EDITOR AND DOCTOR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 965, 11 March 1911, Page 4

EDITOR AND DOCTOR.

There has been trouble in Texas between the editor of a newspaper and the local doctor, and this is how the former gives vent to h>s feelings: The doctor from Bonaanza says we are running our paper tor revenue only. What in the thunder do doctors run for anyway ? Do they run for glory ? One good healthy doc or’s bill would run this office for six months. An editor wor.’ - half a day for 3 dollars, with an investment of 30,000 dollars; a doctor looks wise and works ten minutes for 2 dollars, with an investment of 3 cents for catnip and a pill box, that costs 3.37 dollars. A doctor goes to college for a few years, gets a diploma and a string of words the devil himself can’t pronounce, cultivates a look of gravity that he palms off for wisdom, gets a box of pills, a caylise, and a meat saw, and sticks out his shingle a full-fledged doctor. He will then doctor you until you die at a stipulated price per visit, and puts them in as thick as your pocket will permit. An editor never gets his education finished ; be learns as long as he lives, and studies all his life. He eats bran mash and liver, and takes his pay in hay and turnips. If the editor makes a mistake he has to apologise for it, but if the doctor makes a mistake he buries it. If we make one there is a law suit, tall swearing, and a smell of sulphur, but if a doctor makes a mistake there is a funeral, cut flowers, and a smell of varnish. If a doctor goes to see another man’s wife he will charge the man for his visit. If the editor calls on another man’s wife he gets a charge of buckshot. The editor works to keep from starving, while the doctors work to ward off the gout. The editor helps men to live better, and the doctor assists men to die easy. The doctor pulls a sick man’s leg, the editor is glad even if he can collect his bill at all. Revenue only ? We are living for fun, and to spite the doctors.