Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-17

AYE, adultation TO the living, i'm
mortality to the mangIed dead, anC
tears for the desolate homes of wild
lows and orphans.
May Commemorate With Shafts.
We'll may a grateful country com
memorate such deeds in statues OF
bronze and shafts Of granite Vel
I may II set apart a day in every year
/ to decorate the graves of the fallen
and from the story of their devotion
and sacrifice derive ennobling inspir
atom for generations yet unborn
But do you not know that again and
again, and yet again, more lives have
been lost in single epidemic of chol-
era than have been destroyed in all
the battles and in all the deeds of VIC
lence and in all the accidents by sea
and by land. OF a century?
When the breath oil pestilence with
ers a continent and with swift unspar-
ing malignity decimates a nation: II
is then that brave men. who, in the
shock of battle. can defy death or in
the defense OF their homes against
mortal foe can die with 4 smile upon
their lips. turn sick and weak with fear
and fee to places OF fancied security.
When the Whirr of machinery is
stilied and the avenues of commerce
are deserted; when the palaces OF
trade are locked and barred and board
ed and abandoned: when theology has
been supplanted by religion of per
sonal service and places OF amusement
are regarded with aversion or disgust;
when laughter is lost and forgotten
and the very air is instinct with desc
lation and despair; when there are
not enough well TO nurse the sick and
not enough living to bury the dead;
even then has the remnant of the
medical profession been found moving
shoulder to shoulder with the thoughts
and impulses of a single man on er-
Tands of Christ-kissed purpose and he
roic endeaYOr.
UnhOnOred and UnsunE.
NO thought of courage there. No
sounding words of praise or gratitude
No line on printed page to note
hero's death, nor flower nor stone to
mark his final resting-place. The dan
ger over, the service is forgotten, and
the poor neglected clay crumbles to
dust unhOnored and unsung, while the
world goes on laughing and weeping as
before.
But there, away off beyond the eX-
panse of the starIit sky, where faith
full spirits all are waited and do find
repOse-where records of motives are
kept as well as of deeds-of noble eff
2 IL
is his monument more enduring than
any of earth's treasures in bronze or
marble, for his story is written in the
book of God"
The above tribute was the conclu-
sion of DR.. Quine's address, following
a statement of facts with reference
to the work of DR.. Reed in stamping
out the yellow fever plague in the
country'S new possessions, and TO DIR.
Petit of Ottawa, who has given his
attention TO the cure of tuberculosis.
There is one of our ideals that seems
TO be quite beyond the capacity of APP
probation of the world at large; it is
the one which requires us to protect
the public health without a penny of
compensation This is done by discov-
GflnS IIlC causes OIL 2DluCinlC diseases
and their modes OF actiOn-and there
after preventing the accession of such
cases to the people or rendering the
people immune to their infiuence-and
thus arresting the process of propaga-
ton. | know of no other body of men
on earth whose most serious and i'm
portant business is the destruction Ot
their own means of livelihood; and
this physicians are doing as fast as
they can-to the honor of their profess
sion and the benefit of all mankind
Ideals and Practices.
Dr.. Quine's address was on the sub
ject, Ideals and Practices of the Med
zeal Profession" and in the opening
paragraphs he took up the subject of
idt ais
But standards differ in different So
c.eties." he said. and even under diff
ferent conditions in the same society.
"A Mohammedan woman who eX-
poses her face in public announces
herself thereby, a social Outcast; but
in tropical islands, where conditions of
life are primitive and but little clothing
is needed. a woman may appear naked
without shame
..Cir,iIarIv in christian civilization