Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1926, Page 7

WORLD RED CROSS GETS WIDER CALL Most Glorious War 1§ That| on Disease, Dr. Winslow Tells Conference. A summons for the Red Cross of the ‘world to mobilize its resources for a new and sweeping war on disease, and 10 set up an organization no less pow, erful than that which was created during the World War, came yester- day from Dr. C. E. A. Winslow, pro- tessor of public health in the Yalo Unlversity School of Medicine and president of tho American Public iTealth Association, in an addr fore the Second Pan-Americ Cross Conference. ‘With eager enthusiasm the dele- gates representing the nations of the Western Hemisphere and ma of the governments of Europe and Asia, demonstrated their approval when Dr. | Winslow declared that “our modern ! viewpolnt demands a broadening of | the ideals of the Red Cross, so that | they may include suffering duc to %o | called natural causes as well as that due to shot and shell, and to include specific measures for prevention of n of | iy Javs upon it the re preventing as well as allevi suffering der the symbol of the Red Cr tng the World War id De ized for the equally ir a of peace—for that war & ease, which is the mo all wars ever conducted b: race. “It is estimated that the war of 1914-18 cost Furope approxir 9,000,000 lives in the rauks belligerent armies. \ore th: number of lives are lost every year upon ti | so-called ‘natural’ ca; { peace times, and death from tubercu- | losis or heart disease may cause quite | as much suffering as a death from | shrapnel wounds or poizon gas. The | need for aid is us real, if less dramatic, in the one case as in the other. Prevention of Disea: The problems of peac: those of war in one v respect. Behind the b nt the | work of the Red (ross fly con- fined to the repair of damage done, | but in the campaign against disease we can prevent ell as alleviate. | This ideal is a new one, an ideal born ! the experience of the Great War, ! and of the noble desire to extract good f adversity, to salvage from the | of conflict something of per-| ent good for mankind. ! “The peace-time health program of | the Red Cross, as visualized in the reorganization of the League of Red Cross Societies in 1920-21, is built around the conception that the su- preme function of a voluntary health agency is to mobilize popular support for the official health program. The protection of the public health is fundamentally a governmental prob- | lem, but it is a problem which re- quires for its solution not only official action but also the intelligent and ac- tive co-operation of the individual cif zen. the human rmal | | 3 | differ from | important | Educational Movement. “Our object is to change the daily habits of life of the woman in the | home and of the man at the desk and | the workbench. Such a change can- | not be effected 1 but by the| slow process of education. In recog- | nition of this fact the public health | movement in the past 10 years has be- | come more and more definitely educa- | tional in its very essence. It is in | connection with this great educa- tional campaign for public health that | the Red Cross finds its supreme op- portunity for leadership. “The first cbjective of m paign for health education be the development of a sound and fun- damental conception of the laws of | health, which will enable cach inudi vidual man and woman to care intelli gently for the wonderful mechanisn: which we call the h 1 body. The care of the bodv, however, includes more than the observance of the rules | of personal hygiene. ILvery human machine is subject to imperfection. ! and the maintenance of health- and efficiency requires the systematic utili- 1 f auota POOR SCHOLARSHP LAID T0 TEACHERS i Parents and Public Also Blamed by College Heads in Canvass. Too little encouragement from their | vents and too little classroom in- spiration from their teachers, rather than the indifference of the youngei generation i is regarded by majority of presidents, canvassed on the subject, as the cause of the failure of scholar- ship in this country to keep pace with educational opportunities, This consensus of the university heads was given in reply to a ques. tionnaire addressed to them recently by Phi Beta Kappa, the nationary honor ry scholastic society, in connection with the fund it is now raising, in ob- servance of the sesquicentennial anni versary of its founding in 1776, to ad- vance the cause of