Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-11
UNIVERSITY HEAD HELD RE-
sPoNslsLE FOR ACTION OF
EDUCATIONAL BOARD.
DIR. RICHARDSON OF WEBSTER
CITY MAKES DIRECT ATTACH
Member Of Iowa State Board Of Health
Makes Accusation That Bowman 10
TIE Man Rehind Effort 20 Abolish
Homeopathic School at Iowa State
University.
Special to Times-Republican.

Richardson of this city, member of the
Iowa state board Of health, is u in a
red hot open letter placing the blame
for the adjustment of the chairs of
surgery in the homeopathic college Of
medicine at h state university at
Iowa City, %squarely up to President
Bowman of the university. Along with
the letter DR.. Richardson announces
annual meeting Of the State Home
opathic Association in Des Mones
will be continued to the end that the
state board of education be forced to
recede from its position in abolishing
these chairs in the homeopathic col
lege.
DR.. Richardson's letter is addressed
to the Iowa City Republican, which
paper made the statement that Presi-
dent Bowman was in no way respon-
sible for the adjustment Of these med
icai chairs. The doctor quotes from
a letter written by President Bowman
in which the statement is made: Il
have no desire to evade the RESPONSE
bility for the action of the board. I
made the recommendation" 1t is tbs
contention Of DR.. Richardson and Che
state homeopathic association that the
adjustment Of these chairs sounds
the death knell of the homeopathic
college of the state university. The in
fiuence Of the allopathic physicians
and their friends Is given as Inc cause
of the action Of the state board. The
doctor makes bold in his letter to
openly charge that what this board
has lone for the upbuilding of this
college would be graphically represent
ed by a large and conspicuous cipher
Misplaced Economy.
Attendance at both the regular med
ical college Inc the homeopathic col
lege has beer decreasing for the past
several years. The average attend
ance at the regular school for the past
four years is III. The average attend
ance for the same perod at the home
opathic school is 48. The average an
nual deficit to the state in the home
opathic school has been $2,904 while
the average deficit in the regular
school is $27, 00O. Hence, DR.. Rich
ardson is able to show clearly and
co%nclusively a the cost per student
ach year to the tax payers of Iowa in
the homeopathic school Is but $104 as
against $3.50 in the regular college.
And so, he concludes that If it is econ
ony that President Bowman and the
Estate board are, looking for. they would
better abolish the regular medical COL
lege than the homeopathic college. The
chairs abolished by the state board are
those of surgery, g%ynecology and OBJ
stetrics, and .ophthamolgy and GEOLOGY.
Bowman Must Mako Good.
DR.. Richardson charges in his letter
that President Bowman and the state
board of education have eve done
anything in their official capacity to
further the interests of, or looking to
the upbuilding of, the college Of home
opathic medicine, but that they have i n
their official capacity done all they
could, from the time they took con-
troll, to destroy this college," In con-
.clusion the doctor expresses the opin-
ion that in view of the array of facts
he has presented and in justice to
himself, to the people of Iowa, and to
the members. of the homeopathic med
ical profession and their clientele, the
president of the university, John G.
Bowman, can not do otherwise than
recommend to the board of education
at their June meeting that they re-
open and reconsider the action which
taken by the board on his recon-
.mendation, abolishing these chairs in
the college Of homeopathic medicine"
DR.. Richardson's frank, open and
strong letter is certain to fan afresh
the flames of opposition started at the
state meeting of h~omeopaths in Des
Moines. In view of the fact that DR..
Richardson, is a member of the Iowa
state board Of health his letter car
ries unusual weight ard much interest
will attach to the statewide discus
sion which it is bound to create.