Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 14, 1915, Page 2

Chiropractic and Medicine And Pending Medical Bills Editor Lakeland Evening Tele- gram: There is a great deal being said and done during this present session of the law-making bodies of Florida, and unless some study made of the medical laws something will be done that will be regretted, and to use the language of the street the medics will put one over. While they are trying to do this we nrn-' endeavoring to show that chiroprac- tic is not medicine, The motive of the legislature bod- jes is to make laws to protect the people and not to favor the financial interest of any class, but is this the purpose of those who are back of the medical bills as are now before the house? The outward cry is put the “quack” out of business Now, who are “quacks?” In reality he is one that pretends to do some- thing for it and knows in the beginning that he can’t produce the goods and is guilty of fraud, and we already have laws that will cover this class, as well as all other classes of fraud, but from the medical standpoint, a quack is one that violates the laws of “medi- cal ethics” as laid down by a few members of the “medical tr’ and the present bills are only meth- ods of obtaining monopoly, and if | you will look the defining clauses carefully you will see that} under their provisions the M. D. wants to tell the barber how to give ssage, and the said barber will not be properly qualified to give the | massage unless he takes -a four-| year course in a medical osteopathic college, and if he puts on a hair tonic he will also be guilty of a mis- demeanor and subject to a heavy fine and the same thing will apply to the lady in the beauty parlor that squeezes a blackhead out of the face of your wife or daughter. Of course, they may do these things without making charge therefor, but they must have the necessary medical course to make charge. Now tell me this is not class legislation. | Now the author of these bills doesn’t mean it that way, but thel Dills are aimed to put the chiroprac- tor out of business. Why should the chiropractor take a course in the medical or osteopathic college when he has no use in his profession for drugs or osteopathic manipulation and neither the medical or osteo- pathic colleges teach chiropractic epinal adjustments. 1f they did there might be some reason in these bills, but why should I study medi- cine when 1 don’t dispense it? There would be just as much sense in mak- ing a carpenter take a plumber’s ex- amination before he could drive a nail. The osteopathic schools do not | teach chiropractic, as will be seen by the following letter: is the and ¢ets money over a m With regard to your questions as to whether we teach chiropractic? Must say that we do not. Hence, ! osteopathic school while we do use mechanical therap- | eutics, we are in no way teaching chiropractic. DES MOINES STILL COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY, (Signed) D. 8. JACKSON, Secretary. | March 20, 1913, Kirksville, Mo., Jan. 5, 1907, We do not teach chiropractic nor do we know anything about it. (Signed) WARREN HAMILTON, Secretary and Treasurer American Colleze of Osteopathy. Massachusetts College of Osteo- pathy, Boston, Mass, Jan. 7, 1907: Yours of January 2 received. In reply would state that there is a wide difference between osteopathy and chiropractic. | MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY. (Signed) HOWARD F. CRAWFORD, that the claims that the chiropractor can get his instruc- tion in the medical school or the are erroneous, 1 and the bill provides that those that are eligible to take the examination must have a medical or an osteo- pathic diploma, and as | am a grad- uate of a reputable college of chir- opractic I am not qualified to take this examination, and as the pro- posed board kno nothing about chiropractic they will not be quali- fied to examine the chirapractor. The science of chiropractic is sep- arate and distinct from all other schools of practice and the success of the chiropractor In due to the fact that he produces re- sults after all”other methods have | failed. In the face of these facts can it be possible that those foster-' ing this bill are doing so from a: purely humanitarian standpoint, or, is it because their own financial in-' terest is at stake? When a bill was pendidg in the house of representatives of the state of New York for a board of chirop- ractic examiners, the Erie county (New York) Medical Society sent out a letter to its members urging them to kill the bill as “it would mean a financial loss to the old gchool physicians of the state.” They were not anxious