New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-09-21
HEALING WITHOUT
USING ANY Drugs
DruSless Assn. Holding COnYtn'
zion In New York

Of anything wrong anywhere IN this
complex cosmos. hitherto erEoneously
called vale Of tears, take u 10 Al
ramon Ira Lucas, He says he'll hN
IL, Just at the moment he Is devet-
ing his energies TO presiding - and
presiding is such a weak word IN con-
neetion with Or, Luess's energies -
over the third annual convention of
the American Drugiess association, He
was its founder. as we'll as founder OF
such little activities as the Rochester
Home Bstterment club, Is rooms ami
baths. and the super Race foundation,
The big convention 10 being held In
an otherwise normal hotel. with a
complaint CLERK and everything on
Seventh avenue, between fhlrty-see-
ond and Thifty-third streets. There
Dr., Lucas and his colleagues are COM
pounding sweetness and light out OF
such diverse elements as Freudian
Psychology. the electronie reactions OF
spectre therapy and the American
school OF matrimony Bridgeport,
Conn. whose founder and dean. ST.
mon Louis Katzoff, NJ. ID. Phi. ID. LII.
d., Is honoring the meetings with his
presence and will lecture tomorrow
on Appendicitis"
A Wide Range Of Topics
There was busy day yesterday for
the first day OF the convention. II
was an extended and diversified pro.
gram. ranging from symposium on
"rhe Trend of the Times" to an
address on Pre- natal onsideration
in Disease Prevention" by George
Warfeld Clark, u. ID. S.-the symbol
usually associated with doctor OF dom
tai surgery--from Fort Dodge. Iowa.
Yet II would be even within the
bounds OF DIR. Lucas modesty to say
Magma pars quorum fui."
He and the program had not only
the cure. but the prevention for every
catastrophe from the stork that gets
the genders mixed to the raging taxi
cab that cuts down the aged and de-
crepit In what ought to be their
prime. Furthermore there was proof |
of all of the achievements mentioned.
Not a soul present-and there were |
23-had ever been cut down and |
killed by taxicab.
And the doctors and the charming |
Mrs. Lucas children. Alzamon Ira
Lucas II, and Margaret Vivierne Luz
cas-, were there too. Their parents
say in all truth that long before birth
the sex and the vocation of each
child was determined by the conscious
desire OF the parents and the doctors
unique methods Of making these de-
sires effective.
Doctor As Gender Guide
How many parents can say as
much? Ninety-seven pairs, says the
doctor. In that number of cases, he
says. he has succeeded in guiding the
gender of the carefully planned for
infant. though he has not been able
10 predetermine their vocations in so
many instances.
In the case>,of his own son. now
mined vocation. He is also the most
wonderful child ever born into this
world, according to his father. And,
mike other fathers, he summons lit
lie AL I'd right up and proves 1t. The
,outh can lisp the name of every
bone in his body. He knows them al
some of them by their first
lames, by which he does not hesitate
o call them even In such mixed COM
,any as the American Drugless asso-
iation.
The openness and largeness of the
loctor's program is typified by the
act that the American Drugless asso-
iation doesn't mean that the doctor
r the organization is opposed to the
Use of drugs. He wants to bring it
IL together in peace and harmony,
rom chiropractic to gland surgery
nd from psychoanalysis to what he
als state medicine" One of the
hief objects of the convention is to !;
ct against legislation that prevents
theirs than members of the medical
ssociations practicing or accepting I
ees for their practice. y
For instance, in addition to the den {
st who discussed prenatal disease
revention last night and the dean of
ne school of matrimony, who will q
iscuss appendicitis today, Theodore E
hubert Larson, M. D., a surgeon g
.om Milwaukee, will discuss tomor- r
wv the method he demonstrated re- q
emily before the Tri- State Medical
for the transportation of