•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 victory which invariably brings agencies, to develop a program of public health and preventive Southern woman of whom M-G-M’s “Battleground,” story down the house in every first- of the heroic defense of Bastogne, medicine for the Improvement and living conditions in coal mining Thought run theater in which the film Pinky has anything but tender 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. The ten I __Joseph Addison tion .victimization and even ci­ lady dies hard, and Pinky wins ‘Famed Feet’ Honor cently completed the top role in starring Flynn, Greer Garson, area medical administrators arrange with individual physicians, I * * * vilian and police violence. some tart exchanges with her on For Dance Stare "Hoedown.” Colbert Clark will Walter Pidgeon and Robert hospitals and druggists within their areas to provide services to I Divjne Providence has granted The efforts of the film’s mak­ racial questions before they produce “Feudin’ Rhythm” with Young, he portrays Soames For­ ers to dramatize this unique ex­ both recognize “quality” in one HOLLYWOOD -— Greatest beneficiaries of the fund upon presentation of accepted identifica-|this gift to man that thoge f^gg Ed Bernds directing. sythe, fastidiously correct "man pression of racial hatred — in another (the title of the original dancing feet in Hollywood’s his­ tion forms. |which are honest are also the Miss Henry recently completed of property.” which a person of whiter skin novel was "Quality). The result tory are to have heir famous a top role in "Miss Grant takes The fund merely insists that the physician, hospitals andlmOst advantageous. is that the old woman leaves dancing shoes or slippers put on druggists are of good professional standing, are acceptable to local I __Quintilian than many of her attackers, of Richmond” and prior to that better education and skill at her Pinky her house and land when permanent display, in an unusual played the feminine lead in "Air ynion members, and that their fees are fair and reasonable. I ♦ * she dies. A great hullabaloo collection now being assembled Knowing that payment will be prompt, that paper work I ye firgt the kjngdom Of profession, is tormented for her Hostess.” parenthood—proved difficult to arises in /the town over a Negro at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The Is being kept to a minimum and that satisfactory payment will|God> and hig righteousness; and portray without resorting to girl inheriting a white estate but "Feet of Fame,” as the giant be rendered, most physicians, hospitals and druggists are very|au thege hings shall be added some so-called stereotyped situ­ a Hollywood happy ending ar­ showcase is to be called, will be Four Numbers For cxAerative. They realize that, without the fund, many P*tients|unto you ations. But on the whole the ranges for a Southern court to made up of the shoes worn by would have been able to pay nothing or only a small part of thel ------Eddy Arnold Film —Matthew 6:33 film makes its points clearly award her the inheritance, rec- musical stars in Metro-Goldwyn- HOLLYWOOD — Eddy Arn­ usual fee. . , | — o g n 1 z i n g that "the expressed Mayer pictures from "Dancing Thus far 7,000 physicians, 600 hospitals and 1,300 druggists pi old, radio and recording artist wishes of the dead should not Lady” (Joan Crawford) to "On known as the “Tennessee Plow­ are participating in the program. From Jan. 1 to Sept. 1 of this I be set aside to gratify the greed Ann year, 39,000 persons received 375,000 days of hospital care and I Birth Of A Baby" Ushers the Town” (Gene Kelley, boy,” who makes his film debut or prejudice of the living”. Pin­ Miller and Vera-Ellen). in Columbia’s "Hoedown,” will 180,000 home and office visits were made. | - .. 9 ky rejects her doctor suitor from Cooperation with the medical profession both as to quality of II | a ♦ I > C asia/ Other stars who will be hon- sing four numbers in his starring Boston and remains in her south­ ored in the exhibit include Judy role. They are: "Just a Litle ’serviess rendered and reasonable costs has been excellent. When II Fl IT C | Q II | I | TP ern community to establish a bills are received that appear excessive, the physician is asked I Garland, Fred Astaire, Ginger Lovin’,” by Eddie and Zeke Cle­ school for Negro nurses in Miss Rogers, Ray Bolger, Eleanor ments "I’m Throwing Rice,” by to modify his charges. ’ I By Paul Morris Em’s old estate. If he fails to do this or to explain satisfactorily why they I Threatened some