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5E0RGE S BENSON
wMeHt-Jtaraing College
Searcg, Jrkansat
POWER RESOURCE
Personal confidence is one of
the world’s really great power
resources. When two individuals
become acquainted, after they
have more or less dealing with
each other confidence (or a no
ticeable lack of confidence) al
ways results. This is no part of
high-brow physchology. It is a
practical experiecee that comes
to every human before he knows
enough words to tell about it.
The power contained in this
commonplace, human relation
ship is too big to calculate. How /
many times have you known in
solvent business firm to rise
above ruin and fight their way
to prosperity because a banker i
believed personally in somebody?
More than once I have seen “de
feated” ball teams build victory
from nothing anybody could see
but the hopeful grin of a respect >
ed coach.
OF PRACTICAL USE
Nowhere in mortal experience
is the power of personal trust so
obvious as in a hospital. Patients
get better when the doctor comes.
Pain seems to lose its edge, fever
actually subsides, confusion gives
place to calm when the physician
enters. It is a positive curative, a
definite part of physical treat
ment. It is a thing too useful and
effective to be lightly discarded.
There is a concerted movement
on foot in political circles to
break up this relationship be
tween doctor and patient. It is
spoken of as ‘‘instituting social
ized medicine.” By no means have
all the details ot the plan been
worked out* but the early steps
have been charted. It adds up to
tutting all doctors on the gov
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ernment’s pay-roll and assigning
them their patients.
IT'S REGIMENTATION
-« To Mr. Average Citizen it
means that he can’t choose hit
physician. If he gets sick or a
member of his family encounters
accident or ill health, he must
complain to a bureau and accept
the doctor picked by the bureau
crat in charge. He probably will
be obliged to go somewhere and
fill out a blank first. If the case
calls for hospital service he will
be so informed and a hospital se- i
lected for him. j
Boosters for socialized medici e
i claim it will improve the entire
nation’s well-being. They say it
will make doctors anxious to keep
their communities well, make
them zealous of disease preven
tion. I doubt it. Making doctors
salaried government men can’t
help but make a lot of them
lazy and indifferent. It might
reasonably cost many lives and
it would certainly pile adminis
trative cost to the sky.
A LABOR OF LOVE
Professional services, by their
very nature, are personal ser
vices. In large part they are con
fidential. A man who is not at
liberty to pick his own confidents
is not a free man at all. Doctors
[ admit that they, on the average,
might earn more money in fewer
hours of work under socialized
medicine. Nevertheless doctors
| oppose it and it is to their moral
credit.
| Doctors oppose shorter hours
; better pay; why? Because in get
ting these “goodies” for them
selves they would cause their pa-;
tients to pay more, suffer more
and perhaps die sooner. The phy-1
sician’s work would be no longer !
personal ... no longer profes-.
ional. In their vital and delicate
services doctors would have to
get along without personal con
fidence, the most helpful of all
medicines.
LOSS OF HERDS
FELT AT IGLOO
Doug Johnson of the Reindeer
service has just returned from a
field trip to Igloo and Teller, j
There are two reindeer herds
under the care of Eskimo herd-1
ers. The Eskimos are beginning
to feel the loss of their herds due
to slaughter by wolves. Pilots
and Natives have reported packs
of from twelve to fifteen roam
ing the reindeer ranges.
Dan Kline and Ray Knott have
killed five wolves in and around
Teller. All five were large black
ones. The largest measured six
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fee t five inches from nose to
tail and weighed 105 pounds.
All pilots in the Seward Penin
sula are on the lookout for wolves
and will carry guns and ammuni
tion just in case wolves are sight
ed.
All Natives, teachers and trad
ers in the Seward Peninsula have
been asked to report any wolves
seen to the Reindeer Service of
fice in Nome. This information
will make it possible to get word
to all airplane hunters who might
be interested.
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