The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-10-07

Believing that civic conditions.
where sanitation and drumming are
concerned, had reached that deplor-
able state in Hot Springs when it
becomes necessary for them to take
| action and present a solid front in
their demand that present evils n
rected, and pledsing themselves to
use their influence as individuals ami
as an organization to enhance the
| comfort and pleasure OF the future
visiting patronage to Hot Springs,
members of the Garland County Med
zeal Society last night adopted
resolution authorizing a special meet
| ing for the discussion Of civic condi-
tons, which will be held Monday
night in the Business Mems League.
Mayor McClendon. Chief of Police
| Tom Ellison, Police Judge Vernal
Ledgerwood and members of the med
| cai fraternity who are registered Ia
| this city are invited to attend, and,
provided expressions heard at the
meeting last night can be taken as a
criterion, the session of Monday eve
ming promises to be not only intesest-
| ing but also to mark an advanced
movement for the eradication of Ter
,ain civil ills. which, according to
members OF the medical profession.
are entirely too pronounced for the
community's good.
One of the largest attendance in
months was present last night when
President Leonard K. Ellis convened
the Garland County Medical Society.
Those in attendance were the repre-
sentative physicians OF the city, and
civic conditions were spoken of after
| President Ellis has appointed Drs.
Wootton and Proctor representatives
of the society to be members of the
assessment committee to get up the
advertising fund.
DR.. +. ii. Martin took exception o
| the wording of the advertisements #
| the iast campaign of this nature and
claimed that he did not believe that
Hot Springs should be proclaimed to
| the world along patent medicine lines.
| He spoke freely of local conditions
| and did think that some effort ought
| to be made for the entertainment of
the visitor and that the society should
advocate better sanitary conditions n
| Hot Springs.
DR.. Martins remarks opened up
general discussion. There were some
| members present who believed that
it would be a good idea if the medical
profession handled the advertisements
in the medical journals. DR.. A. u.
Williams referred to the article that
was recently published in the Journal
of the American Medical Association,
which severely criticised Hot Springs.
He stated that the publication in que3-
ton had written to the Business
Mems League for advertising when
the summer campaign was on, and
that, evidently, some one il authority,
disappointed because no business was
given that journal, had seen fit TO at
tack Hot Springs. He condemned
that kind of a policy Of retaliation
and stated that it was all the more
surprising considering the fact that
the Journal of the American Medical
Association was the most representa-
tive publication of the medical profess
sion in the United States and was sup
posed to be conducted along the high
est ethical lines. DR.. Williams stated
that the article in question should
have been answered.
Or. Martin said that while he did
not approve of the methods used to
advertise this resort. he would gladly
nav his assessment and believed that
every doctor in the city who was as
sessed would do the same, and DR..
Ceilings spoke along the same lines.
DR.. Il. E. Holland called attention
to the unsanitary condition of the
city's streets, after stating that It
was the duty of the physicians to give
the advertising campaign their sup
mort. and said that it had been a very
long time since the Medical Society
of this county had taken any action
TO better sanitary conditions in Hot
Springs. He believed that the doctors
were partly to blame, owing to their
inactivity in this respect. He said
| that when the white Way" is In.
| stalled he hoped that the Society
| would insist that the city's streets be
washed every morning before s
o'clock and that the pavements in
front of all establishments aloas
| Central avenue be also washed early
every morning. He declared the
streets were disgrace to the city.
DIR. w. r. Wootton touched on the
drumming proposition, as did also DR..
Albert II. Tribble and they severely
condemned the non-enforcement OF
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