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p mmCy" * 24 # ¥ ® March 30 f Iinto the marbled corridor and start-- ed to run the gauntlet of the jeer-- ing three score or more. In upon use s ea pe him they closed. What the angry( hearts and the heated tongues of; -- the moment might have precipitated | s overnor is only a matter of conjecture, but | the fact remains that the three blue-- | ' coated officers of the law who en--| [ @ % tered upon the hectic scene at this . | Aft B juncture had forcibly to shoulder| er l I e aAt least two argumentative indi--| viduals out of the path of the dis--| J sacmmame n anaen _ ~% tinguished surgeon and public serv--| ant. Taunfed and Josfled .13 The testimony given by Dr. Bruce » before the committee, to which the He Leaves Commlfl'eo bill's supporters so strenuously ob-- * + ected, and which, in their' subse-- ® SQSSIOH af Wh'Ch HQ zment widely expressed opinion, * *' Ri should have been disallowed by Opposed DOC*Ol' B'" Committee Chairman David A. sunasagemammmmmmmeemecmmmmemace Croll, concerned several cases in ; 1 which the surgeon charged that im-- | MADE STRONG PLEA proper diagnoses by osteopaths had ¥etaea en ce ie etieae ues indirectly resulted in death. One, he said, was a case of a woman with a cancerous growth on her| .Drugless Hea|ers A.Sked neck which had been treated by a | Righf to Use Preflx wee drugless healer "with manipulation _ of the spine and rubbing of the | EplSOde 'S Dep|0|'ed lump." Another case -- that of a | girl who is now married and living bU* Held PfOVOked happily--was diagnosed by an osteo-- | Aikintewniewat ircaere se esns path as "dementia praecox, epilepsy, | s and streptococci infection," whereas \ _Former Lieutenant--Governor Dr. regular qualified physicians found Herbert A. Bruce, of Ontario, nar-- nothing wrong with her. In addi-- rowly escaped mnhh?n'g yesterday tion, Dr. Bruce scored the use of at the hands of infuriated support-- | certain _ blood--testing _ machines ers of the Osteopaths' Bill, which | which, he said, were said to be cap-- he had helped to defeat before the able of diagnosing a patient's re-- Private Bills Committee of the | quired diet, condition._disease. sex, 4 age and race--"and if necessary, Legislature a quarter of an hour | possibly his or her religion and earlier. politics." Leading Toronto osteopaths last All through his brief presentation night deplored the action of the the former _ Lieutenant--Governor 4 argry crowd, which took the form was subjected to heckling from the of verbal abuse of the slightly built spectators, several of whom told physician and even jostling, as he him _ bluntly, despite Chairman walked along the corridors. But, Croll's cries for "order," that he while viewing the incident as "un-- was not "speaking to the subject" fortunate," the spokesmen for the and should "play fair." Dr. Bruce, osteopaths ventured the opinion however, stuck to his knitting, de-- that the indignation of their sup« spite the noticeable discomfiture of porters was not without provoca-- the chairman--who only a quarter tion. of an hour earlier had told a pro-- Reseued by Police. ponent of the bill to "stick to the Had it not been for the timely point"--and contended that if the arrival of three husky Provincial interests of suffering humanity Police officers, Dr. Bruce might have were to be fully considered by the suffered physical injury at the committee the measure should not hands of the mob, according to neu« be reported. The cases he had out-- tral observers Women joined with | lined, he said, were ample indica-- men in screaming abuse at the one« | tion of the even greater confusion time occupant of Chorley Park, as | that would obtain if "these healers" they closed in on him. Dr. Bruce were permitted to use the title of resolutely stood his ground, white« g"doctor." faced and grim. '"They s'r:muld have hanged you 'Swt"o"" M'_m"' $ for what you said in there," shout« | 'Immc'dxaujl.\ after the committee ed one man, referring to Dr. Bruce's voted on whether the bill be re-- strongly worded plea to the Private ported--a raise of hands in which c + only those of the sponsor and of H. Bills Committee that the osteopaths N. Carr (Lib.. North o C n * is umberland) in-- bill be defeated. The bill sought to dic & : s ated support -- the committee grant osteopaths and chiropractors room was cleared, with several male ight to use the prefix "doc-- h us & b :::"ng spectators muttering among them--| & ba.s. J selves, "We'll get the ----." Others| Throw him m"the river, s?ream- concerned, aware of What migh'.' ed a woman. "A fine Governor« happen, remained close to Dr | \ General you must have been," bel« Bruce, one of the last to leave, and | * lowed another. "How many people \a Civil Service employee was des-- have you doctors killed?" demanded 'patched hot--foot after the police.| a fourth. Even then, a strapping visitor from | Pressed Against Door. Windsor had to intervene, in one A big, burly individual, wearing glasses, pushed up to the former y incumbent of the now lifeless Chor-- ley Park, pressed him back against the jamb of the door, and appar-- ently threatened him in unheard * terms and tones. Dr. Bruce remon-- strated: "You can't talk to me like that. I'll have you in Police Court if you continue." "Go ahead," said his accoster, as his target, quite coolly, moved out