The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-25
.REvE RSE SUFFERED
 BY CH|ROP FACTORS
 IN OPENING FIGHT
Committee Adverses Bill to Establish State Chiropractic Board After Hearing
 Arguments
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU I
 THE AGE-HERALD ! Montgomery. Ala, Jan. 24


 The practice of chiropractic or ad- justments of the vertebra so as to eliminate pain will not De legalized in Alabama if the legislature follows the recommendation of the senate judiciary committee. By a vote of to the committee late Wednesday voted to make an adverse report on the bills providing for a state ex amining board for chiropractlc which was introduced in the senate by Sem ator Griffith of Cullman.
 The vote came following 8 hear ing which continued more than two hours and after scores of telegrams of protest against the bill had been received from physicians and sur geons.sa The house colnmittee which sat with the senate committee dur ing thes public hearing. postponed action on the bin similar to the sen ate bill which was introduced in the house by Representative St. John Of Cullman.
 SEED BACKS CHIROPRACToRS
 The hearing has developed the chiropractic bill as one of the most important pieces of legislation which will come before the law makers at the short session. Not only did the chiropractors present a strong case but they brought before the commit tee large number of persons who testified that they had been cured or had been benefited by the adjust ments made by chiropractors. Among those who spoke from experience was Walter D. Seed, of Tuscaloosa, former lieutenant governor of Ala 1. .x-1,r fn1l |, ,,ft taa h opractor had relieved him of suffer- ing after medical practitioners said relief could come only through sur gical operation.
 Then came the counter attack of the state board of health which pre- sented to the committee an affidavit of Judge J. Lee Holloway of Mont gomery, judge of the juvenile court, who swore that he went to a chiro practor in Montgomery for treatment and received such serious injuries that he had been confined to his home for several weeks. He said the chiropractor in his alleged ad justment struck him two licks on the back of the neck and two licks between the shoulder and the back bone and then two licks on the spine where the trouble was" On the second treatment. according to his affidavit, he heard something pop and the chiropractor said, "Ah, that Is fine, did you hear that pop?' and the judges affidavit answered you have broken my back"
 HOLLOWAY INDIGNANT
 Judge Holloway said he then went to Hot Springs in search of health. remained five weeks, and returned to Montgomery, but is still unable to attend to his duties or work with out crutches. T can attribute my sickness Of nearly five months only to the treatment 1 received from the hands of the 'chiropractor, closed Judge Holloway's affidavit.
 Chiropractors argued that they want a separate examining board in order that the undesrables in their profession may be eliminated and they contended that the medical department as now organized will not do justice to chiropractors be- cause those connected with the de- partment are prejudiced against the science" as they called it. and against the "cult" as the board of health called 1t.
 The board of health, through Dr. s. W. Welch, state health officer, contended that there Is nothing in the medical laws of Alabama which prevents the chiropractors from practicing in Alaabma. but there Is a provision which requires all per sons practicing in Alabama to ob tain certificates showing proper qualification. pr. Welch told the committee that when a person had complied with the laws regarding qualification he can practice chiro- practice of any other method of heal ing.
 Dr. Perdue Argues
 Dr. F. NJ. Perdue of Kansas City made the first argument in favor of the bill. He told the committee he holds a license to practice medi- cine. chiropractic and osteopathy and that he sometimes uses medicine, other times chiropractic adjustment and still other times the science Of osteopathy. Dr. Perdue said chiro- practic is not medicinal practice and that there is a distinct sphere for the chiropractor and cases which can be touched by the chiropractor when they cannot be touched by the medi- cal man or surgeon. He said the bill had been passed in 2e states and that cfiropractors of Alabama only ask that law be enacted
 tContinued on Page sixteen)