Article April 18, 1925 Issue

Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication for the Year Ended September 30, 1924

For the District of Columbia.

Replies and corrections were published in seven instances. Refusal to print corrections invariably came from publications of a denominational character. One advertisement of an irregular practitioner, which appeared several times in one of the newspapers, was discontinued when the matter was called to the attention of its manager. There was also a syndicated article, critical and adverse to Christian Science, which was withheld from publication in one of the local papers upon the request of your Committee. The wisdom of Mrs. Eddy in establishing the activity of the Committee on Publication is becoming more apparent each year in a rapidly diminishing desire on the part of newspapers to print any criticism or incorrect statement concerning Mrs. Eddy or Christian Science.

The number of bills introduced in the past session of Congress was approximately ten thousand in the House and five thousand in the Senate. The titles of all these bills were scanned in this office to see if they contained anything of interest to the Cause of Christian Science. Approximately two hundred bills were read thoroughly, and sixty-two were found to be of such interest to the Committee on Publication that they are now in his active file. Amendments offered by the Committee to the dentistry bill were accepted. This bill was passed and is now a law in the District. One bill with our amendment has been passed by the House and is now before the Senate Committee. Another bill with our amendment is on the House Calendar. The Committee on Publication desires to call the attention of the field to a hearing on bills pertaining to the practice of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, and chiropractic before a subcommittee of the Senate Committee for the District of Columbia. At this hearing, conducted by three senators, there were some seventy-five representatives of the various systems of healing. Objections were offered by the Committee on Publication to S. 1738, a bill "To regulate the practice of medicine and midwifery in thr District of Columbia." Attention of the president of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia was called by the chairman of the Senate Committee to the many objections raised by Christian Scientists to this bill. The Senate Committee requested the different branches of the medical fraternity to get together during the summer and draw up a new medical practice bill and "to be sure and see that the Christian Scientists are protected." This was the unanimous expression of the three attending senators.

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