The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-11-17
A CLEAN OF COMMON SENSE.

There was at least one gloam OF common
-scnso In the OF impossible theories and
Impractical suggestions put forth mt the recent
pTulsa meeting OF the social workers.
when some speaker declared that the Amer.
dean home must be- revised and revived that 30
: per cent OF all boys and girls who go wrong
fcome from homes In which tho true spirit Oh
home has been broken, there should have been
an Immediate concurrence In that profound
ftruth and instant adjournment after the adop-
Ation OF a. resolution declaring 1t to be the part
OF wisdom to start the reform in the home In
Sttcad OF am appeal to the Legislature and tho
screRton OF a lot ot sinecuro offices for tho
benefit of ultra professionalism.
The trouble with the social workcra we sus-
Rpect is that they are seeking to have political
agents do what s particularly the province OF
ttho church and the homo circle. OF course
At will not work. How far they are from tho
public temper is In the published plans
Y OF the Oklahoma state health commissioners 20
.ghnve tho next session OF the legislature enact a
lot OF laws and create a lot of now Jobs
for no other purpose than to crafty speculative
theories.
AZ II may be painful knowledge. but Il Is tho
simple unadorncd truth, the people of Okla
homa are bent on less laws. not moro of them
SO far from securing II lot OF additional offices
the state health department can account itself
fortunate beyond it's deserts c II does not find
fsome that It now possesses ruthessly wiped
from the statute books, They should be.
81 We hope, and we confidently believe, that
sroasou and practically are both about to ro-
ascend tho throne In the good state or Okla
homa, Money for the upkccp OF government
Pcomos from the taxpayers OF the state and s
mot plucked off the bushes for the sratif-
cation OF political agents, II follows that po.
litica office. to Justify its existence must render
J, q very broad public service and the proposition
must stand the test OF cold. analytical reason.
e II the employees OF public eating houses are to
be subject to the health certificate Kraft in the
wintercst OF public health, what is to be done
4 about prac,icng physicians who invade the
homes of the community indscripJnatey with
out the slightest preteXt OF having praCticcd the
care against spreading disease which Is 80 freely
preached7
s.. Tho average successful medical Practitioners
office is visited by various forms OF disease in
single day. Reception rooms not intrequently
have at the Same time a haf-dozen forms OF
infectious " Dpt contagious disease, That Is n
matter tntt wlA not be disputed. And IL is also
true thuI the average family doctor on his daily
rounds may visit homes in which scarlet tovoc
diphtheria, tuberculosis aud typhoid fever exist
anu ll'Nl 'N'N'' iNIh holhtS Whcrt the mAladN
is nothing more than dtsordcrcd stomach or a
bad cold-an without the slightest practice Of
hose preventative means urged upon the state
at the general oow.
II Is "A fact that any reputable. honest prac-
.tiuoncr will admit, tho doctor Is the greatest
sdisoasc carrier tn society, " this theory OF
human ailments and their propagation stards
taup. We do not cavai at the practice OF physi.
,cians Just mentioned. st is founded ON Coun,op
sense-tho element utterly lacking in tn,
speculative theories or the ultra professionals IS
who want their dictum fashioned into statutes
y and neXorably enforced at tho puhlc's cNpcus,,.
ltOt course, II would be utterly asuino for the
family physician TO change his clothes AMI
fumlgatc himself before responding 10 each in.
! dividuaI call. What We complain OF is that the
4 common sense OF medical practice is not 70.
spected in the academic advice of medical prac.
utonors Nyts.
. Humanity is not ready to admit it's utter dc.
pendency on the medical profession oven IL /,
were out OF the speculative stage Society /,
ynot yet ready to establish an impudcnt an
defiant medical bureaucracy. The immediate
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