The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-23

| chance to become a live organization. !
We annot IN reason expect every
county organization TO be an ideal one
neither can "e In reason hoye fer tn
state society to be ideal andNau salts
flying. Until We have done our best t.
aid our societies. We should cot knock
them. Any body can tear down. any
body can criticIse. II takes = con
Atrac:or To build If our organizations
are not active, OF are not just what
We would have them bc. the sensible
thing 10 DO is TO become actively in
terested in them and make them bet
ter. We cannot advance by destroy
ing them. To tear them down is Of
that species Of radicaIism which would
burn the house to be rid OF a spoonful
OF dust under the sofa. To let THEM
alone and not try to improve them il
they are not SerViceable is Of the
\auter Van TWlller conservative de-
liberateneSS which COgitateS until the
disputants are dead and then decide
with much ado that since the books
containing the are alike ana
weigh the same that therefore the ac-
counts are balanced. In a word. We
must catch the spirit OF the hour so
happily expressed in the phrase, Fed
crate and tight" Gentlemen. appeal
TO you, stand by your organization as
the patriot his flag, or the martyr the
cross.
The third great duty of a
doctor is the obligation which
he owes his fellow practitioner.
More frequently la may be thought.
the manner in which ii physician
meets his responsibilities to his fellow
practitioner, is an index to his profes-
+ sional ability and character. AS We
become more cfhcient,-mOre learned
O. we have grown broader. This is an
r omen Of better things Yet to be. We
! have learned that TO be intolerant is
tyrannical; to be considerate is demo-
cratlc,-Godhke. | congratulate the
! profession of North Carolina because
of the tho spirit which pervades
1t. l am persuaded that the average
Y doctor desires to be amicable.. The
{ problem with many of us is How"
We are solving it in a way most salts
2 factory. We should be SO busy with
our work and SO wrapped up in our
v profession that we haven't the chance
e or desire to quarrel. The doctor with
a large patronage who is earnestly
S striving every hour of the day to be
e come more and more efficient has but
little time to Engage in personalities,
n or to become active in fraternal strife,
9 There is no truer saying than 9TH
e idle hand is the DEVILS Workshop; il
is equally true that an idle brain il
also. This is an era of good feeling ii
% our profession. l am moe delighted
If at the fraternal spirit which is mani
l. fest in our fraternity than | am in it:
p increased efficiency, as pleasing as j:
that.
The time mas passed for medica
- controversy. Believe me, please, TN
- world is not interested in what yo,
think Of your fellow practitioner, o
in what he thinks of you. In tn
=; common parlance of the hour, tn
-, twentieth century question is Ca
IL n H. 10 49, TL .--Il l:
now asks, Have you ability and char
- acter? Can you do the work and d
a it now" On an occasion two mini
- terS became engaged in a heated argu
Of ment on respective church doctrines
~ and finally agreed that they woul
submit their arguments to a certai
farmer for his decision. After hear
~ ing them, he said, "Gentlemen, m
brother and | LAY taken corn to tn
old mill over yonder for 40 years
4 Sometimes we go by the road Whic
Of leads through the valley; sometime
n we journey by way Of the hills. Dun
ir ing all this time, the miller has neVe
asked us, Which route did you take?
er He has always said, us your cor
of sound?' Believe me, please, you
clientele will scarcely ask yo VIII
re Of the ability Of your competitor, nc
It. will he inquire what your competito
DIS thinks of you. The sole question wit
pS MIN is, IAN you restore me 10 neat
he and do it now In his mind n
of queries, us your corn u
Sc OF all things most strange, one
ne the Strangest to me is that doctor
OF should become eStranged, membel
ol as they are of such ar intellectual pre-
feSsion, with such high ideals and a:
piratiCnS. When tempted to strike
IN colleague, stop. Look, Listen, Think
What gains o if you destroy his pre-
fpSSiOn21 character I does not or
rich you and leaves him poor indee'
In one of his poetic stories, Byro
tells of one who would destroy h
neighbor. He digged a ditch, file
&c it with spikes and blinded it-a Yer
ely table death trap J~ourneying tn
Ii way a time after, he missed his pa,
and fell into the trap which he Ia
us set Tor anOther. hungry, athlrSt, G.
al ing, he cried,
Its The thorns which have reaped "a
lly of the tree,
ed | planted-they have torn me-and