Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1930, Page 88

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 30, 1930. Meeting the Queen as an American Industry—2By Will Rogers ELL all 1 know is just what I read in the papers, or see when I am looking. You know I teld you I was going to teil you about one of our American in- dustries that you perhaps never knew existed, and that is “Trying to get to be presented at the Court of St. James.” The reason I happened to know anything about it, was not fram actual experience, as you ecouldn't hardly class me as a debutante. But one day out at luncheon with the Ambassador, Mr. Charley Dawes, he got to telling about what he was up against with this mania. You see its getting along about the season for it now, it's “meeting sea- son.”™ 1 think it's some time in the Spring that they have these “presentations.” Well, fond mothers and doting aunts don't walt till then. They go over sometimes a year ahead, and start laying their schemes. Each nation is allowed so many, I don’t know what determines the amount, I imagine it was an old custom that started away back when they were ‘trying to drum up trade to come to their country. It was perhaps the first tourist bait. In those days there was no Prince of Wales to attract. attention, so they decided to let a bunch of girls meet the Queen. OUR big interest in it, of ccurse, started when we got to be a democracy. There is mo race of people that likes to see royalty like a demoeracy. I imagine that the American Rey- elution wasn't hardly over before a bunch-of our *better class citizens” started in trying to figure out how they could 2o to the old mother coun- try and meet their former persecutors. Grad- ually the pilgrimage got larger till finally they had to limit it, and now we are limited to 40. The other nations I guess have about a like representation. Personally, I think the thing was promoted for the dressmakers and photog- Continued from First Page atically, utilizing for its advancement the ma- terials and methods not of one branch of science merely, but of all branches, main and collateral. On this foundation the great American strue- ture of experimental pathology was reared. In explaining the next step, Dr. Welch said: “American colleges had been developed to train men for few professions, except the clergy, so the adjustment of medicine to the college was a very serious problem. We threw back into the colleges two years of training that were in Germany part of the regular medical course. We had to do this because students here enter medical school two years later than they do there. Thus the Johns Hopkins Medical School, with Dr. Welch as dean, was responsible for the they received their pupils with » sound basis of elementary fact. innovations made by the Johns Hop- the full-time basis. It was felt that professors who carried on flourishing practices simultane- with their teaching could not give enough their time and energy to their academic Few other medical schools have ae- this point of view. But Johns Hopkins made a still greater in- n. “Our fundamental idea,” Dr. Welch xplained, “was that research and instruction should go hand-in-hand; that the best teachers are interested in the scientific advancement of their subject. We believed that productive re- search was more important than undergraduate » training. We can only understand the vast significance of this attitude if we realize that medicine as a profession is not necessarily the same as med- icine as a science. The average practitioner is ne more a scientist than the average lawyer is a creative jurist. Both take laws, be they civil or medical, and apply them to definite cases, but they do not create. Like every great movement, the advancement of healing requires the co-operation of two types of men: the rare thinkers who build mew rungs in the never-ending ladder of man's ad- vancement and the many stalwart followers who make the ignorant world climb. lacking. Within the 55 years of Dr. Welch’s career scientific medicine rose to a position of importance in American culture, A large part of our constructive medical in- vestigation has been done in the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research of New York City. Dr. Welch played a major role in the founding of this, the first independent research institu- tion in the country, and he has from the be- giriniing served ‘as tie chairthan of s’ board of scientific directors. f u':?x:r fimn%mflm The Presentation Season Is About at Hand, and the Author-Comedian Explains Why It Exists. VT MusT 0“'6“‘}3 At queey! AV ‘J\Eew E EN. (103 t TeLL vs Al ADOVT 7., ‘presented’ lives on her reputation like a Channel swimmer.” the chair of the history of medicine. the dean of American medicine will spend the last part of his fruitful life in retrospecf, look- ing back over the long years of science; smil- ing at the days when disease was explained by original sin, or too much blood pressure, or filth; living again the graphic years of his life when medicine was rising to new glories not without his help and looking to the future, confident that the work to which he dedicated “In scientific medicine we now have men who rank favorably in all fields with the work- ers in the same lines in other countries. Since science is international, the question of who is world leader is meaningless, but you may sure that we nowadays have nothing to be ashamed of. “In world medicine my active 55 years have revolutionary. There has been an im- accumulation of new knowledge that enabled us to control the spread of many yellow fever, diphtheria, plague, typhus, malaria and so on. “The only contagious diseases that we have learned how to control are of the . ‘They have baffled us, though we know they are largely related to the accumula- of people in cities and that they are direct- ly conveyed. “As but the progress in bacteriology has been tremendous that the interest has shifted a from infectious diseases. The young men are working on diseases of nutrition, c ic diseases and diseases of the heart, be- cause we have so little information about them. The discovery of insulin, which cures diabetes, is a result of this trend.” THE doctors of today, no longer satisfied with attacking the invisible enemies that in- vade men’s bodies, are now making war on the treachery of the body itself. Like the religious men of old who aimed to increase your spiritual stature by curing the soul within you, they soon may, by regulating your pituitary glands, increase your physical stature. But be that as it may, they are now working on “hormones,” the gland secretions in the body which har- monize all its actions. Looking back over his 80 years, Dr. Welch said: “The expectation of life has gone up tremendously, but there has been no increase Golden Moment. By Louis Ginsberg. As gently disposed from some far height, I heard a singing tradd off. * * * Space grew thick, I gradually setiled, through a cloud of light, Back into Time. The clock remembered to tick. Each chair snapped back, remembering to resume . .. dts former sclf. Walls accurately met. araod want A Rgrts swami together-and became our room. - And wandering crimson in your two lips set! that all Ambassadors died young, and that was the reason “trying to pick 40 out of 120,000,000.” He says that over 93 and 1-3 percent of the business that, is transacted at the American in Lendon, is trying to do something these debs that are trying to get their in the home town papers, via the HE old ambitious mothers use every ruse known to scheming science. They have letters from their postmasters, their Congress- men, their Senators, Young Voters League, and They take houses in London and start their campaigns ‘early. They use dinners as bribes and would use money if they could. Find out some one back home that they know that knows spent on getting and trying to get presented than there has on armament, which they are trying to abolish now on account of its ex- pense. Mr. Dawes said it just had him about cuckoo, and what he wanted to do was to turn the thing over to the Senatc of the United States, they have a try at everything and he wants to give them a crack at this. Famous Doctor’s Eightieth Birthday in the span. A fixed span of life is a part of the human machiné. It varies enormously with the individual. Longevity is hereditary, so the best thing you can do to live to a ripe old age is to pieck your ancestors carefully., “It has been contended that each man has a given stock of energy which he can use up by years of intense living and that thus his life is shortened. I doubt it. The deepest thought doesn’t involve as much energy as the traction of the arm. 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