The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21

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necessity for medical inspection of
the pupils and students of institutions
OF learning | hardly think that they
originally contemplated going quite
SO far, but who shall say that it
would not proper to make the exam
nations thorough and complete, and
are not the sexual organs an import
amt part of the human body?
I know nothing as to how these
examinations We're made, but presum-
ably they We're made under proper
and if so, and if those
WHO were examined freely gave their
consent, and surely those in author
ity must have consented to have the
examinations made, then it would
seem that the inten. of the examiner
was good.
1 is the same old story. what to
,some is perfectly pure and good,
even praiseworthy, absolutely hor-
rifles others because of it's evil pos
sibilities
| am a medical man and have been
for nearly quarter of century and
during all of TINS time and for some
years before have been a student and
great reader along these lines. there
fore | feel that / am competent to
express all opinion on what I gath
CT from the clipping.
If there are to be examinations at
ALL make them thorough. Also, from
my teaching, reading and experience
| am convinced that it is very essen
tial that examinations of the sex or
gans be made, for there are many
individuals who would still be hand
icapped even though every other art
of their body We're made normal
True, ordinarily examination of the
sex organs of Young women are not
made unless there seems to be no
other way out of the matter and it is
very probable that this very practice
makes possible a great deal of wrong
and suffering that might be avoided
by making it a positive rule to px-
anime each and every one.
This may sound like joke to
many. but unfortunately most peo-
pie. even doctors, do not seem to ap-
precate the Importance of this mat
ter.
DR.. Parsons lays special stress
upon the fact that Prof Jones is
NOT A MEDICAL MAN. What of it?
Does he mean to say that it is any
worse for any man with proper skill
and intentions to make such exarHin-
ations AN it would be for any medi-
cal man? To ME that does sound like
joke, for | know that there num-
bers of medical men about whom
the less said the better and any such
man as Prof Jones must be could
certainly qualify himself to make ex-
amlnations such as are in question
fully as we'll as most medical men
could make them and great deal
better than many could make them.
Prof. Jones may be an expert in
this line, and all / would insist upon
is that these examinations be made
Of he boys as we'll as the girls and
in order to make them really valu-
able, when an individual is found
who is decidedly abnormal provision
should he made for having the abnor-
mality corrected. Simply discovering
such condition and not seeing to it
that it is corrected would make the
examinations not only useless, but
wrong.
| should like very much to know
just what sort of an examination
Prof. Jones makes, as we'll as just
what he expects to gain by making
the examinations, then I should be
IN a position to pass an intelligent
opinion on the matter
Yours truly,
Il. w. Feige, M. ID.
Prof. Saam n Jones Partisan.
Theodore Saam, superintendent Of
the Lead public schools, who was one
OF Prof Jones warmest defenders in
the Watertown meeting writes Wig
orously in behalf of the Vermillion
educator as follows:
To the Editor of The Republican:
Your letter of recent date is at
hand.
My experience with educational
clinics as conducted by DR.. Jones is
limited to the one week he spent in
Lead last April. During that week
he gave both mental and physical
tests to children and adults free of
charge. | have heard many qbmpli-
mentary comments from both parents
and teachers upon his work here and
have yet to hear single adverse cri-
ticism of his educational clinics III
Lead
ed to attend his clinics and usually
was represented. In fact, the son Of
one OF the most prominent physicians
in the state. was examined by DR..
Jones in Lead.
The adverse criticism OF the edu-
cational clinics as conducted by Dr..
Jones have come from few physi-
clans in the eastern part of the state
who have not attended his clinics.
The attack on DR.. Jones has been
largely personal and if it could be
accurately analyzed sinister in
iluences would be discovered which
found in the educational clinic
weapon in which could be concealed
The real motives of the attack.
The publicity the press has given
% the personal attack on DR.. Jones
by Dr. Parsons of Sioux Falls is one
OF the State Educational Meetings at
Watertown shows how much more
the newspapers are interested in SEN
satonal news items than in tn, EN-
tire rOcGoainpe of a greet n.,ro,