Fjjday, October 31, 1969

Seems No Curbing Hospital Costs

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i--No. doubt anyone who has been hospitalized in recent years was a candidate for a relapse wnen

he read tnat medical eost will suoot up in the next four years.' ^ '

The American Medical Association estimated that a hospital room will cost an average of nearly 1100 per day in four years time. The current average is $67.95. If this happens it will mean a 44 percent increase over the 1969 average.

Dr. George W. Graham, association president,

' blamed the rise bn salaries, demands for additional services, inflation and added costs of administering Medicare. As spokesman for the AHA, Graham was testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee,, proposing full government reimbursement to hospitals for all costs incurred by Medicare, some of which are not now covered.^

^ There is little reason to doubt Dr. Grahams prediction of soaring hospital costs, particularly since hospital costs have been soaring for some time.

The only question for the average man is ho^ to meet the huge costs if he, or a member of his family is* struck "by. an illness which requires hospitalisation. _ K

There are no quick answers, of course. Private hospitalization policies and grop policies are helping but as costs go up so will the premiums .for protection. As hosnital costs rise, however, there axe going to be demands by tiie public for

relief and this national healt'

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uke the form of a compulspry ance program.

to see more efficient j^ays of developed so that cost could be held nTore in line. It does not look hopeful that hospital cost will be held down, how'ever.

N.C Bound To Feel Effects Of Cutback

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North Carolina, with its large number of mil* Itary bases, was bound to feel the effect of the cutback in military spending.

Thus it.was no surprise when the defense secretary announced this week that the cuts would affect Pope Air Force Base, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Cherry Point Marine Air Station and Fort Bragg.

The greatest effect will be at Pope where 588 Air Force jobs are eliminated *and at Seymour Johnson where 581 jobs are to be ended.

There will also be 321 civilian jobs eliminated at Cherry Point and SOI civilian jobs at Ft. Bragg,

These cuts are bound to have some effect on the economy of North Cerolina in general and the nearby communities in particular. However, we believe that the states thriving economy can over come the effects. It is simply a price we have to pay for the reduction in the national defense cost.

The cities of Goldsboro, Fayetteville. Jacksonville, alonflr with others, are growing rommunitiea and they will survive the cuts In payroll.

NEW YORK in a name?

Well, when it comes to having a disease, the name is bslf the fun.

There is really no point in getting an ailment if the mere name of it alone is enough to make you half-sick.

Ihe reason that some people stay in bed with a virus is that tiiey are too unccHnoion to catdi a common cold.

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Welfare Shift

9y WILLIAM A. SHIRES

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RALEIGH - CircUng the square:

Approximately 1,500 workers from the state and county department of Social Services, fbnnerly Welfare, are fathered here primarify to discuss ;pT(^xMed sweeping changante the welfare sys-toffl.

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President moo uHud Congress several months ago to overhaul the welfare program and legislitkm to revanw the system is pending in Washington. There are widely differing views on many parts of the recommended changes.

The institute being held in Raleigh is concerned with how ^ proposed changes will affect welfare programs in North Carolina.

Planning; The annual social services institute follows a series of district meetings across the state during which local welfare and health departments were asked to expand family planning programs.

Officials of the state departments of Social' Services and Health pointed out that in msny cases provisions of 1967 Federal legislation to strengtoen these programs have not been implemented.

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There are still many who-need and desire such service to whom such service is not available. . . .What ever the facts might be which obstruct ... .family planning must be made ^available to all who need and desire these services.

Administration A number of county officials h a v e balked at complying with administrative rules and regulations set up under the feder4 law.

These require that medical, cwitraceptive services including diagnosis, treatment, supplies and follow-up, social and educational services be offered and provided to all without regard to marital status, age, race or parenthood.

Also, that individuals must be assured choice of method and there must be arrangements with varied medical resources so that individuis are assured choice of source of service.

There are complaints that suidi rules and regulations are both vague and arbitrary and costs, _cven with the aid of 75 per cent federal financing, are too high. example, one of the required services is that participating departments pay cost of transportation into mand from the various birth control clinics, along with costs charged by pritate physicians or out-ptient and impitient clinics.

