Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1910-12-01
A GREAT DEPARTURE
Dowas Family Doctor! Ali In Accordance
With The SOcialiS,ic Programme OF
The Doctors Trust
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TO The Editor -
DR.. Richard C. Cabot. Of Boston.
addressed the meeting of the Bait-
more City Medical Society recently,
stating, with approval. that practic-
ing physicians are being superseded
bv hospitals and other methods Of
healing, and that, ultimately, the hos
pitaIs will be supported by public
taxation-public health being consid-
cred of supreme Importance, superior
even to education.
1t is undoubtedly true that health
is paramount to education but it is
not at all necessary that public taxa
tion and compulsory methods for en-
forcing it should come into vogue.
When DR.. Cabot made his suggestion,
he followed in the wake of those
English physicians who some time
since met in London and advocated
compulsory medical attendance and
pay from the State, after the fashion
of the public school itself.
Thus it is that Socialism in educa-
tion is leading to Socialism in medi-
cine and everything else. Just as
the public school child is compulsory
vaccinated by the State in the State
schools, so will all people receive
compulsory medical attendance from
the State in the State hospital, to
which they will be rushed upon the
first presentment of sickness or dis
case. Already many State special
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school children, and food, clothing,
baths, tooth brushes and general at
tention ls proposed for the compass
ing Of the children throughout, with
the consequent obliteration of the
home and the parent. This is So
cialism.
Just the other day no less q sub
stantiai citizen of the old school than
Eugene lowering endorsed baths in
the public schools, and there are
thousands like him in every State
not Only endorsing every species of
Socialistic State help, but actually
demanding it and fighting for it.
Some of this same class of citizens
are at the same time vociferous
shouters against Socialism; not COM
pretending their inconsistency, they
will say: well. these things are
necessary. say, if they are, then
Socialism is necessary.
DR.. Cabot is we'll in line with the
American Medical Association and
the Owen bill now before Congress.
The National League for Medical
Freedom, with headquarters in the
Metropolitan Building, New York
city, cannot too sharply watch and
interpret all such utterances as those
of DR.. Cabot. The Leagues presi-
dent is 3. o. Flower, of Boston, its
first vice-president is William r..
Brown. of indianapolis; its second
vice-president is Hon. Charles W.
Miller, of Waverly, Ia. F; it's secre-
tary is II. P. Harsh, of Toledo, and
it's treasurer is the Astor Trust Com
pany, New York city. It's advisory
board is COMPOSED of leading men in
every section of the country. It's
prospectus" is well worth the peru
sal of all who value their liberties as
American citizens.
Our public schools have turned out
too many doctors-hence the doctors
trust They have also deprived the
rising generation of daughters and
mothers of the opportunity Of apply
ing themselves to household duties,
and the care of the sick. Often
enough do we hear of some little
girl being arrested for staying home
from school to wait on sick mother,
where opportunity for practical nurs-
ing presented.
Talking about Government Bureau
of Health, the Government seems to
have more on its hands than il can
attend to already. What means il
that typhoid fever is prevalent at
the Naval Academy in Annapolis and
nowhere else in the city? What
means it that nowadays boys have to
drop out of the Navy because Of sea-
sickness? / would ask How much
canned food do they eat? And how
much prepared meat and other foods
Poisons lurk in all these nowadays.
FRANCIS B. LIVESEY
Clarkson. Nd