“PRE-HISTORIC” PREJUDICE

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 26 May 1932, Page 8

“PRE-HISTORIC” PREJUDICE

IN PROFESSIONAL CIRCLES. t The prohibition against advertising in the case of professional men—engineers, architects, lawyers, doctors —has always seemed to me highly stupid, says a correspondent in “Municipal Engineering.” I never . have been able to see the reason why a man should not be permitted to let the public know', in direct and unmistakable manner, that he is open for service. Of course, there are many ways in which he can advertise. He may put out a lamp or a brass plate, or get on one or two local committees, or officiate as sidesman, or write. to '‘The Times” ; hut all these are entirely different "to Fold and open pronouncement in the columns of the Press or elsewhere. that he is available to undertake a certain class of work. From America sources it. is reported that for using the advertising columns of local newspapers to' announce low rates of a Health Centre, six members of the Chicago Medical Society have been expelled. “We must throwout these men.” said Dr. Edward H. Osehner. “If we countenance advertising we are all done for, and membership of the Society means nothing.”