The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-13
MEDICAL JOURNAL
 HAS SUGGESTIONS
BELIEVES COVE EMINENT SHOULD
 ENTER INTO ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY HERE.
Goes a Step Further Than We Have Asked the Government, and Will Serve as Medium to Some Definite Action.

The Southern Medical Journal the organ of the Southern Medical Asso- citation, with it's membership in six teen of the southern states, believes that Hot Springs should be given at tention by the United States govern ment, and goes further than we have gone in the matter. Hot Springs has believed that the government, since l 1t reserves ownership of the hot water spings, should cooperate with Us in the creating of highways, and in the care of the drainage and sewage of the city.
 The Southern Medical Journal, a copy of which has been submitted to us by Dr. c. Travis brennan, who is a member of the board of councillors, believes the government should take hand il furnishing entertainment and amusement for the patrons of the resort. The article says:
 America's Hot Springs. Tt is said that the German water cures have attracted more visitors to that country than all the beauties of the Rhine, all the arts of the Ger man galleries, and all the sciences of the famous German schools Why? Simply because most of those visitors are physicalcly improved by their so- jouras. Whether the beneficial agen- cy resides in the waters, the air the i diet, the exercise, or the environment is beside the question. The visitor gets better and they advise their friends to follow their example, and the tide sets that way
 Now, we have in this southern part of this United States of Amer ica a place which in the elements requisite for a great natural water cure, surpasses anything to be found at any European spa. There are springs of every size. kind and de- gree; some hot enough to cook eggs, others cold enough to give one the
 loothache; some are simply pure wa ter, hot and cold some effervesce and sparke like the soda water, and some fume and steam with odors hot from Tartarus.' The settings are worthy of the gems.
 Wild mountains rise on either side, cave and cliffs are there, and the hills are soemtimes heard to groan
 
 Hooked for many generations the lame and the halt, the syphilitic and the rheumatics, and found relief, of course, with proper medical aid and directions and as one result, some of the most cultured doctors in the United Sites are to be found there.
 And the place belongs to the peo- pie of the United States, and not 10 any firm or trust or syndicate; for long ago our Uncle Samuel set Hot Spring, Ark, aside as q government reservation, and placed a good man, recently deceased, to take care of it; and then forgot all about it.
 As time wore on a hospital was built for the army and navy Then the Jewish B'Nai Birth erected sanitarium for its ailing members, and the Masons are preparing to do like wise. Other fraternal orders are said to be contemplating putting in their applications for concessions.
 But Hot Springs is worthy of more care than this from the government It should be made capable of caring comfortably for many thosuand in- valid citizens. Hotels, theaters, li- braries and places for recreation and amusement should be erected by the government, all according to some definite plan created by some artist architect. with a soul big enough to see the possibilities A fire recently cleared the way for such an under taking by destroying large areas of the old city of Hot Springs. and ao irrevocable concessions should be made that might in the future inter- fere with the harmonious develop. ment of this Carlsbad of America"
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