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All of the research has been done by privately owned institutions. To carry this work to the ultimate goal, Federal funds will be necessary.

The Federal Government has educated several thousand GI trainees in chiropractic. These men, after having been educated by the Federal Government have been abandoned as far as their profession is concerned.

The Government has seen fit to promote medicine and dentistry. Chiropractic is asking for similar support, so that chiropractors trained by the Government and others may improve the proficiency of their work through research, that they may better serve the sick of the world.

Chiropractic has an enviable record as to the recovery of low back industrial strains. Yet we feel that even this fine record can be improved through research. We therefore respectfully ask your committee to consider amending Senate Joint Resolution 41 to include an amendment for the research of chiropractic along the lines set up in section 2.

The North American Health Research Association is an organization organized for the purpose of raising funds for chiropractic research.

"SEC. 2. Inasmuch as the cause of disease is multiple and that restoration of health is not from any one form of treatment and that many thousands claim benefit from drugless methods, this resolution shall include the research of the art and science of chiropractic and physical medicine. The North American Health Research Association shall be designated to supervise this research utilizing the present established centers of research in chiropractic schools, colleges, and private institutions, and are authorized to procure such establishments and equipment as are found necessary for the completion of this research. "The association shall research or cause to be research the anatomical, biological, physiological, mental, and neurological changes caused by spinal displacement and spinal manipulation.

"All findings shall be made available to all health agencies and other interested organizations.

"It is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $500,000 annually to carry out the provisions of this resolution, to be known as the drugless healing section.

"For the purpose of this research "chiropractic" shall be defined as the art and science of adjusting the human spine for the purpose of relieving pressure upon spinal nerves, thereby restoring the normal flow of nerve force from brain to tissue cell, other bodily manipulations, physical, electrical, and others, shall be considered physical medicine for the purpose of research.

"The books of the North American Health Research Association shall be audited annually by the General Accounting Office, and an annual report shall be made to the Surgeon General and Congress."

After consideration, I respectfully request that the legal counsel of your committee rewrite this proposed amendment in legal form.

I most earnestly solicit the consideration of your honorable committee in this proposed amendment to Senate Joint Resolution 41. Respectfully submitted.

JUSTIN M. BARBER, D.C., Ph.C.,

Vice President, North American Health Research Association.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN,

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH,
DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY,
Ann Arbor, Mich., March 5, 1959.

Hon. LISTER HILL,

United States Senate,

Washington, D.C.

DEAR SIR: I have seen a copy of the joint resolution for the establishment of an Institute of International Health and also the copy of your statement in the Congressional Record of February 2, 1959. I would appreciate very much if I might receive copies of these papers.

May I at the same time express to you our great interest in the problems of international health. In our School of Public Health we have as students numbers of men and women from widely separated parts of the world. It is our belief that the opportunity to work with them and to develop them in

the fields of public health contributes a great deal in the way of friendliness and support for the values they recognize in the United States.

One can also readily support the concept that the studies in international health are of great help not only to the nations whose problems are under study but to the United States as a friendly, beneficient agency of good will. In my position as president of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board we also recognize the need for knowledge of diseases in foreign countries and the methods of their prevention. As one man has said: "Infectious disease can stop missiles as well as the Russians."

It is a pleasure, then, to recognize the high ideals and the practical concerns which have led to your proposal. Obviously the ready support provided by many of your colleagues serves to emphasize their acknowledgment of the advantages.

Sincerely yours,

THOMAS FRANCIS, Jr., M.D.,
Professor and Chairman.

[From the New York Times, Aug. 17, 1958]

NEW WAR ON DISEASE AN ANALYSIS OF SENATOR HILL'S PLAN TO MOBILIZE WEAPONS OF RESEARCH

(By Howard A. Rusk, M.D.)

While President Eisenhower was presenting his "framework of a plan for peace" in the Middle East to the United Nations last Wednesday, Senator Lister Hill, of Alabama, was introducing legislation in the Senate that could contribute substantially to such a "framework of a plan for peace" for the entire world.

