Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-06-02


Park on Saturday morning. Wauwa-
tosa defeated Bay View bv a score of
o. to %. The Wauwatosa team
showed up well in every event with the
exception of the pole vault, in which
bay view took all three places. Cap
tam Havel made the highest individual
score, taking first place in all the
cashes and second in the broad Jump,
for a total of is points. Stark, a
freshman, tied for first place in the
high jump and took first place in the
broad lamp. En-, lens will be given
to the members of the track team next
week.
On Monday morning, Lois Gunder-
son gave her senior topic during as
sembly period. The substance Of the
talk on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
Waterway Project was: Everywhere
great development has taken place
where superior transportation facili-
ties could be secured. Nations that
are located on world highways have
the advantage commercially. The
states of the northwest are vitality in
terested in the Great Lakes-St. Law
renee Project. The route to the ocean
must be shortened in order for them
to dispose of their products proftally.
Transportation by water is mucn
cheaper than by any other. The plan
of the waterway is as follows: 1t is
proposed to deepen the St. Lawrence
River by dredging. Dams viii be con-
structed to back up the water and
thus deepen certain parts of the river
In many cases canals will be dug
around rapids or falls. The estimated
cost is 1915, 100000 to be shared
equally between Canada and United
States, as agreed upon by treaty. 1t
will be paid for by the sale of hydro
electric power. The International
Joint Commission has spent two years
Investigating the plan and recommend
it very strongly.
Gen. Stauff's senior talk was based
on Dr. w. w. Keen's lectures, "Medi-
cal Research and Human Welfare"
The main factors promoting human
welfare are good health and freedom
from sorrow caused by death. Medi-
cal research was born when the first
man asked why he was sick and how
he might get well. The medical pro
fession has been answering these
questions for twenty-five centuries.
For centuries doctors had only clinical
observation, i. E., pain, swelling, ereip-
ton, wounds. etc. Century after cen
fury Nature has inflicted suffering and
death without anaesthetics. Animals
suffer much less in research, and have
the same organs and diseases as man.
| Experimental work has been carried
on in quiet research in the laboratory.
1t is a spectacular feat for a mar 10
save child from a frightful death,
but to work in q laboratory surrounded
by deadly germs to discover an anti
dote to save not one child, but thou
sands, is rarely thought upon. Little
over thirty or forty years ago entire
nations terrified at a single case of
yellow fever, cholera, or plague, where
today it wins scarcely a headline IN a
newspaper. Quarantine is rarely nee
essary. All know benefits OF anaes-
theSia, to make one insensible TO pain
and perfectly quiet while the most del
icate operation is performed ON him.
Formerly the tight grip of half q dozen
or 2rlies, besides the tieinc OF the
man, was necessary to secure a partial
quietude. Modern surgeons do not APP
ply operations on man unless it has
been tried on an animal first. New
methods of operating are tried. In the
case of compound fractures, formerly
the mortality was two out Of three,
now it is one in hundreds. Ulcer of
the stomach, chest wounds, fractured
skull and appendicitis are nearly all
remedied. Parts of intestines are eN-
cised and sewed together again. torn
nerves and arteries are sewed together.
Parts of bones are cut out and ends
joined. Portions of the brain are re-
moved, tumors cut away and alb
scesses opened, where before the pa
tients were allowed to die. Lungs can
now, by systm o. bellows, be sue
cessfully operated on. The road to
health is a little over an inch IN a
straight line, but it has taken surgery
twenty-four centuries to trave. 1t.
Fifty per cent of heart wounds are
now successfully healed.
The meeting Of the Hi-Y wa- held
as usual this week, the subject icing
Christianity. Mr.. Babcock Gas the
speaker. He gave very intere ting
talk about this subject; one OF the
points he brought out was that we
should be responsible for lining
we do, as we will have to atone or 1t
in the after life.