The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-23
OUR PHYSICIANS.

 rougn passage in Hot Springs, when often our business men and citizens would pause and admit that it was wonderful how this city "thriyed in spite of itself"?
 In those days there was no adver tsng fund and no special catering to the patronage of the health seeker.
 The advertising the city received was all adverse advertising; adverts- ing about big gambling transactions and murders, and such things.
 There was pro sperity in those days but the gambling nor the murders con trbuted to the bringing of money here. The gambling might have wrest ed more money from those who came
 Back to the original thought-in all this rough period of the history of Hot Springs, there was prosperity Why?
 Perhaps it was because the health seeker couldn't be kept away He had come not in response to glitter ing advertisements. Somebody had told him he would be cured nere The somebody who had todd him KNEW, because that somebody had been cured himself There were thousands of boosters for the hot waters out in the country. They might not have boosted the conditions here, but they boosted the chance of recovering health.
 Why were there more boosters then than now? The answer is easy. We have been too busy grabbing selfishly to look to general condi- tions. Not so many visitors who come~now arc departing boosters. rfNhy? Because they get a warning and they do not seek the services of physicians
 They have an idea that the not water so preciously owned and con trolled by the United States govern. ment, must be a magic liquid, and that to dip within it transforms af flicted bodies into whole bodies They take few baths, are disappointed, and leave for home
 Every visitor to Hot Springs seek. ing health should have physician, just like they used to have, and then ~everN visitor who did not go away absolutNX cured would know why it was that he did not get a cure. The percentage of cures would be trebled. and every person who came and bathed. even if not curable, would be benefited, and glad he came
 In the old days we urged visitors to have physicians. Now the trend is to inform them they do not need doctors We are running our resort, because we are not playing fair with the visitor
 sick man needs a physician Hot waters alone have cured countless cases of rheumatism here, but even in those instances (mostly foun about the free bath house) the cure would have been sooner had the hot water treatment been scientifically administered, and with occasional drugs. The combination of able phv. sician. God-given hot waters, and scl- entifically applied medicines, will jar loose most any ailment.
 It is time we were sitting up to take notice about some of the things around Us. Our physician ought to be the glory of Hot Springs He is the peer of his profession in other cities, because here he has tne ex- perience and the opportunity to make him better qualified to serve those who come and continue to come.
 Some day we will get around to that point where we will get together Some day we will all boost our phy- sicians, our hot waters, our bath  houses, our hotels, our business lines. our municipality. and whenever we get to that point, new era of pros perity will answer such as could not be provided for by any race bills. golf links, highways. or any other at fractions in the category.