The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 26, 1915, Page 1

In my wanderings Medicine :nany times. __) porter. I have no cause to love, or over the The “code’ Most doctors are good men. the “code.” I found this “medicine trust East. I found it abroad once reached into my own home. . My son at birth weighed 9% weighed 7% pounds. Our doctor, 2 family practitioner of good Teputation, sald, over) tn Seattle with one eve “Your baby is getting along ali right.” and over again PAID CIRCULATION GUARANTEED OVER 99,000 COPIES DAILY ETHICS’ MAKE MEDICAL MEN INTO COWARDS «x By Fred L. Boalt. I find it here in Seattle PEOPLE'S LIVES VS. THE DOCTORS’ TRUST The Star Is Going to Tell Some Things About Seattle Medical Men—Why They Take an Oath to Cover Up Each Other’s Mistakes; Why Their “Ethics” Won’t Let Them Adver- tise; Why They Keep to Themselves Information to Which the Public Is Entitled. The Seattle Star | The Only P earth I have encountered “ethical” | So has every other experienced newspaper re even respect, this “code of ethics,” which exercises such a curious tyranny over so many physicians * Is an evil instrument you enjoy his confidence,’ admit this is so. Deputy Sheriff Chastises Man’ Young Rockefeller Invites King County Caipihiades . $1,250,000 Who “Peached” About Free | “Mother” Jones to a Confer- Rainier Heat & Power Co. Hotel 300,000 Rides on Ferry. ence at His Office. Port of Seattle Grain Elevator 220,000 Your own family doctor will, if They are tn secret rebellion against But, because they fear it, it has made cowards of them, and/ it has made the brotherhood in effect a “medicine trust.” in a dozen of the large cities tn the Its evil influence . pounds | When three months old he/ The evidence before our eyes of a little body wasting away told| us that the baby was not “all right.” Finally we persuaded a professional nurwe to look at the baby. came, secretly, in fear and trembling. it became known that she had done a thing so “unethical.” Hionalre, who evi has " 4 “y, ° tentiary, (id it, so Schabel says. mae 4 id | safe side, is authority today for the prediction that this year will see a 7 1 wees mae wctastor ta "Uabten. irra w Spo oe areca id at gain of at least 20 per cent. ad on Winsor. rop “=p “You have a doctor?” he said. According to Schabel and other | Povey and hie father dui and Sertnaas wenccally pickle tp wk Ce) Waris tod Jou i, . ive. j Kirkianders, there have been lots| ing the life of the Colorade coal think his department will do, any way, one-fifth more business this a. “I will not take the case.” jof county officials and employes | ' = “If I fire the doctor ’” jand appointees riding free on the|,A* ‘detectives were escorting | year than ft did last Be a ter with you,” sald the baby spectalist. | county ferry Rockefeller from the stand at t He says there are few vacant business houses or residences in the ‘ I cannot discuss the matter you, : ade, , day's session of the Federal Rela- city, and that while some landlords are complaining that rents are tod I fired the family practitioner Schabel took It upon himself to | “1 will take the case,” said the baby specialist—AND HE MADE| complain to Commissioner K tions Commission of the Rockefel- | peerrnrier: var opus tng! Jabout the practice. Later h ler, Suge and Carnegie foundations. (Continued on Page Seven) a OUR BABY WELL AND STRONG. lanwenaa he eee dn te he saw Mother Jones among the| a Later I came to know this baby specialist very well. He told me| trcoste on the 7 porter en ; the medical men had known of the case of our baby for a long time.