The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-12-16
The Week
= ROSCOE SIMMONS :


American Medical Association. May
be the Grange would have sent a
copy to the National Medical Asso-
citation if it had known the address of
DIR. w. G. Alexander. You know
what the National Grange is, of
course.
The Grange asks the American
Medical Association to undertake a
hard task. It appeals for more doc
tors for the country. The country
doctors, in the opinion of the Grange,
threaten to become extinct, within
ten years if the movement towards
the city and specialization continues
at the present rate"
Such an appeal sent to DR.. Alex
ander at Orange, New Jersey, would
probably get the reply. "As far as
the National Medical Association
goes, the country doctors are about
already extinct"
Not only Country doctors" only
n few of whom colored people ever
had, but town doctors. City doc
tors of the South followed the exiles
to the North. Then small town doc
the North, settled in Southern cities.
Many unable to decide whether to
heal the sick or steal their own am
bitions for sudden wealth went in for
banking, industry, real estate and
medicine on the side. Instead of two,
they serve several masters.
S& II.
Millions of collored people in the
South have only heard Of "colored"
doctor. Thousands that once hunted
"colored" doctors up now find them
selves at the mercy of white physi-
clans more interested in keeping them
sick than in curing them or having
then. die.
Did you ever hear Booker T. Wash
ingtcn tell of the white doctor who
returned from vacation and found
that his son, young doctor, had
cured an old colored patient? why"
the old doctor said to his son, 81 edu-
Gated whole family on that case.
You have ruined me-" ..--t.. ~,
Or. George w. Hubbard, founder
of Meharry Medical College and one
of the worlds greatest ben. factors
often said TO this humble writer,
"Tne south is sick and only the south
can heal itself"
Doctors, go South and keep in mind
Voltaire's thought, that in order to
know the properties of the human
body the physician must study nat
ere from his youth up. Few great
physicians are social lions. Doctor,
govern yourself accordingly.
2. Any meeting of the G.. o. P.
interests you. When Democrats meet
your fears increase. When Repub-
licans meet your hopes rise. Is not
that true?
December 6 the National Commit
tee of your party met in Washington,
the first and last city under your
flag. Think of Washington, but stay
from it.
DO you think it strange that the
Democratic Party never meets where
its members live? The last conven-
ton held South was in 1860, at
Charleston. Out of that convention
came the Civil War. Out of that
war came YOU, hand in hand with
God. Calhoun was dead then.
The two great men on Gods side
in the Rebellion came from Illinois.
GRANT AND LINCOLN. Both were
first put up by Republicans for Pres
ident in Chicago. Lincoln in 1860,
Grant in 1863. Read; study. ,t
3. The last survivor of John Brown
stands at Harper's Ferry, John Ed
ward Rastall, Is dead in Washington
Direct from the seat of government
made free by John Brown, Rastall
reported to- his old commander. or
reaching the other side, "Sir, all is
we'll"
A good book to read on John Brown
is Oswald Garrison Wizards history
If you can afford it, buy it and take
it home. Reading makes full man
Have the children read Willard!
book to you and discuss it at the din
ner table. You will then be twice
filled, once through the mouth ant
then through the mind. Otherwise
get it from the library.
Southern colored children don't ge
much of John Brown, now and thei
they sing: "John Browns body lie
a-moulderinp in the grave" That i
about all. What they get about Lin
I coin Is dlsgrace1ul.
william Hale Thompson, please
take notice.
This Is what Governor Henry W
Wise. of Virginia, who saw that Johl
Brown was hanged, said OF Jchl
Brown:
"Tbey are n,istsken who think
John Brown could be a mad man.
He is arbundle Of the best nerves
ever saw, bleeding and in
bonds. He is a man Of courage.
cool, collected and indomitable."
(Look up that last word)
Frederick Douglass thought She
Green the hero Of that day. Whe
you think Of Lincoln as Savior
the Union, think Of John Brown q
his forerunner Jesus had his job
the Baptist and Lincoln had his job
Brown. If Jesus takes exception I
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