Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-01-01
The DOCTORS AND LIQUOR.
Something Worth Careful Consideration.
Drugstore Saloons Must Go Too.

U!ug-Sl0fe SALOONS MUST 10 100.
DR.. G. A. Misenheimer read 6
; paper before the local medical go
ciety IN Charlotte a few days age
that attracted attention. In pass.
ing he paid his respects to the
trained nurses who are not grad.
uate nurses and not, therefore,
fully equipped for their business,
but who are sent out as profession.
ais and charge for their services
accordingly. Continuing DR..
Miserheimer thus delivered him.
self concerning liquor:
Il hope the time will soon come
when the prohibitionists and the
icourts will take this skunk into
their own confines and not leave
it's carcass lying in cur camp. I,
for one, do not think that this
obnoxious responsibility should be
saddled upon our old and time
honored profession"
The medical profession can get
rid of the skunk if it wants to-.
It is better organized than any
other business or profession in
the State and if it wants to cut
out the liquor prescription busi-
ness can do it. The trouble is
that while many doctors want to
be rid of it more of them do not
for the business it bring them.
Many druggists do not want to
sell liquor but more of them do
want to sell liquor for what they
can get out of it.
Since prohibition has become
effective in SO large part of the
State the substitution of the drug
store barroom for the open saloon
has become a scandal in many
localities. Charlotte folks, for
instance, boast much of the bene-
fits of prohibition in that town,
when as a matter of fact they
don't know what o really dry town
is, for liquor is sold in great guam
titles in the drug stores and the
law as to giving prescriptions
violated daily. Greensboro has
| become about as notorious as
Charlotte in this respect and
| Asheviile will be like them. In
Greensboro one man obtained 10
quarts of liquor in one month Oh
prescription. Some of the doctors
there object to the examination
Of their prescriptions, as the law
provides, They evidently want
license to supply liquor to all
comers. The Guilford county
grand jury, however, was SO i'm
pressed with the state of affairs
that it handed out the following:
upon investigation We find
that an abnormal amount of busi-
ness is done in Greensboro by the
drug stores in the sale of wbiskey
upon physicians prescription.
We find that certain practlcing
physicians here have issued in q
short period of time many pre-
scriptions for liquor and to the
same parties, some of whom are
known to be in good health and
daily on the streets. We believe
the practice is being abused. We
forbear conveying to the courts
attention the names of the physi-
clans and parties in the hope that
the next grand jury will not feel
called upon to do 30 because of q
continuation of the offence"
Statesville, as The Landmark
has often remarked, is the only
real prohibition town. No liquor
can be sold here legally, the board
of alderman at the very beginning
making the cost of license for
druggists prohibitory. This &C.
tion was taken in the face of the
violent protest of some of the pro-
hitionists, including some of the
clergy, who charged that it was a
scheme of the Morally Stunted to
make prohibition odious. But at
least some of the Morally Stunt.
ed and some of the prohibitionists
we're honest enough to want gen.
uine prohibition or none at all
not such a play of hypocrisy as
Charlotte and other towns are
shining examples-and those who
insisted on the exclusion of liquor
from Statewide drug st res have
to see their views vindicated.-
Statesville Landmark.