weeks ago to warn you on starting date and Powell, June Allyson, George“ Eddy, Steve Nelson and Ed Nel­ Miss - Waters, Miss Barry­ Murphy, Cyd Charisse, Irina son, Jr., “I’ll Betcha I Getcha,” appear to be disproportionate, the Fund pays the bill *«“ then|hour for IT’S YOUR LIFE — the brilliant documentary by Ben more and Jeanne Crain are removes his name from its list. But no attempt is made to — and here’s the story. The series will be heard each week, Baranova, Buddy Ebsen, Carmen by Fred Stryker and Francis outstanding in the film, and Miranda and he Champions, re­ Clark, and "Bouquet of Roses,” fees below those usually charged within a community for tne|the b€gan November 27, from 3:30-4:00 P. M. In case you’re so are many of the supporting type of service rendered...... among the millions who make it a practice NOT to read these cently signed by the studio. made famous by Arnold on rec­ As the Fund insists its beneficiaries should have free ®hoi®e|nrotiiffi0ug weeklv efforts ofi------:------players. But the iqost notable The "Feet of Fame” will be ords and on the air and written job was that of the film’s writ­ of physician, it likewise insists that it shall have Imine, the Park production has'and has considerable radio ex­ sent around the country on tour by Steve Nelson and Bob Hilli­ Danny Thomas discontinue the services of physicians whose charges^are «®®8siv® been honored as the year’s most perience under his belt. Erst- ers, who have managed in the ard. framework of a standard boy- and then established as a per­ STAR OF in comparison with similar services by otheriof ««u^r“®a’|0 u ts t a n d ing development in (Jerry’s hed valuable ad agency manent landmark at the studio. A fifth musical number in the sional standing. The principle of free enterprise and free com'lAmerican radio Park> Director while staff announcer at WKMH, meets-girl plot to establish NITE CLUBS AND many 1 r r e f u ta b 1 e truths picture, "Tennessee Saturday MOTION PICTURES . ’ care““ly observed. urvire l°* the Radio Division of the Chi- experience also — and we hope against racial discrimination. Armour Signs With Night,” by Billy Hughes, will be INVITES YOU TO Industrial Health Associa- you’ll join us in welcoming him Miss Crain’s scenes with her sung by the Pied Pipers. the Fund, immediately after its establishment, undertooK to locate! • Packing Workers MEET HIS and provide medical care and rehabilitation for beneficiaries who P0”^has created a Pro- into the fold. * * doctor suitor—who has a quite BROTHERS were in desperate need of attention...... Jfhows you’ll want to hear the’ Keep up-to-date on the United constructive battle with him­ CHICAGO (LPA)—An agree­ UAW Local ment, bringing gains to 25,000 “Bill” Jacob Among them were men paralyzed from spinal injuries a”dl t / uadinp news mamzine, Nations: Manager Hoberman has self on- realizing that Pinky Starts New Home at the is a Negro—have been excep­ employees, was entered into here broken backs. They had received whatever care was available! _ “Whnt «Tx._ ——— LA GRANGE, Ill. (LPA) — at the time of their injuries and had then been forgotten. J^s it up. What makes It s corraled another fine feature for tionally well presented. last week by the United Pack­ “Ace af Clubs” Utilizing every available facility in the nation which couldlYour Life notable is its com- WDET liseners — daily reports inghouse Workers-CIO and Ar­ Ground has been broken here from Lake Succes on history in “Pinky” is a Hollywood mour & Co. The pact, covering for a new $250,000 home of Lo­ Cherry at provide specialized rehabilitation for these patients, the Fund the making. Actual UN proceed- “first” in tackling the subject of 21 plants, provides for increases cal 719 of the nlted Automobile Bancroft has now provided such care for 496 cases of this type. pity, and the medically accurate ...... anti-Negro prejudice and dis­ in job rate differentials and oth­ Workers-CIO. The local repre­ “Their trasition from helpless, bedridden, literally rottinglway in which touchy and dan- ings are recorded on the spot and crimination. For a first, it is al­ sent to us by air pony express er adjustments. Armour man­ sents 10,000 employees at the creatures to men in wheel chairs and on crutches and H ! >Pecial delivery for ues the fol­ most too good to be true; but its agement has also been negotiat­ Electro-Motive Division of Gen­ limbs is one of the most dramatic stories in medical history, [Chapter One in our series is ttaw-Pta ha« biggest contribution in the long eral Motors. The building will Dr. Draper