Organization Section

Official Notes TOWN MEETING BROADCAST ON COMPULSORY SICKNESS INSURANCE Dr. Morris Fishbein, Chicago, Editor ofThe Journal, and U. S. Senator H. Alexander Smith, Princeton, N. J., will speak against a national compulsory sickness insurance program for the American people on America's Town Meeting of the Air, on Tuesday night, Feb. 22, 1949. The program will be broadcast and televised from 8: 30 to 9: 30 p. m., Eastern standard time, over American Broadcasting Company networks. Senator Smith, a Republican, is a member of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee and former chairman of the Senate Sub-Committee on Health. Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing and Walter Reuther, Detroit, president of the United Automobile Workers, C. I. O., will speak in favor of a national compulsory sickness program. The forum will be moderated by George V. Denny Jr., president of Town Hall, New York. APPOINTMENT TO