health Insurance is
worth 6 per cent of his income to
Mm. That is almost half again as
much as he now pays—on the av-
erage—for medical attention.
In the fourth place, there is no
guaranty that the cost would con-
four weeks of the kangaroo season,
opened July 1. In Brisbane, around
18.000 skins have been offered at
each of the fortnightly sales.
Ihe skins bring an average of
$3.26 each—about three times pre-
war.
--o-
NEIGHBORS GIVE HOUSE
TO HOMELESS WIDOW
Signs of Stable Usage
The walls of the church still show
the signs left behind by the troop*
and animals housed in the build- i
the ground from the time they left
the mountains until they reached
their destination. When one was
dropped, the woman believed the
spell had been broken, left it where
it lay, and returned to the moun-
tains for another.
The Indians' knowledge of build- m|f- . -
ing was confined to the construe- 1 u wtl^ **• Gadsen purchase
tion of rude adobe huts but the , biought the area faito the United
priests were artists and architects States, the priests did return lo San
as well as builders. Under their x»vier del Bac, the only mission
guidance the structure took form, j noii completely in ruins.
In order to build the huge dome, S ^or years a section of one w ing
filled ot mission has be«ii devoted to
-— | legends recount, the priests ------ . ,
Cherry Valley, 111. —(?Pj— Mrs. the body of the church with earth. 1 school rooms. Now the children, be-
Rupert Baxter, a widow with six rounded it into shape and. covered tween 70 and 80 of them, will move
children, was notified she would it with the present adobe brick. | ir*t° a W5.000 school and clinic. The
have to move from the house she | * • • < priests will move Into the old
rented because it had been sold, i Gold Bait In Doubt | school rooms and the space they
to be only about 6 per cent of She had no place to go. Then the IndLans were told many towards the front of the
payroll. In Germany, the per j Word of her plight spread swiftly ! gold coins were to be found In the building will be given over to
;a cost increased sixfold In 45 through this village of 600 popula- dirt in the church. Seeking wealth.
In England, it almost trebled, tion. Citizens contributed $2,000, they labored to remove the earth,
,-1927. This was caused by the bought a lot end bam and convert- leaving the dome where It now
of benefits and in- ed the property into a neat five- 'stands,
claims, many of which, ex- room residence for her. ] Anthropologists point out
Bread «ktiS2,.
24-0*.
13*
Butter c£~„
69*
PlCkSeS or°Dlli N°pi
24-Ox.
34<
IVffJk S3S~
O T"11
Cam
23
Flour S-wi,«:r
10%
69<
Soap .
4 ft-
58<
. 35c \
Short Ribs
Steaks
Cheese s
urede A
Beef Lb
Lunch
MEATS
Macoreal A Cb'.ou
Pkkloor ,
Veal Lcerf
Beef Roast
Veal Roast
museum and
visitors.
waiting rooms for
Now is not too early to buy your
that i Christmas things on our lay-away
plan. — Wakers's.
VOTE AGAINST BEER
Saturday, September 7th---1946
Haro 1$ a copy of the official ballot which.wiH bo used oa this day. Study it and do not use it for your ballot
If yon wish to vote against boor, mark X through the first paragraph on the ballot a*
pi Copy of Official
LEGALIZING THE SALE OF MALT AND VINOUS BEVERAGES THAT
DO NOT CONTAIN ALCOHOL IN EXCESS OF FOURTEEN (14%) PER
CENTUM BY VOLUME.
Kaftr
%jlSSmlS^rSSffmfc )Tm
Oihsut VahuiA.
Blackberries u*. 3
Deviled Hem im* . 1
Peanut Butter K. . *1 2
j Cheese £2*. 2W 2
Crackers ____J2£ 2
Sweet Peas Jt1 1
Turnip Greens n. cL* fi
Green BeansStS
ing $mmmu.........
Houtslmlii
Maim "wniwaon
ffO Bar.
fay Coffee
^TAIMB^U
Shoulder Cot
Shoulder Cut
(trod. A ...........
.. Lb.
Crmk
Slleud .............
33c
JajlsJl fibodwcSL
!-&.* 1
... ?£°-
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2k£ 41c
24c|
FIIIT
GRAUEMSTEIN, ■,
APPLE
With the openiJ
ten days away, thj
lie Schools are pr|
and next to meet I
dents who will rel
l*k ’km on September
t * A total of l,260l
pected to report f|
f the first day of
teachers will be
them. Superintend
has announced tf
schedule will be
All students wl
o’clock. Monday n
ber 8. Grades one I
report to the graJ
sixth grade will rl
nasium. Grades!
twelve will res
■ school.
Faculty Members I
Announced I
With but two ex
ul^y for the 1946-f
cqtSJdete. Supt.
be selected Is a
the high school an
for Cheatham HigJ
* these exceptions,
ulty list follows:
• I
Grammar School
And Junior High [
Mrs. Ella B. wl
MisS Annie Mj
grade.
Mrs. Clara B.
grade.
Miss Vera Cs
Miss Addle
grade.
Mrs. Bernice
grade.
Mrs. Louise H(
grade.
Miss Jessie L.
Mrs. Lucille Kuj
Miss Vera BM
Mrs. Mollle D |
grade.
f Mrs. O. D. Tay
* Mrs. Ester
grade.
Mm. Kathryn |
grade.
High School
O. P.. Caldwelll
Mrs. Roslne Ba
Miss Lillie Br
Raymond Benn
Miss Lillian F4
nomlcs.
William Hays,
Mrs. Kathleen
Miss Ruth
, Music.
. Miss Palma
Commercial.
Miss Georgia
English.
•
" Cheatham High
L. M. Becton,
Ophelia Belle
i Travis L. Carr |
* Jeanne E. Ha
I Cecil New
Dora D.
Lola Smith
Mary M. Smit
, •
Football Squad
Meet Sunday
Coach
cently selected
letic director fo
Public Schools,
his first
school football
Sunday
the gymnasium. I
berg, prospective!
■ and fans are
Football
week, with two
planned. It Is
be used in getti
shape In view
first game of tF
tiled for
•
* Tiger Schedule
. 184$ Annua
Ttoe football
ly cbtnplete and
ed as follows:
Sept. 20. Mt.
Sept. 27, New
Oct. 4.
Oct. 11. Paris
Oct. 1$, Leom
Oct. 28. Open
Nov. 1.
Nov. $,
NOV. 18.
Nov. 22, Open
Nov. 28,
Delicious
Mu
Nue lur
CeokUq. Lb.
Elberta Peaches
Lemons ........
Seedless Grapes 2
Yellow Onions
Cornc
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