Senator Hill's bill is titled: "The International Health and Medical Research Act of 1958." Its objective, in the Senator's own words, is to make possible "an international mobilization for war-a cooperative war against disease and disability, those historic enemies of all men and peoples."

This objective would be achieved through mobilization of the weapons and techniques of scientific research. Here are the major provisions of the bill: Authorization of an appropriation of $50 million annually to be spent under the supervision of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, chiefly through the Public Health Service, and specifically by the National Institutes of Health. Establishment of a National Institute for International Medical Research as a part of the National Institutes of Health.

Creation of a National Advisory Council for International Medical Research composed of nongovernmental leaders to guide policy, make recommendations, and approve grants and loans under the program.

AIMS OF PLAN

The specific activities authorized would be to encourage and support research, the exchange of information on research, the training of research personnel, and the improvement of research facilities throughout the world.

In his Senate speech, Senator Hill pointed out that less than 1 percent of the U.S. foreign aid program went for health and he reiterated his belief that foreign aid for health activities should be increased. He emphasized strongly, however, that this new legislation was directed toward international health research and not toward technical assistance in health activities.

Senator Hill said he was aware of the implications of an addition of $50 million to the Federal budget. He points out, however, that as compared to $40 billion voted for defense last year only $400 million of both Federal and voluntary funds was spent on medical research.

To substantiate his thesis that a further investment of $50 million in research would be sound, he quoted estimates made by the reference service of the Library of Congress. The estimates show that in 1955 alone, 1,911,000 American lives were saved by scientific advances since 1900.

Senator Hill said that because of the shortage of trained researchers and research facilities in the United States all the medical scientists he had consulted, including experts from the National Institutes of Health, had agreed that the most efficient and effective use of further research investments would result from an international research program such as he had proposed.

The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare recently issued a report by his consultants on medical research and education. The consultants are 10 of the Nation's top experts in this field. At one point in this document, they say:

"Growth and development of research and education are essential to the cultural and material development of the Nation. *** Special attention to medical education and research is called for by the significance of health as a national resource. Activities in these fields should be viewed as a contribution to the solution of larger problems."

These wise words are not limited in their application to our own Nation. They apply to the world at large.

PLAN CALLED MAJOR STEP

Senator Hill's health-for-peace plan is a major step toward the implementation of a major recommendation made by President Eisenhower in his state of the Union message last January. The President called then for an international science-for-peace program to attain "a good life for all."

He first invited the Soviet Union to join with the other nations of the world in the present 5-year program to eradicate malaria. He then invited the Soviet Union to join us in an international campaign “against the diseases that are the common enemy of all mortals-such as cancer and heart disease."

At the World Health Assembly in Minneapolis in June, the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, announced on the President's behalf that the United States was making available $300,000 to aid the World Health Organization in a special study of its role in research.

The aim of Senator Hill's proposal is to wage war on disease and disability on an international front. It is not, as he said, a proposal for partisan, national, military, or economic gain, but a venture in the cause of humanity. By seeking to advance the welfare of all men everywhere and the peace of all the world, this proposal might be considered a new approach in American foreign policy.

[From the New York Times, Feb. 25, 1959]

TESTIMONY BACKS HILL HEALTH BILL-SENATORS ARE TOLD OF NEED TO PRESS INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH IN MEDICINE

(By Bess Furman)

WASHINGTON, February 24.-The President of the National Academy of Sciences testified today that his intimate association with the International Geophysical Year had convinced him that intensive international medical research would further world peace.

Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, appearing before the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee in his role of president of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research of New York City, strongly backed a bill to set up a National Institute of International Research in the National Institutes of Health.

The bill would authorize $50 million a year for international medical research. It is sponsored by Senator Lister Hill, Democrat, of Alabama.

