The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-17
DR.. CONDOR MET
FORMER OGDENITE

DR.. A. S. Condor, who returned
Wednesday froln St Louis where he
attended the ,Sixty-first annual con.
Vention OF DE American Medical as.
sociatlon - a delegate from the Utah
state Euard OF Medical examiners.
brings tidIngs OF former Ogden busi-
ness men who are now located at ST
Logs and arc meeting with success
In their lines of endeavor
Meets Former Oedenites.
J. w McNutt. .Vwho Il years ago
ran drug store at tho Broom Hotel
corner is now ut the head of large
business and wished Dr.. Condor to
remember him TO his many old friends
In Ogden. Prince" c. w. Warren.
the popular Englishman who at one
time was one of the heaviest realty
owners In this city is now living I'm
ST Louis. Prince as he was fami
liauiy known to Ogdenites, met with
hcnvy financial rcverses during the
fsttcr years OF his residence here but
on moving to St Louis he started in
the periodical business and Is again
"on easy street He asked many
questions regarding OGden's progress
and was gratified to learn that his
prophesies regarding this citys fu-
ture are being realized. Johnny
Stevens. formerly a grocer at the
Ezra Richardson stand on Twenty
fourth street is now commercial
traveller rdnning out OF st. Louis: ana
Walt DVyefSnt one time a real estate
dealer OF Ogden, continues In that
line IN st. Louis Mt Dwyer, also,
was much interested in OGden's
progress and 10 hear of the splendid
resources which are being developed
In this vicinity
Denies Sensational Interview.
DR. Condor Tepudiated the sensa-
tonal statement alleged to have been
made by Or. Worthington and DR..
Kerr. two Salt Lake physicians who
are said TO have authorized the use
of their names In connection wiki an
Interview regarding theatrical pre-
formance which was attempted By
about five hundTed OF the delegation.
The physicians having been complI
mentary guests OF the management
The Salt Lakers stated that the
performance to which they took eX-
ceptions was something on the order
of a little Egypt stunt, that being
the finale and piece do resistance"
of tie program, A young woman ap-
pe2red in the gauze and spangles of
n Turkish dancer and after enter
tanning the audience with a decidedly
clever performance left the stage aud
Te.appearnd almost Immediately garb-
ed only in an extreme negligee cos.
tune. A gallant snowy-haired physi-
clan, 1t was said, accepted an invita-
ton 10 remove part OF the dancers
a6ornment and II was at this time
that the Salt Lake medicos are said
TO have left the hall
DR. Condor brands the whole story
as a fake of the first magnitude and
asserts that he saw nothing of the
kind
No improper Exhibition.
81 saw no exhibition of any sort
which was not proper Why. 1t was
one OF the first class theaters of St
Louis, city which Is noted for its
proprle;y. and there was n represen'
tatlye audience present, including 500
visiting physicians / cannot imagine
what those ZiOnites could have been
sucking 10 have sent out such a re-
port. The whole thing is A Joke
The most sensational thing which
happened during the convention was
the address of Dr. FleXner, who is at
the head OF the Carnegie fifteen.mtl-
llon.dollar foundation for standardiz-
ing medical colleges and universities.
which has for a purpose. among other
things, the peDsioning of AGED instruc-
tors when compelled TO retire from
active life.
Fleaner Speaks Plainly.
"DT. FleXuer deplored the opportuni-
ties offered medical "quacks" in Amer
lea. and showed that the present con-
ditions are due to the loose manner
in which physicians are admitted 20
practice He declared that where
there Is one doctor in this country to
every five or six hundred of popula-
tiou, in Germany the percentage Is
about one to sixteen hundred. Over
hundred colleges in this country to-
day do not rcqIire preliminary study.
and the speaker intim3ted that the
foundation did not favor colleges with
less than thousand dollar yearly in
come
'Dr. Flexner. in mentioning various
states and the slack methods followed
In permitting so.called physicians to
practice. cited Utah as an exception,
and said that this state stood high In
the list Of those in which strict regula-
lions are enforced, requiring. as it
docs. 4 four-year High school ccrtih.
cate for college entrance
StatletIes Back Statement
"Dr. Flexnors address raised a
storm of dIsapproval. as might have
been expected. but after matters had
been discussed and statistics had been
introduced as evidence. his stand was
finally sustained by the convention,
and he was warmly congratulated on
the fearlessness OF his attitude in the
question"
Or. Condor was accompanied from
St Louis by Miss Daisy Kuhn OF OG,
den, who has been attending college in
Clacinnati, and Mrs. Selma Werthi-