| /nnUs) morning Pie hoc 1 wish you would come over to} They knew the family practitioner was a bungler in infantile ailments,| 00 “i. vocue a moat | at the my office at your convenience,” a that he was experimenting, groping in the dark, that his diagnosis and| O08 0° » a8 guard of the | Rockets sald. “There are #0| 3 treatment were wrong. at county on which you could en-/ Strict orders that no arrests are, fell flat when their case was heard They had. discussed the case in the eoctety, he sald 1 |, There were warm words, foflowed bay Rec Ms Me vil to be made in hotels without war-| before Judge Gordon. ; “You would not come and tell me that my doctor didn’t =| by a nearimitation of what Doo |ChOs® purpores If we freely discuss a tial tadia eininals raids|_ 4 aliet investigation by the know his business?” Richardson did to Commissioner know. You've been out rants, and that indiserimina | mayor also revealed. the fact that “That would not be ethical,” he said. ' |MeKensie a year ago and what| there in Colorado among the men must be stopped, have been issued | raid on the King hotel, 2013 Sec: “And you would not point out to my doctor the mistakes Commissioner Harr did to Mec-|82d known them intimately. Can't by Mayor Gill to Chief Lang fond ave., last Wednesday night, he was making?” Intyre, another East Sider rrr otnen ae aa ees abieiael The mayor elso advised the chief/ caused the arrest of two innocent “That would not be ethical, either.” PA yy onl ang Rtg yp re to dismiss or suspend Sergt. Keefe | girls i “THEN YOU WOULD HAVE LET MY BABY DIE?” seaniy ana eulé: . a and to transfer the patrolmen who] This raid was conducted by Sergt, | “IT WAS HIS CASE, NOT MINE,” SAID THE ETHICAL | AGAIN sgn pArncetattggy = d ae conducted a raid on the Jackson|Keefe, Sergt. Smart, Policemen BABY SPECIALIST 1, OF coerem TT be ging to agony hotel, 670 Jackson st., to beats in| Johnson and Follrich, and Pollee qi ° Oat a 8 ON GREEN LAK Hb haem ay your office whenever It outlying districts si Stenographer Gaskill Chief Lang 4 ; | a bye AA The raiders arrested Prince John- | has directed Capt. Stuart to make In another elty a young doctor came to me, fresh from Guy's The south end of Green lake had Rockefeller then turned to Ivy son and his wife, Esther, a negro an investigation of the two raids, hosp , In London, where he had spent years and money—all he had frozen enough Tuesday so that | lee. who ar ged for an Interview couple. They were charged with|and a shakeup in the police is am in the study of tuberculosis. skaters were allowed in a limited | !ater in the week disorderly conduct, but the charge | ticipated He told me he wanted to open a free tuberculosis clinte for the|area near the shore under aur Mother” Jones again smiled at ‘ poor. He was frank. He wanted to advertise himself. He believed he| vision of a life cuard. Another day | the millionaire as he walked away | ’ had a cure for tuberculosis, At the clinic he proposed poor people could|or two of cold weather ts expected | “I will tell him,” she said, “what | 4 be treated, and, incidentally, hecould work upa practice amongMhe |to convert the entire lake into al! think he can do to prevent further ' ; \ wellee-do. . . | rink trouble in Colorado.” | 5 F \ i — — 7 ‘ : Ect diag. ong amg bbe Lio sg . Pp Peon BEINN a c A jury in Judge Mackintosh’s |would never have been started if | Two days later the young doctor came to me, haggard snd trem:| court Tuesday returned a verdict of |Brownson had had the money to bling. At the top, Stuart building, shown with ite slater structures, the bot guilty in the case against R, W. [settle with the railway and insur I have been kicked out of the society,” he sald White and Henry bulidings; left, a corner of port commission's storage Brownson, charged with embezzle-|ance companies. It was a case of f Another doctor had preferred charges against him. “If I cant a4-| warghouse, at foot of Bell et.; right, Pantages theatre; below, King mont of $417 from the Northern Pa-|having money and going clear; or vertise,” asked the complaining doctor, “how is it that he can? | county courthouse. cific railway while its agent at/ being broke and going to the peni- \ The young doctor didn’t want to be an outcagt among doc- | North Bend tentiary. You can measure this tors. He didn’t want to be an “unethical” doctor, AND HE = | IT BE CUT OFF TO REDUCE TAXES A fow weeks ago of his own ac-| whole proceeding with the radiug of HAD COMMITTED THE CARDINAL SIN OF TELLING THE cord, Brownson, pleaded gullty toa 10-cent piec PUBLIC ABOUT HIS HONEST WARES. ja get Pip ir bi sted gael reget oe wae rR gaat iegaheih rth gee a pring plage Al! purehases of supplies for the city are made through the NORFOLK, Jan, 26.