scholarship in the United States, The scholarship plan provides for the annual award of a prize of $10,000 for distinction in teaching or attain- ment in scholarship, and for the award of a great number of grants to individuals, college teachers, students or chapters of Phi Beta k i of scholarship or -constructive experi- ment. Washington Quota Sought. The campaign to raise Washington's of the national scholarship fund, to which John D. Rockefeller, jr., vice chairman of the national com- niittee, has contributed $100,000, is in rge of a local committee headed by r Admiral Cary T. Grayson. As- ting in_the local campaign are Robert . Brookings, Daniel C. Roper, Theodore Knappen, G. R. Wales, Dean W. C. Ruediger and others. Despite the lamentations of college heads over the dissipating effects of foot ball and e curricular social activities upon s study, the fra- a rious > university and college | 7ation of facilitles for the early diag. | ternity’s canvass of opinion shows nosis and preventive treatment of in. | that they do not load the blame for cipient diseases and defects. decline of scholarship upon the shoul- “The second great objective of our | ders of the younger generation, but health campaign should be the provi- | rather upon their parents and teach- sion of the health protective machin- | 5 ery of which every community is in | need. The actual conduct of a public health nursing service, of . child wel fare station, of a tuberculosis clinic of a health center, of a nurses’ train- ing school, may often be tho best means of bringing the community to a realization of the importance of such agencies and may best prepare 1the way for the time when the com- munity shall officially undertake such tasks. These direct however, us a rule he conducted by the Red Cross during a definits den- onstration period, to be turned over as circumstances permit to the duly constituted health authorities. Venezuelan Presides. The tople under discussion yester- day afternoon was “Red Cross flealth Activities.” Prof. Juan de Dios Vil legas Ruiz, president of the Academy | of Medicine Venezuela, presided. Resides Dr. Winslow addresses were viellvered by Dr. Nicholas Lozano of Argentina, Dr. J. A. Lopez Del Valle of Cuba, Dr. Samuel B. Grubb: sistant surgeon genera! of the Uni States Public Health Service; M Elizabsth IPox, director of pubiic health nursing of the American Red Cross, and Miss Katherine Olmsted, director of nursing of the League of Red Cros eties. S DANCE BY LEGION POST. Costello Unit Plans Party Wednes- day Night at Jewish Center. The YVincent B. Costello Post, American Legion, will give an enter- tainment and dance at the Jewish Community Center, Sixteenth and Q 8:80 | Wednesday night at fessional vaudeville farce, “Aunty,” and “The Irish Rookie," The cast of Robert Shaw, ts, a one-act presentation by John Fahy will include J. h Leonard 8. Chamber- Jain, Louise Mattare and Agnes M. Richardy. Others to take part in the entertainment are Moons and Griffith, Littleton and Blush, Edward Morris and Earl NAPLES, Ttaly, May 29 (®).— Members of the American Hotel As- =oclation. who left the United Stat n April 3 for a tour of urope, today sailed for home ahos the steamship Conte Biancamano. They embarked after spending the day on a sight- seeing trip to Pompeii. In the course of their KEuropean tour the hotel men visited England, Trance, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Switsexland and Italy. vices shoulg, | ainment will consist of pro- | That a desire for learning is native to few and must be fostered in the mass of youth by the attitudes of their preceptors Is stressed by Dr. George |'S. Davis, president of Hunter Collegg, | New York City. | " Dr. Davia M. Edwards, president of | Earlham College, Richmond. Ind.. { holds a similar view. ! Takes Public to Task. particular are taken to task also by Dr. Frank L. McVey of the University of Kentucky, who incidentally takes a jrap at the teache As remedies Dr. McVey suggests “more inspiring teaching, a. different attitude on the part of teachers toward { the incoming student, increasing re- | quirements and a more rigid adher- | ence to such requirements.” Dr. Edward C. Eiliott, president of Purdue University, believes that the | American people are not sufficiently | concerned about institutions of higher learning performing the functions for which they were intended. Dr. James H. Tufts, vice president | and dean of faculties of the Uni- versity of