New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1919, Page 10

. € 'E CARRY on as long as the germs carry on.” That's the battle cry of the army medical school in Washington which, since the second draft, virtually had its finger on the pulse of the nation’s eighteen to forty-flve year man- power. The manufacture of our arm navy's health is the most essential war industry. It is too vast an 3 for the war industries board—hence, the army medical school taken the new business over and is becoming the largest health factory of the coun- try and enterpr has mere stripling of twenty-five vears, undersized, the school by manu- facturing typhold vaccine has indi- rectly vaccinated the entire army and since we entered the war. Since April 6, 1917, it has examined physi- cally and given the Wasserman action to 100,000 men. All the medical officers of the regular army who teach and examine our boys at the camps are trained here. This is the “West Point” of the army medical depart- ment. Hundreds of laboratory and field technicians, who will be invalua- ble after the war, are sent out as ex- every three months. These tech- under the vaccine master, Col- Eugene R. Whitmore, are daily growing germs to fight the germ ene- mies of the army and navy All-Star Cast the beloved commandant of the Brigadier General William H. Arthur, puts it: “We work as long as he germs work—twenty-four hours a Three shifts, of course Right now all interest is centered in Colonel Whitmore’s pneumonia and spinal meningitis vaccine, which are making a lasting name for him.” The personnel of the school read like an all-star cast, though Major Robert D. Maddox, officer in charge of the orthopedic section, maintains that “there are no stars here; personalities have vanished into units, all working togett to give our boys 100 per cent health.” At the head, admired by every one, from the adjutant to the enlisted man doing fatigue, Brigadier General Willlam H. Arthur, a shy, inost un- blustering general. Painfully embar rassed when forced to talk of himself, the commandant, always soft-voiced, becomes eloquent about his school and the men heading the departments. “Have you talked with Colonel Whitmore and our adjutant, Colonel Scott?” is the way the brigaller gen- eral begins to talk about himself. When hard pressed General Arthur admits that he lectures on war sur gery. * I've been surgeon f thirty-eight years,” he By strenuous interviewing Arth is induced to mention that he had been in Mexico with Per- shing, ed around the world in a hospital ship, served in the Boxer re- bellion and in the Philippines and as- sisted General in the great fight to conquer yellow fever. No, I've never studied abroad. You Sani ything you want to about medicine in this country. That finish’ is just a navy Teu pe nicians, onel As school is Oh, ve an army smiles. General crui Gorgas arn - eve: ‘German university fad Arthur expects to go across “to do whatever General Per- me to do—he will find the smiled this gentle veteran, me accine Laboratories , the big, Harrison instructor until breezy amin medical finds it to be Db :mp broke up necessary n doctors 1ess as professional men se will right pitals for our 1 over it is e diffe pital equipment at once qui man here wher can entire est mili- t not leave without a ad- you war, you mu laboratory,” and up real covered vaccine Adjutant Scott, > where it smells el Whitmore, white robe, stirring huge bouillon, explaining why like find Col typhold cultures grow up to be sturdier, more eflicient germs in lean beef soup than in any other media. Colonel Whitmore combined the plain garden typhoid germ with its high: brow cousing A and B paratyphoid them in oil so that now three typhoid inoculations, over a period of three weeks safely be given one “shot,” lasting five seconds. The scholarly colonel brushes a his this process and “Oh department did that.” slip “I am de- pneumonia vacecine.” It alw: “The department is wo! ing on the pneumonia and spinal meningitis vaccine, which it is sending abroad, rush together with cholera serum."” Every man in the school is talking about Colonel Whitmore’s jump to fame through his vaccine and his un- human modesty thereof. They tell you further that when Colonel Whitmore tory's daily vaccine B suspending the former stretching can in le share in the Never does he veloping the sa ves, into Vs, order, they assured that the labora- output of twenty liters of the maximum, he in isted that this was the minimum and helped his technicians build the ma- chinery and install laboratories, in the daily output to 2800 liters, representing an outlay of half a million dollars annually. “Army vaccine is 100 per cent per- fect,” Colonel Whitmore, “be- cause commercial firms have so far neither the time nor patience for the gid tests necessary, and as their vaccine is usually too violent.” Army vaccine is said telegraph pole. But vaccine isn’t the joy of his heart. “His bread-and-butter job,” he calls it His labor of love is the extermination of the malarial germ. As he drifts into the experimental room there’s a glow in his eye that no typhoid germ can arouse. Apologizing for his devotion to malarial parasites, he says, “But get a man talking about his hobby and you are lost.” Tt was a natural transi tion from animal parasites to man’s, and Colonel Whitmore established himself as a scientist who denies that woman is man’s natural parasite. was creasing says a result is negative or to take on a Human Bacteriologists he is his partne s the vac- cine expert, which proves that a bac teriologist can be perfectly human. In scholarly language the colonel gests all he doesn’t know about ma larial proving that swhat ever dark secrets the germs are hid- ing, the colonel has them ail filed away and will shortly make out a perfect case