Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-30

We need a new doctor. A doctor who
cures-not one who keeps us ill.
That's why we want to see Wendell
L. Willkie elected president of the Unit
ed States Nov. 5.
Extremes of the medical profession
offer the most apt parallel of all to to-
days political situation.
Suppose your child had been critical
iy M-upOn the point of deafh-serer
and a half gears ago. 1t UaS something
he ate, something that had interrupted
the normal operation of his entire sys-
tenn. Other children m the neighbour
hood lpere i'll, too.
This nation was critically i'll seven. and
a half years ago. 1t was something we
ate. 1t was the aftermath of the World
War, felt in every country in the world
with equal severity. Every nation in the
world was i'll, of the same malady.
Suppose you changed doctors at that
time, because of alarm OUer your ctiids
condition. Your neighbOrS kept their
regular family doctors, because they
Uerenf as free to change as you Were.
This nation did change doctors" seven
and half years ago, in alarm over its
condition. Its neighbors in the world
kept their regular practitioners.
Your neU doctor brought UOnderfH
results. He injected stiniuiants freely.
disease you had feared. In your relief
you failed to notice that the regular
family doctors the other families had
Kept also stopped the apparent spread
of the disease, but Uifhout injecting the
drugs.
This nations new doctor brought Won
derful results-but so did the regular
practitioners in other countries - and
bedridden without the stimulants.
The crisis passed, and your child re-
naained lUeak, en,dciated and bedridden.
Your doctor, SuaUe JOiced. charming in
manner, convincing beyond UOrds, found
suddenly that the child Was suffering
from another disease. He gaUe more sti-
niuIants. He prescribed more drugs. The
other doctors in the neighbOrh0Od plug
ged along, curing the first disease, get
ting their patients out of bed.
The crisis did pass in this nation, and
our doctor" discovered we had another
disease He injected more stimulants,
prescribed more drugs, convinced us in
his best bedside manner that we were
still too sick to act for ourselves.
Finally you lredried of hearing about
the second disease your doctor had dis
cOUered, and began to UOnder about it,.
But, startIingiy, he announced that your
child Uas suffering from still another
maIady. He injected more stimulants,
prescribed more drugs. The drugs elinii-
mated pain, made everything seem rosy
for Irhile. You Were happy, because
your child seemed not to be suffering
so much. You heard other children in
the neighbOrhOod still complaining, and
forgot to notice that they lCere on their
feet, ULiiIe your child LCas still bed-rid-
den.
We in this nation did weary of the
second crisis, and, 10 and behold! there
was another malady. More stimulants
more drugs. We were happy, because
the pain stopped for while. We did
not notice that other nations We're on
their feet again. We only heard them
complaining of the pain their doctors
caused.
You began to UOnder about the drugs.
the stimuidnfs, the continued diseases.
But epery time you seemed doubtful
yOur doctor discovered another, and
there nere more sfimufdnts, more rugs,
more crises. There Uas no end to them.
You W0ke up to realize that your child
was being made into a drug fend. You
began to look about, to see the neighbOr
children running around, far ahead of