The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-13

it is work for all mankind. And the
condition precedent upon success in
that work is having the proper type of
medical work as a preliminary.
THAT is the first condition upon the
meeting of which depends our success in
solving the engineering and administra-
tive problems Of the work itself; l am an
mirably done, and I am particularly glad
to have this chance of saying it.
Canal Will Be Dug.
Now and then some alarmist report will
come from Panama. Just couple OF
weeks ago there seemed to be a succession
of people coming from Panama, each one
of whom had some tale or other to tell.
You will always find in any battle, even
if it is a victorious battle, that in the rear
you meet a number of gentlemen who are
they have unfortunately gotten at the
front, have come away, and who Justify
they have come away, and who JUSTLY
their absence from the front by telling
tales of how everything has gone wrong
there.
will carry up here just such stories as the
people who flee from the forefront of a
battle carry to the rear with them. The
owe SO much are those who stay down
there and do not talk, but do their work,
and do it well. OF course, in doing great
work like that in the tropics, IN a region
which until this government took hold OF
it was accounted to be a region exception
ally unhealthy, we 19o are gong ing to bans nave e
good deal of malarial fever and suffer
more from the latter than from the yellow
fever, although we will hear nothing like
the talk about it. We will have every now
and then trouble as regards hygiene, just
as will have trouble in the engineering
problems. Just as occa S1onaIIy we Will nave
troubles in the administrative work. w hen
ever one of these troubles comes there Will
be a large number of excellent but timid
men who VIII at once say what an awful
calamity it is, and express the deepest
sorrow and concern. and be rather m
I~~Ts~ A1,n& tn 1Olo
lis a failure. 1t will not be a failure. 1t
will be success and it will be a success
because we shall treat every little check
not as reason for abandoning the WORK,
but as reason for altering and lettering
our plans SO as to make It Impossible that
that particular check shall happen again.
Bouquets for GOV. Wood.
What is being done in Panama is put
a sample of the things that this country
has done during the last few years rs, OF bn,5 the
so prominent a part. Take what we did
in Cuba, where we tried the experiment
which had not been tried in 400 years, OF
cleaning the cities. One of the most inn
pOrtant items of the work done by our
government in Cuba was the work of hy-
giene the work of cleaning and disinfect-
ing the cities SO as to minimize the chance
for yellow fever. SO as to do away with
told for disease. This country has never
done better work, work that reflected more
honor upon the country for humanity al
large, than the work done in Cuba. And
the man who above all others Will be re-
sponsibIe for doing that work so well was
a member of your profession, who. when
the call to arms came. he himself. went
as a soldier i'll the field, the present Major
General Wood
Leonard Wood did in Cuba Just the
kind of work that for instance, Lord Gro
mer has done in Egypt We have not been
able to reward Wood in anything like the
proportion that services such as his would
have been rewarded in any other country
of the first rank in the world; and there
has been no meaner and more unDIeas-
ant manifestations IN all our public his
tory than the feelings of envy and jeaI-
ousy manifested toward Wood. The foul
assaults and attacks made upon him, gen
tIemen were largely because they grudged
| the fact that this admirable military Of
| dcer should have been DOCTOR