The Detroit times., 1912-01-26
IS INSURANCE LAW
WILL RAISE EFFICIENCY
ndon Physician Takes Excep-
on to Views of 1000 Others
Of His Profession

. I,ONDON, Jan. 26.=-Dr. Thomas j..
I1cNamara. who is as well Unknown as
d Dhysician as he Is as parliamentary
1<cretary to the admiralty and q nam.
NJ CT parliament. has taken fall
11f OF the profession he adorns by
I1cIaring for the national Industrial
|r6|,rance law, which more than H.
40 doctors, In Great Britain, mem
1fa OF the British Medical associa-
||tn. have formally condemned, naive
F. explaining that sick benefits under
10 Insurance scheme will hurt their
.|sIness.
Tho doctors, opposing the scheme,
ave pledged themselves TO refuse
|&Iyice under the insurance bill and
hey have been so loud In their de-
/1nciation OF the measure that ply
rIans who favor IL have for the
Isl part been afraid 10 lift their
Ices. DR.. MacNamara. in state.
<<rf 70 the profession says: The tax
|5on Industry will, believe, be more
E1u compensated for by the increas-
cf1iciency OF the workmen, as has
ID the general experience in Ger
ny. and the scheme will not mean
Ne unemployment, for one OF the
III cnuses of unemployment Is in
cheney due TO the lack OF proper
Ideal treatment. The scheme viii
load OF worry from many an
ious brow. II is my firm conrlc-
that Is or 20 years hence, thanks
national insurance, consumption
Id &c as rare as smallpox is today.
<ew civil laws have just come into
o|ce throughout Switzerland. which
|1atiy advance the legal position or
mem who are now almost as free
men. except that they cannot vote.
wen If married, Swiss woman can
~ legally own property, and. II her
I..band dies, she can be sole guar
Ian OF her children. She is given an
dual voice in the form of marriage
'ontsact she wishes TO enter into, and
|In cue for divorce on exactly the
|ame grounds Gs man.
''The people of Budapest consumed
NJ per cent less beef and veal in 1911
Nm in 1910. The manager of the
1nicipal slaughter.house attributes
"a decrease In meat consumption TO
Ne excessive prices resulting from
|[otection. In 1910, $4,000 oxen,
(|rs and calves were slaughtered in
he city abattoir, while In 1911 the
|I|,nber fell to 22S,000 Even the bet
<-paid artisans in Hungary cannot
|Uoru meat more than once week,
nd the poorest-paid live almost en-
rely on vegetarian diet.
Sailors from the French navy. serv-
AZ with the Paris fire department are
Ne latest novelty. BY order OF Ma
he Minister Delcasse, a certain
'Imber of tars, stationed in the vari-
|Is ports, are to report to Paris for
Istruction in flre-fghting, when, af-
IA On examination, they will return
their ports to do service In the
<tenals.
Partisan flre-fighters answered s.
calls from Dec. 1, 1910 to Dec.
h 1911. OF these 2,499 were fires,
|E<0 fues burning, 1853 rescue calls,
There were IA important fires;
~ h, where an average loss OF SO
F cent resulted.
=
,[t was learned on high vatican au.
nority that Pope Plus Is feeling
Ioatly embarrassed by the situation
b which he has been placed by the
xr>llsion from his diocese for two
@1rs by the Portuguese authorities
the Patriarch Of Lisbon. This 10
to the fact that at the recent
History the Pope created the Pa
rch of Lisbon a cardinal "in pee
which signifies that the name \
The new cardinal is being with
until an opportune moment for
ouncing II.
the case of the Patriarch of Lis
the elevation to the Sacred Col
was made because in the con-
Hat between Portugal and the Holy
.3 which Portugal has failed to keep
~ archbishop OF Lisbon was always
be cardinal. To show his own
eaire therefore to live up to the con-
)rdot, the Pope created the Patriarch
cardinal lin pectore," hoping that
|ia evidence OF good faith on his part
0(lld improve conditions to such an
|feot In Portugal that il would soon |
} possible to announce the eleva- |
Instead. however, the decree ban !
hing the Patriarch of Lisbon from |
! diocese for two years followed,
N this makes II most uncertain as
when the Pope will be able TO l
|uounce the Patriarch's elevation TO
IS Sacred College. The situation is
% further complicated by the fact [
- is positively known In Rome, that
= Patriarch has already been ap-
|<ed that II was his name which
a Pope was holding in his breast"
The new cardinal.
M IL generally believed, however,
Nc Pope Plus will select one of his
VI diplomats as a nunzio TO Portu-
N and send him to Lisbon in the
>pc that the trouble there can be
ikhtened out.
iends of Joseph Pic, professor in |
Czech University, at Prague, who |
United suicide, declare that the |
cule of newspapers and the pub
broke his heart. DIR. Pic belonged
small group OF scientists who,
boposition TO the majority OF sa-
~ In Germany and Bohemia, re-
Ia as genuine the 'koniginhof man
rIpts." which were supposed to
we been written In the thirteenth
1<ury.
II conceded that the manuscripts
clever forgeries executed by
11ch philologist, Wenzel Hanka,
n rrofpuded 20 have found them In