Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-02-07
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
 tNls THE HEALTH BILL

Fort Sm:Jl, Ark Feb. ,, 1913
 A statemen rAGs issued today Dy Herbert tN. Geek Slt te PuBEj ,tion Com mittee for the Christian Scientis s of Arkansas who are obie ting, with -.crs, to tle amount Of Iuthori y giv- en re State Health Board under Scna- to, Huges Health Bill.
 Mir. Beck said: 1t reported in some qu CTS that Christian Scien- ti;s are oppcset t9 .scard of Ha1lch and to a heal.h law, but it is q llsa report Christian Scientist, are n la- vor Of wat ve- 'Till give heir neigh bors more trcith, happiness F.. com fort. If q health law and health beard will do this, c r stiln -cicr ist are ill favor of the law and boarl.
 Tse pending Bill eS B. %, HI;5he.) proposes to give a rtisaIf R1&rd 'ooa.fe1l Of all hines ctaining e the heal | of the cit zens Cf this State" surtherm e the5. t4ve tee avuAsl purpose of intestietting every hing and of publishing taeir firE,n9s and recommendations.
 For tie ah3vs reason Chr sian Gci- entists as well $ he County Judges Association, tle Sta Paarmaceutia., Association, and the Electric, Hcmoo-
 a.hic and C1t2opat ,tc physicians have exr; essed bhe sNe ecif.e desire fer emcn.lments to tai. CT any her sach bill tat m y te proposed.
 Some critics are s'-outing that C,,ri ti,n scienti2.s canr,,- agree 70 2 quarantine beeaGsa t3ey 70 not be- lieve Il disease i6:ve rac1 ltiy heard that a critic is uauelly one wEo is the most dcWn on w. l.a is he leaft up on. Besides, Christian Sci ~nti;ts do not rave to az e4 " tn what an Allol lthic doctor links abou dis ea.e anl how to 1C3l it, in crdel to ahi5e by and be happy under z prop riate and reason2b,e quarantine rules iAtt'' bJ q iGti GlitttlNc IT. ~dIl . beard; and if Ch, Gtian Scientis $ d, e rot so f-arinl Of cent g GUS and infec- tious diseases as are their naighbors. it s ill remain. & fsct sa it is Cj- is tian Q &o trlat which will bring peace ind comfort to others.
 Christian Scienti,ts also con ij,e themselves free a,l elua! citizens of a free ccantly nd thersfore nSi.t ur- on the protection of their sacred and constitut onal rights
 It i: generally conceded that two men Of affairs--say ono la wyer an$t- one c man inte,f.5s' in eo.nme. ce and s9ipNir would a@d greatly to he stalib'jy and effectiveness of his Boald: also not. ng but good oln ccne from a representative on tho hoard, of he Homeopathic and he Ec. lectic schools of medicine; they arc doctors, people believe in them and t-ey, no more than others, should sui fer "painl2ss ,aecapitation' at yhc hands of an organic body of .'Ne ao- called ;.egular school of med cine. Io- sides, there is no, even a ghost of an idea O. reason why ONE IDEA" cult or propaganda .raould ever dominate, such ting ss a State Health Bo IL, unless it be in the interest of ''S ate Medicine"-a hing most abhorrent.
 Every one Who knows, knclNs that the present b T ea.anates alone from the A. N. A. and s .elual,e
 Othc, amendments shGlld be made which would guarantee moral fIeadcm in tte choice Of a' a',practioner If Nnat- 'sver school, and ;he sacrel privacy uf that t1omc whic9 is a III n's castle 50 lon, as he hlrEors therein no conta- gious and inlee ouS dsesse nor com mits therein any sve:t act of crime or 
 The history of medicir,e is not sIch l as 70 ius'ify grant ns to it large and l powers, and forcing upon