Chiropractic and naturopathy received a noteworthy setback, November 6, when the people of Arizona, California and Oregon decisively defeated at the polls measures for the aggrandizement of those cults submitted under the initiative system of legislation.
In Arizona the naturopaths wanted an independent naturopathic examining and licensing board. They wished to have naturopaths exempted from the requirements of the basic science law and authority for every licensed naturopath to exercise every right and privilege given by law to any practitioner of the healing art.
In California a schism in the chiropractors of the state sought by an initiative measure to add to chiropractic prerogatives a monopoly of the right to practice physical therapy, by providing for the issue to licensed chiropractors only of licenses to practice physical therapy, authorizing the holders "to practice obstetrics; to use, prescribe and practice prophylactic hygiene and sanitation and dietetics, including, in any form, herbs,