The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., May 21, 1910, Page 372, Image 8

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Faculty Changes at the Mississippi
A. and M. College.
| ESS THAN a quorum of the members of the
_;_ Board of Trustees of the A. & M. College
met Wednesday evening, May 4, 1910, and
after a short session the following changes were
announced: Prof. W. L. Hutchinson, who has
been the Director of the Experiment Station and
Dean of the School of Agriculture, was made Di
rector of the Farmers’ Institutes, Professor of
Animal Husbandy, and Dean of the College of Ag
riculture; Mr. J. W. Fox, Assistant Director ol
the Delta Branch Experiment Station, was made
Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station;
Mr. E. R. Lloyd, who has been Director of Farm
ers’ Institutes, was made Animal Husbandman ol
the Experiment Station and Vice-Director; Mr
Archibald SmUh^ who has been Professor of Ani
mal Husbandiyand ex-officio member of the Livt
Stock Sanitary Board, was removed from this
position which he has so ably filled, and offered
the position of Assistant Director of the Delta
Branch Experiment Station.
A very few of these changes may be for th<
Vv a _ __ __ _ i_ . . _ _
uvbv» uavxiig ttuy tuiuwieage oi in(
duties of these positions, and the qualifications ol
the men, can not fail to see the absurdity of re
moving Professor Smith from a position for whict
he is known to possess the highest qualifications
and putting him in a position for which he has m
special training or fitness. Those who know the
manner in which Professor Lloyd has conductet
the Farmers’ Institute work will 'not appreciate
his removal from this work to a subordinate post
tion on the Experiment Station staff. But the
highest point of absurdity was reached when Pro
fessor Smith was removed as Professor of Anima
Husbandry in the College and the Director of the
Tick Eradication Work of the Live Stock Sanitarj
Board and Prof. W. L. Hutchinson given the Pro
fessorship of Animal Husbandry which also made
him, ex-officio, a member of the Live Stock Sani.
tary Board. With all kindness to Professoi
Hutchinson and with the highest appreciation ol
all his ability, it must be stated that he posseses
neither the training, knowledge, nor any othei
semblance of a qualification for these duties We
are doing Professor Hutchinson no injustice it
this statement; his training has been in entirely
different lines. J
The only honest, patriotic reason which could
possibly exist for taking Professor Smith off the
Live Stock Sanitary Board and putting Professoi
Hutchinson thereon is one, or all, of the follow
ing:
(1) That Professor Smith was incompetent as
Professor of Animal Husbandry in the College or
as Director of the Tick Eradication Work; or,
(2) That he is the best trained man that can be
found for Assistant Director of the Delta Branch
Experiment Station; or,
(3) That Professor Hutchinson is more compe
tent in animal husbandry and tick eradication
work than Professor Smith.
That all of these propositions are the extreme
height of absurdity, no member of the Board of
\ Trustees will, be rash enough to deny, but, of
' course, there is an explanation. To remove a
. man of outstanding ability from a position he has
filled with such marked efficiency as to put him
above criticism and for which he has had long
years of training and experience, and put in his
• place a man possessing no special training or
• knowledge regarding the work, is such a remark
able procedure as to call for an explanation.
' The live stock owners of the State have a right
! to this explanation and it is the duty of the Board
. to give them the genuine reasons for this most
remarkable procedure. Turn on the light!
Editorial Gleanings.
/ft/jN ALL OUR church affairs In America to
day (and the writer speaks as a member
LK—» of one of the leading orthodox churches)
there is nothing else so dark and shameful as the
church paper alliance with death-dealing patent
medicine fakirs and frauds. These church papers
are edited by good men who simply haven’t been
Informed, haven’t studied the matter, and if every
church member in The Progressive Farmer and
Gazette Family will read our open letter on next
page and then write a note or postal card to his
own church editor, we’ll have a reform that will
not only save untold human lives, but remove
perhaps, the darkest blot on organized Christian
ity in America.
m
. and Mule Special will be June 4th
ead of May 2 8th as we had announced. This
postponement will give you time to get In your
experience In raising horses and mules, or buying
them, or training them, or feeding them, or work
ing them, or about them in any way. Let us hear
from you at once; there’s not a day to lose, and
we want to have this Special just chock full of
bright, brief, snappy talks of a practical nature
by practical farmers.
*
1?68t 1111118 to d0 t0-n,*ht Cor to-morrow
night, if you can’t do it to-night) will be to have
our reply to the patent medicine advertising
agency read aloud to the whole family so that
every member, young and old, will learn the plain
truth about the biggest swindle and fraud in
America to-day. We account this matter too
as strictly within the province of a farm paper
because It is the farmers and farmers’ PWives
Tnd° ,8,UTrt the Patent medlc,ne fraud to-day
aklr wl LT6 Wak® UP t0 ,ts vIlen«s. the
raklrs will be forever put out of business
i the artlcle and Bh°w it to your neighbors.
