The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-05-06
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Bv LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-Gen. Saturnio Ce-
~ dillo, the feudal chieftain of the
province of San Luis Potosi, is NOV
ing out of the ruck as the No. !
menace to the
Gen. CediitO Cardenas admins
No. 4 Menace tration, according
- rc-J.ro. to all one can
CLEAN at this
crossroads.
A friend of this writer, an oil OPP
orator who has reasons for remain
ing anonymous, brings news from
Mexico that the big, swarthy Mesti-
20, the most conspicuous hold-out on
the state agrarian program, is gain
ing a following in long sweep of
Mexican provinces, and, in this
view, dissident factions will swarm
in behind him, if there is further
drift toward civil war.
He has the friendship and
backing of various foreign inter-
ests, according to my informant,
and around his huge, stOlid.
grim person there is gathering
powerful opposition to the gov
eminent.
He is self-made fighting man
who served his apprenticeship in va
rious minor workouts, before the
big upheaval of 1910, when old Por-
firio Diaz was overthrown. He
Joined this revolt, but called HIM
self a conservative revolutionist.
He never liquidated his personal
army, now numbering about 10000,
and his autocratic
He Keeps Up state is firmly en-
DUN Army of cysted in the con-
IN OOO Men stitutional COM
monwealth. When
he resigned as secretary of agri-
culture on August IS, of last year,
it was reported that he had made
truce with President Cardenas, but
that talk seems to have been pre-
mature.
He was a member of the Ma
tional Revolutionary party COM
mittee of 1884, which drafted
Mexic0's six-year agrarian and
economic plan, but has been
determined and effective >oppo-
nent of such fixings, particularly
the Cardenas agrarian plan.
My friend picks Seniors Cardenas
and Cedillo as the two strong men
of Mexico, one being driven left
and the other right by the present
social tension.
THE Swiss bell-ringers, the one
4 armed trap-drummer, the circus
ring-master and all such supposedly
busy and preoccupied people are
just snoozing along
Tdp-Drur'ar1er compared to DR..
Has Nothing Morris Fishbein.
on Fiishbein goa Ike eper
against medical
quacks, heresies, panaceas, innova-
tions, utopias and unsanctioned ex-
periments.
When DR.. James H. Means, retir-
ing president of the American Col
lege of Physicians, drops few pro-
vocative words about self-imposed
medical reform, they scarcely hit
press wire before DR.. Fishbein
swings devastating counter-asser-
ton.
DIR. Fishbein is deliberately
equipped and organized for
timely blasts against any en-
cr0achment of subsidized or So
cialized medicine. AS editor of
the Journal of the American
Medical Association, with head
quarters in Chicago, he COM
mands large staff of secre-
tarieS and assistant secretaries,
trained like a fast ball club to
field any challenge or dissent.
He is undoubtedly the most highly
publicized medical man in America.
Through the journal, he reaches the
nations 10, 900 doctors; through Hy-
geia, the Aaore popularized medical
publicat M, he carries his message
to many more thousands and is a
prolific writer for national maya
zines.
He VOLTS hundreds of exchanges
and eight or ten medical books ev-
cry week, lee
rmds tnae lures, speaks on
for Fights the radio, reviews
on Quacks books, writes
books and, always
enjoying fight, keeps up a fast
running fight against the quacks.
When he finished Rush Medical
school, at the age of twenty-three,
he had the choice of becoming a
pathologist for the state of Indiana,
or an assistant editor of the Jour-
nal of Medicine.
He chose the latter. Mrs. Fish,
bein, who was Anna Mantel,
serves through the war with
him, travelling with him and as
sisting him in the biggest and
busiest job of medical journal
ism ever attempted. They have
three children.
DIR. Fishbein, plump, affable,
bald and fOrtv-eiohf wears old also