against them. parasites, “We discovered,” he said, “that man and his malarial parasites comport fairly well; that is, persons may have malaria and not be sick. In a few centuries man and malaria will be so congenial that they won't get on each other’s nerves. But why wait and be uncomfortable all that time?” There's another delightfully human bacteriologist at the school who knows more about the army and civilian social health than any man in the country. Colonel Edward S. Vedder has published several exhaust- about teaching soclal hy- giene to parents. “But,” he smiles boyishly, “my de- partment deals with Wasserman re- not parlor talk at all; at least magazines and newspapers for they are determined to die scious of the existence of vene- diseases. Personally, I believe in calling a spade a spade. Our examina- tions here prove that 20 per cent of the male population from which our army is drawn and 5 per cent of our college men are afflicted with dis eases whose names the newspapers won’t print. These diseases cause one fourth of the blindness of the world. “This draft has given us o a birdseye view of the health status of our country. When public realizes that the greatest entage of unfitness is the re. ¢ of unmentionable diseases, it will mand (as I do) that the health de- rtment of every city mail circulars information to all parents in the community, with personal interviews when necessary. These diseases are uncontrollable at present—and fatal— and the greatest menace to the public health—much more dangerous than the ‘Spanish influenza’ or any other epidemic that is quickly recognized, indirectiy actions the real voung second than Social termed heart dis “The army treats all the most part is successful Hospitals won't admi recognized social diseases the stigma attached, but the soor look the truth in the f: will we have a healthy race Slight, young looking, Major Howard Ashbury is at the head of the busy Xeray department, a nucleus of X- experiments in America. The boyish major, who admits that he is a r married man and older than discussed for publication, geon at Johns Hopkins and dir private X-ray hospitals in I Like most of the medical mer school was commissioned diseascs @ musically *Apoplexy often arterio-sclerosis cas: ind fo patie becat ce 1y uch- need be was a in 1910 enot when the army was far-sighted to create a medical Training en ed ray machines here special task of Major Ashbury an distinguished looking tain Leroy reserve Corps handle and abroad x the men to is colleague, Townsend Cap- Copyright to Germany for Medica! 1918 by Public Te. dger Co. BRIG. ¢ Head curately tory the he H bt on the e te him ne of He finds th product of the e front EN th of United WM. H. medical school ood that ore be enormous ooking m Is enthusia genologists (X-ray “Say t meisa do wi must examined at an X-ray labora- ing moved to a hc Ashbury hout every be responsibility States wounded swiftly ARTHUR army man and ac- tal of the jor will be dimly felt. ically of that wonder him.’ e tog moved Ashbury Coolidge X brilliant res the who technician I don’t know roent- write from which only rom again, was as bed, imp! and spee part speed ence and labor will discount Germany’s forty The w Coolidg X-ray, 1 this d Eng in up vears’ is partment, 1917, by Major Robert D. Maddo: merly apparatus the th ost noticed taken conne Science c partment, a than h machir the We and is war e end, preparation quickening in the over cted with of tube ha which was cheaper keynote e American in th States Public Health Servic tenants Llewellyn E. cians HA the tation of tt mder grandmother brilliant of Lonis I him they majo cal ptic e men's attitud made developed and -he it in orthopedic November, Ur of General our rench pells our it the de: for- and clini in the worl t the our to ed 'HUSKY | MEN | VWANTED ‘ | | oo o there and tha sause T say o time to work.” v doc- in the wve no imperfect Although only he works A De supposed to b tor, splint down can m; } hop a as any c me- gning new splints and s fc wounded and train- to re Ger- the appara new se emalers German bracemalkers recalled when she entered many job. Makir Nonch pres: « Over the Wounded Maddox al hand will made Major show 3 ‘we ro, of course s own idea ali to his assistants tha the everythi “hold ord wrist motion and can do hand M table pplied without disturbing ddox is the creator Maddo: from which dress- n be rican. Besides the labora- is assistants and hograph com- orthopedic when they way. With of room go any the present pany out by room, quarters could his technicians he cleaned the plast painted the building for tion went over the plumbing, hadn’t suited him s intimacy not other ind recre which plumbing with 18 attributes Let not T suggest a lack of scholarly no conservation honors and them off w | “What do 't do the It isn’t what you Every man be a He l It to citizenship which be used know will making the and hands usec in collect- Sl fellowships: wave to now t eour Ame can do in the will finer will . person served have earnc “We are devoutly makir plints we ope won't have to on our hoys, which we be re ns that know how “After the w human the man step disciplined will into office looking for a job and do it his army ‘Y *No, - the army an in such a honest that employer w v, ‘Here i a fine spec way with sl nd regist men who looks as though he can de liver the goods. I'll try him.' No, ma’am,” declarcd the ‘the army doesn't take away self-respect; it puts it into you.” This department has two artists, Barto V. Matteson and Albert R. Har- both known in the illustrating field, who do “close-up” work, putting out the striking posters that hit you the eye their stirring mes- zes. Both to sketch at the front to bring home to us the grim ne- cessity of speeding this war to vie- major, your ris, in with want