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...Negro pastor of St. Paul's Baptist Church: "Even in my own church I was told that you can't fight gambling and prostitution. When I chose to fight the rackets, I was rapped by one of our Negro papers as a 'rabble-rouser.' The cure has got to come from within...
Sixty-six years ago, Prince Otto von Bismarck's Germany set up the first national "Sickness Insurance" plan, covering industrial workers. Kaiser Wilhelm I had proclaimed: "The cure of social ills must be sought not exclusively in the repression of Social Democratic excesses, but simultaneously in the positive advancement of the welfare of the working classes." This state assumption of responsibility has been interpreted by some as farsighted statesmanship, by others as the embryo of the totalitarian state. In any case, it caught on. Today more have some form of public health insurance. In the catalogue...
...reply, Thomas pooh-poohed the argument that business will take care of reforms necessary to cure the country's economic ills. If an unrestrained business can do so, he asked, why are reforms necessary in the first place...
Girls Could Wait. Tony says he really took up shooting baskets to cure an inferiority complex. As a 12-year-old, he did fine at piano lessons but that didn't win him much prestige with his playmates; so he began practicing basketball shots at least an hour a day. Now the piano pays off too. At Yale, where many a student prides himself on his singing, he is a willing and able accompanist. He has already written a dozen songs (all unpublished as yet) which have such titles as I Want a Helicopter and Why Do You Make...
...officials had no plans for abandoning the only leprosarium on the continental U.S., at Carville, La. (390 patients). All states, except New York and Massachusetts, require isolation of leprosy victims. Patients are discharged when twelve monthly tests show no evidence of the leprosy bacillus. There is still no specific cure, but sulfone drugs like promin and diasone (close chemical relatives of the sulfas) speed up the time when patients can be released as noninfectious...