-—Two ves: On her present voyage she did|and entered a plea of not guilty, |and the strong lance of justies } ety and told a tle. 1 told the president that | had got the story ant secretary of the board of public works, who virtually holds el were sent to the bottom of theynot come so far north as the Sound,| In addressing the jury Tuesday, |hurtless breaks; arm it in rags and about the young doctor's plans by deceit and stealth and trick | position of purchasing agent. In the county there Is @ purchasing! atiantic early today, and one man| discharging her Atlantic freight at| Horner said: “This prosecution |a pygmy's straw does pierce it,’ * ery | agent and his assistant, who perform the same duties. | perished when the schooner Eliza.|the Hawaiian islan for sugar. The young doctor was reinstated. - Each department In city and county government requisitions spe-| beth Palmer collided with the] Local representatives of the com The president of the society told me | was a damned scoun- cial purchases for itself, This results in many smail orders, where one! 4 morican-Hawalian Washing-|P@2Y are not informed w br she . drel. ; | large order would not only save time, but also money fan, 50 miles off Cape Henry, | ¥a8 on her way into Philadelphia | UJ q), Many and many a time I have interviewed, in connection with acct Why not have a centrally located storeroom, where standard sup-| ‘tha shock of the collision was] W!th this cargo or on her way out | dents, doctors who have attended the injured | plies, bought in wholesale quantities at reduced prices, can be had oniay proat that the Washingtonian gn anot her voyage when the acct MARION: Gals Adtuls- lotens away: tie Cuaande Geena You must not use my name,” they tell me. requisition by any department? Probably 50 per cent of the orders) wont gown at once. The Palmer sion by Col. Goethals, governor of earth now blocking transportation Why? The society does not permit advertising, = = 8 | placed at present are for supplies that should be kept In store, accord:) roundered shortly afterward the Panama canal zone, that the through the canal as a result of @ DO THE DOCTORS WANT ADVERTISING? YOU BET! THEY | ing to the report of Emerson efficiency engineers. The Old Pominion liner Hamiton| (KEEP SEED RAFT new waterway probably will not be recent earth slide near Gold Hill, WANT IT, AND NEED IT, AND HAVE THE SAME RIGHT TO IT} If the city and county cannot, because of legal obstacles, both be crews of both ships, ex open to naval vessels in March, | frequency of land slides THAT A MERCHANT HAS, OR A MUSIC TEACHER, OR ANYBODY) geryeq by a central storeroom and one chief purchasing agent, then, of| centing one man, according to a when President Wilson planned to along the banks of the canal is be- ELSE WHO HAS HON GOODS TO | course, two storerooms will be needed, one for the city and the other | WASHINGTON, Jan. 26-—By ®/ steam through the canal on the /Heved to have prompted Secretary But it is “unethical” for a doctor to for the county. But the Idea of making purchases in large instead of} ‘rhe Washingtonian is well known vote of 66 the house this aft- | Oregon, en route to the Panama-Pa Brya n’'s declaration that it is not The result? | small quantities, and storing them, would prove a great deal more eco-|\» the Seattle hart khe car.|ernoon killed the amendment to the | cific exposition, 1s worrying govern. | unlikely that the United States BE shetezee | nomical than the system now in vogue either in the county or city. ried from this port last Sep agricultural haa intended ere the ment officials some “day would build snot A logger came In from the woods. He wae suffering from a vile The saving, in a few years, would run into tens of thousands! 