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Show DEB SCORED 1 8! METHODISTS Beer Pronunciamento Stirs Ire of Churchmen in Washington. j (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) ! WASHINGTON, D. C, Juue 21. This bunch would make an Indian medicine man hold his nose," is an ex-' pression that does not sound Hko church talk, but it is. ' It was applied today by the board 0f temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal Ichurch, by Bishop William F. McDowell, Mc-Dowell, president, to officials of the Allied Medical Association of America, vj-hich recently went on record in favor of 2."5 Por cen' beer. "Fake, and a German fake at that," ' is the title given by the Methodist board to a statement issued today com- 'mentiDg on the medical association's attitude. . "The 'Allied Medical Association of America,' '' says the Methodist statement, state-ment, "is reported in the daily press as having gone on record in favor of 2.75 per cent beer. Dr. Ignatz Mayer, tie president, is especially quoted. . "ireat publicity has been given this by the liquor interests. t '"The Allied Medical association, ac cording to the very best authority in America, is not representative of scientific scien-tific medicine. Ignatz Mayer was born fa Austria, and he is advertised as ''specializing ''spe-cializing exclusively in the cure of rupture.' rup-ture.' L. Mottefy, secretary-treasurer, and apparently the chief organizer, was born in Hungary, and has received expensive ex-pensive newspaper publicity in connec- ' ' lion with anti-vaccination activities and an alleged cure for cancer. " "This bunch would make an Indian medicine man hold his nose. "And yet Mr. Gompers has the effrontery ef-frontery to quote these queer men to the -judiciary committee of the senate." The statement then quotes a recent resolution of the American Medical association, as-sociation, with a membership of SO. 000 leading physicians, declaring opposition to the use of alcohol as a beverage, and that its use as "a therapeutic agent shou'J be further discouraged." |