Officials said legislation to expand family planning took into account the population explosion, juvenile delinquency, the high birth rate among low income families, and a rising rate of births out of (Contiimed Ob Page S)

Grim Hangover Rats And The Good At Harvard Univ.

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.~The source of apprehension and . melancholy felt by a handful of thoughtful Harvard faculty members is seen in the publication last week by the Harvard Crimson, the student daily, of an overt incitement to riot.

Writing in the Oct. 22 Crimson, student editor Ridiard E. Hyland delivered a justification fbr terroaism. the only reason I wouWt blow up the Center for International Affairs, Hyland began, is that I might get caught., From that start, he went on to discuss tolly the desirability of violence. If buildings begin to blow up all around, he concluded, people may weir ask for a neW" Inquest into the permanent.*

Tbe manifesto by Hyland, who doubles as journalist and student agitator, scarcely sent students running into Harvard Yard with dynamite bombs. But it did heighten apprehension over next Tuesdays assault by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) on the Center for International Affairs, which has sinned by accepting Federal government funding of some scholarly and often anti-military studies.

But apart from what may happen here Tuesday, Hylands diatribe points to longer range problems for the nations foremost university. Significantly, the Crimrons call for terrorism went unchallenged by either administration or faculty.

Consequently, the article constituted another victory in the campaign against established authority and legitimacy that began here last spring with the occupation of University Hall by student radicals. In the hangover from that violence the vast majority of both faculty and students have come to regard the campui turmoil as a spectator sport.

That creates a vacuum most suitable for "the microscopic number of student radicals typified by Hyland. The fact they ara actively opposed by (Mily a few faculty members (inappropriatety labe Had

conservatives) poses a question mark against the future of Harvard.

For instance, the conservatives feel irreparaole da mage was done to Harvards academic standards 1^ 1 a s t springs hasty agreement under pressure to creation of an Afro-American studies departmenta victory for black militants more complete than was accomplished at either Columbia or Berkeley, where administrators wer under ^eater duress. Thus, Harvard is now offering a credit course in post-conviction rights and privileges of felons as part of the new program.

An even greater departure from academic norms was the selection of the new Afro-American departments head. Instead of the usual ad hoc selection committee, black student militants rad the deciding, voice. Since no self-

WASHINGK! - The key to mans survival on e ar th seems to be the white rat Most experiments being conducted these days to see what effect our environment haa on human beinga are first conducted on white rats. Only after we know what happens to white rats will we take any action to protect the human race.

Nobody has bothered to find out how the rats feel a b o u t this. In mans ever-questing search f(ar truth, I visited a large government laboratory the other evening around ml(^ night and recorded what the white rats were saying to each other.

Zlda, you look so thin.

Theyve had me on cycla-mates. I must have lost 3 ounces in a week. What have you been doing?

*Tve been taking monosodium glutamate. Iti tasty, but It gives me headaches. Oh-Horace, will you stop coughing?

Adi, ack, ack. I cant help it Theyve got me smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Why dont you give them up?

Id like to, but they wont let me.

What on earth is Sheldon doing? Hes staggering all over his cage.

"Hes ^volved in the marijuana experiments. He goes on a trip every night Thats what I call luck. How can I get off cyclamtes and in the pot program?

' You have to know somebody. Every rat in the lab wants to go on pot

I dont. I feel you have to face reality and not seek es

cape. Thata why Im proud to be associated with the air pollution project

How can you stand it? Its not bad. Every day they drive roe around New York City and I just breathe. If I die, they know the air pollution count is too high. If I live, I get to see the city. Youre probably right. Bet-tina. 1 volunteered for air

Fortunately, medieal nomcae-lature ia rich in Inportaiit lounding afflictions to whidi ena can point with prida. You r probably have had some ef

1' these for years and never vea

Let^ua take the field off phobias. *

Are you. afraid ef robbera? Why, you poor thing, pull tha covers over your head this very minute. Youve got harpaxopho-bia, thats what youve got.

And do you worry over whether this mythical robber, if yott meet him, will stick youw ith^t knife? Then youve also got aichmophobia, the fear of sharp-pointed objects.

Do you get tired of caplsg with lift now and than, and fed that your wife, your boas,and

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those conditions, it went to a non-academician who ran unsuccessfully for Manhattan borough president in 1949 as candidate of thetCommunist-dominated American Labor party. That Guiner should be elevated to the academic pinnacle of a Harvard full pr^ fessorship is appalling to many senior faculty members here.

