•t . e *** Friday, December 2,1949 TOLEDO UNION JOURNAL PageFM Union And Industry Foster David Lilienthal Health Of 400,000 Miners Welfare Fund Has 7,000 Physicians, 600 Hospitals, 3,000 Druggists in Coal Fields Brunette And Blonde The following article is reprinted from a recent issue of Key To Happiness The New York Times. It is extremely timely and, we think, of PINKEY great interest to our readers. The article was written by How- PINKY, a 20th Century Fox film starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel HOLLYWOOD — Con- A. Rush, M.D, — Editor. Waters, and Ethel Barrymore with Kenny Washington, William tnaryt to what mos people . ^Describing medical and health conditions in many mining Lundigan; from the novel, QUALITY, by Cid Ricketts Sumner; think about careers wreck­ communities as "deplorable,” medical and social welfare planners screenplay by Dudley Nichols and Philip Dunne; directed by Elia ing a marriage, Larry Parks have long called for improved health services for America’s 400,- Kazan; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. assert* that the main rea­ 000 coal miners and their dependents. son that he and Betty Gar­ As evidence of this need, they point out that the death rate By JOHN T. McMANUS rett are completely happy, for miners is above 50 per cent higher than that of the general Film Critic and convincingly and it is diffi­ is that they have seperate population, that the average age at death of miners for whom In as straight-forward a fash­ cult to see how this could have careen. death benefit* have been paid is 55.8 years as compared with ion as Hollywood has ever dared, been done without setting the Larry, who has Just com­ "Pinky” comes squarely to grips pleted “Jolson Sings Again” 64.2 "for the peculation as a whole, and that life insurance rates film in a background of Negro­ for miners are 2?7 per cent higher than for workers in non- with a topic which has been a Columbia, says the role hazardous industries. | studiously avoided in American white relations which is familiar was a very taxing one and In the past calls for action have usually been answered by I movies—anti-Negro discrimina­ (or stereotyped) in the public that he was absolutely ex­ tion. mfnd. The recompense is that hausted and a little grumpy. surveys which substantiated the conditions as described but did! ,, The topic alone is enough to little actually to improve them. Today, however, something is| Rumors that Atomic Energy more and more films like “Pin­ But, Betty, who is under make "Pinky” a milestone in contract to MGM and being done by miners themselves and the mining Industry for im-| Commissioner David Lilien- Hollywood movie-making, but ky” will eventually serve to proved med’cal care, hospitalization and health. | ^a^ *> about to resign in pro­ know* all about that kind the film has lots more to recom­ erase the conditions leading to of a day, has become a mas­ Basic Laid For Expansion I **** against unnecessary se- mend it. In the first place it is This past week, at the annual meeting of the American Public] ®recy in the a^omlc enefgy hated stereotyped thinking about ter at handling such situa- entertaining and superbly per­ any and every race and creed. Health Association here in New York, the new medical health and| ar® circulating in ions. formed. Second, and even more The gist of the story Is this: his makes for a perfect hg®)ital program of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare) Washington. The former TVA important, it does not quibble and Retirement Fund was described for the first time by Warren I head » >*16 to be planning tne Pinky returns to her southern understanding he says over its theme: race discrimina- community to escape a situa­ would be missing if his wife F. Draper, M.D., its executive medical officer. | 71®/® in h°P®8 that « is not only morally and socially The first step fa the program has been provite heepttUfea-l lu!tle“£ro.eh to* th"‘p£ tion in Boston in which she were not an actress, herself. wrqng but it is rooted in prej­ and a white doctor have fallen tion and medical care for members and their dependents receiving! ./pax udice, ignorance and greed. Fi­ In love. On her return her grants from the Fund in the form of pensions or disability bene-1 • nally, it flies in the face of ex­ grandmother, whose earnings fits. Experience thus gained is now providing the basis for expan­ isting conditions in the South by over the washboard have paid Actors Get Army’s , sion of services of hospital and medical care within the hospital