Iditarod pioneer., 1916-07-22
REV. DR. HUDSON STUCK
 STARTLES THE COLLEG!ANS

nt AR AE3 4IsL tOALh J.l4lf3 Arch|eaccn Hudson Stuck, D. D., of the Epi ccntl missionary district cf Alaska, ana well known throughout the Interior for his scholarly attainrcnts and his bitter attacks on violators of the law and what ha con siders thc- remissncs5 of certain officials, is in the hmellght in the East. According to the Literary Digest, he startled Columbia University recently by preaching bacca- laureate sermon to it in which he took d decided shy at what he called "professlonal- izcd philanthropy That periodical reports the sermon as tolI0Ws
 "The relief granted by this sort of char itv may be real and necessary, he admitted but the attitude Is such that any sort of warm human sympathy seems destroyed and the obligation presses intolerably upon the sensitive recipient The preacher expressed his feeling by quoting the famiilar coulet: "Crg2nizcd charity, carefully iccd
 In the name of q cautious, statistical
 Christi
 "Thp archdeaccn protested tEat he had no objection to being cleaned up in reason, but he felt that if Ee had to choose he would rather be human and dirty than in human aud clean The professional >aHj- tarian and hygenist' lie finds 'eNceedin y likely to regard people with whom he deals as just so many automatcns to be regulated and cleaned up Thus
 Factory workers are "handS," mothers are females of the species with offspring, l,i,. there is no Tom, Dick and Harry; there are merely individuals to be cleaned up. Com fort and convenience and personal preGc: cnca and desire are not to be considered for a moment.
 We see the same thing on the Yukon Now that Europe is closed to the tourists they are Aackjng to the North, and 1 an rather glad l sha.l not be on the river when the boat-loaIs of IejsureI travellers come down t3is month to the Arctic circle To see the midnight sun which is just like any other sun, end it is generally the steam boat captains word that makes it the mid night sun. l know the professional attitude of many of the visitors toward he native people they encounter. 1 can hear the fatuous excIama;i-n. "Lcok at alI those funny little wooden houses" as the native village is approached and vs the Indians crowd the river b4nI, when the steamboat makes landing. l can sec the disgust which spreads over the tourists face, q, they say Why, they're dirty ant then to Us ''Nhy Gon; you clean them u3>"
 What dJ they know, with their tilyj bath rooms anG electric lights and hot aHl ccd water on tap? What do they know of the cxigeuc;e> cf life within the Arctic re gion, for the greater par, of every year? l hare little patience with those who can not lool, benescA the superficial dirt and see the essential humanity in any people.
 Sometimes il seems to me that the Yukon river. upon whose familiar surface we travel all the winter, betrays us during the short hectic inteIlude of summer, in atlording such easy access to the bowels of the land Sometimes it seems almost indecent that the nakedness and poverty of the North should be exposed to the fa>- tijiGus eyes and unntcIljgent minds of lux urions pleasure seekers.
 No~ i hold no brief for dirt. I have Ho objection to everybody and everything being cleaned UP in reason. But l am fond If pointing out to certain young physicians with whom I colle in contact that all llv- ing things are necessarily dirty. An arti- Hci&l flower of wax CT porcelain may be perfectly cl,gn, but the leaf Of q real rose, with it's damask bloom and its delicious sweetness is literally sWanning with bac- teria. \ marblr bust or statue may be rendered surgicaIly sterile but the anti septic baby and the prophylactic pup are forever mere figures of speech, even ill the pest regulated families.
 "'Iou will recall that the med!csI nur- sery rhyme referred to these two figures Of speech:
 ".''I looked upon the rabbit with loa:h-
 ing undisguised,
 For he wasn't disinfected and he
 wasn't sterlized'
 "'And that is exactly the way the Phari- see looked upon the publican. I would not push my parallel too far but l think there Is a real sense in which it holds good
 "I am one of that small and quite negI- gible minority, as it seems, who prefer to drink from cup or glass that someone else may possibly have drunk from rather than from an exclusive and greasy paper bag. l cannot bring myself to regard my fellow creatures in general as the vehicles of loGthsome diseases against which l must exercise eternal vigilance to protect myself. cannot force myself into that attitude; il is too pronouncedly professional. 1 should not myself wish to be regarded in that light, as the girl in Our Mutual Friend" said to rhe enthusiastic articulator of skeletons when she declined his proposal of marriage; and I cannot bring myself so to regard the rest of mankind.'
 "The cIeaning-up process, he is con vinced, wherever undertaken, will be much more likely to succeed if it be approached in the amateur rather than the professional spirit
 "If it be attacked with the accompani- ment of the sympathy for lesser under takings, for ingrained human prejudices, for