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THE CRITIQUE is entered at Denver Postoffice as Second Class Matter.

JAMES WILLIAM MASTIN, M. D., EDITOR-MANAGER, 719 MACK BLOCK

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ONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE FISHER. The foregoing sounds rather "classy," and while it may be somewhat premature as to positiveness, still more serious calamity might befall the people of Colorado than the foregoing were fate, good fortune or other favor to bring about the election of Dr. Fisher to this most important public position. The nomination was made by the "Progressive" party of this state, which has for its emblem the "Bull Moose" and Teddy Roosevelt.

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NAVOIDABLE DELAY. The unavoidable delay attending this issue of THE CRITIQUE, comes just at a time when we were congratulating ourselves that such a thing would be almost an impossibility. During the past month the presses, machines, employes and other features of our up-to-date printing plant, have been on the jump morning, noon and night, owing to the overzealousness of political aspirants in announcing their many qualifications for official preferment.

No one regrets this more than the mechanical department; as for the editor, he has always been a stickler for prompt issue on the first of the month, but in this particular case can see no easier way out of the dilemma than to look leasant and pretend he likes it.

EATH OF DR. J. C. HOLLOWAY. We were given a decided shock the 5th of the present month, when the following letter was handed us in our morning's mail. It is needless to say no message or other information concerning Dr. Holloway's passing had reached us previously. Dr. Holloway was a consistent homœopath and one of the few men in the country who practiced what he preached. His preachments in THE CRITIQUE concerning homœopathy were of a high order and occupied a distinct class by themselves. THE CRITIQUE, its editor, our patrons and homœopathy have lost a friend whose place it will be almost impossible to fill. The letter from Dr. Holloway's son tells the story:

DR. J. W. MASTIN, Denver, Colorado.

Galesburg, Ill., Sept. 2, 1912.

DEAR DOCTOR: Yours of the 27th addressed to my father has been received. It is with much sorrow that I am compelled to advise you that my father died in the Homœopathic Hospital at Chicago on Saturday. August 24th, at 6:45 p. m. I wired you to that effect the next morning from Chicago, but from your letter it appears you never got the message.

His death was wholly unexpected, for not later than 4:15 p. m. of the day he died he was examined by Dr. White, chief of the hospital staff, who apparently did not find anything alarming at that time, but the hospital people said that within an hour or so his lungs suddenly congested and his heart was not strong enough to force the blood through them, and he died.

He was buried at Bruceville, Indiana, on Wednesday, the 28th, at

10 a. m.

As you no doubt know, my father had worked up a splendid practice here, and numbered among his patrons the best families of the city and surrounding country, who had been educated up to wanting Pure Homœopathy and nothing else. Now, not only for the sake of his family, but for these patients, some Pure Homeopath, who is willing to pay what it is worth, should come in here and take my father's old office, office furnishings, library, etc. Can you put us in touch with such a doctor or advertise the opening in THE CRITIQUE? Anything that is done will have to be done at an early a date as possible, as we will have to make immediate arrangements about the office.

I am sure that account your friendship for my father and association with him you will not treat this request lightly, but will do all you can at once, and thanking you in advance, I remain,

Sincerely yours,

H. B. HOLLOWAY.

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OLORADO HOMOEOPAHIC SOCIETY. President Swerdfeger has favored us with a partial program of the forthcoming meeting of the State Society, and while it goes no further than to designate the bureau chairmen and chairwomen, sufficient information is contained therein to assure the members a most successful session.

No better choice could be considered than the Brown Palace Hotel as a meeting place, and the forthcoming session of the American Institute will do well to investigate this establishment in choosing "headquarters" for the national meeting. The "Brown" is known all over the civilized world and the mere fact of its being chosen headquarters for the 1913 meeting would be sufficient guarantee of personal comfort and complete satisfaction on the part of all to take advantage of its hospitality; it is not necessary, however, that this hotel be the only one taken into consideraton, inasmuch as Denver has many which will answer the requirements of different demands.

Be it understood, however, the Brown is headquarters for the Colorado Homœopathic meeting which convenes the 24th and 25th of the present month.

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ICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY. The U. of M. is one of the largest state institutions in the United States. During the past year the daily census, during the scholastic term, showed an attendance of over fifty-five hundred students. From among this number nearly every state in the Union was represented, besides which nearly every foreign country furnished its quota.

In other words, the University of Michigan is a decided credit to the educational feature of this country's well-earned reputation for high educational standards.

One of the seven departments of the State University of Michigan is the Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital connected therewith, and the fact of this department having shown an increase in attendance, while the old school department of the same institution has had a decrease in attendance during the past year, is sufficient cause for felicitation on the part of homeopaths throughout the entire country.

