Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-02
The Voice of the People
snyn Doctor should Have once.
Editor of The Timcs-Dispatch:

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
sir.-If medical man had been appointed
hospital commissioners when the ofticc first
established the State hospital service would in
I'll probability be as firmly entrenched in the
Department is but the general feeling
that the State is receiving benefit COM
its climax last winter. when member OF the
legislature made motion that the office be
abolished and the politicians have but
themselves to blame.
This Office is n purely medical one and can
reach it's highest development only through
the untiring efforts of properly qualified ply
sicinn who, by utilizing the clinical advantages
the office offers. can in n few years be rccog-
nzcd expert on mental diseases ready to assist
the Commonwealth In any where the SER
vice OF an expert alicnist Is needed. The office
carried too much salary to begin with {25oo)
and this attracted the politicians, who got
there first and have been holding like grim
death to this lucrative position Because n man
Is the recognized machine leader of sTuccdunck
or voted right" on this or that occasion. II does
not necessarily follow that he has the proper
qualifications for medical job
II physician to apply for the position
of Commemorative attorney OF Richmond the
lawyers in the State would rise en- mnsse and
demand a commission OF lunacy and prove that
the poor devil had every variety of insanity
from dementia Americana OF the Thaw type to
ordinary klcptomania. az seen In the Richmond
stores about Christmas. but the lawyers-here's
to their gall-apply for every position In sight
that carries a fat salary, medical, clinical or
otherwise. They generally get 1t. too. thank.
to the supneness OF the splnclcss horde of doc
tors who quietly submit to IT.
There is reason in appointing n law
man as hospital commissioner than there would
be In appointing him health commissioner or
health officer In any of the cities A competent
physician should be appointed based on recon-
mendaton of the Medical Society OF Virginia
The politicians have half Nelson on the old
slate. and they trying hard for toe hold
and it is up Governor Stuart ms referee to
call halt before the slate has to take the count
JOHN b. HALLIGAN
Smoky Ordinary. Va, December 80, 1914
Bryan Violated No Game Law
To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-The great Commoner's Christmas rabbit
hunt In Fauquicr County. which has caused n
good deal of comment in the press as to whe Their
he had not violated the Virginia game laws
need give him uneasiness. careful perusal
of the game laws of the State will show that
he has not violated either the nonresidenrs law
laws. which nearly every hunter violates every
day he hunts, and which seldom enforced
Section 2070-A of the Code shows all game
animals. except deer, can be hunted in the snow
Section 2070-C shows nonresident is not re-
quircd to take out hunting license, except to
hunt certain game, and hares and rabbits are
not mentioned.
the subject have assumed that Virginia game
and nonresident laws were the same as those
OF the majority Of our sister States, which make
all nonresidents pay n license and prohibit
hunting while the snow Is covering the ground
to such extent that game could be track ed.
Our game laws are far behind In comparison
with the States nearest national capital
Of all kinds should cease. Virginia Is one of the
States that bids the nonresident to come in
and shoot away. VI. D. HART.
Richmond, December 30, 1914