about the poor suf- fers that the same physicians had on the “incurable” list, a goodly num- ber of whom had already been to the chiropractor and had their spines adjusted and were getting well, and a still larger number had found perfect health at the hands of the “quacks” that they wanted to put out of business. So you see business lof St. Augustine, State Now let us look the proposition square in the face without preju- dice. The old school physician treated them honestly and . con- scientiously did the best he could with the knowledge acquired from his clinical experience and his school [instruction, but his patient did not |Enthusiastic Convention Of U. D. C. at Leesburg Mrs. R Pope Reese, who return- ed yesterday from Leesburg, where !she atteidd th U. D. C. convention, as a delegate from the Pensacola chapter, spoke very entertainingly of the work trapsacted by this large gathering of Southern women. The Pensacola chapter, U. D_C. was rep- resented by Mrs. a former president of theorganization, and Mrs. R. F. Mitchell, secretary of the local chapter. Mrs Reese was also chairman of the committee on thanks and resolutions. There was no election of officers at the convemtion just closed, with the exception of the election of Mrys. Julia Harrison Norris, to succeed Mrs. Bessie Thompson Wilson, of Penascola, who was rezistrar of Children of the Confederacy. Mrs. Wilson was elected at the last U, D. C. convention to fill this office, but her duties have preclud- ed her giving the necessary time to the work entailed, and she having declined, Mrs. Norris was elected in her place to serve for the next three vears. There were no other elec- tions, the other officers remaining the same. Mrs. Reese spoke with much en- thusiasm of the hospitality of Lees- burg, and declared the convention to have been most satisfactory in every way. Sister Esther Carlotta President, prefided, and' there were delegates presnt from all parts of Florida The hostess chapter had planned an elab- orate program of entertainment, which included a large reception, automobile rides, boat rides on the peautiful lakes about Leesburg, and other informal courtesies. The con- vention just closed was the twen- tieth in the history of the organiza- tion. Most of the chapters of the e —— recover, instead became a ‘‘chronic.” As a last resort/he goes to the chiro- practor and health is the result. They both were paid for their work, Who's the “quack?” Now, I am not. I am not passing judgment on the physician, as my idea of a quack is one that pretends to do something and does not and receives money for it, not alone because he is of a dif- ferent school than I. More than 90 per cent of the chiropractor’s pa- tients receive great benefit and a great mp]ority of them recover com- pletely. Notwithstanding the chir- opractor was he case of the ““drown- ing man and the straw.” This statement will bear investigation. Ask our patients. If this bill will better prctect the medical men, let them exempt chir- opractor was the case of the “drown- clause of the bill, and let the people choose the treatment that they wish in this.free America and prosecute the practitioner of any school that obtains money fraudulently. J. Q. SCARBOROUGH, , Doctor of Chiropractic, Lakeland. While the citrus fruit séason is drawing to a close it is not altogether satisfactory in comparison with other seasons, yet the Florida grower received more satisfactory results than the California grower. Why? Should a grower sell his crop of fruit on the tree or fob at a satisfactory profit over the cost of production, rather than assume the risk of receiving a lower price later, he has done no injustice to other growers or himself, because the buyer who must make a profit on his purchase, becomes a booster on the market as he has an investment at state. A e g e L e Our business is to cooperate with the grower and aid him to sell his fruit at a profit over the cost of production. Let us cooperate for profit Write for our cooperative marketing plan in detail. H. C. Schrader Company J ACKSONVILLE, FLA. various divisions arrived on the af- ternoon of May 4, and the creden- tials committee held a short session that same afternoom, with Mrs. F. C. W. Kramer, the hostess president, in the chair, The same evening a program of welcome was rendered, the meeting being called to order| by Mrs. Kramer, and invocation by Dr. T. W.. Spicer. America was sung in chorus. The Daughters of the Confederacy were given a most hearty welcome by addresses from the following: burg, by Mayor W_ H. Howell, for the Board of Trade, by its energetic secretary, L. M. Johnson; for the Woman's Club of