“PRE-HISTORIC” PREJUDICE

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18640, 19 May 1932, Page 3

“PRE-HISTORIC” PREJUDICE

IN PROFESSIONAL CIRCLES. 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 season 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. Ho may put out a lamp or a brass plate, or get on one or two local oommittees, or officiate as sidesman, or writo to The Times: but all these are entirely different to bold and open pronouncement In the columns of the Press or elsewhere, that he Is available to undertake a certain class of work. From American 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. “AA r e must throw out these men,” said Dr. Edward 11. Oschner. "If avb countenance advertising we are all done for, and membership of the Society means nothing.”