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Elza the foot rubber has his day in court
By RICK VAN SANT
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (UPI) — It rubbed Elza
Abraham the wrong way when he went on trial in his
hometown.
Elza, 78, and one of the community’s best known citi
zens, is a foot rubber. That is, he rubs other people’s feet.
Although Elza boasts that rubbing his friends’ feet has
helped cure their ills, he insists what he does is a hobby,
not medicine.
But the state medical board got wind of Elza’s doings,
sent an investigator down for a rub and then charged
Abraham with practicing medicine without a license.
The case came up this week before Middletown
Municipal Court Judge J.T. Lamb.
Elza came out of the courtroom smiling and announced:
Security
has her
confused
By JOHN T. WATTS
Copley News Service
Dear John:
1 took my Social Security at
age 62 after working for 33
years. I had good earnings
during the war. My earnings
dropped off the last 10 years I
worked. I received $77.50 a
month and when the in
creases were allowed I re
ceived them, until the law
gave us the increase for
working 30 years.
Then when the 11 per cent
went into law I only received
7 per cent, and was told I
would not receive the other 4
per cent because I had re
ceived the increase for work
ing over 30 years.
Now on this last 8 per cent I
only received 3.5 per cent,
and was told by my Social
Security office that 1 would
not get the other 4.5 per cent
because I took my Social
Security at age 62.
What I don’t understand is
that everybody was supposed
to get it, as a cost of living in
crease. My cost of living has
gone up the same as every
body else.
About two years ago I
wrote to Baltimore and asked
them to check into my Social
Security benefit, but I never
received an answer. Would
you please tell me what is
going on?
I read your column every
Sunday in the Reading Eagle.
1 am very confused. — Edna
Wertz
Dear Edna:
You aren’t the only one
confused. Others have re
ported the same thing and I
have heard no satisfactory
explanation.
I also can’t understand why
you got no reply from the
Baltimore office, if you ad
dressed your query correctly.
My suggestion would be to
clip out this column and send
it to Baltimore. Sometimes
the light of publicity helps
expedite things. There cer
tainly is no excuse for pigeon
holing a letter for two years.
Dear John:
I read the letter in your col
umn written by “Mrs. L. 0.”
and wondered if you would
kindly ask her to write to me.
I’d like very much to write
to her as I think (hope) I can
help her.
I am a widow, 79 years old,
have been through all kinds of
situations, some tragic, and
much sickness.
At present I’m recovering
from a fractured hip, but am
well and happy and very for
tunate all through God’s help.
Thank you.
Blessings, best wishes for
health, prosperity and happi
ness — Mrs. S. N. Gardner
Dear Mrs. Gardner:
Undoubtedly Mrs. L. O.
would like to correspond with
you, but it is impossible to do
as you suggest, due to the
heavy volume of mail re
ceived by this column.
What we can do, if you wish
to write to her is to send a
letter, stamped of course, to
this column and we will
forward it. From there on it
will be up to you and Mrs.
L. O. Her letter, incidentally,
prompted a great deal of
replies.
Dear John:
1 understand you are think
ing of starting a club for
widows and widowers. My
sister and I would like to
know more about this club. —
B. Rose
Dear B.:
Apparently you missed the
column in which we ex
plained that this column can
not start clubs. Anything like
that will have to be up to you
people who are interested.
Letters may be sent to
Mainly for Seniors, Copley
News Service, in care of this
newspaper. Volume of mall
prohibits individual replies.
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“The judge throwed it out. My lawyer made a monkey out
of the stool pigeons who came down here.
“The judge said to them, ‘Are you all through? Well
then, case dismissed.’ The judge said in no way was I
practicing medicine.
“The courtroom was packed with my friends,” noted
Elza, who’s been a mailman for 40 years and a Boy Scout
leader half a century. “I’m pretty well known in this town
and it was comical.
“My star witness, in fact, was a doctor friend of mine.
He testified I wasn’t practicing medicine — I was just
giving common massage.
“It’s an old-time remedy,” Elza says of his foot rubbing.
“I can feel your feet and tell what’s the matter with you. I
rub a certain spot on your foot and rub out a sore spot on
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another part of your body. Heart ailment, gall bladder,
sinus, you name it. Knocked out bursitis in one
treatment.”
Elza says he has a lot of requests for foot rubs and gives
four or five 45-minute treatments every day at his home in
this southwestern Ohio community.
“They come from all over— Dayton, Cincinnati,
Springfield, Columbus, Portsmouth, Cleveland, even
Detroit. The word really spreads.
“When people walk out they ask, ‘What do I owe you?’ I
say nothin’. But they will leave me tips. But I don’t pay no
attention to the tips. Drop them in a jar. Give the tips
away to charity — Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Oral Roberts,
these Indian places.”
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, November 13,1975
Page 14
How did Elza get started rubbing feet?
“Eighteen years ago I went to see ol’ Charlie Moser
down in Bethany, Ohio. He rubbed feet and he fixed me up.
So I started studying something called ‘reflexology.’ Now
I got charts and books all over the place.
“Foot rubbing relaxes tension and opens circulation.
The body has reflexes in the bottom of the foot. I find ‘an,
rub 'em, and rub out the sore spot. Been a lot of miracles
through foot rubbing.”
But unknowingly rubbing a state inspector’s feet—
which led to this week’s trial—has taught Elza a lesson.
“I’m going to keep on rubbing feet, but from now on I’m
gonna make sure I know whose feet it is I’m rubbing,” he
says.
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