The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-09-19
IMPRESSIONS OF A TENDERFOOT
- Being UnOrthodcs Sketches Of Real Human Interest -
CBy N.mL RontNsoN)
lBv VIM RoRINsnND

Last week tue uOCtOIS OF new
Mexico met in annual session at
Albuquerque, and from all accounts
they had a time that with any 9th.
er than such a staid profession
might he styled a deep red. OF
course, Brer Brogran, Brer Hen.
bricks and Brer fleming gave it out
to all oil we little fellows that the
medics put in all OF their time
studying the antics OF the devilish
little bugs and that all OF the diver.
sion they had was AT chat little feed
at the Alvarado, and even there
the champagonny water was under
discount. Some might believe
such a yarn, not knowing that the
brethren named seldom tell the
exact truth except when they are
talking about each other, but il
don't go down with me. know
Albuquerque, and | know hv recent
observation that the most staid
men, when they get away from home
are a little coltish. Not that It is
anybody's particular business. II
there is any one on this earth that
deserves relaxation it is the aver.
age country doctor and country
means all ut them IN New Mexico.
! hope they had it at albuquerque,
and know that they did, and evcn
at this long distance watched
their daily programs with much in.
terest. The chief inspiration OF
this was the tact that the usual
paper on Ethics" and It's relation
to the newspaper business was
missing. The dear old lndispen.
sible are getting too wise 10 talk
about that subject out in public
nowadays. They are learning that
the public don't care a darn wheth-
er they have any such thing as
ethics about them, and when they
have confidence in a doctor it is
utterly immaterial it he has ethics
or not, IL he can cure the bellyache
or tend to a baby case all ship
shape. Ii used 10 be at e every
medical association that some doc.
tor would rise up and tell what a
crime It was il another doctor paid
tor his card in the local paper and
his name appeared in connection
with some important service or OPP.
Grafton. Even then the great IA
OF the people refused to take the
doctors seriously IN this regard,
and back IN Illinois the newspaper
fellows mentioned the doctor 1t he
deserved il and it il was news, 1t
not, they cut him Out as merely an
incident. II the doctor wanted TO
carry a card in his paper that was
also his business, IT not, ditto,
The doctor Vas OF no more weight
in the Community than the brick.
mason, man for man, and he was
the only n who lost a moments
sleep over the matter OF ethics. 1t
is that way yet, code or no code, in
every town in New Mexico, and the
medics at Albuquerque were wise
in their topics.
IL always did amuse me, that
matter OF the doctors and advertis-
ing, and especially when | knew
then and know now that when they
have performed some operation
that is OF the deepest importance
to suffering humanity and the world
and should be universally known,
some little old reporter grins and
torgets the code. IL is the same
way when in some trightful &C.
cident some tireless and skillful
doctor is on the spot. IL is ust as
much 50 in the open when some
doctor drives 'steen miles and saves
a child that was standing with
h%esitating feet in the door OF the
infinite. II is human nature TO be
pleased and proud 70 dave done
some noble service tor humanity,
aud the doctor doesn't live that
doesn't appreciate it when he is
mentioned. He may fuss and cuss
and swell up in the professional
style but deep down in his heart he
is tickled all the way through, and
he has a right TO be. OF course,
there are some doctors that NAV
overdo the advertising business,
though | have never known any IN
New Mexico, save one. That was
over in Albuquerque, a ago.
A bright young fellow came down
from one OF the northern states and
hung out his single, and proceed.
ed to starve 10 death. A number
oil the early day newspaper men
became interested in the young
fellow, believed in him, and want.
ed to help him. Ethics forbade
his advertising, but there was a
conference OF war, a jackpot was
made up, and the next day the
young doctor appeared with a new
horse, one that could run over a
Jack rabbit. Every three or four
hours he would come tearing down
the stairs, four steps at a time,
maybe cut his hitch rope, Jump in
to the buggy, and shoot down the
street in the direction OF Old Town
like he had just a minute to 20 nine
miles. He would disappear in a
cloud OF dust while the natives
stood around open-mouthed. lie