Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-02
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Director Of Public Health Gives l''us'
tratlon Of How Technique Wins
Way for Itself While Haphazsrd
Methods Are Serapped
BY SARAH ID. LOWRIE

BY SARAH ID. LOWRIE
| 0NE Of the most popular women OF her
~ day made a remark in my presence that
has stuck in my mind ever since. while little
by little I have come to agree with her
verdict.
ut is not so much what you do as how
you do 1t that counts
| What the artist calls finish and the sci:
enlist calls technique and the clergy ca. caM
! manner and the man In society calis
charm and the dressmakcr calls style; what
| the teacher Is partial to his scholar because
Of and the builder fires his carpenters II
they lack Is just that power OF doing
thing well, whatever II is. from hundred
yard dash to leading mn orchestra.
1t takes trouble. but dear me. how 1t saves
trouble In the end; and no way more than
In our intercourse with one another.
compliment badly delivered can he sort OF
insult. and a rebuke we'll delivered need not
be an insult. 1t is all in the way it is done.
There is nothing 30 stupid really as to
have to undo what one has done because II
has been done badly; that is. done without
a clear realization Of the consequences And
we say of person that he has poise or
that he lacks balance because either he gets
his balance before he moves TO his end or
he. fails to poise his weight for moment
before he springs to the next point.
A GREAT deal used to be said about un.
"A conscious grace Of manner. but manners
| have to be conscious acts until they become
| second nature and are unconscious graces.
I think. too. that most of us can testify that
the trouble we put ourselves to when we are
considerate-well mannered--is child's play
| TO the trouble we are put to for being
inconsiderate - ad-mannered. So In our
human intercourse 1t actually pays to have
technique. just as 1t does in tennis or golf:
We get there quicker by doing it well and
in good form.
am more and more struck with how
technique Is winning way for itself along
every line OF work. and how the old hap.
hazard guessing methods are being scrapped
I saw an instance of that the other day down
on the Office table of the Director Of Public
Health.
! There were three blue prints of the city
streets showing the conditions In the city
of February, March and April. Very minute
red dots indicated the whereabouts Of the
cases over the area Of the city. In February
there. were two dots down in the Third
street apart. In March there were about
six red dots in the salme locality. and in
| April some sixteen red dots or more.
The rest Of the city was practically i'm
mune. or at least the cases we're widely
scattered. and with the convalescence of the
case In any particular locality there had been
| no new cases.
Plainly, something was wrong down there
in the Third Ward, and in that enc par.
| ticular locality. The question was what?
I asked the Director If they had found out,
and he said yes. after very careful sift.
they had found the carrier OF the disease.
In this case the cause Of the infection was
| woman who without being Ill herself was
just walking typhoid-fever carrier from
| the infection that she nourshed with her
own blood. She was cook. and with the
food she prepared she innocently, but none
the less fatally. scattered poison.
| RE1NG now proved carrier. she can be
- auarantined by the health authorities,
which is very hard on her. no doubt. but n
| life saver for her fellow men. thought as
I looked at the maps and followed the Drec-
tors story of the expert agencies set in mo-
| tion to track down the possible causes and
| prove the real cause how much We owed to
| his technique and that of his associates
under his careful and progressive regime.
| DR.. Furbush has more than most n sense
Of great and really imaginable kindness in
his way Of accomplishing his great work Of
caring for the city sick His first object, Of
course was to cure or to alleviate suffering
of the body but as the new wards or the
renovated old wards of the city hospitals
grew under his thoughtful planning and null
tiplied, he has shown an eager and per-
sistent desire to reach out and make the
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Not eniE mas nc oohe ellcctive work as
the way it has been done is gradually being
Nited up INTO plane or scientific Kindness
; as wen as orotheriS love.
For instance. in the plans for the morguc
now under way out at the Municipal Hos.
| pital there is u real accomplishment of
merciful kindness carried out in bricks and
mortar.
To those Of us who have not bod Tho ,,onv
of losing some one very near and dear a. 81 y
contagious disease. the ruthlessness Of the
never been brought home Rnt rho ir,nossi ni /"
bilty out at the Municinaj worGs COW non
| taoiors diseaSas mnLor nrdnn iut con :