Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-10-28
THE cHIRoPRACTIc REPLY.

hardest losers on earth are the men,
bers of the medical fraternity. or, to
be fair, that part of the medical
fraternity who are believers in the
strangling methods of the American
Medical Association, the state and
county medical societies and the
newly formed Guild" which is going
to take in the dentists, the drug
gists and the nurses. The only use
that A. VI. A. has for these other
professions is based pm the hope that
they will be foolish enough to kick
in" with financial support and there
by enable them to down the chiro-
practic profession.
/ need cite nothing more to show
just how dearly the A. NJ. A. loves
the dentist, the druggist and the
nurse, than to call attention to the
manner in which these professions
were dealt with in the United States
Army. The dentist was to be rated,
IL the NJ. ID. had had his way, as
about a second lieutenant, he fought
and won equal CD rank with the
NJ. D.. for which he is not foolish
enough give thanks to the people
druggist was rated as a sergeant. a
non-commissioned rank. The nurse
had no rank whatever, and If it had
not been for the advent of suffrage,
would not have 1t to this day. How
ever, IL was deemed good politics
now that the war is over, to give
them that which had been denied
them so long. A Guild of doctors,
dentists and nurses, with the drug
gists thrown in for good measured! 1t
is enough to make a horse laugh.
1t is a safe bet hat all hat will ever
come up for discussion before this
sort of a misfit merger will be ways
and means of overcoming the medi-
cal mans competition, which he
thereby confesses to being unable to
meet honorably. If the medical pro-
fession got the results they claim to
get, the chiropractor could not exist.
For all he ever gets the first few
years OF his practice are cases on
which the please call me regular"
or don't call me an allopath" falls
down. And on these cases the chiro-
practor has built up a demand for
bis services that no amount of medi-
cal, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES work can
destroy. The people will have chiro-
practic. 1t is their birthright to go.
to the practitioner of their choice
when iii.
In your article an assembly can
didate is quoted as having agreed. If
elected, to do as the Guild, and that
HitdflS lUe AMERICAN MeulCdl ASSOC
citation, working through its ally. the
county medical society, wishes. He
agreed to vote as they wanted him
to. This statement was warmly re-
ceived the article says. How any
body can be so s~pineless as to pledge
his vote to one body of people to
help them in their efforts to strangle
another group, is really hard to con-
ceive. If this prospective statesman
will consult a majority of his most
Intelligent constituents he will find
that they are not so terribly interest
ed in the inability of the M. ID. to
meet and defeat his competitors in
the professional world that they
would tolerate such a pledge on his
part. If they have the method that
gets the best results in a given num-
Der of cases, is it not reasonable to
suppose that they would not need to
be hedged in by laws thai
their competition for them?
Concerning the matter of STAN
dards necessary to qualify for prac-
tice. Who does not know that there
are people practicing medicine and
dentistry and other 'so-called high
standard professions who never at
tended a school teaching the work
they practice? Pick up a copy of
the Journal of the A. NJ, A., turn to
their obituary column, and read the
names of those who were licensed
years of practice" or who got a Ii
cense by the simple process of ap-
plying for it and accompanying the
application with a claim that he had
been giving herb remedies" or had
been considered a handy body to
have around when there was sick
ness" We chiropractors want high
| or standards hIlf Wa NNVVI SEsT
THEM OURSELVES WITHOUT
ANY ASSISTANCE FROM THE A.
M. A. We want to have and will
fight for, the same right to live rs
the medical. dental, legal and other
professions had, and we do not pro-
pose to start, where the others have
left off. One ridiculous feature the
M d. would have us comply with is
two years of hospital training" If
any medical man will tell the read
ers of your paper just where the
this hospital training, even If he had
spent ten or twelve years learning
chiropractic. I'll back water. The
hospitals are, almost without excep-
ton, under medical control and 1t
is ridiculous to suppose that anyone
but a practitioner of the school that
happens to run a given hospital,
could get in.
The unfortunate plight in which
the osteopathic profession finds itself
is an example of high standards"
now teach, materia medica, pharmac-
ofogy. ~toxicology, surgery and a lot
of similar medical stuff during a four
year course. They have the same
preliminary requirements as the M.
d. Yet have absolutely 40 use for
this sort of study and what is more,
the medical fraternity will never,
willingly permit them to use it after
they have passed all examinations
and are just as well qualified as the
medical doctor. The game is simp-
means or foul. just so it is elm
mated. Once the A. NJ. A. got its
t~entacles on the homeopathic and
eclectic schools of practice, what
happened to them? The one is on
the way to obliteration, the other
has already been. The excuse? Well,
the council of colleges of the A. NJ.
A. decided that their schools were
not up to standard" The real rea-
son was the A. NJ. A. wanted nothing
but the old school to exist
The chiropractor has absolutely
nothing in common with medicine
or medical practice and he has no
laundering to be admitted into the
backyard of Organized Medicine. He
believes his work to be founded on
truth and will go on practicing
whether it meets with the approval
of Political Medicine or not.
Thanking you for the opportunity
of clarifying the haze that the Guild
is evidently seeking to throw about
the situation. I am,
Chiropractically yours.
ANDD EyU NJ ENC n -