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PAGE FOUR FLORIDA’S FAVORITE COLORED WEEKLY Entered as Second Claes Matter, August 9, 1927, at the Post Office at Miami, Florida, under the act of March 3, 1876 Publis every Saturday by the Magic Prlntery, office at 1112 N.W. Third Avenue, Miami, Florida Telephone 3-2236 H. E. S. REEVES, Editor GARTH C. REEVES, Business Manager ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Interstate United Newspapers, Incorporated, 545 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. L SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year... $4.00 Six Months... .$2.50 Three Months .... $1.50 SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1949 YE EDITOR’S NOTE BOOK A WHITE CHRISTMAS For some years past the Madam and I have been talking of, but could never make up our minds about, seeing a White Christmas. However, the decision came early in December, and accordingly on the morning of the 18th we boarded the F. E. C. Champion at Miami for New York City. Others in our party are our daughter, Mrs. Frances Jollivette and two children Gina, five and Russ, two. We fygd a fine trip up. Leaving Virginia we knew that our wish had been gratified. There was snow and a plenty of it, from Wash ington to New York. A real White Christmas. At New York we found nearly 20 inches. Parked cars buried in snow, taxis moving about partly covered with snow. Side walks are lined with snow. Central Park is beautiful to look upon. Even with a temperature of 16 degrees we tried making snow balls and playing in the park. (Do not include the Madam in these antics, she is not well enough for that.) It’s surprising how the children enjoy them selves in this weather. Os course we are guests of the Youngs, Robert and Doreen and our grandsons, Paul and Henry. Exactly two thirds of our household (9) are in New York City. The others are in Miami. Our Christmas, in spite of the very cold weather, was a very joyous one. We began by attend ing the shows on Broadway. At Radio City, “Words and Music” was grand. We especially enjoyed “The Nativity” and the Christmas music. At the Roxy, “That Wonderful Urge” and on the ice stage Barbara Ann Scott. At the Strand, “The Decision of Christopher Blake.” On the stage: Dizie Gillespie’s orchestra, Maxine Sullivan and the Deep River Boys. There are several others. Shopping and window shopping were great fun. Nat urally we enjoyed the decorations on Broadway, Times Square, Fifth Avenue and elsewhere. With the tempera ture at 14 degrees we stood on the sidewalks among crowds at Gimble Brothers looking at Santa going in and out of his chimney and with bigger crowds seeing the Christmas play at Macy’s, “The Little Lost Chord.” It was so interesting, people just forgot the cold weather. It was Christmas time! Os course the outstanding feature of Christmas for me was the church services on Christmas Eve. At 5 p.m. I took my two grandsons to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine for Evensong. Carols were sung by the Men and Boys Choir and there was a procession and blessing of the Creche near the entrance. The Midnight Mass found me at All Souls Church. A 30-minute carol singing preceded the Mass. The service was very much like that at St. Agnes’, Miami. It was most inspiring and largely attended. I returned home at 2 a.m. I like going to St. Martin’s Church and I wanted to attend the Christmas Mass there, consequently I was up at 6:00 (temperature 10 degrees). Carol service began at 5:46 and Mass at 6 o’clock. Preceding the Mass there was a procession and blessing of the crib. The church was crowded, the music grand. On Sunday I attended the 11 o’dock Mass and on Sunday Night a Christmas mystery play, Et 'lncarnatus Est” and carol singing. December 28. It’s my grandson’s birthday. I take him to Grand Central Terminal at 11:30 a.m. where we go through the Freedom Train, we listen to a program sponsored by the Veterans Organizations, then to dinner on Broadway and to a Laffmovie. We returned home at 6 p.m. to find his mother and paternal grandmother had arranged a surprise for him. We joined in and wound up a happy day. The temperature this evening is the highest since we have been in this city— 4l degrees. May we take this opportunity of extending to every one our very best wishes for a happy and prosperous year Distribute Xmas Baskets Approximately 226 baskets and |I3B were distributed last week through the Negro Service Council