Dr. Bronk said he had been quite unprepared for the spectacular demonstration given by the Geophysical Year. He termed it "one of the greatest common efforts of peoples in the history of the world."

ADVANCES ARE CITED

Dr. Bronk said that opportunities offered through advances in the physical sciences were so many and challenging that they "bewilder one's vision and imagination."

He pointed out that it was now possible to follow, through electronics, the minute electrical impulses generated by nervous action in the living organism. General of the Army Omar Bradley, now with Bulova Research & Development Co., appeared as chairman of the Health for Peace Committee, a group of medical, business, and civil leaders organized to back the Hill bill.

He said that in the past there had been more medical progress during wars than during time of peace.

"It is unfortunate to have to have a war to have that medical speedup," he said. "This is an opportunity for peacetime."

Dr. Howard A. Rusk, director of the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of New York University-Bellevue Medical Center and associate editor of the New York Times, testified that last year less than one-half of 1 percent of National Institutes of Health research funds went into international research.

He said that quite naturally projects in this country had, and would continue to have, priority and called for a separate international institute with separate funds.

Dr. Paul Dudley White, Boston heart specialist who was a consultant in the illness of President Eisenhower, said that much more research in many more countries was required to conquer coronary thrombosis, which, he said, "probably killed Adam."

Asked "What about Eve?" by Senator Jennings Randolph, Democrat, of West Virginia, Dr. White replied:

"She may have died of cancer."

Dr. White said this country should study primates, as was being done in the Soviet Union on a large scale.

Both Drs. White and Rusk have visited Russia. Both said that they had found Soviet scientists very able and seriously interested in working with the scientists of this country on international medical research problems.

[From the Washington Post and Times Herald, Feb. 25, 1959]

TOP DOCTORS ENDORSE HEALTH-FOR-PEACE BILL

Leading doctors warmly endorsed yesterday the health-for-peace bill setting up an annual $50 million program for international medical research.

Dr. Paul Dudley White, Boston heart specialist, led off the medical testimony in support of the bill, sponsored by Senator Lister Hill, Democrat of Alabama. The measure would establish a national institute for international medical research in the National Institutes of Health.

Other witnesses supporting the legislation were Dr. Detlev Bronk, president of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; Dr. Howard A. Rusk, chairman of the department of rehabilitation, New York University-Bellevue Medical Center; and Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of a Citizens Committee on Health for Peace.

Hill introduced the bill with 58 colleagues as cosponsors. The hearings were before the Labor and Public Welfare Committee which Hill heads.

Dr. White said he long has been convinced "that if only the physicians and medical research workers of the world could be more closely knit together in friendly relationship and in fruitful research, their influence of international health and happiness could be profound, with at least a strong possibility that a contribution toward the establishment of worldwide peace could be a vital byproduct."

He said he was confident that Soviet doctors were sincerely interested in international cooperation.

Bradley said he believes “any field of common interest, or common effort or exchange of ideas, tends to a better understanding of each other's views and contributes to an eventual lessening of tensions."

"This will not be just a one-way street," he said. "Maybe by exchanging research information we can more quickly and effectively solve some of our own health problems."

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HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 1138

A BILL TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER READJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE TO VETERANS SERVING IN THE ARMED FORCES AFTER JANUARY 31, 1955, AND BEFORE JULY 1, 1963

S. 270 and S. 930

BILLS TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS SERVING IN THE ARMED FORCES AFTER JANUARY 31, 1955, AND BEFORE THE TERMINATION OF COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE UNDER EXISTING LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES

S. 1050

A BILL TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE CHILDREN OF SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SUFFER DEATH FROM A SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY ARISING OUT OF ACTIVE MILITARY SERVICE DURING THE PERIOD JANUARY 31, 1955, AND ENDING ON JUNE 30, 1963

S. 750 and S. 906

BILLS TO LIBERALIZE THE "CHANGE OF PROGRAM PROVISIONS" IN LAWS PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR KOREAN VETERANS

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