Study
hows Rising Expense of Socialized Medicine
British Churchman
Sets Etiquette Code
For Bridal Couples
London (U.R) A British
churchman, fed up with the
" "laced up" bridal couples and
friends and relatives who be
have like "hooligans," today
laid down a code of etiquette
for wedding ceremonies.
"I am appalled and often
sickened by the shocking be
havior" at weddings, said the
Rev. G. S. Crookshank of St.
Andrew's church.
Among Crookshank's pet
peeves are:
Bridegrooms who sit in a
front pew smoking cigars
while waiting for the bride.
Brides and grooms "laced
up with strong drinks before
the services.
"Catcalls"' from ihe audi
ence during the ceremonies.
Crookshank expressed hope
that his words "may shame
some people into behaving
less like hooligans or a tribe
of monkeys and more like de
cent men and women even
, if - they are not practicing
Christians."
CRASH IS FATAL
Colton U.R) George J.,
Deegan, 21, only recently dis
charged from the Navy, was
killed in a one-car accident early
yesterday afternoon when the
late model sports car he was
driving spun out of control on a
curve. ,
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Prices Paid Farmers
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Washington (U.F!) Prices
farmers receive for crops and
livestock rose 1 per cent for the
month ended Jan. 15; the Ag
riculture Department has report
ed. . The rise still left farm prices
7 per cent below those of a year
earlier.
The department said the cost
of production and living sup
plies purchased by farmers re 12
1 per cent during the month.
Farmers' returns in mid-janu-ary
averaged 80 per cent parity,
the same as in mid-December,
and compared with 86 per cent
of , parity in .mid-January last
year.
Parity is the priced need to
put commodities sold by farm
ers on a par with commodities
they buy. . , ,
The department said higher
prices for meat animals, lender
vegetables, strawberries and po
tatoes were primarily responsi
ble for the increase in the farm
ers' price index.
Livestock Prices
. Hog prices in mid-January
were $10.90 a hundredweight
compared with $10.60 in mid
December and $17 in mid-January
1955. ;
Beef cattle prices .in mid-January
were $13.90 compared with
$13.50 in, mid-December, and
$16.50 in mid-January, 1955.
With today's price report, the
department set - up new and
shorter yardsticks for measuring
prices - of cotton, wheat, corn,
and peanuts. :
The new parity formula, di
rected by legislation enacted in
1954, is designed to reflect mod
ern production methods in low
ering costs of crop output.
Mechanical Equipment
The old prewar formula was
based largely on hand labor and
horse and mule power which is
being replaced by mechanical
equipment.
In shifting to a new parity
formula, the department is lim
ited by law to a. reduction of not
more than 5 per cent a year ex
cept in the case of cotton. Parity
price reductions are' reflected in
lower government price sup
ports which may range to. 90 to
75 per cent of parity depending
on size of 'surplus stocks. .
For cotton, the full transition
was reflected in today's report.
The old parity price as of De
cember was $35.09 a pound.- The
new price is $34.84 a pound.
For wheat, corn, and peanuts,
the full transition f cannot be
made in a year.
Salem (U.R) New parking re
strictions in the areas adjacent
to state buildings in the Capitol
Mall area will become effective
tomorrow.
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Of Brilish NHS
By LYLE C. WILSON '
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Prime
Minister Anthony Eden's Con
servative government has just
sponsored some interesting re
ports on what the British term
their National Health Service
(NHS). :
NHS also is known as social
ized medicine; a tax-paid heal
ing system which had former
Pmonmnm! President Tru
Ml man's sympa
thetic interest
at one time but
got nowhere in.
Congress. A
British ' investi
gating commit
tee set up in
1953 now re
ports that the
cost.ol National
Service
United
Kingdom still ;is going up.
It cost $1,032,000,000" iri the
1954 fiscal year, an increase of
more than $130,000,000 since
fiscal 1950. Costs long since had
doubled original estimates tf the
Socialist government wtiich set
up the NHS , system shortly
after World War II.
: The report estimated current
costs at 3.24 per cent of British
treasury revenue. On. the same
percentage basis, socialized
medicine would cost the United
States about $2,066,000,000 in
the current, fiscal year and
go up from there if British ex
perience is a sound guide.
. The comnjittee reported that
the . administrative structure of
NHS was sound and had a rec
ord of real achievement. It re
jected the idea . that some of the
small fees imposed after ex
perience with socialized medi
cine should be increased. - The
cpmmitte said some should be
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Spectacles For AH
Even the Socialists acknowl
edged after practical experience
that .they had been overly gen
erous in their nationalization of
all medical . aspects of life and
death and what lies between.
Obtaining free prescriptions be
came a costly . game. Everyone
was getting spectacles or chang
ing them.
..; There now is a small fee for
dentures.-Dental treatment costs
one pound sterling, the equi
valent of $2.40. A prescription
any prescription costs 14 cents.
Spectacles come at $4.20. The
committee said the dental and
spectacle, charges were too high.
Free hospital service has con
tributed to the hospital bed
shortage. Vast numbers of per
sons who could be treated, at
home and who would be if
they had to pay for hospital
care contribute to the over
crowding. The committee found
that the bed shortage was not
being overcome , speedily, al
though the. NHS . steadily allots
capital funds to construction.
A " quirk in NHS is that any
foreigner gets it free, too. An
organization of British phy
sicians and surgeons estimated
last week that the cost of free
medicine to foreign visitors was
about $640,000 . annually. iThe
government's reply, in effect,
was that the trouble and cost of
collection would exceed the sum
involved.? The physicians said
foreigners purposely came to
Great Britain for free medical
care. , . : - .
Queue Up For Surgery
"A Minister of Health spokes
man replied:,
: "Taking into account cost of
travel and accommodation, they
could obtain .what .they need
more cheaply in their own coun
try. When it comes to major op
erations, they would have to join
a queue, which might mean a
stay of weeks or months."
Put another way, it appears
that individuals needing major
operations under the British
NHS must get in line for weeks
and months to obtain surgery.
The shortage of dentists is: ter
rific, with a consequent similar
delay in dental care. There was
a time when three months was
the customary wait for new
spectacles.
Economy-minded Britons were
disappointed in the committee's
failure to foresee any economies
while recommending most costs.
The House of Commons was in
formed that Sir Anthony's Con
servative- government agreed
with the committee's general
conclusions and overall approach.
The hard political fact is that
the unde r-privileged British
masses fell in love with socializ
ed medicine from the beginning.
Any government which tamper
ed with it much would be tossed
out. For many a lower class
Briton it was a sudden change
from no medical care to lots of
it for freeeven if he had to
wait a few months to get it.
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