Montana labor news., 1944-10-26
EFFORT TO Swear LIBERALS fails
UNIONS FAVOR
OSTEOPATHIC
INITIATIVE NO. 48

INITIATIVE IVUs 10
initiative No. 48 which will appear as
the last item on your ballot, November Z,
was petitioned for by many thousands Of
Montana citizens. Initiative No. 40 IN
sures the people the highest standards Of
~osteopathic service. A vote for the bill
will be a vote to give Montanans desir-
ing such the services Of qualified osteo-
pathic physicians.
The immediate need for the passage OF
Initiative No. 4s is due to a recent SUI
preme Court decision which ruled that
rights of practice which o~steopathic phy-
sicians were assumed to have lawfully
a for forty years were not properly
conveyed and they are now handicapped
in rendering their services.
initiative No. 4s would correct this
situation and unless it is corrected, II
will be only a few years until the peo-
ple of Montana who desire such may not
have the benefits of osteopathic serV-
i've. Several young o~steopathic physl-
clans have recently left the state and
others have been deferred from locating
here n are establishing themselves IN
states where practice rights are more
favorable and where they are not SC
pestered by jealous competitors, Montana
o~steopaths say.
A majority of the states Of the Union
now enjoy laws with similar or like pro-
visions to those provided for in Initiative
NO. 4S regulating the practice OF osteo'
nathic physicians and osteopathic sur
geons and they are to the advantage O
the health standards Of those states.
initiative No. 48 provides for the FOL
lowing educational qualifications Tor
license to practice as an osteopaJih
physician in Montana;
a -Four years high school with gradu
alton.
b Two years attendance m IN accleu
tied college or university.
= -Four years professional training !
an accredited college Of osteopath
and surgery.
Il The degree Doctor of O~steopathy.
e The successful passage Of an sun
iects prescribed by the Montan
state Board Of O%steopathic EA
aminers.
That still does not entitle the osteo
pathic physician to do general sufgei
md no -osteopathic physician now praC
+icino in the state would be licensed
a general surgeon by the passage OF N.
AZ To do general surgery, the appL
cant for a license to do so would III az
dition to all the above, have to spen
two years in surgical study and then p'
fore he could practice as u wound (
rem1ired to successfully pass an examlnt
tion in surgery and kindred subjects p'
Core a. committee of competent surgeon
cTbe members of this committee Won
be M. DIS as only such are available WIZ
those qualifications) No law IN Une IL
tion regulating the healing arts n
written into requirements for long
course of study or higher qualification
The enactment Of Initiative NO.
will IN no way affect the rating OF nc
nitals or nurses training schools La
with like provisions in other states ma
not affected the rating Of hospitals
nurses in those states. j.
Montana osteopaths say tha5 I
medical profession, through the so-cal
public Health League is vigorously Q
posing initiative No. 48 just as they ma
opposed all legislation having to Ok WI
The n,lblic health which does not col
under their domination. They "o'
uke tn control all public health laws
their own advantage and gam JusO
thew did in the FERA health progf'
when r. was in existence and as they
now controlling the Farm Security hea
nlan which makes it possible 1or an
8 A. client to have the services OF o
the doctor who has an M D." oee
after his name. Vote for Initiative
AZ to prevent RECOMMENDATION OF the p
nile into a health program dominated
the medical trust.
The U. S. government recognized
u,rb+s and qualifications Of osteopat
MUSICIANS and o%steopathic surgeons
e. hold commissions in the medical
Dartment of the U. S. Navy, CD to P
+;cinate in the Emergency Maternity
infant Care program, (c) to hold c'
missions in the U. S. Public He'
service. and ID to care for federal
nlovees under the terms OF the u
EMPLOYEES, Compensation Act.
Individual regular medical practlti
ers in some areas, in the spirit wi
welcomes any helpful service to the
and crippled so long as those rende
Il are qualified, have been most toiel
and cooperative. That is a spirit WI
the ~osteopathic physicians wouid see
emulate. -
rendering Of which is s~afeguardeo
high requirements for those renaerin
it would seem, should be avalaDi
the public.
give and let live" from pioneer
down. has been a Montana tenet,
fair play is generally a creed Oh
West.
cH1cAGo-FP)-stil another
international Endorsed President n
welt for reelection when the Dist.
Recefying and Wine Workers cor
49, ,,o4ad unanimously to uphold