Chicago, also feels that the | public is fundamentally to blame: “The greatest infiuence for bring- ing about greater interest in studies ! and scholarship, so far as the average | student is concerned, is undoubtedly | the general public opinion as to the importance of knowledge and of scholarship. The few minds who have 2 genius or a persistent love for study will study for their own satisfaction irrespective of*whether it offers pov- erty ‘or support, fame or contempt. But the great mass need some en- couragement from their parents and from the public at large.” Doubts Desire for Knowledge. Dr. Donald J. Cowling, president of Carleton College, voices doubt as to the thirst of the average young American for knowledge. | Dr. George B. Cutten, president of Colgate University, would “inculcate into the spirit of the times_some re- spect for scholarship as suc® and lay more emphasis on scholarship in our educational institutions.” Dr. Mark E. Penney, president of Milliken University at Decatur, IIl also decries the spirit' of the times, which he frankly brands as commer- cial. President Ernest M. Iopkins of Dartmouth does not place the onus of responsibility for the situation on either parents or the general public alone, but divides the blame among them., the professors and college methods. “Too much | | | | | tention is given to extra-curriculia activities, but corree- | tion of the situation does not require the elimination of these activities. But with. the increase of interest in scho- lastic things through/increasing their attractiveness, the lents’ interest The general public and parents in | THE Upper, left to right: Dr. Getulio Dos santos, secretary general, Brazilian Red Cross; Miss Elizabeth G. Fox, di- rector public health nursing, eri- can Red Cross; Dr. Rene Sand, secre- tary general of the League of Red Cross Societies. Center, left to right: Gen. Julio R. Garino, president Argentine Red Cross; A. R. Larossa, director Pan- American Bureau, League of Red Cross Societies; Dr. Pedro L. Ferrer, | president, _central committee of Chilean Red Cros Lower: Dr. Jose Antonio Lopez del Valle, director Cuban Health Service, Cuban Red Cross. will turn where it is most to be de- sired. ‘The artificial elimination of sult in greater interest in studies.” Would Make Study Attractive. The majority concur with Dr. Hop- king’ view that extra-curricular a tivities are claiming too large a share of the students’ interest but they beliove that a fresh incentive to scho- lastic endeavor can best be created not by barring from the campus those things which at present are proving distracting but by making the pursuit of knowledge more attractive. This idea is expressed by Dr. Sam- uel P. Brooks, president of Baylor ‘Univers “After all”” Dr. Brooks declares, ‘better scholarship will be found in the rooms of teachers possessed of the vicarious spirit. Livingstone was a great missionary; the same spirit in the schoolroom would have made him a great teacher.” “Deadly dull teachers, whose de- grees are poor substitutes for teach- ing ability” are pronounced to be the cause of student lethargy by Dr. Irv- ing Maurer, president of Beloit Col- lere, who advocates the raising of faculty salarles “so as to command teachers with the gift of generating intellectual enthusiasm.” | Mr. William J. Hutchins, president lack of inspired teaching. “The fact that a man knows all about the tall feathers of a. bluejay is no indication that he can inspire a horde of fresh- men with the love of learning,” he de- ¢ 5 Defends Undergraduates. Dr. David Kinley. president. of the University of Illinois, goes even far- ther in defense of the undergraduates. “To my mind the first need of the day in our educational work is a greater interest on the part of the members of the faculties. SENATOR TO SPEAK. J. W. Harreld on Program at Sol- diers’ Home Today. Senator J. W. Harreld of Oklahoma will deliver the pringipal address at the annual memorial services under the auspices of Col. John Jacob Astor Camp, No. 6, United Spanish War Veterans, at 3 o'clock this afternoon in Stanley Hall, United States Sol- diers’ Home. Rev. H. Allen Griffith, chaplain of the home, is in charge of the arrangements. Miss Phyllis H. Price will sing a soprano solo and “Taps” will be { sounded. Earl Carbaugh will sing a baritone solo. Following a Scripture lesson, Miss Halley will sing a so- prano\ solo. The audience will sing “The Star Spangled Banner” and, fol- lowing