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Show BE FAIR DJstrqict Attqrney .Woolwine of Los Angeles promises ta prosecute all parents of children who' do not employ physicians to attend the chil dren in case of illness, should the child die. This is especially aimed at the Christian Scientists. Suppose that in years to come the scientists should obtain control of the government machinery. Would they prosecute all parents who did not, employ Scientist practitioners. Few parents sacrifice their children chil-dren on the alters of narrow minded mind-ed philosophy. The history of the world .records indelibly the fact that the parent is the greatest and the nearest protector of the ' child. No parent, whether he believes in mental men-tal healing or in the use of medicine, medi-cine, will subject the child to unnecessary un-necessary risks in its battle for life. Instinct teaches the parent to fight for its young, even though the struggle strug-gle demand self sacrifice. How silly it is for an official to profess greater love than this in behalf be-half of the state! If the reasoning of Mr. Woolwine is sound and the state is justified in making an official investigation of child deaths occuring under nonmedical non-medical healers, then is not the state in duty bound. to take the same interest in-terest in deaths occuring under the school of medicine, for failure to re-sart re-sart to some other school in the effort ef-fort to render all possible service to the child? While it is true that the preponderance of the American people place their faith in medicine rnd surgery, it is al;n true that there pre many who whe place their frith elsewhere. No one school is infallible. Marvelous Mar-velous cures have been effected by all of them. Often these cures have come when competing schools offered offer-ed no hope. Schools of healing must j consider themselves in the service of humanity rather than in competition competi-tion with each other. In the meantime mean-time there is no need for attorneys, skilled in the knowledge of the law, to pass upon questions on which can offer no expert testimony. Mr. Woolwine displays a bias which not only illcomes the public official, but also reveals mental barriers in a profession pro-fession which should ever keep its gates open and hear the evidence before be-fore passing Judgment. |