Show MAKING WAR ON DOCTORS Iowa Io Telephone Manager Imports Hia Hi- Hi a Mil a 01 Physicians on Salary Webster City la Ia May 26 A 26 A batte battie battle bat bat- tie tle te royal is waging between E E. E H H. Martin manager of or the Martin Telephone Telephone Tele Tele- phone c cOmpan and the physicians of or orthIs this city an and Martin Martn f is now importing physicians from Chicago and other othea cit cities cit cit- ant ct- ct Ics ies employing them on salaries and compelling them to cut prices for fOI professional proCessional pro pro- services with wih the o object in ira view icv of injuring the business of the regular physicians and If 1 possible I driving them out of town The feeling between the belligerents is vcr very bitter bitter bit bit- ter and each sl side e to the unique cont contest con con- t test st declares the battle shall be fought to th the bitter bIter en end Last month Manager Martin notified the physicians of Webster ebster City that he had decided to rl raise e their telephone rates from Crom 50 to per month In his letter giving the physicians notice no no- tice of ot the proposed advance in lit rates he sold said that If it I they refused reused to pay monthly he would have the telephones telephones tele tele- phones removed from their offices Soon after the receipt of oC the managers manager's otes letter leter the physicians held a meeting decided ed not riot to pa pay the advanced rate Irate and with ith wih two exceptions called caled on the manager In a body Ody and ordered him to take the telephones out of both their offices and their houses house Thereupon Theu Manager Martin published publish publish- ed in all the the tho city a statement statement state state- ment to the effect that he proposed to tomake tomake tomake make war upon the physicians ant and at the same time he Inserted in various state papers advertisements for phi phy to come com to We Webster City open offices c work o k on salaries to be e pal paid by mm Li Im patients considerably l less ss for tor professional services than the regular physicians had be been n accustomed accustom accustom- ed to charge Within a few days ays letters began egan to come conic to Martin from Martn young oung physicians Just out of ot college and old olt on ones who had not be been n making much money in the towns where the they were practicing Martin an answered promptly and already a n number have accepted his terms and opened ollices in ii the cl city and begun to cut prices It I looked at first as a If Martin was in a fair way to win the fight against the regular but ut soon after the I arrival of the salaried l ater the tho farmers In the countr country round about Webster CI City took a hand In the thc contest contest con con- test on the side of the regular clans b by ordering Martin to take out theIr r t telephones Phones and to k keep keel ep them out Then too some Ome of the patrons of the telephone company compan In town have begun besun U to show ShoU S sympathy with the physicians nn and the light fight I Is or on in en rnest |