Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-23


! Herald, Editor Body and Mind Depart
or of Body and Mind will answer ques-
IS will be answered by mail.)
'wise" decision. AS soon as I finished
reading the editorial 1 penned a letter
to the editor of the aforesaid National
Weekly, wherein l said things which
would leave no doubt in his mind that,
| in my humble opinion, he is an ass.
L also suggested to him, indirectly,
that if he is anxious to know what
degree of an ass he is he shall take
down the names of any hundred ply
sicians in the city of New York and
question them why they uphold the
practice of vaccination. He replied
that he will gladly avail himself of
my suggestion and find out the raison
d'etre in this oft upheld and disputed
subject. That was about year ago.
Did any one ever see it published any
where what answer the physicians
gave? If so 1 shall be obliged for the
name of the journal and date of issue
in which the answers appeared.
Nlnety-nine physicians out of every
hundred do not uphold vaccination be-
cause of any valid grounds that can
support it, but only because it is yield
ing them a good revenue. The hun
dredth, on the other hand, upholds it
because it would not be policy for him
to do otherwise. At no time during
an individuals attendance at a med
ical college are there brought forward
facts which should tend to prove any
single argument of the pro-vaccina-
tionists. Students are being told that
vaccination prevents smallpox, which
may be true or not. 1 do not know,
and statistics do not prove the asser-
tion. l am strongly inclined to think
that it does not, because I, myself,
have been vaccinated few times, and
each time it took" but, alas, had
smallpox, as my face will show in a
few places.
Anyhow, students are being told that
vaccination prevents smallpox and, of
course, whatever students are told they
usually believe; nay, they hold on to
the beliefs so tenaciously that no
amount of proof or argument against
their beliefs does any good. One may
as we'll try to fly to heaven as to try
to disillusion believer in something.
Try it.
told a gentleman once that our
so-called higher schools do not educate
the Individual, but make of him a sort
of intellectual automaton. OF course
he got mad. Who could blame him?
Poor thing! He has been told to be-
lieve In so many things that he is
even afraid to try to disillusion HIM
self on q FEW, at least. lne Iact is,
however. these schools exist in order
to teach students what the teachers
know, and of course Ito use a popular
phrase). of course 1.-The chickens are
wiser than the eggs"-maybe. Me-
thinks rather that in more instances
than one many an egg could teach the
chicken a lesson.
Apropos, have you ever heard of Ell
bert Hubbard, the erstwhile doctor OF
medicine, who is the head and princi-
pal heart OF the Roycrofters, makers
of useful things? If you have not, you
miss a good deal in this life. Far bet-
ter for you, and those you love, to get
acquainted with the gentleman. 1t will
not be possible for you to get on terms
of intimacy with him, but letter ad-
dressed TO him at East Aurora, Erie
county, N. Y, will reach him. Get ac-
quainted with him and his kin of econ
omists-you will never regret 1t, If you
are wise. He too. will tell or write you,