benediction, will sing *‘Amer- ica.” Ordered to Active Duty. Col. John R. Scott and Capt. George E. Strong, Judge Advocate General’s Department Reserve, both of this city, have been ordered to active duty in training in the office of the Judge Advocate General, War Department. S Col. Point Leaves War College. Col. Will H. Point, Quartermaster C , at the Army War College, Washington Barracks, has been as- | signed to duty in the office of the Quartermaster General. War Depart ment. IR DR t the height of one mile the aver. A lz.xe velocity of the wind is four times ourtace, _§ great asat the earth’s campus activities is not likely to re-| SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. PROMINENT FOREIGN DELEGATES TO RED CROSS CONVENTION BENEFIT FOR VETERANS. Costello Post Auxiliary to Give | Entertainment and Dance. To obtain funds for the entertain- ment and comfort of disabled soldiers in local hospitals, Vincent B. Costello Post Auxiliary of the American Legion, will hold an entertainment and dance at the Jewish Community Center Wednesday night The playlet, which will be {ture‘of the evening, is a farc directed by M Members of the vers will participate. Three le numbers and selections by ‘hestra will also be on the pro- gram. the fea- entitled ue Holy Trinity . | “AD” CLUB TO BE HOST. At Luncheon Will Ask Aid in Bringing Convention Here. The presidents and other heads of all the important business and pro- fessional clubs of the city ave bLeen invited to in with the Advertising Club of Washington meeting Tuesda. 1 the blue room of the Cit Officers of about 1 have accepted the invitation to attend the meeting at which the Ad Club will ganizations in its effort to bring to Washington the 1927 convention of the Advertising Clubs of the World. Prizes will be given at the luncheon and an orchestra will § a luncheon | ask the co-operation of other local or- | NOTED WORKERS OF PAN-AMERICAN RED CROSS Second Conference Draws BY ALICE ROGERS HAGER. Suffering is universal. Misery knows no creeds and no boundaries, and the one universal language 18 spoken with the tongue of pity. Not the pity of almsgiving, built of con- descensjfon and a lier-than-thou state of mind, but the pity that lles in the deepest place of the human heart, and that grows like a flower out of understanding. The second Pan-American Red Cross Conference, which is meeting in Washington until the 5th of June, has in its keeping the part given to the western world in a new crusade. We hear a great deal of crusades these days, and are grown rather mis- trustful and cynical about them, hut here is one that has too often dem- onstrated its sincerity and usefulness to be doubted. Florence Nightingale's vision was the caring for the wounded in the time of war, and she startied the na- tions with it in its beginnings. But she lived to bear it to fruition, and when the terrible stress of the World War was at an end others saw that her vision 'of mercy should Le carried over into the healing of the disasters of peace time. There had heen an organized international Red Cross committee in Switzerland uch | carlier, but it took the period of 1914 to 1918 to bring the national societies 1o their present strength. and the | L.eague of Red Cross Societies was| formed in 1919 The halls of the Red Cross Building last week resounded to the sonorous rolling tongues of neighbors to the south: with the lilting patter of French, used as a frequent mediator when two American tongues could not understand each other, and with other languages from the ‘four cor- ners of the globe. Friendly Furopean { observers and consultants have come to tell of their experience and to gather our information in the give and take of the council table. Such a one is Dr. Andrea Andreen Svedberg, chairman of the Junior Red Cross in Sweden and member of the | central committee in her country. She has been in the United States since January, doing research work at the Harvard Medical School. She it was who said, “We from Eurepe are here only to listen and discuss. The im- pulse for our peacetime program was largely from you, although we had done much service in the war as neu- trals. Our Junior Ited Cross is but three years old, but we have great hopes for it, and our little ones are corvesponding with the children of | other Red (ross states, that they may ! grow up knowing each other's minds, and so think in the terms of peace. “You would be interested, T think ome of our spectal problems, which