Leesburg, by Miss Milam, who is also an ardent Daugh- ter of the Cenfederacy; for the Sons of Veterans, by Prof. Wiliam Ken- nedy; for the United Confederate Veterans, by Gen. H. H. Duncan, Commander of Lake county camp, By Mrs. Kramer, the president of the | Confederate Grey Chapter of Lees-| bure. In her usual winning manner Sis- ter Esther Carlotta, S. R., president of the Florida division, responded for the division to the welcome, then taking the chair. Softly and sweetly Suwanee River was sung in chorus Greetings were received from the state commanders of United Confed- erate Vetrans and Sons of Confed- erate Veterans, Leesburg's talented | double quartet delighted the audi- enc with Voics of the Woods ~ After presentations and announcements the United Daughters of the Confed- eracy and friends joined heartily with the chorus in Dixie which was the closing number of the program of welcome. To establish voting strength, the coryeqponding secretary called the roll of state officers, standing com- mittee chairmen and chapters, there being 81 votes and 50 delegates present. The different division of - ficers and some of the chapters had interesting and gratifying reports at this session. Mrs. Julia H. Norris, president of Tampa. chapter, read a most excel- lent paper on Florida's Part in the War Between the States, which was heartily encored. J. A. Fabyan de- lighted the audience again with songs. A reading, Our William, contributed by Mrs. Vann, historian of the Madison chapter, was given by Mrs. R. Pope Reese of Pensacola. Mrs. McCormick, in her rich, sweet voice, sang If 1 Had the World to Give Youw, and replied to an encore with a Cradle Song. State presi- ldent, upon request of Major Lan- caster, of Ocala, the author, read a paper on the Battle of the Crater, which gave some historical items at present unpublished in history, which paper was dedicated to the state president, the Daughters ol Confederacy of Florida and of Ala- bama. The state president announced that Mrs. Bessie T. Wilson, who was re-elected state registrar for Children of Confederacy, having found it imposible to serve, the state president had appointed Mrs. Julia Harrison Norris to fill the place. This appointment was confirmed by the unanimous vote of the house, and Mrs. Norris elected to fill this office for the coming three years. Mrs. Norris was proudly escorted to the platform by the vice-president, Announcement was made by the state president that the state his- orian and state president decided, without a momen’s hesitation, the essay, The Soldiers of Florida in the Army of Northern Virginia, is en- titled to the medal, for the amount of research work and careful study by the author in preparing this pa- per, the author being an undergrad- uate of the University of Florida, therefore eligible for the contest. 1t was found that the writer of this splendid essay is Paul Vetter, who used the pen name of G. B. Noble, the winner of this medal in the year 1912, The cotton the general vannah fore this convention and unqualified- ly endorsed by this body as adopted by the state president. Report of committee on thanks and resolution was read by Mrs. R resolution adopted at convention at the Sa- convention was placed be- | Pope Reese, of Pensacola, chairman of that committee. The convention adjourned by the announcement of the president that the twenty-first annual convention would be held at St. Petersburg the first Wednesday in May, 1916. A further announcement was made to the convention, after ad- journment, of the general conven- tion to be held at San Francisco, the 20th of October, 1915. Anyone wishing to join this party may com- municate with Sister Esther Car- lotta, St. Augustine, Fla —Pensacola Journal. THE BRAVEST SOLDIER'S MOTHER AS HEROIC AS HE IS By C. H. B. Floyd “Women do not bear arms, but || they bear armies.” The foregoing is the best para- graph of the Twentieth Century. The characteristic movement of the thousands years following the voy- ‘age of Columbus is the emergence of women from their benches where they have worked as gally-slaves to i a place at the rudder of the Ship of State Christianity freed the chattel-slave. Now it is freeing the sex-slave. So far as the world has For the city of Leest| American Trade Opportunities In Europe (By Associated Press.) Copenhagen, May 14—American trade opportunities | | pictured in a promising light by Dr. | | Maurice F. Egan, the United States Minister to Denmark, in speaking | recently to a number of business {men who have of late been in close :relatiun with the United States le- gation and consultate-general here If the American would divest himself of some