A past (1917-18) president of the American Medical Association, Professor Arthur Dean Bevan of the University of Chicago, recently told a subcommittee of the U. S. Senate that a great many doctors sign their liquor prescriptions in blank and sell them to druggists. That gives the druggists legal security to sell whiskey to any customer. If the doctor is called to account he dare not deny his complicity, sometimes goes to jail.
The medical economics of the situation incensed Professor Bevan: "Any rich man in Chicago today can buy a case, that is 24...
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