It is only by better management, better results and better principles well presented, that it is possible such creditable showing could be made.

THE CRITIQUE congratulates the Homeopathic Medical College of the U of M.

CING THE A. M. A. ONE BETTER. In his caustic Critic and Guide Dr. W. J. Robinson goes Dr. McCormack, walking delegate for the American Medical Association, "one better" in his plan to taboo all medical journals which fail to feature their advertising pages so as to conform to the standards promulgated by the A. M. A. Dr. Robinson rubs it in thusly:

"I will go Dr. McCormack one better. Here is mine:

"I suggest that anybody who edits, publishes, contributes to, subscribes for, or receives free or as an exchange, or has in his possession-either about his person or on his desk-a medical journal which carries the ad. of a single preparation not approved by the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, should be summarily expelled from the American Medical Association. Should this not prove a sufficiently drastic deterrent, then the culprit should be deprived of his license to practice. A term of imprisonment might be considered later on.

"But I would make all these punishments retroactive. How is that?" "Why so many resignations?" continues this critic.

"During the past year 299 members of the A. M. A. died, 500 have been dropped as non-eligible, 987 have been dropped for non-payment of dues, and 1,301 have resigned. The dead, the 'non-eligible' and the poor could not help themselves, but why such a large number of resignations? Is it possible that the A. M. A. is not giving its members their money's worth? Or are the continuous attacks and squabbles and the conviction among the rank and file that the association is run by a clique, beginning to have their effect? Quien sabe?"

No organization, slight matter the resourcefulness of its recuperative powers, is capable of withstanding des ructive depletion among its active workers similar to the foregoing, for any great length of time. While the causes leading up to this alarming abstraction of membership are many, nothing contributes so notoriously as dissatisfaction growing out of glaring abuse of power, and "politics."

The American Institute of Homœopathy, instead of playing into the hand of the American Medical Association, should sidestep the latter's silly endeavor to solidify a society which already gives a very reliable imitation of an institution on its last legs, and instead of permitting its politicians prostituting the purposes of the original organization, prepare the way to success and harmony by promoting such advanced methods of organization as will guarantee its existence for all time.

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OLLER TOWEL BILL IS KILLED BY SUPERVISORS.

Are

old fogies who go on the theory that what was done when they were "ids" is good enough for the world now, going to blow up the anti-roller towel campaign which started at the statehouse and

is being boosted along by the city board of health.

A bill to put the roller towel into the discard was ditched last night by the board of supervisors, who pronounced the idea that it was a disease-breeding institution "all bosh."

George Kindel started the trouble by asking, “When is a towel a roller towel?" When Health Commissioner Perkins tried to explain, Supervisor Mullens woke up and announced that he had signed a favorable report on the bill under a misapprehension. That tickled Kindel and a tomahawk duet followed.

"I have used a roller towel in my factory since 1878, and never had any deaths yet, except one man who was predisposed," said Kindel.

"Predisposed to what, death?" asked Supervisor Walker,

Supervisor Mullen wanted to know if all his mill workers would have to have a clean towel every time they washed their hands. He was told that was the intent of the law, and declared it to be "new-fangled rot." The bill was lost, only Walker and McGauran voting for it. A communication from Dr. Paul S. Hunter, secretary of the State Board of Health, was not even read.

The one really deplorable feature of the foregoing event was the failure to read that communication from Dr. Paul S. Hunter, secretary of the state board of health. Just imagine, if possible, any newspaper, especially the Express, depriving its readers of similar solace.

The roller towel trouble at the state house is a horrible example of something that "am which ain't," inasmuch as right under the hypersensitive nostrils of this same health board a flagrant defiance of authority re the aforesaid roller towel, has been reported.

They "do say" even the separate drinking cup law has been openly disregarded in no less sacred precincts; that its non-observance has been far more noticeable at the state house than in any other quarter of the city.

And, by the way, what has the state board, with all its supposed authority, "done about it?"

Speaking about separate drinking cups: standing on the corner of Lawrence and Sixteenth one evening, the writer observed a chocolate-colored ciitzen, with ultra-chocolatecolored hands stop at the beautiful bubbling fountain in that locality and perform at least a portion of his toilet, insofar as it refers to the bath. Of course the water runs right along and purifies matters, and yet it is safe to say that anyone witnessing this act would give that particular thirst-parching parlor a wide berth, no matter how 'toisty they might be.

Here, however, is regards to the board of supervisors for their sensible handling of the roller towel subject.