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Tobacco support programs.

To the Editor.— Last Dec 16,The Journalpublished an article (230: 1529, 1974) and an editorial (230: 1564, 1974) that called on Congress to abolish the tobacco support programs. WhileThe Journalhas the same privilege as any other publication in this country to make recommendations for legislation, it has at the same time a responsibility to adhere to facts. Because in our viewThe Journal'sarguments were not factually accurate, the following observations are pertinent. The Journalreported that a decline in US heart disease death rates began with cessation of smoking after what it called the watershed 1964 report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General, Smoking and Health . This observation apparently resulted from a misunderstanding of the data. The problem was compounded by a misconception of the effects of government tobacco programs. Footnotes indicated reliance on two government publications. 1,2 The Table of this

The cigarette war--who is winning?

ON JAN 11, 1964 the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health published its report documenting the serious and increasing health menace of cigarette smoking. On July 27, 1965 the Congress of the United States enacted the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, that became effective Jan 1, 1966. As part of the act the Federal Trade Commission was instructed to report to Congress 18 months after the effective date, and annually thereafter, concerning the effectiveness of cigarette labeling, current methods of cigarette promotion, and recommendations for further legislation. On June 30,1967 the Federal Trade Commission published its first report to Congress. 1 The contents will be of great interest to all physicians including otolaryngologists. In 1964, following the Surgeon General's report, cigarette sales declined about 2%, most of this occurring in January and February immediately following publication of this report. In the next two years cigarette sales

THE MANPOWER CRISIS IN THE JUVENILE COURT

The Joint Commission on Correctional Manpower and Training, strongly supported by state governors and with wide bipartisan backing in Congress, is the first attempt at a unified national approach to the increasingly serious problem of correctional rehabilitation. It has undertaken a far‐ranging threeyear study which will lead to a series of action programs and legislative recommendations on federal, state and local levels. Our National Council is a member. The author is our representative on the Commission.

The Immigration Act of 1965

For more than forty years, the national-origins quota system dominated·United States immigration policy. It was not until Congress overrode President Truman's veto of the Immigration Act of 1952 that concerted effort to eliminate the quota system began, with the work of President Truman's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization. President Kennedy, long an active supporter of this effort, forwarded his legislative recommendations for immigration reform to Congress on July 23, 1963. The heart of President Kennedy's bill lay in its provisions to eliminate the national-quota system. Committee hearings on the bill were delayed until January 13, 1964, and, as no further action was taken, the bill expired with the adjournment of the Eighty-eighth Congress. On January 13, 1965, President Johnson sent his Message to Congress reiterating the recommendations of the Kennedy bill. Hearings began on February 10, 1965. A substantial part of the ensuing Congressional debate centered on a proposed numerical limitation of Western Hemisphere immigration, which was opposed by the Administration and its supporters. The Immigration Law of 1965, as finally passed, provides for a Select Commission on Western Hemisphere Immigration to look into the matter and report to Congress no later than January 15, 1968. If not provided otherwise by Congress by July 1, 1968, a numerical limitation of 120,000 annually will go into effect on Western Hemisphere immigration. The Law, however, does eliminate the national-origins system, which was conceived in a period of bigotry and reaffirmed in the McCarthy era. A nation's willingness to reform past errors of judgment by reforming public policy is a measure of its greatness.—Ed.

MENTAL RETARDATION AND THE MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH AMENDMENTS OF 1963

IT IS A little over a year since a Panel appointed by the President published its report entitled "A Proposed Program for National Action to Combat Mental Retardation." In preparation for the report, members of the Panel discussed mental retardation in its broadest aspects with thousands of people in this country and abroad. Over 90 recommendations for action were made including recommendations for federal legislation. The enactment in October, 1963, of Public Law 88-156, "The Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963" will make it possible for the Children's Bureau to carry out some of the major recommendations of the President's Panel.

The Gambling Business and Federal Taxes

The Kefauver Committee reported in 1951 that organized crime was financed by big-time gambling. Nevertheless, only a few of the Committee's legislative recommendations were enacted. Most of these new laws, which became effective November 1, 1951, were designed to deprive organized gambling of the use of interstate facilities and to provide an additional source of revenue to finance military expenditures in Korea. Requests by the Internal Revenue Service for additional manpower to en force these new laws were not adopted by Congress. The McClellan Committee study in 1961 disclosed that organized crime is still financed by big-time gambling. Legislation proposed by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, as a part of his pro gram to curb organized crime and racketeering, has resulted in additional laws aimed at depriving gamblers of the use of inter state facilities. A review is now being made of wagering tax enforcement to develop legislative proposals and more effective administrative practices needed to minimize organized crime's income from gambling.

