The Washington herald., 1911-02-07
VIEWS AND
INTERVIEWS
Doctors Paid to Travel.

Doctors Paid to Travel.
There are many young physicians who
earn considerable money by making
! trips with some wealthy person who is
not at all i'll, but believes it good
| thing to have a doctor along just as a
preventive. according to DIR. Robert r.
Martin. of New York, who is at the New
Willard
| You see." said the physician. there
| are many wealthy persons who are afraid
| of long trip. They do not know when
they may get into a place where they
will catch some infectious disease. or
when they may get up against food that
is not exactly what it ought to be; and
| II they can afford it they decide that it
would be an excellent thing to take along
with them doctor who may know them
and their constitutions
Il have a pretty large acquaintance
here and in England and the chances
| are that when l get bitten by the travel
bug. which happens at least twice a
year. there is somebody who wires me
he wants me to take a trip with him. I
Rave crossed the Atlantic as many as
five times in one year
Il first got into this sort of thing about
twenty years ago, when I went over to
Paris to make special study of certain
surgical work. / made a lot Of acquaint-
ances on the steamer. and after / got to
Paris l had SO much practicing to do
that it was two months before I got
down to what I had gone over there for.
Then. with friend. I made a bicycle
p.,ri 10
thence over the Pyrenees, about Spain,
and then crossed over to Tangier This
got me crazy on travel. and have been
getting about lot ever since"
Federal Education Urged.
President f. j. James. of the University
of Illinois. on his last visit here, when
seen at the Arlington. in discussing edu-
cation in general. said: The condition
of American education to-day is, in many
respects. a national reproach. In no
other nation claiming to be civilized IS
there at the present time so large popu-
lation in such educational degradation as
the American negro. No other population.
equally numerous is to be found within
the limits of any civilized nation so de-
prived of educational facilities and op-
portunities.
Further. in no other great civilized
nation are there SO many worthy MEM
bers of the community in such a state
Of ignorance and provided with such
meaGer educational advantages as the
so-called poor whites of the mountain
Gus districts of the South and the in
habitants of other similar regions IN
which they may he found. in the North as
well as in the South. In no other civil
lied country are the teachers in the
rural districts of the nation a whole.
and towns. so unframed and unsklled.
In no other civilized country does the
nation. as a unit. concern itself so little
about the vital educational interests of
the people as whole.
And vet of all modern nations the
United States is more dependent for it's
prosperity. in the long run. upon uni
versal education than any other. Edu-
cation should be made in form, what it
is in reality, a national function. II
should be placed by the side of the army
and the navy, internal improvements.
and Federal justice as one of the great
and fundamental functions of the Ameri-
can people.
Such a policy means Federal appro-
priations on large scale for the devel-
opment of a national education. 1t would
naturally end in a secretary Of educa-
tion, who. as member of the Cabinet.
should represent in a concrete form the
beginning of a new and larger policy
calculated to bring about new and larger
results in the educational field
Against Titled MarriaSes.
''The papers in New York are filled with
the imminent marriage of Lord Decies
and Miss Vivien Could. which is to take
place on the 7th of this month"; said
George F. Stillwell. of New York. who
is at the Raleigh. This marriage of an
American girl to a titled foreigner re-
minds me very forcibly of the words
which were uttered by Lady Laurier. wife
Of the premier of Canada, at Hot Springs.
Ark. last year. I remember the senti-
ments of Lady Laurier very we'll. and
this is what she had to say on the sub
ject. as nearly as 1 can remember:
g american girls seem to need the titles
and the European holders Of them surely
need the money. That is why We have
tneSe lnIeFnatlOndl are
so. American girls should
marry American men and let the Euro
pean titles alone. A tithe cannot mean
in America, II every one knows
it was bought like a piece of goods in the
open market
Lady Laurier at the same time gave
her views on the suffragette movement"
continued Mr.. Stillwell. land they were
decidedly against the movement She
said that the suffragette movement was
not womanlike. and that it was unheard
of for a woman to compete with mascu-
line superiority. and the militant move
ment is positively indecent I have had
no children she said, but I have been
a good and devoted wife-devoted to my
husband. as God ordained and as my
breeding predestned me to be-and be-
lieve 1 am competent to speak as 1 do
on the subject Of woman suffrage. We
have few suffragettes in Canada"
Barrel of Balxac Letters.
Frun the independent
The French Academy has received from