The daily sentinel., 1908-09-15
AN INSULT TO
GREAT DOCTOR
The Occasion Of Magnificent and Important Address II
Hundreds Of Local People by DR.. Mccormack Mark
ed by Dirty Attack on the Speaker by Riley
D. Moore Local Osteopath

broadened by joint study and constant
county society," and intelligent people
| should know this in selecting or
changing doctors: and no excuse should
| be accepted for failure not only to be-
| long but to attend its meetings.
In addition to its scientific work. it
/ school will first hold frequent meetings
with local organizations of teachers.
women's clubs, ministers, lawyers, ed,
| other bodies. which create and mould
public opinion. and then with the gem
! eral public. for the purpose of such
practical discussion and mutual in
struction along health and medical
lines as will further this movement.
LAS the work goes on. through the
| teachers. by means of stereopticon and
/ other demonstrations, it is proposed
| cry child and family in this country. be
reached with practical instruction as
| diseases which really and almost con-
stantly threaten their homes and lives
We have reason to feel encouraged
| lation which will make all of this
possible. For long time it looked as
If medical men here would be forced
to enter public life. as Vinchow. Paget
Playfair and others of our great lead
ers did abroad: but the passage of the
tion of the plank we asked in the dem
ocratic platform and a favorable men
in their national conventions this year.
a full endorsement of it by both pres
better sentiment in nearly all of the
state legislatures. and particularly in
the public press. for the past three or
four years. leads us to hope that this
will not be necessary.
Because always exercised with alb
man. the power of 4.160 doctors of Ken
lucky in public affairs is practically
unlimited and as soon as the profess
the insignificance of mere party and
political questions as compared with
to, t,tr., fx.
constructive. life saving statesman
ship, can be substituted for the pre-
DDS in our public affairs, county and
municipal. state and national.
In the course Of this work it is pro-
community moral as well as a health
leader for his people. urging the same
women, and securing the cooperation
of the druggists. clergy. teachers and
Others. in warning the people and es
ducing liquors. patent medicines. i'm
morality and all other things at enmi-
ty with pure and healthy living.
1T will be readily seen that what
is here proposed means complete
such as has taken place in the practice
of law within the present generation.
to control litigation in the courts. Now
corporations and wise men employ
lawyers almost entirely to keep them
Just so, it is only "a question of
time and popular Intelligence when we
are to be employed largely as medical
and sanitary advisers. to prevent what
is so difficult and expensive to cure or
prevented with present knowledge;
| but most of the common diseases.
which give large part of our most
important sick rate. especially among
| children and young people. and those
| resulting from vicious living can. and.
national state. county and municipal
| Laboratories and resea:Sh workers. this
| list could and would be constantly eX-
| tended.
TT will involve years of consecrated.
| self sacrificing labor for my profess
not only fits but imposes the duty of
| leadership How they to be com :
pensated whether many will be
needed, under this new order of things
we have not stopped to inquire. We
| know that II will enlarge the useful
| ness of the profession a thousandfold;
| that IL will make the doctor n far more
| important man in the community than
| he has ever been; that IL puts bow
! of hope and promise in the sky for
| mankind never seen before. and we
| only plead for such instruction in the
| schools everywhere. and for such legis-
| lntfon and Intelligent cooperation in
every locality, in every state and in
| the nation as will bring il all to pass.
After the lecture last night Superin-
tendent Alien of the city schools. Rev.
Becker and others We're asked to make
, remarks and all heartily endorsed the
| address of the evening.
| More than twenty physicians We're
| present at the meeting last night.
| The Medical Society of this county is
| to he congratulat ted upon bringing DIR.
| Mccormack here.