Life, 1912-07-04 · page 38 of 44
Life — July 4, 1912 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This page's main editorial content attacks the "Owen Bill," proposed federal health legislation. Senator Works of California is praised for opposing it as a threat to individual liberty. The article argues the bill would create a monopolistic "National Bureau of Health" controlled by allopathic (conventional) doctors—compared to Standard Oil's dominance of the oil industry. The critique claims this medical school unfairly brands competing practitioners as "irregular" and would wastefully create unnecessary positions for excess medical graduates. The piece presents this as a battle between individual freedom and institutional power, with the powerful American Medical Association portrayed as pulling strings behind the legislation. The Bausch & Lomb camera lens advertisement below is unrelated to the political content—it uses a sports photo to showcase the lens's ability to capture fast motion. The page reflects Progressive Era skepticism of concentrated institutional power and medical monopolies, particularly tensions between "regular" and alternative medicine practitioners.
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“Works Fights Medical Trust” Senator Works’ speech in the Senate yesterday, an abstract of which is given in our telegraphic columns, deserves the widest reading. If the confreres of the California member are open-minded and —but the free from the influence of the political doctors, they cannot fail to sce the grave Lens caught peril to individual liberty involved in the passage of the Owen Dill, creating a the Ball National Bureau of Health, with tremen- dous powers placed in one school of medicine. This school of medicine, which as- The ball was too fast for the player, siimes to itself “ regularity” and brands as “irregular” all that dispute its but a Tessar caught it. This lens will ground, has never failed to bitterly op- record on the plate the fastest things in pose liberty of mind and action in its are sure of the best possible results with a way. Many people forget that we have now an extensive Federal Health De- partment—the Marine Hospital Service. and ‘as ° The allopathic school controls it from aus om le Ss top to bottom, as completely as Standard Is Oil commands the oil business, The Owen bill proposes—not frankly, JESSAR [ENS but speciously—to create another bureau with almost monarchical powers over the individual, It proposes also to create official positions for an army of men turned out of the medical colleges in ex- cess of social needs. Against the selfish Its remarkable power of gathering and transmitting light gives the photographer unusual opportunities. iupertor euality of Bauch, © Lomb Hon and precise optical corrections of the Tessar few voices like Work’s are being raised, engineering and other sctentitic inst emake it superior for practically every kind of work. while the almost countless strings of the 1 the product of nearly years experience. ; Sgt varie Our new Catalog 37H giving prices and details powerful Ame Medical Association of different lenses tor various work, will be sent are being pulled —Los Angeles Tribune. postpaid on request, Write today. Your dealer can also give you interesting information. Practica, Manx: Not all who auto, Bausch €3 lomb Optical C. | oe ite Humph! Not all who ought to, auto, MEW YORK WASHINGTON CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO LONDON ROCHESTER. NY. "RANKroRT cf Philosophy A reader inquires of the Star as to what he calls “the sense of reading books on philosof Accordi has done some desultory THE RAREST OLD WHISKEY the writings of Professor MONEY CAN BUY Professor James, and once nto Bergson’s “ Creative HE Gibson distillation of 1900 is now being s soon frightened off marketed in one-gallon demijohns, and will me hopping mad,” he T be boxed and sent direct from our warehouse es I believe the r1 on order of your dealer—or to your personal cutie describing the xutse Dencalt address, prepaid—at Ten Dollars a gallon, there’ rong Oe cay | purity and quality guaranteed. Made by the most Ske of © Bercabeuers: Re approved methods, from ripe, carefully selected rye and . tey of the Monongahela valley. barrels 41864 to 41888, numbered : shiver's'dridiog at? | UB. Goveffiment, whose books 9 Oh, not But what of that? f0 le f/Vax paid Dec. 15, 1908. Neither do 1, her does she, And for that matter, nor does he _— sas City comprehend Perfectly at Home Wire: How imprudent you © only just finished dinner and my dear, le