preconceived idy i and carefully study actual condi- | tions in foreign countries, he need neither fear financial panics nor the results of over-production in his own country, Dr. Egan believed H He said while he could sympath- ize with the position in which mant | American business men had been | placed by the conditions on the hizh s resulting from the war, he felt that much impaired- end. He had many times deplored | the “provineial” point of | many Americans in foreign conditions. It had been most difficult to induce them to study | Europe except as a mere ‘ground or as a place which might be | utilized for of their busi iness without any previous scientific | study. At pres ness men in the United States were terribly shocked that the security of been shaken by the war. period of tranquility had long that the chance of any interest outside of United States affecting | | them impossible that! many them were amazed, angry and helpless in_the presence of such lunexpected disdsters. However strange the unhappy conditions had opend the eyes of American business men and the citizens of the neutral countries to the of scientifically strengthening he commercial relations between the United States and foreign countries. The neutral countries had begun to look to the United States from a new They | had begun to understand that there were certain products which could | be better obtained from the United | States than in any other. AT pre-! sent the obnormal rate of freight stood in the way and to be consider- | ed. The risk otherwise too, were | enormous. California fruits for in- stance and Oregon apples sell at a} premium and dissapear from the market in the shortest time. Car- | fashionagle in Denmark by the King | —are readily sold and more amus- ing conditions is that Denmark at present obliged to gets is spa-! ghetti in New York. The speriority of certain Ameri- can canned goods, as for instance asparagus and tomatoes, is acknow- ledged that there is even a demand 'I‘or American candles since the price of candles of candles in Germany has risen. A great opportunity too, exists for American plumbing appli- ances, he said, but firms handling these things in the United States must send a competent man, speak- ing the language and understanding all the niceities of American plumb- ing as applied to foreign buildings. “Our Consular reports, in which there appear many communications from Consul-General Winslow, show many other needs. Curiously enough, the interest in American products, the interest which seems to have hitherto been unsuspested in Europe, is growing and will con- tinue to grow if properly nursed by our business men after the war. in Europe were sea | these very interests—now s0 | would profit in the | of view business as to, pleasure | increase nt there many busi- | who to discover had Their heen business S0 seemed s0 of it might seem, present necessity | | | and practical point of view. is ———————————————— been consciously ruled, man has rul! ed it. Women have been deprived of the noble joy of an individuality recognized and encouraged by community. In this State now, cannot think of ten women whose individuality has impressed itself on the mind of Florida! But you can think of twenty men--Trammell, Fletcher, Frank Mayes, Frank ris, Hetherington, Stovall, right, Bishop Weed, Fred Blount, I Engle, McNamee, W Bill Ellis, Jen- Clark, Sparkman, you can think of a hundred whose personality is known and discussed in every county. But even now it is rather bad form to analyze the personality of a wowan. the you Has- Lamb- Myers, Tom The soul of a woman is submerged in the sex-function It is shriveled in the dark. It demands the rain and air and sunshine of publicity. When woman gets the vote, she earns the right to show her soul by becoming an office-seeker. i ‘But,”” objects the reactionary, vomen cannot defend the nation as soldiers.” “True,” replies the prize para- grapher, “she cannot bear arms, but she bears armies.” Whereupon, the reactionary seizes his hat and re- tires from the hall, while the hall rocks with a huge, spontaneous pro- found cheer! Hurrah! - — A A Flood of Wine. e Argentinians are a wine-drink- ing nation. The natives are :( Spn: ish descent and are a.customed to baving wine with their meals. The im- migrants, who have come in by the millions and who form perhaps one- half of the population, are mostly Itallans and Spaniards, all of whom drink wine every day. All of the small Italian farmers have their own wine = supply and every one who can aff rd it lays in & number of casks F sy for his is made pe COUNT, nance. 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