The sun., 1916-12-03
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BY EDWARD

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G TWENTY-FIVE per ceut. Of tho
- arms and legs lost In our civil
and Spanish wars and q large
proportion Of the lives sacrificed could
have been saved II DR.. Alexis Carrel Of
the Rockefeller Institute. New York.
and DR.. Henry d.. Dakin. also Of that
world famous scientific organization,
had then perfected the methods which
they now are applying in France and
which I have been privileged as the
representative of this newspaper to
observe.
All the effort and initiative and q
large part Of the money necessary for
the almost magical results they are
achieving are Of American origin.
Here for the first time in an interview
the uninterviewable Carrel fully tells
the amazing story Of a new application
Of old scientific principles which has
been developed within q few months
and which is re~volutionizing surgery.
1 have spent hours in the great
Paris hospital where this amazing
thing Is being demonstrated. part of
the time under the guidance of DR..
Pedro Chutro. one Of the youngest and
probably the greatest of South Amer
lean surgeons. who has come from
Buenos Ayres to help suffering hui
man!ty where at present 1t suffers
most, part Of the time under that of
DIR. Sardou. son Of the great play
wright and Chutro's assistant, and all
Of the time under the general super
vision n kindly direction OF DR..
Alexis Carrel himself. who was born in
France. was educated ID the great
wide world and is best known in the
United States. where for several ear
he has been performing wonders in
New York as the head Of the Rookie
Teller Institutes department Of expert
mental surgery.
The hopeful. stunning. quite in
credible results which In these circum-
stances I have been permitted to look
upon and h marvels which are being
worked at the great American Ambu-
lance. Just at the edge Of Paris. OF
which I have already written. are tho
most optimistic symptoms shown any.
where to me in the midst Of all the
misery. the suffering. the ~gailantry. the
devotion. the endurance and tho
achievement which I have watched
while 1 have been in the war zone.
That in both OF these immensely i'm
portant humanitarian works America
should have a dominating hand
financing. guiding. originating. actual
ly controlling-must be q comfort to
the wandering New Yorker. for they
are very wonderful.
Thew are directed toward alienation
OF mans misery where most other
hands are raised to augment il and
make II constantly additionally terri
BILE. They are constructive where most
other effort Ia destructive. They indi-
cate an Reconsideration which takes
no thought OF divergent race or politi-
cal allegiance among mankind, where
so much else Ia animated solely by an
tagonism Of one group for another.
In the best sense they mean love,
which all philosophy and all RELIGION
names as the one force for good. where
and while so much else means hate.
which all religion and all philosophy
declares and proves to be the one great
force for evil.
Alexis Carrel. short. natty. nearly n.
WAYS smiling. LOOKING IaT 100 yOunR 10
be the undisputed leader of one branch
OF the worlds scientific thought. was
one OF he best known personalities In
the United States before the war be-
gan. but those who knew him there
would look twice before they fully rec
ognized him in the very smartly gray
blue uniform and capped. bright
leather leggined and strictly military
person which he has become here In
the war zone.
Americans too who know how frank
" he has told his admiration for
America. who have heard how COM
plete il his resolve to spend his work.
ing life among Americans. who know
how wholly his interests are bound up
in those OF the Rockefeller Institute
and how vastly he in valued there nv
the phllanthropist who has poured his
millions into the great humanitarian
enterprise and bv DR.. simon Z
it's world famous head. would be de-
lighted II they walked with him in
Paris or stood with him as did in the
entrance OF a hospital. of which he Ia