Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-30
THE DOCTOR HASN'T
CURED THE PATIENT

yOur OiCn child in recovery. YOH asked
syOur doctor about it. He talked in his
suaUest roice. He charmed you with
lrords. He aiIayed your fears. And you
forgot to notice that he had not explain
ed his failure to effect cure. So you
let him prescribe more drugs.
We in the United States did begin to
wonder, to look about, to see other ma
tionS far on the road to recovery while
our own economic system was still bed
ridden. We saw our people being made
into a nation of rehefers and unemplOy
ed. We asked questionS-and we were
charmed by the dulcet tones of the
worlds greatest radio voice. We sue
cumbed, and accepted more drugs for
our national life.
Finally the day aIaiUed Uhen you could
no longer be fulied into false satiSfac-
tion With your family doctor. You had
all but decided upon a change.
The day did arrive when the people
of the United States were ready for
change. There would have been no ques-
ton about it-had it not been for events.
Then, lrith your mind about made up,
an epidemic sUept the HeighbOrhOOd.
Other children came dOUn Uith it. Yours,
because he had not been directly expos
ed, escaped the diseaSe-at least for
While.
An epidemic did sweep the world just
as we were ready for a change in this
nation. War came, and other nations
fell prey to it. We escaped-at least for
a while-becauSe of our traditional isO-
lation.
Your doctor fastened upon this cpl
deniic, used it to cOnUince you that you
could not nop afford to change-that
his child's fate must be left in his hands.
that he and he alone n all the WOrld
lcas competent to keep the epidemic
aUay.
Our national doctor did fasten upon
the epidemic of war to prove to us that he
was the indispensable man - that he
alone should be trusted with our lives
in this time of real crisis. His charm
was turned on full blast. He told us we
must not let him go.
About this time another doctor ap-
pedred in your tOUn. A man Uith a ma
ttOndi reputation. A proved surgeon
SICK yards and hospitals, not in the
cloistered halls of medical college.
Another man did appear on our ma
tional horizon, offering us his services
A man with national reputation, whose
personal integrity had never been assall-
ed even by our suave-voiced national doc
tor. A proved administrator, whose eX-
perience was gained in wrestling a liv-
ing from the world and in administer
ing great holdings, not in directing poll
tical organizations without thought of
economy or good business administration.
man who had really effected cures in
the field of his practice, instead of ere
ating new crises to keep him on his job
Looking at your sex child, raUish-
ed by seUen years of drug taking, still
suffering from, his first disease, and Uith
numerous others added since then, lUhat
ICOuld you do? Would you trust this
charming, Inefficient, ineffective doctor
to keep the neU epidemic aUdy from
HIM? Or WOutd you change doctors?
Would you retain the surgeon of prOUen
ability, in place of the man UhO has fail
ed to cure one single disease, but has
time after time "discoUered' neU dis
ease?
We believe you would change doctors.
And we believe the United States Of
America should change doctors.
We want cure, even if it is painful
one.
We believe Wendell l.. Wilkie can eff
feet that cure. We hope he will be given
the OpnOrtunity to do So