Article May 11, 1918 Issue

Our attention has been called to a recent article, written...

Ripon (Cal.) Record

Our attention has been called to a recent article, written by Mr. Peter V. Ross of the San Francisco bar, in which he complains of the growing tendency of the medical profession to invade our public schools and take any and all children therein found who may have a presumed physical defect, and attempt to correct it. This may be done with the best possible intention on the part of these professional gentlemen, and yet reason would inject a serious objection to such practice. In the first place, these gentlemen are not infallible; they may not have made a proper diagnosis before picking up the knife, saw, or hammer. Another objection may be urged,—that if done at all, it should be done in the privacy of the home and with the knowledge and consent of the parents.

The greatest objection, however, to our mind would be that our best surgeons are busy with their own practices; hence, the little, helpless tots would naturally fall into the hands of those less skilled, and who have a reputation to make and none to lose. Having no children of our own in school we are in the clear; but if we had, we feel sure that we would kick like blazes should some such thing happen without our consent. Young America is too precious, far too valuable, to be furnished as raw material to be worked over by some one of doubtful ability. Then, again, the system is all wrong, and should be prohibited.

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