Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
HUMANISMS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

DROBABLY the most outstanding accom-
L plshment of the first three months Of
Mr. Harding's Administration has been the
establishment of happy personal relations /,
with those with whom be must deal.
The newspapcrmen came in to see him one (
day. for instance.
Bob he said. addressing one of N,
II have just been talking to the folk, sut
in your State On the telephone, openi q
fair.
Are there any nature! !fakers presc -"
he asked. ''If so, will ~ that we eve
adopted three owls and made them at szle
in the White House grounds, hoping shat
they will help us get rid of the pests.
Amy diplomatic appointments to be an
Dounced, Mr.. President?' somebody asked.
Let me see if | can't dig up story
ne ne replied, fumbling among his. papers.
sending to the Senate. Mr.. Richard Wash
burn Child to be Ambassador Extraordin.
ary. and all that sort of thing To-,
-, And the President paused dramatically.
The correspondents had been torecasting the
appointment of this gentleman to Japan.
"To,' he repeated aud paused again,
Italy"
Now for those of you who have guessed
wrong and who are interested in the Orient
may say that. l. am sending also the name /,
OF Or. Jacob Gould Schurman as Minister u
to China" .
1t was all done in n way that was so 4
friendly, sociable and pleasing that the re. 1
suit was the creation of happy atmos-
phere.
h
j: J. Macarthur, Of Canada. is His Brit VI
lSh Majesty commissioner on the boun- y
dary between the United States and that y
country. +. Lester Jones. representing the e'
United States, is merely Commissioner. Il
Ihese two gentlemen are going to meet up n
on on inc Maine border this summer where the !,
boundary Is IN dispute, are going to have !,
the water shut off in the border streams !
until there is but tiny tricke, are going
to see where it runs when ii is low and ara c
going to mark, that place down as the inter.
national boundary. ,
So will good many people in certain 8
lumber camps along the streams find out :
whether they are Americans or British
TACT OF which they are today doubtful. M
Dr. Charles d. Walcott. Secretary of tbs e
Smithsonian institution, played with thar
card had sent in to him all the time was y
talking with him. ""'
As we parted he handed it back to me
You can use it and I can't" he said
That is trick l learned years ago from 9
Senator Cockrell, Of Missouri" '''" !.
Representative John j. Kindred vho
comes to Congress from a district on Low
Island, Is doctor and originated down on
the line between North Carolina and Vir- y
ginia.
He admits that the American Medical As.
sociation has gone on record as Sayinu tha.
the profession could get along perfectS ,i"i wci..
without prescribing liquor Of any sort Rm,
he remembers his first patient and how he
saved him. "'" lie
This first patient was m old Negro mon
who slept in loft over n crude cabin anI
had NOBODY 10 LOOK after him. Kindred waa
both doctor and nurse. The mans 90 .
was raging This meant that it was burning
up IP tne TISSUE OF his body. Kindred admin.
theory of providing a substitute fne in in tH tne
form of alcohol He watched for rosui u, 'ne
the loft at in the morning, '''u''s IN
=. suddenly the fever began to disapnesr m
1t went three degrees below normal Ipprst, Srn Ar
going to die. But such were tbe bna"sht oaa was
the whisky, that the Negro laugbsdd" d"ertS &c. or
fears, was hilarious in the face ~ hs.t ht MS
Joyed his jag AS did the best of them H. IN en-
days when men put poison in Their ~ nu ,noseu
TO make them happy and foolish. 'A0u'ns
And he got well.
I)r. Hubert Work, First Assistant po..
master General. lays claim to being n irdss
ifo Tht t"t doctGr weighs evidence ali his d
evidence is all in he reaches n connf mnen the
! lis patient has pip or paralysis ""YIiIusion. II
been Judging such cases In his position nas
he is assigned to the task of judnin,, nov .p
or;oS IIe ol on Wen VINO want to be postmssts~e ,me
record, feels the pulse of thei, Oh,, OF their
Judge on the bench is called upon ap'asS, ns No
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