unique in the far northern na- <. Our people live widely sepa-| rated, and often they have died. when | there has been u sudden emergency, | because they could not be carried over the hundreds of miles to the hospitals | in time. So now we have curious | stretchers, made to fit on skils, and which can be drawn by men on skiis before and behind, and we have an aeroplane service that can transport the ill or the injured in a few hours, at most, to the centers where help is waiting them. We also are fortunate in that Prince Carl. brother of the King, and uncle of the Crown Prince, who is visiting you, i8 our woving spir | Jt is a long way from Sweden to| | Cuba, and, by contrast, I talked to an | eminent Cuban who had been a friend and co-worker with Gen. Gorgas in his battle against the plagues of the ics. This was the Dr. Don Jose Lopez del Valle, professor in | the university at Havana and for 26 | ears chief sanitary officer of that i irector of the Cuban health ng the fleld of public i Don’t let fatigue poisons “get” you Humanitarians From Europe as Well as Western World—Interesting Side Lights. IEW people suspect the dangers of sleep— Fthey do not know the direct mnefi::! between listlessness, backaches, headaches, ill health and sag- Y., MAY 30, 1926—PART 1. was put in charge of relief in the newly released French provinces. Mr. Kittredge joined the secretariat of the league in 1920, The director general of the league, Dr. Rene Sand of Belgium, is one of the most interesting and vital figures of the conference. Before the war he was a professor in the American School in Brussels, and much inter- ested in health problems. He had created the Belgian Association for the Soclological Aspects-of Medicine. { Then the war—and he went into the | medical service, working in London i famous health and sanitation in 1898 as a|for & time. and later at !hw1 member of the executive committes|hospital in La Panne, with Dr. of the Cuban Red Cross, he helped |Du Page, where Queen Elizabeth v . | came every morning to nurse the found the frst dispensary for tuber-| (ounded. ‘In 1918 he was brought the United States with the Belgian :r’a o hoping "& m,'lk' (!:dubl'.h: ::lnion for reconstruction. real paradise on earth,” he said, “ e work with the children {s good. but | , He "";l'“b:":c.}c'h"‘l‘Gfl';.';“:;?mf“t‘;: we are not content with good. 1t |foUr Sar i as e gubet shall be better and best. Now we|gethe Children's Bureau, when he have ~three intefesting laws for|ioreq the country speaking on child vaccination—all obligr.tory—otie for| o oisare He also has journeyed to smallpox, one for typhold and one|gouih America on two different oc- which is the only one of its kind | SOuth AMSEAE B0 4 0o vary member in existence, I believe, for hydro- | ¢ the American Medical Association, phobla. In other cotntries they |Sf tagular member of the Belglan quarantine the dogs that come in on| Academy of Medicine and an author ships. We, instead, vaccinate the|ge'many books. And he declares that people. Last month in Havana we|he has ocoupied & very high place vaccinated 6,000 against smallpoX,|in the world because he has climbed for, niaxperimént, sHOURL WS P} Mont Bianciwitiiihi sec: not a single case of smallpox fn the i Al island. The people come willingly. by‘:"‘:“k‘;m’flmun":m,‘h“{,‘;" e They have learned to belleve.” DI.|g ing Olmsted, as chief of the di- Lopez del Valle is to give & DApPer | iigon of nursing. Miss Olmsted had at one session of the conference and | peen director of the nursing division 46 SRUIEN: 4k BSCEe of Johns Hopkins and at the Uni- Among the blind delegates, and | versity of Chicago. She had charge there are several, was Antonio Las|of organizing the nursing service Heras Hervas, from Madrid. He is|among the American Indians on the a journalist, political writer on in- | reservations, and of the child healih ternational gubjects and chief of the |activities of the Children's Bureau. International Commission for the|In 1916 ehe was sent to Rumania Blind In Madrid. Miss Rachel King | with the Red Cross mission, and came of Washington, who founded several | back to the United States after the Tormal schools i Argentina, is act-| Rumanian debacle, by way of Russ i ~and Archangel. She took up her ‘erl‘:e.