enabling a Negro girl to win out for Pinky’s education, wants Training For Roles against a white community at her to nurse Miss Em (Etlel to all working miners and their dependents. Gems Of HOLLYWOOD — The cast of Plans , are now also under way in cooperation with existing the bar of southern justice—a Barrymore), an imperious agencies, to develop a program of public health and preventive victory which invariably brings M-G-M’s “Battleground,” story down the house in every first- Southern woman of whom medicine for the Improvement and living conditions in coal mining Pinky has anything but tender of the heroic defense of Bastogne, Thought run theater in which the film communities. I memories from her childhood. went through a strict twelve-day has been shown to date. j How the Plan Operates I RIGHTEOUSNESS Pinky is a southern comma- - Pinky at first refuses. Granny indoctrination and training A professional review of the program comes from a Medical I What cannot love and right- nity’s name for the grand­ takes a stand. Despite her "aris­ schedule, based on proven war­ Advisory Board of ten recognized authorities in the fields ofleousness achieve for the race? daughter of a Negro washer­ tocracy,” Miss Em once nursed time system of explanation, dem­ medicine and public health, headed by Dr. R. R. Sayers *s|a11 that can be accomplished, woman (Ethel Waters). The Granny through a long illness. onstration, and application, be­ chairman. Lnd more than history has yet difference between the grand­ “I slaved 15 years to get you fore filming of picture began. How simply the plan operates is illlustrated by the following I . mother and the .girl is that educated,” Granny tells Pinljy, The plan was to give essentiol Instructions given to union members in need of medical care I vraM, Pinky (Jeanne Crain) is “and if they educated the heart background knowledge of tools, who are receiving grants from the fund: I —Mary ® * Mdy white-skinned and has been out of you, then everything I “jargon,” day-by-day existence Cyd Charisse and Audrey Totter appear together in "1, Select a doctor from the list available at your local union. I educated and trained in Bos- , done was wrong. Now you go up and spirit of the G.I. from which M-G-M’s mystery thriller, "Tension.” The cast is headed by and take care of Miss Em like -tn. ’ ~ j x i x j__ —x ........ I When Infinite Wisdom estab- ton as a nurse. “Battleground” draws its power. Richard Basehart, Miss Totter, Miss Charisse and Barry Sulli­ /nr*"2. Go to the doctor you select and present your identifica-l the nurse you was educated to form llished the rule of right and hon- When Pinky returns to the Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ri­ van. comm y she had left at the be, or I swear on the Bible I’m "3. Medicine prescribed by the doctor may be obtained from|esty, He saw to it that Justice gonna whip the living daylights cardo Montalban, George Mur- age of seven, she is regarded as nhy, Marshall Thompson, James Gloria Henry In No Weapons For any drug store listed at your local union. [should be always the highest ex- a white woman until she herself out of you—and may the Lord "4. If you need hospital care, the doctor will give you a notelpediency- w , give me the strength to do it!” Whitmore and others were in­ “Feudin’ Rhythm” Flvnn This Time declares otherwise. Then (exact­ structed by selected members of to your local union, which will issue a hospitalization slip. I * * e *u ps ly as with the Gregory Peck More from the moral side than the famed 101st Airborne Divi­ HOLLYWOOD — Gloria Hen­ HOLLYWOOD — For the first ry has been asigned by Colum­ "5. Take the note from your doctor and the slip from„yourl perfectly jugf jg an af. character in “Gentleman’s from fear of a spanking, Pinky sion, all of whom took part in time Errol Flynn is without Agreement”, who identified him­ dons her nurse’s uniform and bia to the feminine lead in ‘Feud­ swords, daggers, cloaks or pis­ local union to one of the hospitals listed at your local union.” [tribute of the divine nature: to be the Battle of Bastogne. The medical plan of the Fund does not utilize a fixed feelao to the utmos of our abilities, self as a Jew) she becomes the takes up her duties at the side in’ Rhythm.’ next action musical tols. In M-G-M*s dramatic love schedule of payment to physicians and hospitals treating union hs glory of men. target of senseless discrimina­ of the dying Miss Em. The old starring Eddy Arnold who re­ story, "That Forsythe Woman” members or to drug stores filling their prescriptions.