The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-09
Army Surgeon 'PIucked' BY Ex-
aiming Board And Three
Japanese Are Passed
QUESTION NOW IS: WHICH .,
O." CAUSED IRE OF GOVERNOR
Mr.. Pinkham Silent, Except To
Explain He Win Not At
tack Incident

Some of the facts in connection with
the practical dismissed Of the board Of
medical examiners by Governor Pink
hame are commencing to come out, The
Advertiser having given the necessary
publicity to the situation to rip a hole
n the cover Of mystery with which the
Governor had attempted to clUthe his
actions.
| The trouble between the Governor
and the board has been developing for
some time, the climax coming when
Major Reynolds, Medical Corps, ap
peared for the formal examination he.
ore the licensing board, the other appli.
cants with him for licenses to practise
being three Japanese doctors.
The three japanese passed and Maj Or
| Reynolds was "plucked.''
Why Did the Governor Act?
When this news reached the Gov
ernOr, he called for the designations of
the members of the examining board,
but whether his ire was aroused over
| the fact of the passing of the japanese
or the pluckinP Of the army doctor is
one of those things locked in the Gov.
| ernOr's bosom and in the realm of the
speculative so far as a mere newspaper
goes.
The Governor yesterday denied that
his remark concerning the important
address he intended TO make at the
| Japanese coronation celebration ban
quet, made at the time he declined to
| discuss his reasons for Diminishing h s
board of medical examiners, should
have been taken in connection with the
.ubject being talked over. The mat
ser of medical practitioners is at least
one subject, then, which he will not
cover in his address.
Medical Man Talks
The inference that there is any con
nectiOn between the incident of the dis
missal of the board Of medical examin-
ers and the meeting of the Medical So
ciety Of Hawaii, to begin today, is not
warranted, said n prominent member of
the society yesterday.
''It is a matter Of very great regret
% the members Of the Medical Society
of Hawaii" he said, "that the sub
ject of an article in this morning =
paper should have been expressed in the
way it was.
The medical society is about to hold
is annual meeting, and any such sug
gestiOn that there is going to be a rum
,us on account of the subject matter
II the article alluded to, is liable to do
considerable harm.
"a moments reflection will show
my one at all oOpversant with the laws
governing the board of medical examin
ers, that the society has no more to do
with the refusal of that board to grant
license than it has with the alleged
failure of the police to stop che-fa
games. Such thing is entirely out
Idle its a ms and desires, and so far as
the society itself is concerned il is not
ven cOgniZant of who passes and who
Toes not pass the board of medical
examiners.
inquiry Is Suggested
"On the other hand, there is no ques
ton but that if candidate has been
turned down by the board of examiners,
the questions and answers being writ.
ten ones, are on file with the board, and
open to review by n proper tribunal.
Perhaps the board invites such re-
view.
1.-The second matter, that the cause
of the refusal was a feeling by the civil
liam practitioners adverse to the army
'urge0ns competing with them, is just
one of those things with a sufficient
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