Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-31

: LOOKER.ON IN IOWA

Shell Rock, March 30.-We have all
read of the vendetta of Italy that last
ed $50 years, and of the. feud in Ken
lucky that generations kept alive. This
doctors fight in Shell Rock promises
| to out-do both Italy and Kentucky.
Since the writer was here last trip the
active work has been to arrest DR..
| Thompson for practicing without a GER
| titicate, which the county attorney
promptly put head on" by refusing
| to prosecute and put the county to a
| bill of expense as under the law DR..
Thompson, being practicing physi-
clan five years before the present law
recorded. Furthermore the doctor did
have one, only he failed to put it on
record. Hostilities now are conducted
| in the courts. A temporary injunction
was granted preventing the state board
of health from taking away DR.. Smiths
| certificate to practice. This is yet to
be made permanent or dissolved, the
court having the case under advise
ment, in fact has been thinking 1t over
for some time. Meanwhile the state
board of health is very much interested
in the case, for if they have no power
| to prevent a physician from practicing
they will find themselves much like our
state and national board of railroad
commissioners. Got a nice big sound
ing name draw fair salaries, but have
not as much real power as a country
school marm But this waole business
hurts. Two prominent citizens here to-
day in conversation with the writer,
said: "You newspaper men are having
lots of fun over our Doctors fight. but it
is more than that to us. 1t is killing
the town. We have twenty EIGHT empty
houses here today. Why should man
come here to live or go into business,
when the first thing he'll have to do
is 10 line up with the Smith or anti
Smith faction: be Thompsonlte of an
Interchangeable.
It's in the churches. Ths Baptlst
preacher had to get out because OF
trouble within and trouble without the
church. Why, that church over there
was really built years ago because IN
those DAYS we were Srnithites or
sheldonites. Dr. Sheldon got enough,
cold ont and left Thompson is
stayer. and Smith standpatter OF
twenty-five years reputation. And all
This ruction. because one doctor says
its scarlet fever, and the other says
"Tis'nt. it's sore throat" Its smallpox
saws Thompson, you're another says
smith. Its German measles. Thompson
saws you'll be quarantined." "You be d
Internationally" says Smith. And then
we line up. Our women felix's II were
Smithites can't see Thompson1an
lady even if both are at the postofflce
at the same time. We men are just as
foolish for we mix up business, and
politics and religion, write quarantine
and small pox, with German measles,
chicken pox, Cummins, Perkins and the
state board of health Some days we
don't know where we're at, only this
we're after the other Teller all of the
time. To insure the writer's personal
safety on his next trip, it should be
added the foregoing is not this scribe's
write up but is really in substance
what was told him here today by one
man representing $4,000 worth of
property, and another old citizen that
has watched this fight for score of
years and is utterly tired of the whole
business.
Some times We can see ourselves as
others see us, by hearing their opinions.
Here's what the Hartford Connecticut
Current has to say of our political af-
fairs:
, ''The republican party In Iowa is