said last Wednesday. js I"™® BIrth of a Baby”-and for I lowing day. The UAW-CIO has ing with the Amalgamated Meat and run may be to set off a series of Cutters 8t Butcher Workmen- have office space for the union, Ironically, while Dr. Draper was speaking, the new medical] Sunday. December 4, Park takes given its commercial Labor films hitting harder and harder “Freddy” Jacob Views the News time (6:30 night­ AFL, which represents 13,000 and such facilities as bowling care, hospitalization and health program for America’s coal miners] you behind the scenes in a men- at this major stumbling-block employees in 11 other plants. alleys, an auditorium and a res­ at the was temporarily accepting no new patients because of the coal|tal hospital. Sundays at 3:30. ly) to the UN sequence during in the way of full occomplish- the period of Guy Nunn’s hiatus taurant. These facilities are to strike. It is to be hoped that full-scale operations may oe resumed] * ♦ * ment of the promises and aspira­ be available for public use. Royal Club” in the very near future, for these is now, for the first time, a| Also—and by way of introduc- —he’ll be back from Europe the tions of American democracy. Homa Made Candies well-conceived operating program for improving the medical] tion to Jerry Sherman—Sundays second week in December and 2161 Consaul will resume his regular stint. Sandy’s Candy care and health of America’s coal miners. ______\|>t 4:30 you can again hear our Glass House ARTIkl Dancing Every ------^Editorial Edition, rounding up ♦ * * JE«ELE1|>| On the way out of another col­ Is Stone Proof Sheppe Fri.~Sat expressions of opinion carried in umn, may I leave you, Gentle Greater Detroit’s community ! Reader, with these kind words of WASHINGTON (LPA) — 908 W. Delaware m mi it! 1 newspapers. Jerry, WDET’S praise from a Happy Listener: Lawyers constitute one group of Mf.lNE WATCH REPAIRING- “workers” that clings to the News and Special Events chief, “I am writing this to express my LOWEST PRICES’-. ; recently joined our staff — and appreciation for the fine quality closed shop, come what may. you’ll like his direct, forceful of programs heard on your sta­ Mike Ryder, general counsel of news reporting, as well as his tion. Since we got our FM set, the Int’l Ass’n of Machinists, weekly Editorial Editions. Jerry WDET is the only station I found that out all over again the University. He’s worked on Ford other day when he had to plunk bother to listen to. Sincerely.....” down 25 bucks to join the Bari is a recent graduate of Wayne Sweet music!—Till next edition. of the Supreme Court before he I PiMfiHr assembly lines, was a pilot in the Cordially, could appear before the High I Army Air Force during the war, PM. tribunal. "Of course lawyers Haifa* Spaghetti have the closed shop,” Ryder Meet Where Friends Meet said. "Everyone knows that the! Our Specialty Taft-Hartley act doesn’t outlaw our closed shop. After all, the] law was written by lawyers.”] CLUB MOUSE BAR Hey, Pegler! • LJHYS! f“Blondie-^ Door* >pen "Red’* Wells 11:45 A.M. I VALENTINE ^TOLEDO’ I W ST CLAIR at ADAMS 2.\’D BIG WEEK 225 Superior Ku Spencer Tracy Katherine 1 and HI* OH*"** / f ” R*>t»ONj w ■■ I" If BUFRET 2817 Mwnrwe KU Hepburn Bill Lundigan consoles Jeanne Crain. following a harrowing in MGM’s Dick and Dot REMY • Roy DOUGLAS • Kirwin SOMERVILLE court trial as Ethel Waters and southern townspeople look on in this b '-«ne from “Pinky,” the Twentieth Century-Fox 2521 Cherry at Delaware ADAM'S Eddii COLLINS • Billy Doe hit film,, n Critic John T. McManus calls “a milestone ^wLsteaks, Chops, Chicken PRINCESSES RIB" On Screen! “ARCTIC FURY* in Holy \ tm-making... entertaining and superbly per- CSQUIREffi I ■■ suriKini' " Jtn ihma WBe mob to be flogged. Federal Paul Douglas Georgia Sheriff Judge Frank A. Hooper has de­ ANNABELLE’S .*s Linda Darnell Clark Gable 317 W. Central z Must Stand Trial nied a defense motion to throw in Vivien Leigh out the indictments. The indict­ Satisotay Dinners For Mob Murder ment charged the sheriff, three Entertainment Every Nits! “Gone With ROME, Ga. (LPA) — Twelve “Everybody Liquors — Shufflehosrd — deputies, and eight others con­ The Wind” men, including the Dade County spired to have the Negroes ar­ We Cater To Private Parties Does It” Television > er iff, must stand trial on fed­ rested, then seized and beaten, In Technicolor eral charges that they turned by a group of 50 to 75 in Klan Call MAin 0650 Dinners seven Negroes over to a masked robes, the night of April 2. ■■■!■■■■■■ ■ ■ I ■ I. ■ ■ ■ ■■I I i I ■ ■ ■■