Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-23
Editorial Echoes

To gentleman of Richmond who lately
visited Columbia we are indebted for the
information that the county of Botetourt
in Virginia is called "Bottetot," and that
the Reverend John Jasper, beginning one Of
his great sermons, said:
"The Hottentots, the Botetots, the Abys-
sinians and the Virginians-they are the
Four Great Nations of the World!"
Had the Reverend John not been Chau-
whist he would have added the South Caro-
linians, even at the cost Of impairing the
melody of his sentence.
But the foregoing is irrelevant. What we
set out to say is that the clock has struck
the hour to go back to first principles OF
which the Reverend John Jasper was the
foremost and firmest American prophet.
Why should any other doctrine be taught
than that:
"The Sun Do e!"-Columbia Is. CO.
State (Dem).
1t is pretty severe indictment that DR..
Emerson, dean of the Indiana University
School of medicine, makes against the pro-
fession when he says, as quoted in Chi
cago Dispatch that the graduate of the med
ical school today, is, as rule, a cold-blood-
ed proposition. He is so, the dean is report
ed to have explained, because he has been
so filled with scientific facts that he has
forgotten in a large measure that the pur-
pose of his calling is self-sacrifice and serv-
ice to the community eff the physician had
the welfare of his patient at heart" the
doctor adds, che would depend on the labo-
ratory less and on his own examinations
more"
meant, for laboratory work, such as micro
scopic examination of the blood, sputum,
throat cultures, ETC., is essential to proper
diagnosis and is a utilization of the discov-
cries of modern medical science In regard to
service and sacrifice, thousands of medical
men manifested the spirit that Is within them
when they abandoned lucrative practice and
went into the war, where they rendered
service that was an honor to them and their
profession. Most physicians, there Is good
reason to believe, do much work for charity
in their own communities, blu tthey do not
boast of it. They act under the law OF hu-
mainly and of medicine, which impels them
to use their healing art without money ana
without price on helpless and poverty-strlck-
en- sufferers, but there is no law Of service
that nullifes the ancient one that the labor
er is worthy of his hire from all persons not
recognized objects Of charity. Modern meal-
cine is complicated science; thorough train
ing is only attained at much cost OF time ana
money and those who profit by the skill OF
it's practitioners owe debt not only OF mon
ey, but Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Star
(Ind. Rep.
In one of the hardest storms of the sea-
son, the wind so heavy that it had peen
periIous to turn in it's course, the Esthonla
was heading for the Grontoft, Norwegian
tramp which had sent out its SOS. Again
the tramp sent out an sos. Between times
it's wireless operator gave snatches OF ln1or-
nation: "The steward is making sandwiches
for the lifeboats. Looks like we are going
on a picnic" A later message: 1--WE are
sinking stern first; boats are smashed; can
hold out longer" And then the last WORD
the world was to hear: Where did 1 put
my hat-sorry we couldn't wait-pressing
business elsewhere-skoll!"
In those jerky utterances of the Invisible
waves, the world hears once more the story
of courage of those who go down to the sea
in ships. Not all our devices have made
the winds and the waves subject to man.
Year by year, we grow stronger in the COM
bat, but neither the lordly Titanic, nor this
tramp freighter, could say any more than
the frail vessels of Columbus or the shells
of the viking: II am safe" But il our
minds cannot subdue the forces of nature,
neither can the angry wave beat down the
spirit of man. A wireless operator, the
sentinel of new age on the sea, sends his
message that certain death is at hand and
prolongs it to add a jest-jest after jest
not the mockery of fool, but the challenge
Of hero, the word of brave man whom
the sudden ending of his world had no
power to Observation-Disclosures Journal
(Ind.).
Now everybody is knocking Hollywood.
The change from an ancient custom is mere