tory. Turned factory, war into a health meq cal school is really on two industries— manufacturing everything for the health and reconstruction of our men at home and abroad and teaching and training enlisted men for military med- icine and surgery. The school is the court peals in military medicine. by the the army carrying is of last ap- Water from Missouri camps, typhoid organisms from Vancouver, Wash., are sent here for final tests Here, too, since the discovery that rheumatism and many other ailments are the result of bad teeth, X-ray pic- tures of the teeth of every person in military life in Washington, including their families, have been made. Every Red worker going abroad has en inoculated here. The Wasserman action, a very test when by the physician, is performed on every man in the school. Cross expensive iven civilian American Science Triumphant! The institution has its equivalent of the in’ other activities. Columbia and Harvard de- gree men, specialists from all schools, biologists, sanitary engineers, chen and lawyers perform clerical sweep floors, wash test tubes their particular groove is found In the orthopedic department is Corporal John C. Best, of a large mid- western manufacturing corporation, with income of 000, which doesn’t interfere with serving his country at $38 per month iwith board and keep. The scope of the army medical school will be limitless after the war, say physicia from all ranks. “No need,” Brigadier General ‘ever again to go to sclence.” dollar-a-year men when ts duties, until an his as puts it rmany for medical Mark Down the Name of Brandon, “Y’" Man, as One of America’s Heroes! By Alfred H. Gurney Of the Y. M. C. A. Forces in France [ This letter, phia friend, gives a written to a Phitadel- cxceedingly in- teresting account o vork of J. C. Campboell Bra Pa., head of the Y. II 1. forces with ti Twenty-cighth (Pennsy and demonstrates the ality ania) 1) in cficient Dl RING 1 I saw muc Stat I the t vour wa those cventful Thierry and them in their And onl with them in where they have alw cheerfully. 1w eral Pershing in his first torious Varennes. He knows carry out speech he made amid the rui second afternc “Keep pushing! " july days at itean beyond. I ool on on the Vesle wee pent four da the forest of Argont wer g a po: last they ys fou wely and mentioned as immensely ple when Gen these troops commu after the Vi smash He apprec with At th ines near valor they wh will he to ot on Their mora cellent. The all throug entrance into Chateau Thierry leaving the Ves Ana o held them even the shortest possibl they marched out of t to take their place in the forw: of troops that were to clean mans from dominated by them for years. In the building of this mor liove that the Y. M. C. A. with Pennsylvanians had a share. I bhave better from their spe billets breathing d line Ger and the territory desolated the last four 135 sizable not seen a divi X it ide. does harmony tion 12 orgar t much notoriety not g and per: in it sm to b 1 twelve unicns of And ac T recall t - H lawyer 1 ith e drivin ipped room beat rievemer your bi of as speec loughboy ng in Butler, va zation is not Ana tion has been showy; at but it is thoroug s rank s of service hours aft Thierry town e au i ver Chate B the job r the oc- the sion with aiv positions it ha the tow with shower onal ierry ana quantity its welcome to sylvar o of 1 help rian New came to Qualke the canteer off, sleeve: 1t the Germans had We Pennsy Sefore the ra at Camp -going chap, . but v the room piled the 11 ndon 1 suy sional se workers, Auburn N of he has to twenty Brandon i was farmhouse, been hou rs a n a little vil- 1e Marne. With him ng in a in which y tr 1 Leonard N. I Uniontow com 1bat workin da P} th aivi plies when s have fai 1 G P: Arse 1 ope ry one of the thou ; 1 the papets that go called Y M. C. A. in wked there at the trip to the fighters in an exceilent bit of is Brandon'’s. » he grasped peed and whole- 1 carried it 1 think, that who town later hou nearly four makes Jim Mytton, ; Tom Claget h with ymion the camio all ause him Bar of Eliot Sun they distributed cigarettes, cookies and writing paper; they brought up bread for men wlo had been for hours with- out solid food. Brandon himself established a hot chocolate station at the field hospit and served warming drink and cigs rettes until the Red Cross could gef its workers up to relieve him. Bar ker, Clagett, Kelster, Magill, Williams and oth were just as far forward thefr men as they were allowed Barker had a truck and a hos- pital cart literaliy shot out from under him by German shells. He was also ghtly wounded by a splinter from a bigh-explosive shell. Put with his leg bandaged he kept g. I saw him back at headquarters ordering sup- how he would re He was tired, dirty dirty, and hungry, but he was inking of his men fi You probably have read of the death the Rev. Walter Rue of Orange, N. J. He was killed during that attempted advance the Ger. mans across the Marne on July 15. He working at the time at an ad ced dressing station, where he was bes comforter—what- - he was asked to do. He belonged the Y. M. C. A. with your Pennsyl- vania troops. His grave is on a little hillside near the Marne, next to that of Captain Walter M. Geraty, of Phila- delphia, also killed in action. s with to go. goty lies ar ¥ ing turn to his outfit very of Murray, of While Dickson was religious secre- tary, he co-operated with the chaplains of the division, held Sunday services in woods and ruined buildings and dug- outs and won the confidence and re thousands of men. The Rev. Robert P. Zebley, his successor, is also doi fine work on the religious side. R ing, of Williamsport, is athletic director and has been al value to the officers in arrang. and promoting athletics the troops have stopped to few spect of err ames hive a