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Show ciopiTsiiW TO CUE STATE ill LAIS Following a meeting hero yeste-day , of Utah chiropractors arrangements have been made to seek legislative changes which will bring about legal permission of chiropractors to pursue thxilr profession in Utah without interference. inter-ference. The chiropractors claim the present medica act creates a monopoly to the I medical board to dictate what methods of treatment the people may employ. TneJbone of contention, it Is said, between be-tween the medical doctora and the chiropractors chi-ropractors is the question of the light of the drugless healers to charge fori their services. The chiropractor uses absolutely no medicine. Secretary C. B. Johnson explains, yet he is continually contin-ually prosecuted bylhe medical board for "practicing medicine." He is not guilty of practicing medicine because i of the nature of his work, for ho deals entirely with the adjustment of the misplaced vertebrae, but he is declared declar-ed guilty because ho heals the sick for a fee. He must possess a medical license, the medical board declares, before be-fore he can charge for his work, and in tirdei to obtain a license he must complete a medical course in a r'-cog-l nized medical school. Chiropractic baa proven Its worth In the state, and since tho prosecution by the nudicall doctors is but to eliminate competition the chiropractors declaro it is a monopoly mo-nopoly and will endeavor to prove the law unconstitutional in the supreme couit. Every chiropractor of the con- volition voted solidly to stand by thoj principal of the solence and fight the unfair medical prosecution, as a. misuse mis-use of tho rights of the people. Re ' po. ts from the various members of the I stato si- ow that all members arc con-I con-I tinumg to practice ponding tho appeal ap-peal of recent decisions of the lower courts. Another Injustice of the medical act, according to tho chiropractors, :3 Us Injunction clause, which denies vnem a trial by jury. Efforts mill be made to Induce the next legislature to ii?nul this phase of the act. The next convention will be houl in Salt Lake. 00 |