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Interest of
Nation
But if the 48 states ever fall into
the habit of negotiating treaties, each with the 47 others, that will
be no solution but rather a hopeless complication, and no one state is
going to back-track in the mere hope that those with which it
considers itself to be in competition will do likewise out of
conscience alone. This is something that is going to require federal
initiative and, if necessary, a stout belt over the head with the
federal authority, not in the interests of any power-hungry executive
but purely in the interests of the nation which these states will
wreck, provided other causes don’t beat them to it.
I like
state lines as baffle plates to prevent the sudden rush of political
and economic lunacies from one state to another, but state
responsibility exists nowadays online in a nominal sense. They don’t
perform the duties which go with their theoretical rights, and it
would clarify matters if someone in the administration, which
obviously has small respect for the states, would come out and say so
and prepare to claim the forfeit.
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[Post Card
Addressed to:]
Mr. & Mrs. Jacob
Spiker
& Family,
Oxford,
West Virginia
Dear Folks:
I am on
my way home from Kansas City, Missouri – where I was attending The
National Rural Health Conference.
We
are having an easy winter so far.
Love,
Paul
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Postmarked: February 9, 1950 - Chicago, ILL
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Transcriber's Notes: I asked our dear Uncle Paul Miller to confirm
that he was the "Paul" that sent this postcard to the Spiker family.
On August 26, 2008 he provided the following response:
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"Yes, the card was from me to the folks at the
farm. Catherine, Paula (also about eight months old) and I (just back
from military duty) went off for graduate study at Michigan State
University (MSU) in early January, 1946. On July 1, 1947, armed then
with my master's degree, in rural sociology and anthropology, MSU
appointed me as its first extension rural sociologist, and with the
understanding I would continue work on a PhD.
"As they are today, tensions were high then (in) the US over the need
of a better health care program. President Truman was urging a public
National Health Insurance Program (also much debated in today's
politics and elections). Though that effort failed, other programs did
result: the Hill-Burton Hospital Construction Act (on which I wrote my
doctoral dissertation and even, at a more tender age then, testified
before Congress), improvements in private health insurances, and, to
come later, Medicare, etc.
"In my new and, at MSU, the first such job as above, I elected to
begin by emphasizing a new Statewide effort in rural health
improvement for Michigan. A new National Rural Health Association had
also been organized, and I grew active in that. Your card was written
on the train after an annual meeting of that group in Kansas City: I
was on my way to Chicago to catch another train to E. Lansing , Mich.
and our home there.
"In those days, air travel was very much less. One took trains and,
when by air, much sitting around waiting for a flight. In such
moments, one could write letters and do office work. I would do so,
and always including the Spikers at the farm. As you would know, Mr.
and Mrs. Spiker were always more like parents to me than in-laws. I
loved them dearly and carry them deeply and emotionally in my heart
and mind to this very day." |
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External Links referencing script above:
[This
Day in Truman History - November 19, 1945: Truman Proposes
Health Program]
[This
Day in Truman History - July 30, 1965: Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson
Signs Medicare Bill]
[Hill-Burton
Act at Wikipedia]
[National Rural Health
Association]
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Dec 7
1941 1:30 o’clock |
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Wide Windows
Give my mind
wide windows
Let me look out and see
How sweet and green they gardens
Across the way may be.
Give my soul
wide windows
Open to wind and sky –
Open to give a friendly hail
To neighbors passing by
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Mr. and
Mrs. Bradford Spiker, of Auburn, announce the birth of a son at 2:17
a.m. December 22 in a local hospital. The child has been named
Michael Jan. The mother is the former Miss Alice Williams and the
father is a teacher.
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Internal Links referencing script
above:
[Bradford Spiker at
the Spiker Family Gathering Place]
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EVERYDAY LIVING
Good Sermon
By Joseph Fort Newton
“I’m not a preacher,” a reader writes,
“but, on the authority of Mark Twain, I am just as reverend as
anybody, and have a right to preach if I want to. And here is my
simple sermon.
