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Show I A DOCTORS IDEA OF PROGRESS. Dr Victor V, Vaughn the new heart Of the American Medical association, made an address out of the ordinary when he spoke to his fellow doctors yesterday at Atlantic City. N. J. lie said that we boast of a croat civilization, civiliza-tion, but ti-"- historian of the future will have no difficult in convincing his rpnders that those who lived .it the beginning of the twentieth century cen-tury were but slightly removed irem barbarism, as he will tell that the school, saloon and house of prostitution prostitu-tion flouriMv-d in .lo proximity II that the capitalist worked bis cm-I cm-I plcyes under conditions whU b pre I eluded soundness of body, t hat the Ijbor union nun dynamited buildings; that while we sent missionaries to I convert thr Moslems and the Budd-hist, Budd-hist, 10,000 murders wore committed annual) in our midst, and that u large percentage oi our mortality was due to preventable disease." Dr Vaughn is somewhat extravagant extrava-gant In his language, when he says the historian will find the people who lived at thi beginning of the twentieth century were but slightly removed frum barbarism, but his indictment, in-dictment, as .specifically set forth, holds to the trut ii He might have added that the people are money 1 crazy and nearly all the finer sensibilities sensi-bilities are suppressed, that obstruct the way to the acquiring of the as-mighty as-mighty dollar From the- doctors point ol view, oui greatest progress Is to be round in the scientific investigations which' hae brought about developments of1 medicine, curative and preventive, su that h? r. rage of human life h3s been Increased by 15 years, with a promise of an equally great lucrease in the next 20 years This reminds us that nearly all the: improvements in sanitation and treat-' ment of diseases have come within J the past twenty years on |