Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1922-03-09
.OPTOMETRY
OR ARE WE JUST FISHING?

tractive to fish than the real Hop
per" itself. This may be true, don't
know. But if this is true and ] was
a fish it looks reasonable that
should spend some time learning to
know really live good to eat bugs
from feathers for my own good.
A fisherman says that if he hooks
some kinds of fish and it gets away
that he only changes the color of the
feathers and it will soon bite again.
"Ye have heard that it has been
said" that to be success one must
understand his profession whether
1t be a fisherman or optometrist.
Does this mean an understanding for
the best interests of the fish or the
fisherman? Or is it sufficient to un-
derstand that feathers catch the
most fish and by spreading out and
moving around as the fish get wise
he finds the greatest gain for the
fisherman? (and loss to the fish,
Is it your way of reasoning that it
is the little account articles that the
experienced merchant will not have
in his stock that are usually sold by
transient travelling agents? Also
when you see big column adds of
travelling doctors claiming to be
wonderful specialists, does it seem to
you that if they were such as they
claim that they could locate at
Pennsville and people would keep
them busy and thus save a daily ex-
pense of at least fifteen dollars? II
they have any business at their
home office, how can they afford to
close it for the day and be at great
extra expense elsewhere? If they
have but little home office business
why should they elsewhere? Is this
not a. positive reasoning?
Should you not then for your own
good do some reasoning and learn
! to know bugs from feathers before
nibbling?
Every real thing is initiated by
a finer appearing article. This is the
reason practical education is a life
time job or we will nibble at the
feathers first every time.
They say A. Lincoln was rather
homely and awkward looking and
that he knew his appearance would
never carry him through and make
him great SO he must use the other
method of getting there.
Like Abe, knowing that could
not look, dress or flap my wings like
a butterfly maybe is why I saw that
I must StandardiZe in Optometric
efficiency.
We do not mean to tell you that
our grinding lenses makes us eff
cient for with our automatic ma
chimes a boy can learn in two weeks
to grind lenses. But it takes a two
years course at the Ohio State Uni
versity to learn optometry as Stan
dard Optometrist. Yet there are
"Exempts" practicing who do not
have an understanding equal to one
months good training Both IL
censes look exactly alike hanging
on the wall, only one word different.
Also other things look much alike
to those who do not understand
This is the reason people need this
information.
All of our adds have thus been
trying to explain the difference be-
tween real optometric practice from
a probable finer appearing imita-
| tion spectacle selling shop.
Do you remember Dentistry be-
| fore the law standardizing the pro-
/ fession? How they could not fill a
tooth after the cavity had exposed
a nerve? Thus his greatest business
| was pulling teeth and making new
ones. Even many school children
were without teeth or wearing arti-
| fetal.
! After Dentistry was standardized
how soon did the people retire the
old tooth pullers who would not
learn standard methods.
Optometry has just been given a
| fixed standard It is harder for
people to understand than dentistry.
Thus, it always has furnished won
derful field for fakirs. We can think
of no safe way for people to take ex-
cept to retire everyone whose license
does not read Standard as they did
dentists.
The state has made it possible for
every optOmetrist to be standard, 30
there Is no excuse. It is just as i'm
portant as having standard for
school teachers, dentists or doctors.
So please insist on your optometrist
being standard and you will not only
be doing yourself a service but will
help to make an honorable and high
profession of thing that has been
one Of the biggest fakes on earth.
Why has this condition been permit
ted on as important a matter as the
eyes when over one half the people
need competent service.
Thank you for reading my arti-
cles They are only information cen
cerning thing that we know still
exists and SO general that it is dis
grace and menace to health that
can only be solved by the people the
same way they solved the inefficiency
in dentistry.
A doctor calling himself occulis'
who makes a practice giving bifoca
glasses to- school children because
cramped muscles cause a temporary
paralysis, when. if he knew cramI
and how to relax it, then really fl
for distance, the paralysis would i'm
mediately disappear and close worl
would be only the healthy exercise
young eyes need.
We have changed dozens of these
doctor fit bifocals for school children
and have found one case of real pa
ralysis. Such bifocal glasses only
proved to be two crimes in one pail
Of "Spex"
This kind OF practice ought to be
proof enough to cause people to DE
MAND that the state of Ohio require
everyone who fits glasses to pass g