“Let me preach it to you – did not
Oliver Holmes say that preachers are in danger of becoming heathens
for lack of preaching. There, now, and listen to the only sermon I
want to preach.
“Firstly, to all homemakers we can
lend a hand and lighten the load, by care in not bringing dirt into
the house, by hanging up our own clothes, and by not upsetting the
routine of the home.
“Secondly, we can help our associates
in business by promptness, by being orderly, and by doing what we
agree to do when we agree to do it. Our carelessness makes things
much harder for others.
“Thirdly, my brethren, we need a
little imagination – just enough to put ourselves in the place of
others. What does the other fellow have to face? What has he to look
forward to?
“Often, others are difficult to live
with – but how about ourselves? Do we nurse sulky, sullen moods that
cast shadows over others? How will our word or act affect those we
meet today?
“Will someone else – someone we love –
have a bad day, less happy and hopeful, because of us? If so, why let
it be so, when we could make the day much brighter and easier if we
cared to do it?
“Here we are in the strange adventure
of life – why make it heavy for someone whom we could help. At the
end of the day can we think of anyone who is stronger and wiser
because of us?”
What a wise and gracious sermon, and
all of us need to listen to it and heed it. Years ago I edited an
annual book of “Best Sermons,” and I wish my reader had sent his
sermon to go into it.
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External Links referencing script
above:
[Joseph
Fort Newton at Free Masonry - Grand Lodge of British Columbia & Yukon]
The data below is the text printed on the
reverse side of the newspaper clipping shown immediately above.
It is being provided for its historical relevance.
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IS HOSTESS TO
PRINTERS AUXILIARY
The Woman’s Auxiliary of the
Typographical Union met at the home of Mrs. E. E. Welch of 126 Milford
Street Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock, with Mrs. Wood Welch and Mrs.
Floyd A. Dillman as assisting hostesses.
A business session was held, after
which a social hour was enjoyed, with the annual Christmas exchange as
a feature.
Plans were discussed for a covered
dish dinner to be held sometime in January.
The
members present were: Mrs. Ralph Layfield, Mrs. Harold Lynch, Mrs.
Stanley King, Mrs. Herman Dilly, Mrs. Sarah James, Mrs. Nancy Waldon,
Mrs. Clarence Flowers, Mrs. Claud R. Brown, Miss Vinnie Sampson, Miss
Velma Childs, Mrs. E. E. Welch, Mrs. Wood Welch, Mrs. Dillman. Mrs.
A. L. Croy was present as a guest.
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AMERICAN LEGION
AUXILIARY COMPETES PLANS FOR BANQUET
Final plans for
the banquet to be given Tuesday evening at the Waldo hotel in honor of
Raymond J. Kelly, the national commander of the American Legion, were
made Tuesday night by members of the American Legion Auxiliary during
the Christmas party held in the Legion home on Sixth street.
Thirty-five members were present.
Mrs. W. C. McNary
was general chairman for last night’s affair and was assisted by Mrs.
Earl Gl. Everett, Mrs. John Harpold and Mrs. D. W. Cottrill. A white
Christmas tree trimmed with blue lights was the outsending feature of
the decorations. Members exchanged Christmas gifts and Mrs. Vieva
Baker won the door prize.
It was
announced that persons desiring tickets for Tuesday’s banquet may call
Mrs. Kathryn McGahan, phone 368. |
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MOTHER’S CLUB WILL
MEET AT VAN HORN SCHOOL TODAY
The Mother’s Club
of the Van Horn School of Salem will meet this afternoon at 2:30
o’clock.
Following the
business session, Miss Cleo Gray, dean of women at Salem College, and
her assistants will give lectures on children’s toys, and will
illustrate various types.
All
parents interested in hearing Miss Gray are invited to attend. |
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