The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-12

else. At Birmingham and in London
he works from early until late sending
and receiving endless dispatches, all
connected with the business OF the
government, for he has long since sew
cred his active connection with the
great manufacturing business of Net
tlefOrd & Co. He is now at the zenith
of his power, for, as explained some
time ago in these columns his Tory
co-workers OF the upper aristocracy
viii never allow him, the eX-radical
and avowed refOrmer, to lead them,
while there is nothing in all this world
that would please the liberals more
than to see their one-time hero sui
lied and disgraced in retirement. And
through it all Mr.. Chamberlain looks
on, smiling gently and imperturbably-
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1t is now certain that within a few
weeks there viii be a complete change
in the management of the South At
rican concentration camps which have
given the country so much TO think
about. The government is busy with
plan to Segregate the camps; that is.
TO separate the sick from the healthy,
as they did in Indian camps many
years ago. Two or three government
speakers have already limited at such
| a move, and 1 now hear from the
mouth of a minister himself that there
| is q chance of the alteration coming
into force at once. The trouble with
/ the camps has not been a desire on
| the part of the authorities to 90 the
| right thing, but rather a miscOncep-
/ ton Of the magnitude Of the task.
/ They have been trying to force a quart
/ into a pint measure, and the result
! - ~ Il.
world knows. More money has been
/ spent on the feeding, individually, of
| the Boer wounded and children than
upon Tommy Atkins in the field, and
| there has been no lack of medical aid
in the camps, but not even the most
| thick-skinned supporter Of the. British
cause dare deny that these camps have
been a disgrace to civilization; and for
/ this the government does not seem to
have provided a remedy, strive as they
might to do so.
o @ 8
A young woman doctor at MaccleS-
field has been the unconscious cause of
a fierce social and professional war
which has begun to rage up and down
! the land. The young woman in ques-
ton, a Miss Clark managed to pass
| with singular success the examinations
foe position as a physician in a local
hospital and was appointed to the
pest. ThereupOn all the physicians at
tached to the establishment informed
the authorities that they would resign
their places if Miss Clark's appoint
ment was not rescinded. The cover
nCrs were obdurate and insisted that
the young woman should remain. This
placed the hospital in an awkward di-
lemma, for other men who were APP
preached to take the vacant places re-
manned true to the forms of profess
sional etiquette and declined, so that
finally the hospital authorities capitu-
| lated and agreed to dismiss the woman
doctor. They did the handsome thins
by writing her a nicely worded letter
of appreciation and dismissal, and in.
closed a check for one years salary
But to the surprise and dismay of boil
sides Miss Clark took it into hel
head to decline both the dismissal anC
the years pay, and replied that sh,
would stand up for her rights in tn,
courts, thus placing the governors il
: a worse fix than before. From all parti
, of the country came kilograms from
| women doctors and women in othe
professions urging their stout-hearteC
sister to stand by her guns, or rattle
her stethoscOpe, and promising finan
) ciai as well as moral aid. The newspa
; pers are filed with interviews witt
. women doctors, and long letters, tn
gist of which is. why should womel
continue to be SlaYes?''
> The signs are not wanting that W
7 are in for an era of controversy near
! " as far-reaching as the one whicl
' RACED over the question rs Marriage
! Failure?" or the identity of the gen
{ tleman that struck the famous Bill
: | Patterson.