The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-12
REVOLT OF DOCTORS
WASHINGTON PHYSICIANS OBJECT
TO WORKING FOR NOTHING.
They Are Organizing q Protective
League Against the "Shut-Eye"
and the .SundOwner."
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE physicians
of this city are tired of being constant vic
Tins of deadbeats. and a movement is now
on foot for the organization OF the Doc
tors Protective League" The purpose of
the organization is for the protection of
doctors against people who do not pay their
bills. II am ashamed to make the state
ment, but this is probably the worst shut
eye city in the United States" said a lead
ing physician to-day. You don't know
what 'shuteye' means? Up in New Eng
land, where 1 came from, shuteye' de-
scribes a person who promises to pay what
he owes, but never pays. In Washington
there are thousands of government clerks
who seem to have an idea that doctor is
sort Of missionary fellow. and therefore
should not be paid for his services. /, for
one, am tired of working for nothing and
l think the physicians all over the country
will join men i'm claiming that the physi-
clan should be paid within thirty days
after the services are rendered. the same
as man pays his grocery or meat ac-
count"
The capital city physicians also have
their eyes on the "sundowners." There are
shutdown" lawyers, shutdown" newspaper
correspondents and shutdown" most every
thing, but the physicians are hit the hard
est. These shutdown" chaps have posi-
tons in various departments and practice
their profession after o'clock, the time
OF closing the departments which gives
them this funny name. The clerks attend
the night medical schools and are soon
permitted to practice and charge a very
nominal fee or maybe nothing so as to
get the experience If they run a severe
and dangerous case, they turn it over TO
good doctor. When the Physicians Pro-
tective League is organized they will do
their best to avoid the people who patron
lie these shutdown" fellows.
The grocerymen are also making a black
list. One grocery decided to auction off
all his old accounts. He had list made
of all the accounts which he could not col
Following: All persons who do not de-
sire to enter into permanent Investment
should not bid" He had no bidders, but
he has but few poor accounts now.
Secretary Shaw has helped out the Wash
ington doctors and business men quite a
good deal and If the heads of the other
departments follow suit, it will only be a
short time before the government clerks
realize that they will have TO pay their
bills. Shaw first put his foot down on
gambling of every sort. He had spotted
the chaps who played the races and spent
their nights over cards He also warned
the boys who played pool and visited sa-
looms. A few women who kept their eyes
on the stock market were Informed that
1t would be better for them to forget the
price of copper cotton. He also stopped
the loanfns of money, these fellows being
known as temper centers," because he
said it gave a young man chance tC
spend more money than he made and final
ly land him beyond his depth. OF course
the clerks. that is, great number of them
do not like these blue laws, but Mr.. Shaw
claims they will be a great help to then
and his rule will probably be adopted by
| others in modified form.