Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-03-27
YOrJR EYES

Have you been reading our eye
letters? Have some of you been told
that they are not correct? That
they are foolish and untruthful?
That optometry does not practice
the method or recognize the princi-
pie? That you get glasses to see with
and not to dim vision worse, ETC.?
If you are one of the hundreds
that have been told these things,
why don't you ask them to come
around and debate the principle
with us? If they cannot debate the
question with us, then why should
you be their agent to carry thing
you do not know concerning it's
truth?
We never give a pair of glasses
that our instruments have not posi-
lively demonstrated that there is as
much or more error than the glasses
represent. When much of it is
cramped muscles, as it usually is in
younger people, then of course
these correct glasses will fog vision
until the cramp relaxes. Then you
will have best possible vision as well
as easiest possible vision. But in
cases where one does close work
nearly all day, as in high school
work, they cannot fully relax for
they can not stay tensioned for near
work all day and relax. So of course
vision will stay some dim until va
cation, when they will clear up and
get strong for next years work if
full correction glasses are worn con-
tinually.
If our practice is not recognized
To do Nv wy n
est and largest national optical mag
aZines requested me to send them a
few articles each year? They know
my hobby and agree to pay me four
dollars a page for whatever / send
them. A short time ago I sent one
of these magazines two page arti-
Gle on eye muscles, eye examination,
muscle cramp, etc. | criticised as
strongly as possible those who ig-
more these most important principles
of eye examination and correction,
along some other wrong practices
/ enclosed stamps for the return of
the article if they did not care to
use one with SO scorching temper
ature Here is the reply / promptly
received:
Dear Mr.. Stebbins:
l have just had time to give a
hurried glance over the article ac-
companying your recent letter.
/ will be glad to use the article
and | don't believe | will find need
for any changes in it.
If it seems to 'sissle' too much on
press, we will substitute asbestos
for the usual paper.
Appreciating your cooperation, !
beg to remain,
Yours very truly,
The Keystone Publishing Co.
S. Reid Warren, Editor"
Does this sound like my practices
have no standing with the high ups
in optometry?
Well, it does not require much
faith in the spex man to get one to
wear glasses that let him see best at
first. They usually do not change
the accustomed position of muscles,
only just enough to give a seeming
temporary better feeling. But
glasses that take hold of a set of
crooked, cramped muscles and force
( them out to straight position will
cause SO much uncomfortable tired
feeling for short time, that it re-
| quires some faith and some under
standing of the thing we desire to
accomplish, or you are liable to say
that if l wear these fool spex an
other hour I'll go blind. Thus un-
derstanding and faith is absolutely
necessary for our way of fitting
glasses.
Remember eye muscle cramps are
the cause of nearly all eye diseases
of either young or old. If we permit
our spines to get crooked when
young, we will be liable to have a
diseased body when Old If we have
crooked eyes through young life we
| will be liable to have cataracts or
glaucomas when older.
G.. F. STEBPINS,
Optometrist