‘s PISFET1ASRATE g tHiof con T | present work in 1921, and divides her § | time between the office in Paris and e Minister of Guatemala, Senor | e PerNeen N raining School for Don Francisco Sanchez Latour, long | Neyges in London. & member of the diplomatic corps in | o * il can Washington, is one of the three Canada is ity Guatemalan _representatives. Tlis | ference by & levge CCREEUOT, Fo brother, Senor Don Delfino Sanches | Particularly, by it Cbalian O ) Latour, consul at New Vork (L. | who is also a member of the nationa and Senor Don Lnrique Lopez 1ie . commis carto; are the othdrs: 1618 au e | S COOUIERey AT teresting family—Senior Don Delfino speaking both English and Spanish (both brothers wére educated at Ox- ford), was made llaison officer to the committee administering the relief sent by the United States after the earthquake in 1918. He was also at the time secretary to the President of the republic. One of the sisters served at Paris and in Flanders dur. ing the war as a nurse, and the other sister drove an ambulance in London. From the secretariat of the Ieague! tinguished son here, Col. of Red Cross Societies comes the as-| Nagmith, sanitary engineer of To- sistant director general, T. B. Kit-|ronto, who is chairman of the Junior tredge. Mr. Kittredge was grad-| Red Cross. Col Nasmith has an uated at the University of California | enviable record in purification of milk and at Oxford, and when Hoover | and water supplies at home: he is an formed the Commission for Relief in | author, and he served with distinction Belglum he_was one of its earliest | overseas, going in with the sanitary members. When the United States|engineers in 1914. 1e was present at entered the war he became a member | the first gas attack at Ypres on April of Admiral Sims’ staff fn London. Inf22, 1916, and Dbecause he knew 1918 he was delegated to assist M. | chlorine gas he was the first man to Hoover at the peace conference and report to his army the nature of the predbi o M oo el bt tand el D st o AT SESSIONS to Capital Widely Known ! establishment of manual training and domestic sclence training in the Ca nadian schools, and he held the com- missionership of agricultural and dairying pursuits. During the war he was Canadian food commissioner in Europe. It has been his work principally since the return of peace to bring his own National Red Cross into the peace-time program. Canada_ also has anothe dis- jeorge ADOLPH KAHN President ARTHUR J. RUNDLUN Treasurer MEMBERS OF AMSTERDAM DIAMOND EXCHANGE off oAaknc/ne. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AT 935 F Street DIAMONDS And Other Precious Stones JEWELERS PLATINUMSMITHS chemical that was being used in_ the gas shells. In 1916 he was terribly wounded, and invalided home. Gen. Jullo R. Garino, president «f the Argentine Ied Cross and men ber of the hoard of governors of the league, is the head of the sani’ tary department of the Argentine army and a professor of the uni versity at Buenos Aires. His coi- league is Gen. Servero Toranzo, chief commissioner of the Argentine Boy Scouts. He is director of administra- tion and personnel of the Argentiné Red Cross. Dr. Juan M. Bulcazar. director of the Bolivian Red Cross. is a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and in consequence has been able to bring government recognition and increased funds from the national budget to the society in the last three years. The Brazillan Red Cross has sent its president. Marechal Dr. A. Ferrelra. de Amaral, who is a mem ber of the Academy of Medicine in Rio de Janiero and one of the most famous surgeons of his republic. Th former mayor of Rio de Janiero, Dr Getulio dos Santos, is a. colonel in the Brazilian arm of the society 0 Ferrer of Sant! nister of health, bor, is an eminent ago. Chile, forme rocial welfare and physician. Venezuela. has for the president of its Academy of Medicine Dr. J. de D. Villegas Ruiz, who is a speclai representative to the American Con gress of Ilvgiene at Atlantic ity this month. PRESSMEN INVITE McCOY. | Chief Justice Asked to Dedication of Chapel in Tennessee. Chief Justice Waller I. McCo strict s Court. 1s ir ded umon: of prominer sons invited te nd the dedica | tion ceremonies the memo | chapel erected i internations { Printing Pressinen and Assistants { Union of North America 1o be held {at Pressmen’s lome, Tenn, gust * ‘The chapel was erected in honor of members of the organization who served in the military forces durir the World War s a. memori: to those who gave their lives in the wal | pex FIREMEN PROMOTED. Lieut. Hellmuth Made Captaiu Sergt. Newton Also Elevated. rank P. 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