Arizona republican., 1909-02-23
TAFT's TALK TO PENNsY
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brace the poet, the historian, the novelist, the critic, or may be journalism, and include the editor correspondent and the news /gatherer or city reporter. In many aspects, writing is a profession; in others when it is reduced merely to the purveying and sale of news it is a business. When conducted on the highest place, it eXerts as much i/ fluence for good as ministry, and has a wider range, and indeed has probably robbed that profession of part of its usefulness because it has become a substitute for it with many families. Its power of public instruction is very great; but when it panders to the vulgarest taste for sensationalism and becomes entirely irresponsible in respect to its influ- ence for good and its statement of the truth, its pernicious tendency is obviated only by the power of the people to protect themselves against it by a safe discrimination and a healthy skepticism and clear un- derstanding of its recklessness and baser motive. The close relation be- tween Journalism and politics and the carrying on of a government, no one who has been in the slightest degree familiar with the course of a popular government, can ignore. The people demand to know what their servants in the legislature. in the executive and on the bench are do- ing, and the chief, if not the only, method by which they are made aware of the character of the ser vice rendered to them is through the press. The unjust color sometimes given through jaundiced editors and correspondents has an injurious ef- feet, but fortunately in the number of newspapers and in the variety Of motives that affects those who furn- ish the news such injustice is gen. orally remedied. The great body of the people who have discriminating with considerable accuracy the truthful verdict and judgment in re- spect to political affairs.
 THE MEDICAL MAN
 'The next profession for considera- tion in its relation to governmental very recently, its influence has been practically nothing in a professional way There have been physicians who have given up their practice and gone into politics; but there were some traits of theirs adapted to suc- cess in politics that had little or nothing to do with the practice of their profession. They have become more interested in government of late years because the functions of government have widened, and now embrace in a real and substantial way the preservation of the health of all the people. The effect which imperfect drainage, bad water i'm pure food, ill-ventilated houses and a failure to isolate cOntagion, have i. killing people has become more anu more apparent with the study which great sanitary authorities have given to the matter and has impos sd much more distinctly and sunequivo- cally the burden upon municipal. state and federal government Of look ing after the public health. The ex- pansion of our government into the Tropics, the necessity for main taining our armies and navies there and of supporting a great force of workmen in the construction of such an enterprise as that of the Panama canal. have greatly exalted the i'm portance of the discoveries of the medical profession in respect to the prevention and cure of human dis eases and of diseases of domestic animals The triumph which has been reached in the name of the medical profession in the discovery as to the real cause of yellow fever and malaria and the suppression of those diseases by killing or prevent ing the propagation of, or the in lection of the mosquito, is one Of the wonders of human progress. It has made the construction of the Panama canal possible. It has rem dered life in the Tropics for immi- grants from the Temperate zone consistent with health and reasonable length of life, and it has opened possibilities in the improvement ot the health and strength of tropical races themselves under governmental teaching, assistance and supervision that were unthought of two decades ago. Sanitary engineering with Its proper treatment of water, making it wholesome and harmless, with its removal of the filth and sewage and it's conversion of what was noxious into most useful agencies, all con- firm the governmental importance of the profession of medicine and the kindred technical profession of chem istry. engineering and all branches of physical research. So marked has been this increase in the importance of the medical profession in govern mental agencies that the doctors themselves have organized move ment for the unification of all agen- cies in the federal government used to promote the public health, in one bureau or department, at the head of which they wish to put man ot their own or kindred branch of science. How near this government will come in accomplishing the complete purpose of its promoters, only the national legislature can tell Certainly the economy of the union of all health agencies of the na- tional government in one bureau or department is wise Whether at the head of that department should be put a doctor of medicine or some other person must depend on the individual and not on his technical professional learning or skill. It is the ability to judge whether others have such technical or professional