Modest & Proud

Men with well-stuffed wallets walk into the offices of the best medical specialists, have their ills suavely diagnosed and treated, their wallets suavely deflated. Men whose purses are lean almost to nothingness walk into charity clinics and hospitals where maladies are squelched free of charge, perhaps by these same specialists, always by adepts. But what of the man whose purse is merely modest? If his ills are complex he faces a dilemma. He cannot afford to consult leading medicos; he is generally too proud to accept charity service. What he would like is a clinic where fees proportionate to his income would be charged for the finest attention.

Here, in the medical care of the man of moderate means, lies a field for far-sighted philanthropists. The field was entered, last week, by one of the most farsighted, Chicago's famed Julius Rosenwald, of Sears, Roebuck. Hereafter, part of the Julius Rosenwald fund will be devoted to the physical welfare of the middle class, largely through the establishment of pay clinics. The work will be under the administration of Dr. Michael M. Davis, able Manhattan clinical expert, late of the Rockefeller Foundation.