The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-28

ling parasitic and predatory forms iron one country to combat the injurious form. of another.
 The formatioh of a collection iliustrat linz all lines of work done and the pabli. cation of the results, to be available tc the world at large. At the end of Ithat periol, assuming that all my plans had been carried to a successful issue, would be ready for burial.
 ANON R. JENKINS.
 Marine Hospital Expert on Tuberculosis 1 believe a million dollars could be bet ter spent in instructing the north tenn. perate zone white man how to live eco nonically and wholesomeiy than any oth- l CT way whatsoever. The reason the neo- Teuton is the master of the modern world is because he retains ancient habits of life-habits bred in his bones-habits of wholesome prudence, pride and hardship. Our ancestors always lived in wooden houses with no end of fresh air, with electric sunlight by day and equally pow erful etheric radiations of earth into sky by night-purffying the body and keeping the soul in the narrow. straight path. They lived in a harsh. cold, grudging land and had to get their living by thinking and hustling all the time. while. less fa- vored peoples squatted under banana trees and only had to reach out between maps when hungry.
 CLIFFORD P1NCHOT,.
 Forester in Department of Agriculture.
 If I were given the disposition of 2. .OO0 0O0 for scientific uses I would use it for the establishment of museum of fores- try as the center of forest research. Ex- hibition rooms in such a museum would be used chiefly to exhibit the results of research work. and exhibits would there fore be simply the products of investi- gations conducted by the museum stafY The result of such an institution would be to develop a deeper and more useful knowledge of forests than has yet been attained. and it's practical outcome would be of the highest importance. The more we know of forests the better shall we be able to use and save them. Since such use and preservation are absolutely es- sential to the prosperity and we'll being of our country, I can conceive of no more productive use to which to put money.
 NEWTON M. SKATER, Surgeon in Chief. of New York State
 Hospital.
 Interested as I am in the development of orthopedic surgery. which aims at the relief and cure of deformities in children, would as in. New York. Ohio and Min nesota. the States now caring for its de- formed and crippled poor (ahd as other States will surely follow these eminent examples), endow a chair Of. orthopedic surgery in, say, four of the prominent universties-viz.: One at Cornell Univer- sity Medical College, one at Harvard Medical College, one at the University of Pennsylvania. and one at the medical department of the University ofs Chicago. A certain portion of the endowment could be used in equipping complete mechan- ical laboratory where students could be taught in a practical, scientific way the use and application Of apparatus to cure 'deformity. Tn this lboratory the student. could learn not only how the apparatus is. made, but could be taught how to construct it himself. The various underlying principles of mechanics as ap- piled to the human frame could be as thoroughly taught. and their application to deforming diseases as are principles of engineering in our various technical schools. The major part of the endew- ment would naturally be so placed as to afford an income to a corpse of instruc- tors I know of no way by which surgi- cal science could be better. advanced and human suffering and misery relieved than by the use of Sl O00,00 in. this way.
 ..... CLEVELAND ABE,
 Of the United States Weather Bureau.
 Nothing that I know of would yield more beneficent results to the country than the establishment of a school of meteorological research
 GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD,
 Professor of Philosophy at Yale Univer-
 sty.
 I would select a number of those scien- tifc men in whose sincerity and scien- tific attainments and skill had the most confidence, and would distribute the money among them to use as they thought best in the promotion of science. venture to affirm that this is the wisest answer you have received.