1:0,000 of salmon, the 3 g: | Practic of the government distribu-| Col. Goethals explained that he waterway to suppement the Pan+ disease. He had $900 In the bank. Perhaps you remember the tragic! of doliars oat cargo Of tle kind ever loaded, (tion of free se eared It would be impossible to|ama cana BSW 9. story. He didn’t know the difference between an “ethical” and an likely he had never heard the word ethical” doctor. Indeed, it is “ethics.” All he knew was that he was urally, he went to the “unethical in his newspaper advertisements. THE “UNETHICAL” ROLL, AND THE LOGGER DIDN’T GET WELL HE SHOT AND KILLED THE DOCTOR AND! TERRIBLE REPRISAL. HIS PARTNER. AND THEN HE That Is the result. Good “ethical” doctors can’t advertise, but must sit in their offices twiddling their thumbs, waiting for an ailing public to find them. uacks, beyond the pale, advertise their fake cure-all nostruma and ing patients with false hopes and dope. 1 do not mean that good doctors should advertise at advertising| But | do say that it Is the duty, rT Hier by filling their suff rates. to tell the public about his honest THE KING COUNTY MEDICA ICAL TRUST DOCTOR GOT THE LOGGER’S BANK rage rag ght ade Leryn We ean Of the | With more than $5,000,000 of building under way, Seattle ts nicely | | mteston. Ags te al t man, today ex- launched into 1915. 4 The other waa blackened, swollen | the olive branch to As years go in construction history, 1914 was far from being a bad ~ and sore : “Mother” Mary Jones, the fa- season. Inspector T. Josenhans’ records show that 9,104 permits were | She} It would “ruin” her, she said, !! “un-| k, and wanted to get well. So, nat | doctor who made the wildest claims | SO HE TOOK A\ COMMITTED SUICIDE | | | | well as the right, of a doctor | wares. | it is the duty of the brotherhood to keep the public Informed about| every step made In medical aclence newspapers would be glad to print it This would be news, and honest | 8 news | ° . | L SOCIETY IS IN EFFECT A MED. | 1 SHALL TELL TOMORROW WHAT VENGEANCE iT} HAS WROUGHT UPON AN “UNETHICAL” DOCTOR WHO DARED TO DISPUTE ITS SUZERAINTY, KNUDSEN JOHN D.IS | COMMISSIONER TOLD| sHE’s DUMBFOUNDED | | Kirklander Complains to Kris) ¢| traordinary - and - guardof-Commis. sioner-Knudsen's- hencoop - plenipo- AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—Fair aper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News SEATTLE, oS AT SEATTLE 2:58 «. 10:38 p. VOLUM TRAINS AND S STANDS, Se $9,000,000 OF BUILDING NOW UNDER WAY IN SEATTLE, AND LOTS MORE OF IT IS PLANNED A FEW OF THE BIG JOBS UNDER WAY 12.6 12.7 ft WASH., |GERMAN BALTIC | FLEET ASSAILED BY SUBMARINES LONDON, Jan, 26.—The Copenhagen correspondent of the Evening Star says hostile submarines attacked the German Baltic fleet off the south coast of Sweden. It is reported the German light cruiser Gazelle was tor pedoed and reached Sassnitz in a sinking condition TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1915. ONE CENT ox = GUARD IS CHUMMY HARD GUY WITH FOE 500,000 350,000 500,000 100,000 850,000 $4,070,000 Stuart Building Pantages Theatre Port of Seattle Storage Warehouse O'Shea Loft Building 4 Agrees to Give Him Inforime-| Sears, Roebuck & Co. Store tion About Massacre of Colorado Miners. Knudsen; Knudsen Ap- pointee Lands on Him. Charles D. Schabel, Kirkland cit mous woman strike leader, and ready for It, The ad- were made by the multi- issued for structures aggregating $1 70 in cost | Josenhans, known at the city hall n official who thinks several |times before he ventures an assertion, and then always leans to the EF. H. Winsor, deputy-sheriff-ex- | GEE,DUFF IS CERTAINLY FUNNN WHEN WES eT HEN Tom, wuen {lil (AM VERY i GLAD THAT || fi ARE You Sow |i! a¢é HOW DRY LAM \g ween |p Rael MR. OUFF,1M THE NEW PASTOR. (CALLED ON MRS. DUFF THIS MORNING [AND THOUGHT | WOULD, ) DROP Y } IN AND us SEE A ) Nov § YES INDEED, 1AM SURE HE WILL BE PLEASED Fe To HAVE You How DO You Do MRS. DUFF, 1 AM ‘THE NEW PASTOR AND 1 MAKING A FEN CALLS To GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE h. CONGREGATION | PRESUME MR. DUFF |S | ENGAGED AT HIS BUSINESS DURING THE DAN, | THINK | SWALL CALL ON HIM AT His OFFICE ow Nes, "4 ome. Rui] IM ‘ DUFF WIN IN THE POKER GAME LAST NIGHT? les N09