Doctor Barbara — Elizabeth Wesley

THE BATTLE LINE WAS DRAWN

Dr. Barbara Jared's father thought that her determination to practice was a girlish whim. But Doctor Barbara vowed to serve rich and poor in her great profession.

And when an angry young newsman exposed the shameful conditions under with old Lawrence Jared exploited his employees, Doctor Barbara made herself champion of the defenseless workmen and their families.

The town watched tensely. The battle line was drawn. It was daughter against father!

Dr. Barbara Jared had returned to Carter City hoping for a position on the staff of Carter City General Hospital. Barbara had been tentatively promised a post there. Then, at the last moment, something happened to change the hospital board's opinion about having a woman doctor on the staff at Carter City General.

It wasn't hard to trace the reason for the abrupt turnabout. A wrench had been thrown into the plan by Barbara's father, Lawrence Jared, whose sprawling furniture plant dominated Carter City, Jared himself not only lording it over the lives of his factor workers, but over the lives of the citizens of the town as well. For Lawrence Jared had ambitions that stretched beyond Carter City--a far-reaching plan--and it didn't matter to the man with the cold gray eyes that no one understood him...not even his daughter.

But Barbara had one stout champion at least her her fight to become a woman doctor in her home town. Her uncle, Bill Cleveland, was editor of the Star, and Cleveland had long wanted to clean up both Jared's factory and the homes of his workers. When red-headed Andy Craig, reporter for the Star, unearthed the truth about conditions at Jared's plant, and the Star dared to publish it, the battle lines were drawn--Dr. Landis of General Hospital, Bill Cleveland, the fiery Andy, and Barbara on one side, and Lawrence Jared and Jonathan Rand, head of Personnel at Jared's and supposedly in love with Barbara, on the other.

It took drastic measures to make Lawrence Jared back down--but even before he did, a plucky young woman doctor had hung out her shingle and was making the town of Carter City wake up to the fact that a woman doctor is something that no town should be without.