t 0 needy families in the Wash lag ton Heights area. These distributions were made possible by a local dealer associa tion which has recently established a Christmas Cheer Fund. Personal Rev. W. C. Edgar who has been sick for more three weeks, is much improved. He was under the care of Dr. S. M. Frazier. Mr. Harold Thompson arrived from New York recently to spend the holidays with his parents. Mrs. D. Daniels and children of New York are Christmas guests of her sisters, Mrs. M. Thomas and Miss B. Moss. MIAMI TIMES, MIAMI, FLORIDA Your Congressman Says . . . By Congressman George Smathers The Hoover Commission, created and designed to recommend ways and means of imprbving our gov ernmental operation, certainly rang i ong suspected but never before dis posed. The Hoover Commission points out that the Veterans Ad ministration, the Army, Navy, Air Force and Public .'Health Serfvice are making several competitive de mands upon our medical resources with little, if any, regard for what other agencies are doing. That fact alone is sufficient to indicate ex- J pensive duplication of hospitals and failure to utilize medical talent to the best advantage. The Hoover “task force” offers ample detail to indicate that the waste involved exists in fact as well as in theory. In New York, for example, four different Federal agencies maintain hospitals with capacity for 8257 patients, although 3133 of these beds are in temporary structures. When the survey was made those hospitals had only 5330 patients. Yet the VA is building a 981 bed hospital in Brooklyn, and the Army, Navy and VA together are planning four additional hospitals with .i combined capacity of 4500 beds. Should these plans be carried through, the task force report indi cates, Federal hospitals in Ne\| York will have 10,335 beds in perma nent plants, which is about twice the present patient load. About 50 per cent of that patient load, moreover, is made up of the dependents of men , entitled to hospital care and of vet erans with non-service connected disabilities whose right to hospitali zation at public expense is tenuous under the existing law. Thus viewed comprehensively the picture suggests shocking irrespon | sibility. Congress and the Adminis tration have been authorizing hos pitals and appropriating funds as it they had four health problems in stead of one. A sailor with T. I’, however, requires treatment no dis jferent from that given a soldier, a veteran or a civilian with the same disease. The country simply can not afford to build up four or five elaborate hospital systems to give the same service to different groups of ailing people. Perhaps the height of absurdity is reached in the Navy’s new $14,800,000 cancer hospital now under construction. Surely cancer is not peculiarly a naval disease. I Since a cancer patient requiring deep radiation therapy can rarely be of further military value, as the task force points out, the Navy seems to be inexcusably invading the general field of hospital treat ment. These facts cry out for unifica tion of medical facilities operated by the government. The services and the Veterans Administration may fight against any interference with their costly and wasteful separate hospital systems, but in the opinion of the task force the national inter est points directly toward one nation al health agency. As a matter of i fact, the top medical officers of the Army and the Navy both said this ! morning that they did not favor the merging of their medical operations with those of government agencies. However, it is a rare person, who in either military or civilian life, would be in favor of a proposal which would cut down their own power or scope of authority. We fully agree with the opinion of the task force. It will be difficult, of course, to bring together hospital systems created by different agen cies and operated according to vary ing rules and traditions. Yet that difficulty is minor compared to the waste of the present system. The National Bureau of Health [suggested to the Hoover Commision by the task force would become a major division of the proposed de partment of health, education and | security. It would include a medical 'care d vision in charge of Federal hospitals, a public health division which would give much greater em i phasis to preventive measures, and the bell this past week. The echoes will be heard back and forth in the Con gress for a long time. The appal ling wa#te atnd poor organiza