Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-29
Leading Colleges of the Country
Engage i'll Bitter Controversy
For Supremacy
STILL VS.. MRksvlLLE SCHOOL
Charges of lneompetency and Inexper-
ience Being Made by Both Sides =
kirksville Acknowledged the Parent
College But Des Moines Institution
is Lively Competitor.
Special to Times-Republican.

ing osteopathic colleges in the country
and almost the only two, are in bit
ter war which is being enjoyed by all
other schools of methods of healing
human ills. The school at Kirksville,
Mo-, is the parent school of the doc.
trine. The Still College of Osteopathy
of Des Moines was started by nep-
heW of old DIR. Still, the old doctor
being the founder of the Kirksvius
school. Just now the Des Moines in
stitution is engaged in making the
claim that it is taking all the good
doctors from kirksville and the Kinks
Vile institution is engaged in denying
the allegation. In the meantime the
public is being enlightened as to the
inner workings Of the two institutions.
Osteopathy seems to have started at
KirksvilIe without any question. Inc
Des Moines institution was progress
ing nicely according to all outward ap-
pearances when the Kirksville people
came up here and bought it out Then
the Des Moines business men got to-
gether and said that they would or
eanize another school SO the Kirksvllie
people sold it back again and it is still
running.
Recently DIR. F. P. Young, of the
Kirksville faculty, was engaged by the
Des Moines school and the Des Molnes
institution is accused of having Sc
cured the publication Of, an article In
the Graphic, a weekly paper at kinks
vile in which it was held out that all
the good able men We're leaving the
Kirksyille institution. This has rolled
the graduates and faculty and man
agement of the Krksville institute.
Kirksville has not been slow with an
answer and one of the graduates OF
that school says: ''Des Moines has
employed mostly young and inexper-
fenced teachers, occasionally hiring one
of experience to give name to the
school. The managers of the school
have no knowledge of osteopathy and
many Of the things they are ignorantly
allowing taught inside the walls are
not osteopathy at all and is bringing
the science into i'll repute. The article
which the Des Moines management
got printed in the Graphic says that
the Des Moines school is backed by
charitable people. that there is ten
millions back of the school and that 1T
does not have to pay dividends. All
this is false, for the Des Moines in
stitution must pay dividends. 1t is
not kept up by charity at all, for the
people. who own it make their living
out OF it,
Announcement has been made of the
removal to Minneapolis from Cresco
of W. l.. Converse, Fourth district
member of the republican state COM
mittee.
The removal will not result in a va
cancy on the board of managers of the
great political organization. There is
no power by which vacancy on a
state committee of political party
can be filed except at the caucus of
the delegates from the district at the
time of the state convention. So that,
perforce. no vacancy can occur, in
fact and Mr.. Converse will continue
to discharge the duties of the repre-
sentative of the Fourth district on the
state committee.
The supreme court of the United
States yesterday granted the petition
for writ of review bringing to that
court the case of Elizabeth Peck of
Mount Auburn, Ia. VS.. the Chicago
| Tribune.
The suit was originally instituted in
the United States circuit court for the
northern district of Illinois and was a
demand for $4,000 damages alleged to
have been sustained by Mrs. Peck
thru the publication of her picture I'M
der another name In connection with
a testimonial as to the value of a
patent medicine. The decisions of
both the circuit court and the court Of
appeals for the seventh circuit were
adverse to her and she asks the SUI
preme court to consider the case,
which it has consented to do.