A Thought for the Week.
fjjjaE the MEN of to-day and of tho f„,uro
aM x rutl“ “we •« »° i» ««
important oVat^X."^ ^TatT
and" °XnU ““Xtllnio'"^fU“'la,ne'‘ta‘
all-important virtues iXo arX '
work, if he ha. not in him ttXXnXh W‘" n0t
to be a good husband and father Xh.P°Wer
woman is not a good house wX.' } a,araee
many healthy children iv a good motl*er of
W ill go “wm n„“Xr X. *“* W1U
of artistic development 1 “ar,be ltB brilliance
But these homelyPqualltiea J?aterlfal achIeven»ent.
must, in \ ,Ues are not enough. There
that power ot working la organisation,
: end. which the Gernan '°T ‘ com“°o
signal fashion during the last haTfV^11 ln 8UCh
over, the things of the snfrtt 6ntUrjr* Mor®
Portant than the things £ YlYT “°re lm'
well do without the hard intoi body’ We can
tellectual barrenness of whaf6^06 aDd arId ,n'
theological systems of the pas^ burY0? ,n the
been greater need of a hS bUt}bere has never ■
spirit than at the present 6 relI^ous ,
Roosevelt’s address at B r n Y °m Tbeodore ,
1910. Berlin, Germany, May 12, 1
1
An Open Letter Exposing Fakirs and
Falsehoods.
j [Turn first to page 368 and read the attack on
our position by the advertising agency handling
patent medicine advertisements, and then read
our reply herewith, in connection with the em
phatic letter of Dr. Wiley on page 377. We had
intended publishing the letter with names and ad
dresses, but the agency in question after getting
this reply hastened to announce that their letter
was not written for publication anyhow, conse
quently we omit all mention of their names, sim
ply publishing the statements in their letter in
order that our readers may get their side of the
case. ]
Gentlemen:—I have your letter of April 28th,
the gist of which is contained in a single para
graph.
‘The Pure Food and Drugs Act, passed
several years ago by Congress and now in op
eration, makes it utterly Impossible for such
a thing as a patent medicine fakir to exist.
If you will read the law, and if you will study
the workings of the law, you will find this to
be the case. Where, then, are the patent
medicine fakirs and the vicious quacks?
Can you not specify?”
Very well, I shall take a great deal of pleasure
In "specifying.” I have Just picked up a copy of
my own church organ, dated March 2, 1910, edited
by a man who is my friend and whom I admire,
but whose advertising is chiefly furnished by you,
and two ads. in this issue will answer the purpose
of "specifying.” I might mention a full page ad.
at the back In which "Bodi-Tone” professes to
cure nearly all the Ills that flesh is heir to; I
might call attention to an ad. of a "specialist" ex
posed, I believe, by a man from your own State a
few weeks ago; I might discuss a disgusting ad.
from Joliet, 111., but we will let all these pass, and
will take up two other specimen ads. for the pur
pose of “specifying,” and you may read them for
yourself, if you. can without blushing. Here they
are: [See reprints of these ads. on page 377.—
Editor.]
You must have seen these ads.—most lik«l~
they were furnished by your own agency,—and
' --—~ ^ mai unaer me new
Pure Food and Drugs Act "such a thing as a pat
ent medicine fakir can not exist.” When a scoun
drel can prey on the naturally sanguine temper
ament of a pitiful consumptive, can delude him
with false hopes for the filthy dollars that he may
wring from the dying sufferer, and when, more
over, he can use the professed Institutions of the
Living God to find his victims—in Heaven’s name
what need have we of any further witness? You
virtually start your letter by referring to an hon
estly-expressed opinion of mine as "a false state
ment ; if I were inclined to be no more respect
ful, I should have more reason for saying that
your assertion that patent medicine fakirs simply
can not exist is not only false, but pitiable for Its
very impotence and absurdity.
*
It happens that all over the United States to
i ? ®re,at organ,zed movement against tuber
culosis Is In progress and noble men and women
ar! S™ tIme and mo“ey in an efTort to stamp
graat plague* and °ne of the greatest dif
ficu ties they have to encounter is the tendency of
Victims tn nnt i_ _■ ■ *
foir<*a _.u . »«tiuuu quacK8 ana
IrSK*W^°' 88 1 Baid ,n tbe atatement to which
you object, and said truly, “rob the sick and dy
,n-«i0ftie.n delud,ng the 8ufferlng with false hopes
tJ n.a",C,ha“Ce °f recovery by Proper medical
treatment Is forever gone.”
happens, moreover, that In my own city a
Pd »!7LUl°,8lS Exhlb,t,0°. in charge of distinguish
ed au i°/,t,e8l°n th,s 8ubJect- baB Just been open
tor^ hT ^ubl,c* and ln bia opening addresB Direc
tor e. j. Routzhan declared:
P.irid 18 a truth that consumption can be
cured. Patent medicines won’t do this, ‘for
of^m’”*UdS and fak6a aDd 1,e8’ Bveryon®
He went further than I would have gone, and
ndil^H undff8tand aBd appreciate his righteous
ndlgnatlon. At a great Antl-Tuberculosls Meeting
11 Greensboro. N. C.. a few weeks ago, the same
yarning against patent medicines was sounded by
/\.SL°°d8 Hutcb*nson. the distinguished author
)T The Conquest of Consumption,” and one of
he most famous medical authorities In America,
is well as by Dr. Livingston Farrand. Secretary
rreasurer of the American Tuberculosis Assocla
ion. Dr. Hutchinson’s expert testimony was that