The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-06-01
OPPOSITION FOR
MEDICAL BILL
Especial to the Silver state.)

congress, has arounsed very great IN
terest throughout the country is SEN
ate No. /, or the Owen medical bill,
sometimes referred to as the bill des-
/ ignated for the creation of the doc
tors trust
One would hardly believe that bill
designed, apparently, only for the good
of the general community, would
arouse such opposition, and that thous-
ands of protests would be filed against
it's passage. Yet some of the protests
are seemingly well taken. For in
stance, Rev. James Mulligan, of Wav-
erly, Iowa, submitted to Senator A.
B. Cummins of that state a memorial
against the bill and in the course of
his statement he remarked that "while
the people could be persuaded that
the regulations proposed "were for
the common good, there was no gener-
al protest, but as they have gradual
| ly grown to suspect that the interest
of predatory organization was the
cheif end being served, there has come
an unrest that is foreboding limita-
tion to the powers of the state medical
oligarchies; and this is met with the
present effort to buttress themselves
behind the power and influence of the
/ u.
under the bill assumption of power
through the formulation of rules could
be carried to almost any extreme''
Perhaps a bill which is objected to
by so many people might very well be
held over for year or two in order
that it might be given more complete
! investigation.
Conservation of Human Life.
| Sciapoo hoe rna1a cfr;doo in tho oop
servation of human life and energy,
as it has done in conserving natural
resources, and the medical world is
now working along more advanced
lines than it was fifty years ago.
We sometimes rail at the doctors
when we have aches or twinges, or
when the bills come in rather bigger
than is agreeable, but nevertheless it
will be instructive if the management
of the San Diego Panama exposition
shall be able to add to the other con-
servation exhibits one which shall
show how science is working to take
care of the greatest asset nation has
Its boys and girls, its men and
women.
| President ID. c. Collier is intensely
interested in this kind of conservation.
He does not believe it is good policy
for the state to spend money to bring
up child to maturity only to see it
die through preventable disease just
when the community should be able
to enjoy some benefit from the labor
of the individual. He would like to
see the government, aided by societies
interested in human welfare, make a
great exhibit at the San Diego expo
sition, of tne conservation of human
| life.
Interest Increases.
1t is becoming evident that there
will be many state and county build
ings at the San Diego exposition. The
counties of California will have splen-
did exhibits. They could without as
sistance, give an exposition which
would be well worth crossing seas and
continents to study Besides these
the states of Idaho, Oregon, South
Dakota, Missouri, Nevada, Arizona
and others have had commissioners on
the ground to study the possibilities
of the big show and to consider what
sites their states should be given for
buildings. The great southwest will
bulk biggest at the exposition, but the
whole country seems bent on getting
space there for displays.
Collier Lost ON the Wide Ocean.
Sailing "under sealed orders' Pres
ident ID. C. Collier of the San Diego
exposition l,ft New York April Goth
for some unh destination. Up to
this writing nothing authentic has
been heard from him. If he took a
wireless with him it seems to be out
of commission. Wherever he may be-
it is not denied that he is in search of
the new, the wonderful and strange
for the exposition. He is scouting
around somewhere between Montauk
and the South Pole, but he'll come
back with something worth "putting
on the wire'' for the world to hear
l"and you may lay to that
Unrest in Alaska.
They're dead sore in the district of
Alaska because they haven't a thing
to say about the way they shall be
governed, and they want congress to
give them a local form of government
Alaska has produced, from its mines
and fisheries about $3.50, 100000 to add
to the wealth of the nation, and now
with population of $4,000 persons il
thinks it ought to be given some recog
milton. But it seems as if the aver
age congressman were in doubt
whether Alaska is in America or Asia
and whether it is populated by Aleuts
or Zaccaloos.
Advertised Alaska.
The people of Seattle did the hand
some thing when they held the ''Al
aska-Yukon exposition in telling the
world something about the great ter
ritory to the northwest. Alaska made
a fine display there, and if she makes
only half so good one at San Diego
it will be "going some.'
Most persons who were at Seattle
, remember with pleasure the beautiful
appearance of the grounds, chiefly
sodded to well-clipped turf, and bright
with many flowers. At San Diego thi,
feature will be enlarged and improved
, on. Already the biggest flower farm
in the country, excepting some com
mercial enterprises, perhaps, is beins
maintained to grow stock for the San