Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-30

Ludlow. Littieton and New Limerick.
towns that are populated and quite
thickly populated. and not a doctor in
them. Gentlemen, there are stretches
of from 25 to 40 miles in the county
of Aroostook, where it Is a thickly
populated section, and yet there are
no doctors in the vicinity.
The gentleman from Portland, Mr..
Dodge, has treated this subject all the
| way through as though it was a prop
osition of dollars and cents. I main
tain, gentlemen, that there are a num-
Der of districts in the State of Maine
| that are worth at least $4,000 a year
to the State of Maine. He says that
we cannot drop this proposition. Why
| can't we drop it? There is one thing
sure, If we drop it now We never can
pick 1t up again. He insinuated that
Bowdoin ought to carry this load. 1
| maintain that Bowdoin College has
| done her part, and if we gentlemen
haven't the backbone to do ours, we
| ought not to have a medical school.
Bowdoin College has been carrying this
load for 100 years, and is she under
Maine? No! The gentleman from
Portland. Mr.. Brewster. has admitted
the shortage of doctors in the rural
districts. but he says that he doubts
II medical school will overcome this
dahculty. Gentlemen, I believe it is
Fair and reas onable that the only way
to overcome this difficulty is to produce
more Of them, produce them so that
+ they cannot live in the cities. There
are good many of them that are
Just doing that now, and that's all.
There is a young man in my town
who just came there four weeks ago,
ana rode down on the train with him
about three weeks ago when he was
taking his examinations, and he told
me that the first month that he was in
Mars Hill he made $500. And they
mad to coax him to come there! He
will stay, now gentlemen.
The gentleman from Portland, Mr.,
Brewster. has offered one solution of
thls proposition. and it practically
amounts to substituting the doctors. In
the Portland Evening Express Of Feb
ruary 20 there was an article written
/
! IN town. and his name was George II
Marble, and I want to read the very
hrst part of his article "As a tran
slent in town, 1 read with much in
( terest your editorial of a proposed
medical school for Maine in this morn
ngs issue. The heading attracted
my attention by reason of my speciaI
: interest in providing doctors for ru-
raj districts. AS l have served in two
states on civic committees to deal with
TINS problem. and in both states sub
sldizing has been tried With most dis
appointing results, or rather with no
results at all. We found that even a
much larger subsidy than now propos-
ed was no ,nducement to graduates
from schools outside the state" I'm
fortunately, the gentleman did not
state what two states he served in.
another thing, how is the bow of
eighteen or twenty years of age
when he first enters medical school
gong to bind himself to come back
to the State of Maine for five wears ?
Gentlemen, do you know that Thorn
as Il. Reed got through Rowdoin col
and that he got it with the best in
tehtlons. When he entered college
he intended to preach, but after he
got out, he found that he couldn't
see it that way, and 7 maintain that
you cannot get these boys to tie
themselves down to the proposition
that they will come back to the State
of Maine and practice. (Applause. }
Mr.. PERKINS of Orono: Mr..
Speaker, 1 move the previous uues-
ton.
The SPEAKER: The question be-
fore the House arises on the motion
of the gentleman from Lewiston, Mr..
McIlheron, that the bill be substi-
tuted for the adverse report of the
committee.
Mr.. DODGE of Portland: Mr..
Speaker, I move that when the vote
is taken it be taken by the yeas and
nays.
The question being on the motion
that The yeas and nays be taken, and
a sufficient number having arisen,
The yeas and nays We're ordered.
Mr.. McILHERON: Mr.. Speaker
I would appreciate it if the Chair
would again state the question I'M
derstandingly so that the members
will know Just how to vote.
The SPEAKER: The matter be-
fore the House is on Bill, An Act
amendatory of and additional to
Chapter 6 of the Private and Special
Laws of Maine for 1920 and for the
Incorporation of the trustees of the
Medical School of Maine. A joint
committee made up of the commit
tee ona appropriations and financial
affairs reported in the House on
March 23rd that the same fought
not to pass" The gentleman from
Lewiston, Mr.. McIlheron. moves that
of the committee. A vote of yes in
! sufficient numbers would substitute
the bill for the report: a vote no is
equivalent to the acceptance of the
report of the committee, reporting
fought not to pass" The clerk will
call the roll.
YEA--Audibert. Austin, Baker. Bar
ney, Bartlett. Barwise, Bean. Belliveau.
bennett. Blanchard. Boothby, Rragdon
of Franklin, Brown, Burns Buzzell,
Carroll. Carney. Chalmers. Chamber
lain. Chandler. Chase. Cherry. Cole,
Conant. Crabtree. Crafts. Cram, CroX-
ford. Daigle. Downing. Downs, Doyle,
Eastman, Pagan. Farnsworth. Finnell.
Gagne, Gardiner. Gerrish, Gipson,
Granville. Hammond. Heal. Hodgkins.
Houghton. Hunton, Hussey, Kerswell
Kimball, Landers, Larrabee, Lowe,
Moody, Morneau. Murray. Myrick. Ma
! damn NawcOn1h of Newhnrcr O'CO0-