Moreover, the events of last spring have menaced acade-inic freedom. At that time, a visiting professor drastically altered a course on prevention of urban riots because of protests by black student militantsestablishing a precedent for student censorship for academic c(tent. Yet,

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A half century ago yesterday, the United States went officially dry but In reality actually drenched. Ten years later, when the tide of public sentiment was rolling in against the Volstead act, President Hoover called^ U t great social and economic experiment, noble in nature and far - reaching in purpose. Four years later, under President Roosevelt, the country repudiated the prohibition act and the United States became legally wet again, and is probably wetter today than ever.

Liquor has come to be one of the chief villains in^the moral breakdown and is at the

the ^eat majority 4 faculty-root of a majority of fatal members seem oblivious to and other serious accidents, the danger. jjo linger is there any wide-

Nor have they My realized what is now obvious to t h e Berkeley faculty: no matter how many concessions are made to student radicals, there always will be one inore demand. Although Harvard capitulated to all demands fast spring, the new fall term,has opened with the call for closing the Center for International Affairs. Once that is accomplished, a new demand as the basis for agitation ia a certainty.

spread talk or agitation ^ in favor of checking the liquor buainess. Legal liquor can be had in most parts of North Carolina, which once was one of the early States to ban alcohol. Probably more people are drinking than ever, all the way from casual cocktails at hospitality hours to the drunken sot There is big money in liquor, and govern

ment is grasping for all that can be had from it. Crusaders move against tobacco b u t are silent in forty languages about the harmful effects of whiskey.

The roaring twenties were followed by the socialistic thirties untU today the country is enmeshed in the civil rights experiment, with laws against racial segregation. One wonders if this Is a fad similar to the prohibition experiment, and if it will pass or be settled down to a system more rational than that imposed by dictatorial bureaucrats in the Federal government. Tile parallel is not exactly similar, but there are kindred aspects.

Such so-called reforms move in cycles. After this one there will be others until the country is securely In the grasp of the soci^ts.

National prohibition was a failure as such, but liquor is more a menace today than ever, and may never be greatly different. Certainly there is no indicaticMi of a marked shift to ^reason as to this threat to the health of the nation.

pollution, but some computer assigned me to water pollution. Im getting sick of drinking dirty river water every day.

Whats the matter with Whitney? He seems awfully quiet tonight

Hes been eating grapes with DDT on them for a week, and I guess its finally getting on him.

I told him to boycott grapes.

They wont give him anything else to eat, so he has no choice.,

Wheres Alvin?

Didnt you hear? They transplanted his heart today into Hazef Hers gave out during the automobile exhaust tests.

Poor Alvin.

He .didnt seem to mind. He was involved in the tranquilizer experiments, and when they asked him for his heart, he said he couldnt care less.

Whos crying?!

Sandra. They have her frdng the birth control pill. She wants babies in the worst way.

Well, at least shes having some fun, which is more than I can say fbr what Im doing. Whats that, Caroltoo? -Im working lor NASA to see the effects 0! weightlessness. I vomit all the time. But the spacep rogram at leut has tome glamor to it (CoBtbmed Oi Page I)

your bead up, man, and regain your self-ropect It really isnt your fault, la it if you have creeping ease of hypengyopho-bia, or the fear of retponaibUL ty?

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Most pedeatrians in eroning t street shoiw signs of belli levo-phobia and dexfrophobla; that is, they are afraid of objects on the left side of their body and of objects on the ri|^t side of their bo^-4n both cases, autoino* biles.

Civilized man often fbdi that his job is a rut and hii eiistenct too routine. Unknowingly, he is haunted by taphepbobia, Ihs fear of being buried alive.

Right now hundreds of thousands of people in nortbem climes are scheming up excuses to take a winter vacation or business 'trip to Florida er a Caribbean port They are more to be pitied than censured. They flee south b^ause they have chionophobia, me fev of snow.

Do you feel and fume because you are unable to understand or handle your teen-age son tr daughter? A lot of people share your pli^t, and you all have the same mala(ty. It is terat^ho-bia, the fear that youve given birth to a monster.

