The broad ax., 1921-04-16
CH1cAao.s pocroRs s1.ANDERED
WITH CRIMINAL LIBEL
BY Dr. NJ. A. Majors.

lruuleQ course Out winch INC PuDAS oN
professional life Of the race is attacked
and assailed, it is but pardonable prid'
that lends us to. express ourselves in tn
behalf Of the aggrieved and slandered
In the Whip Of April 2, the prOfes
sional life of our race was most mer
eilessly slandered and ibeled which T.
say the least was a criminal onslaugh'
upon the doctors who belong to the loca
Physicians Club, and appearing to add
insult to injury an editorial of Apr
9 appeared in the Whip endeavoring t.
justify the wrong committed by at
tempting to enlighten the public upon
medical ethics.
The medical profession in Chicago
represents the advance progress of the
Negro race in. the field of science. Al
of the doctors of the race, stand for the
noblest principles of a digniied pro
fession and foster the highest moral
conception to which the race has at
tanned.
Doctors are human and unselfsh, com.
hitting themselves to the vast interests
Of the people they serve professionally,
administering to a patronage that is
appreeiative and sensitive. No one but
traitor TO his race would assail our
doctors as a whole, upon the mere pre-
sumption that few doctors are guilty
of wrong doing.
The Physicians Club is an organiza-
tiOn Of our very best men in the medi-
cal profession. They are a chartered
institution and meet regularly once a
month for the specific purpose of gen
eral improvement, discussing advanced
subjects on the curative, and proven.
tive methods Of disease and to promote
a fellowship that is ethical and digni.
fed.
To raise the standard Of medicine as
an art and sience, hoping thereby to
perpetuate its lofty principles.
To say thai ninety per cent of our
doctors are crooks, abortionists and
bOotleggers, and that they are riding
around to see their patients in automO-
biles purchased by the money they have
made in writing whisky prescriptions is
criminal libel, an unjust attack upon
the character Of class Of men who
are to reflect credit on all Of Us.
When Judge Grove gets in action we
are going to see a sorry lot of weak
ings jerked up before the bar to offer
lot Of sick, sentimentaism and plead
ing ignorance Of the law and its rami-
heations. Somebody is headed for
Joliet and a big damage suit.
Medical ethics forbids doctors running
their pictures with weekly write-ups on
direase, hygiene sanitation, or giving
an exposition Of their ability to treat
disease. Recently two physicians were
expelled because they were found guilty
by the association of violating the dig
nifty Of the profession. They had been
waited upon by committee who gave
them due warning, and eounseled them
to desist. They told our committee, it
is said, to 60 where no body wants to
go when they are through with their
professional career on earth.
1t is a pity that some newspapers viii
forfeit the great interests Of our race
by selling upon news calculated to act
as exeitants, as if thereby they hoped
to basque in the sober graees Of our
best citizens.
An owl may be fool enough to light
on the barrel of a Krupp gun, but an
eagle has better sense.
Prosecution to the bitterest end is
sure to merit the attention of the as
sailants Of the Physicians Club and
while we are not saying, clay on Me-
Duff, " we are not so well acquainted
with anybody that bears a charmed life |
to escape the consequences Of such rash
acts.
The Broad Ak has always held up the
honor Of the race. We may have in |
other years published the truth about
some seullion or hypocrit, galayanting |
about as a wolf in Sleeps clothing.
For twenty-six years it has appeared
every Saturday without missing
single issue, and we have never felt
that we could SANDER a whole profes-
sion, ridieule the big and consequential
things our foremost men are doing
merely to crafty some notions of
few. No The Broad Ak has
never stopped that low.
On the contrary we have ever held
up for the honor Of our groups, applaud
ing them, and taking their cause to the
people because the physician stands
guard for our race honor and the very
sorpuseles in our life blood. He is mod.
EST, dignihed, quiet, unassuming, repre-
'enting as best he may the good
samaritan who dispenses benevolenee
md charity without publishing his
yreat wisdom in the newspapers.
We are not able to comprehend such
! spirit in the breast Of q black man, h
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