The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-04-27

above enumerated invaluable educationa
assets. Ii is not choice of evils. To 10
cate away from the University is to throw
away something which should be retained
at any cost. and TO do this through laci
of initiative and effort to overcome fev
surmouniable difficulties.
PERFORMS DOUBLE SERVICE
The cost of providing teaching clinic
is not properly charged to medical edu
cation alone. 4 great state teaching hos
pital provides the people of the state and
essentially those in the rural districts
with needed medical service. 1t performs
a doubly beneficient service. and, because
of its connection with medical school, il
renders this service more efficiently and
economically than in any other way. FOr
these reasons the removal of any part Ol
/ the medical school from the University is
an exceedingly serious and harmful step
/ TO take. We must not surrender an edu-
cational birthright for mere quantity in
alleged clinical facilities and We must
remember that similar proposals might
well be made to the University for the re-
moyal of the departments of law. ensi-
neering, commerce, and so on with results
| that are obvious.
NO one will deny that school would
be stronger and university adminisira-
ton would be more effective if the entire
university were concentrated. No one will
deny that the university spirit would be
weaker and the administration less effec-
tive in department removed from the
campus.
Upon those who favor dispersion of
the University rests the burden Of proof
They must show tina, medical education
will gain. not lose. by the transfer of
any part of the medical school away from
the campus. Vanderbilt University is just
now spending s3,OOO,0O0 to do away with
The two miles which at present sep
arate her medical school from the main
university.
Finally the problem of medical train
ing is a problem in education and not a
medical question. 1t is our duty to ex-
clude such considerations as local eco
nomic advantage and local offers or prom
ises of future financial support. We
should do the ideal thing-as viewed from
the standpoint of education-if We can
afford it. and not do the second best
thing because it may appear to be cheap
CT. The core of the whole matter is that
the educational advantages of university
location are so overwhelming that there
is but one policy for the state of Missou-
ri TO pursue. namely to expand the mcdi-
cal school already in successful opera
iion at Columbia; TO develop here a grea,
state hospital as Michigan and Iowa have
done and as Wisconsin has decided to do.
BY this course and by tbs course alone
will Missouri keep abreast of the trend
of the thought in medical education
Doctor Moves summed up his views con-
cerning the location of the state hospital
as follows:
CENTRAL LOCATION LOGICAL ONE
4 state hospital should function first.
10 give hospital service Of high type to
the rural population,-the cities have hos
pital beds in plenty;-second. to make
possible the teaching of scientific mcdi-
cine.
NO large city is centrally located in
Missouri. If state hospital is to serve
the rural people it should be in their
midst and accessible to them. In the
area included within a radius of fifty
miles of Columbia may be found one
fifth of the rural population of Missouri.
"One should not assume that transpor.
tation is of necessity to be by means of
railroads. Automobiles and airplanes
owned by the hospital will bring patients
to the state hospital in a rural location.
a state hospital that furnishes the
clinical teaching unit for the University
must needs be located at Columbia. A
state hospital organized to provide hos.
pital service and the means for teaching
medicine can be most effectively and
economically administered by the Uni.
rersity.'