Yes, there is, a wonderful-

sounding disease for-every human being alive, even fer tha guy who worries because he ia too healtity in a society where all around him are ill. '

He is sick, too. Hes got an unconscious case of eremopbobia, the fear of being lonely.

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The beat way to gel rid of your duties is to dishaerge them.-JohD RusUn.

Strength For Today

ABA Shows How It Can. Take It

UP TO US

How can we deal with tha evil in our lives?

There are a numbed ef approaches to this problem. One is to be careful in our choice of friends and associates. Evil is not an abstract matter. It

is very coMrcte and usually Hresenti Itself to us In aW-

sonalized form. We arc not so much tempted by things as by persons. We can and should be careful about the idiends we make and the circles in which we move.

Probably the inost satisfactory way to deal with an evil in our lives is to deal with it directly. We can face the evil in our lives, stop excusing our tolerance ..of it and roll up our sleeves preparatory to getting busy.

We shill always be tempted. This is the consequence of

free vdi, which God accorded iw hi order that we might grow. We cao say Yes of we can sav No and the anawed we make will have areal bearing eo our future happiness >and the happiness df those round about us.

A masa, selfish spirit, in^ teniperance. the temptation to sexual indulgcnec, a casual attituda toward telling tha truth, a bit of latent diihoiiest-ty in the way we handle our own business affairs and the business affairs of othersthe wise procedure - it to reach out and take hold of t h e s c things.and start pulling them up by the roots. We will save ourselves a lot of misery if we do ibis. ^

Evil is not to be tampered with. In more ways than we suspect the condition of 0 u r moral health is up to us.

By Eaii L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER The American Bankers Aa-lociation likes to show it can' take it At almost all conferences they invite at least one speaker who gives them a little helL At the recent cmt? vention in Honolulu, Sen. Dan-viel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, ruffled bankers feathers by criticizing their golden egg. high interest rates, and. at the recent ABA credit card conference lit Dalles, Faith P?tor, family economist and assistant professor at Vermont'

' University, sharply criticized credit cards. '

Perhaps her most disturbing point was that credit cards increase prices.

Whether retailers sell you their accounts at discounted rats, or whether you make a percentage service charge, the cost can only be met V Increased prices-^which I will have to pay whether I buy for cash or credit-and I prefer not to have to subsidize

my neighbors buying habits. Prof. Prior said. Moreover, this is an inflationary itrata-gem if ever there was one. Even The Cardlesi Piy 11 dont even see any diicre-tidnary escape route. I see more and more sellers using the credit card as a credit reference, then billing the buyer directly to avoid service^ diarges. But their, prices-^ lets say of hotel right along with (hose of titoi hotels who charge through centralized tyitems.

This may reprascnt loia of sales to you, as tbe old line goes, but its nay bread and bqtterwith lesa butter either way. Moreover, the service charge.. .to the buyer is a direct and immediate re-

stalknent credit" contracts, and the buyer of installment paper buys also all defenses against toe seller. Are you^ prepared to have this shelter equally inaccessible to you as credit - card purchasers of accounts?

Auction in buying power.

My guess is thal you al

ready accept, however reluctantly, the fact that the holder-in-due - course concept is doomed. In my^ state is has already been outlawed in in-

Ari you ready for, me to bring to your baiik my comr plaints about the carpe.|.ig that was not th| same shAde as the sample, or toe sneakers that wore out too soon? Because 1 doBi waot to gat

frofflt he original seller th old run-around that toe homo improvemc^ people are famous for: ^Son^we no kmg-cr hold your contract, and tha matching place of t blackjack, Sorry, were finanoe, not in the aluminum aiding business.* oomrmL Prof. MoraliiKmadi mm thrusts:

\. Some cradit ty that totmutt' dt busiaesi wlQri toilMr under the lawf cl aaototr ityli.

> It btM to semb. to tome ef ua wbt Bet itti families fact to faee. as tooug we aro ttvtog to 1 k|Bd tl status panic to whkk crtdtt acts as a tomperaiy frinquL lizer, but whert, come dvk, we end up oounttag ebarii nt-couati initond ef iheep.^

. Senate teftimony inditotod thit credit carda wen a eoih tributing factor in mere than halft he consumer baokruptcto filed last year.