The Eighty-Third Congress: Second Session

PRESIDENT EISENHOWER in his State of the Union address to the second session of the Eighty-third Congress, on January 7, stated: All branches of this Government -and I venture to say both of our great parties can support the general objective of the recommendations I make today. .. . The President then proceeded to describe our foreign relations and trade, atomic energy, defense and internal security, our national economy, the budget, taxes, agriculture, conservation, national highways, post office, human problems, labor and welfare, health, education, housing, veterans, and suffrage making some specific legislative recommendations in certain of those areas and announcing that subsequent messages on various other proposals would be forthcoming. During the session, Congress gave some consideration to all of his recommendations, and, by and large, both Houses accomplished their tasks without straight party division. The President, however, did not get all of his legislative program enacted. The program was presented to Congress in the State of the Union message,' the Budget,2 and the Economic Report of the President,3 and in messages making legislative recommendations on labor-management relations,4 agriculture,5 the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance System and the Federal Grant-in-Aid Programs for Public Assistance,6 health,7 housing,8 atomic energy,9 foreign economic policy,10 group insurance for federal employees, international labor conferences,12 mutual security,13 and disaster relief.14

TRENDS

AN OBJECTIVE and factual study of existing health insurance plans, authorized somewhat over a year ago by the Senate, has been released by the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee. The report was prepared by a special staff working under the direction of Dr. Dean A. Clark, Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital. In submitting the report to the Senate, Senator Lehman (N.Y.) stated: "Your Subcommittee on Health regards it as the most complete, unbiased, and definitive compilation of data on the subject currently available anywhere. We believe it represents an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the problems of health insurance. We think it will prove of great value to doctors and laymen concerned with the extension and expansion of health insurance programs and to legislators concerned with the many-sided problem of how the people of America can best finance their participation in our American system of medical care. "Nevertheless, the Subcommittee on Health wants it clearly understood that the report does not set forth any recommendations for legislation directly affecting the economics of medical care and that it represents the findings of Dr. Clark and his associates rather than the opinion of the subcommittee or any of its members." Summary of Findings Number of People Enrolled

The Second Session of the Seventy-Seventh Congress

The course of affairs in the second session of the Seventy-seventh Congress can best be differentiated from that of all recent years if examined with the thought that the United States is in an “all-out” war. That was how the President presented the situation to Congress on January 6 in his annual message on the state of the Union. And that was the phrase frequently used throughout the year by Representatives and Senators as an argument for or against enacting controversial bills, delegating unprecedented regulative powers, or appropriating many billions of dollars to defray governmental expenses.On the other hand, while all of the recommendations for legislation embodied in the President's message were designed to bring the war more quickly to a close, Congress was asked by the Administration at various times during the year for the enactment of measures not related to the defense program, as the proposals to “rid Congress of trivia” and for settlement of claims of American nationals against the government of Mexico. The House and Senate, likewise, of their own accord, troubled themselves with such matters as the repeal of poll tax laws, the right of Senator Langer to his seat in the Senate, and the so-called “Congressional pension bill.”

Maternal and Child Welfare Provisions of the Social Security Act

In any discussion of various provisions of Federal Social Security Act, especially of those parts of Act relating to maternal and welfare, two questions are frequently raised. The first, why should a program for federal-state co6peration in behalf of health and welfare of mothers and children be considered a logical part of a broad economic program dealing with such subjects as unemployment compensation and old-age insurance? The other is, what were special conditions which rendered imperative establishment of a program of federal aid to states for maternal and welfare? The general purpose of entire program, and relationship of children to this program, were indicated by President in his messages to Congress of June 8, 1934, and January 4, I935, in both of which he said: Among our objectives I place security of men, women, and children of Nation first. This placed welfare of children on a basis of equal importance with welfare of adults. The Committee on Economic Security appointed by President to make recommendations for legislation to provide safeguards against misfortunes which cannot be wholly eliminated in this man-made world of ours was even more specific in defining relationship of children to a general program of economic security for individual and his family. In its report to President Committee emphasized fact that the core of any social plan must be child and declared that Every proposition we make must adhere to this core. The report then proceeded to enumerate various parts of plan and to point out their direct or indirect bearing on welfare of child, as follows:

Recommendations for Legislation and for Application of Law

Recommendations for Legislation and for Application of Law

Louisiana. Legislative recommendations made by the Board of State Affairs to the general assembly for the regular session of 1918.

Previous articleNext article FreeREVIEWS OF BOOKS AND REPORTSLouisiana. Legislative recommendations made by the Board of State Affairs to the general assembly for the regular session of 1918.F. R. F.F. R. F. Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 3, Number 7April 1918 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/bullnattax41785213 Views: 48Total views on this site Journal History This article was published in The Bulletin of the National Tax Association (1916-1947), which is continued by the National Tax Journal (1948-present). © 1918 National Tax Association. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Trust Legislation of 1914

Introduction. Attitude of the parties in Congress; general character of the legislation, 72. — I. Unfair competitive methods, 74. — General declaration of illegality, 74. — Method of enforcement; discretion of trade commission, 75. — Price discrimination, 77. — Sales and leases conditioned on exclusive patronage, 80. — II. New provisions as to combinations in restraint of trade, 81. — Adequacy of the Sherman act without amendment, 82. — Intercorporate stockholdings, 82. — Interlocking directorates, 84. — Inadequacy of prohibition when community of stock interest is permitted, 85. — Provisions as to banks, 86. — Personal liability to penalties under anti-trust laws, 87. — Private suits, 88. — III. Mismanagement of railroads. Relations to banking, supply and construction companies. Misappropriation of funds, 89. — IV. The interstate trade commission, 90. — Powers of investigation; reports from corporations, 91. — Powers in enforcement and interpretation of law, 94. — Assistance of the commission to attorney general and courts; recommendations for future legislation, 95. — Beneficial results to be anticipated, 97.