Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-26
BY EDWARD MARSHALL.

A'"S ueeH ulSeaSe and death.
while 1T lasted the great war lust
ended bore these crops in an un.
precedented fullness. In all the his
tory OF this unhappy world they never
before were grown so plentifully in
SO quick a space.
We had invented many new and
terrible engines of destruction and
We used them all, and disease
wrought frightful havoc among fight
ing men and civilian population alike.
although we fondly had believed that
we had conquered the "war cpl
demics"-smallpox, typhoid, typhus
and the others Another fell upon
us-not new. but unexpected in the
form 1t took. Influenza in the war
zones claimed more victims by al
most a third. it now is estimated.
than all the weapons we had built.
Our various vaccinations. our inoc-
ulations and our sanitations-none of
the preventions we had planned Ia
boriously-availed to check it.
But the war taught some great
lessons. It closely examined and
classified certain portions of the pop
ulation in every warning country,
giving a basis for newly accurate es-
Inmates as to general Pablo strength:
it revealed national weaknesses and
strengths. -.f.
X X X y
Now great effort is to be made,
promoted by some of the most emf
nent scientists upon each side, to see
to 1t that out of the great cost of
the great struggle a great good shall
come. The present meeting of the
British tuberculosis Association; in
London. at which scientists are gath
ering from all the allied countries.
will, take up one phase of this. with
which many others inevitably will
interlock; the men there will discuss
hundred aspects outside of their
own speciality. and further congresses
will consider them with care and
deep intelligence.
had an evening with the American
delegation the night before the emil
nent men who form it sailed-an even
ing not without its outside drama. for
while I talked with DR.. David r. Ly-
man and DR.. Charles r. Hatfield, the
third member. who had not arrived as
had been expected, was badly injured
in an accident upon the street Incl
dentally, I went with his two con-
freres to the hospital. to which he had
been carried and left them as they
worked with the surgeons of the insti-
tuition to put him into splints and in
some manner bind him to o stretcher
=, so that he could be carried to the ship
next morning and taken overseas.
Upon that vessel as write he proba-
bly, is having most extraordinary
medical and surgical attention from
his distinguished brethren-a curious
little sample OF the same sort OF
deathless pluck which sent doctors
under fire where others hesitated to
advance, which gave doctors an endur-
ance of which even the official reports
seem beyond human credence. which
wrote for doctors on the tablets OF
this wars history a chapter which must
flame and glory before the eyes OF
men IN days to come.
'The great gift of the war;" said Dr.
David r. Lyman, one Of the three
delegates, '1s that 1t has made the
world q good deal smaller than IL
was. The allied countries have, been
bound together by such bonds as the
viciousness Of propagandlsts nor tho
stupidity of politicians will be able
to destroy in days to come
N II X
, This overseas journey is not Dr. Ly-
mans first experience in the war
zone: for he was one Of the most
eminent members Of the famous
Rockefeller commission. He was
president Of the American Nationai
tuberculosis Association until 1919
has written much and ranks as
world authority.
THE tremendous fact is that the
impulses which in the past reaiiy
could be only national now can be IN
ternational---can be and are he went
on. Tho medical men and surgeons
of the allied countries now are III
touch with one another In an inti-
macy and together are working WIN
- eommon' impulse of Progressive"