tion, insofar as the medical set up of the gov ernment is con cerned, has been The SPECTATOR By ELLIOTT J. PIEZE “King out wild bells to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty night; The year is dying in the night Ring o ut wild bells and let him in!” A Happy New Year to all! By the time you read this column 1948 will have “bit the dust” and will be well on the way toward assuming its place in the picture of retrospec tion. Nineteen hundred forty-eight, like its predecessor, has had its share of joys and laughter, sorrows, tears, sickness, troubles, surprises, heart aches, upsets, etc. However, with the “dying” of dear ole ’4B, we find ourselves embracing a brand new baby 1949! Now t prophecy is considered fool ishness; so wise men don’t predict. And this statement is made with very recent history in mind, for in spite of all this, a little guessing if tempting and pleasant. For without a slight glance toward the future, we should never get around to plan ning tomorrow’s menu. So we guess that 1949 will be counted a good year. The chance for evil'* is ever present, but if we keep our heads clear and our pur poses friendly and honorable, there is a good chance of getting by these next 12 months without mishap A Happy New Year to All. PREDICTIONS FOR THINGS TO COME FOR MIAMI In my next week’s column I shall endeavor to predict a number of things to come for Miami during the year of 1949. On each week follow ing the predictions, those that have come true will be listed and those that have not will be acknowledged. This will be a regular feature of this column. Watch for them. BTW ALUMNI TO MEET The regular meeting Q f the Book er T. Washington High School Alumni Association will be held at the school on Tuesday, January 4, at 8 p.m. All members are asked to be present. Band Routes SONNY THOMPSON Dec. 30—Richmond, Va. Dec. 31—Newport News, Va. Jan. I—Lynchburg, Va. Jan. 2—Charleston, Va. JOE MORRIS Dec. 31—Dayton, Ohio Jan. I—Ann Arbor, Mich. Jan. 2—lndianapolis, Ind. BETTI MAYS Dec. 29-Jan. s—Wilmington, Del. “WILD BILL’ MOORE Dec. 31—Rattle Creek, Mich. Jan. 2 —Cincinnati. Ohio MEMPHIS SLIM Dec. 31—Meridian, Miss. Jan. I—Jonesboro, Ark. Jan. 3—Pine Bluff, Ark. Jan. 4—Montgomery, Ala. Dec. 31—Million Dollar Theatre, LOUIS JORDAN Los Angeles. Cal. Jan. 14—Tacoma, Wash. Jan. 15—Seattle, Wash. Jan. 16—Portland, Oregon Jan. 17—Vancouver, B. C. a research and training division. National health problems would thus come under the centralized supervision of one specialist with im mediate access to the Cabinet. The effect should be to give a great stimulus to Federal interest and ac tivity in the sphere of public health as well as to minimize waste. “Everything In.Musik 1 * \ - Pianos Radios Instruments Sheet Music RECORDS (Popular Race Religious) Our 32nd Year Thilpitfs Two U°r* A CAV ic . / tor Console Radios 36 N. Miami Avenue 27 tub **- S2S -°° “• SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1949 Xmas Carols Singers Successful The James E. Scott Community Association has been very success ful in putting over their program of Christmas Carol singing in the various communities. The members of the choral club wish to thank those who showed their appreciation for the Carols which were sung for their enjoy ment revealing their heartfelt fee! Ings of the Yuletide Season. Members of the Choral Club are as follows: Sammye L. Rutherford, Verline Snyder, Melvin Grace, Floyd Edge combe, Flora Pratt, Sylvia Thomp son, Frank Bullard, Maxine Bullard. Robert Ingraham, Lucy Hyler, Le roy Miller, Lonnie Rolle, Emmet Johnson, Henry Evans. Arthur Car ter, Alene Culmer, Edwin Lord. William Clare, president. Miss O. B. Alexander, executive director; Mr. Franklin D. Ross, jr.. program director; Mrs. Josie W. Roberts, musical director. Visiting Relatives At Dorsey Hotel Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Arnold and daughter Marcha Ann, and Mrs. Portia Scott of Atlanta, Ga., are spending the Christmas holidays in Miami as guesfs of Mrs. Evelyn Evans, mother of Mrs. Arnold, at the Dorsey hotel. mm •. jjL I : . W ip la 12 Weeks You Can Be a PRACTICAL NURSE • Earn Big Money • Enjoy SECURITY • Win Admiration Hie desperate shortage of nurses means Opportunity for YOU! • • . Earn tne Lincoln Certificate In 12 WEEKS SPARE TIME AT HOME—make high earnings year after year I Age, education not important. Earn while learning. Physician-endorsed course. 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