Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-06
"LovE ME LOVE NY DOG"
An Intimate Little Instance Of PresI.
dent Hardlns's Love for Children
and Doss-tiow Pasteur Con.
quered the Terrors Of
. Hydrophobia
BY GEORGE NOx MCCAIN
DREsIDENT HARDING's love for do

Gently.
Next to the Chief Executive himself, the
Airedale "Laddie Boy is the most con
spicuous individual around the White House.
Of the Presidents love for dogs. but OF
children too.
It was an experience within his own
| family circle.
Some time ago Mr.. Dunn took his children.
three boys. whose love for pet animals is
perhaps their outstanding characteristic. to
Washington.
When the trip was decided upon the
youngest took his pen in hand and wrote the
following uncensorcd epistle to the chief
Executive Of the Nation:
| Dear President am going to WASH
WIZ w mother ,ah m and my daddy sa
you on Monday. NEWBoLD DUNN,
| It ticked the boy to write the letter, and
so Dunn, Sr.. let it go. Anyhow. he ar
gued the President receives hundreds of such
letters and pays no attention to them.
| THAT Saturday on their arrival in Wash
! L ington, to their utter surprise, a nrge
! square envelope with lettercd designs in gold
waited the visitor.
It was addressed to Mr.. Newbold Dunn,
! Hotel Washington. Washington, u. G.
| It was letter. with all the earmarks Of
| official character, signed hv Mr.. Christian.
| secretary to the President. In which he said
The The Pr President M will receive Mr.. Newbold
at 1870 Monday afternoon.
Would the boys accept the invitation?
Well rather-and with whoop, too.
A WE and wonder could not obiterate the
"A smiles of anticipation upon three boyish
faces that Monday afternoon.
There was slight delay, for the Presi-
dent was in consultation.
bo of fhD Io n,,tS% n,al
on chair in the reception room at the
White House, finally seemed to realize what
he had done, and exclaimed
Gee, / wish hadn't written that letter
now"
The President of the United States Mt last
appeared. greeted the parents, and bending
over the three boys gathered them to hii
self. talking to the lads as only he can talk.
eve have an Airedale at home just like
the one you have said the originator of the
us that 500" said the President with
smilingy lifted eyebrows. "I'm glad to
hear it, Then pointing to door he gently
pushed the boys toward it and said:
"Wnlk out there. Somebody wants to see
you
They passed outside and wonder of
wonders. there was famous "Laddie Boy"
held in leash by young darky waiting for
1t was the thoughtfulness of the President
that above all other things, ir"~rcssed Mr..
Dunn and his WIFE
The fact that in the midst of his vast re.
sponsibilities, with Senators waiting, and
Ambassadors craving audience, he would
arrange to bring joy to the heart of kid
who, like himself. loved dog.
60 MANY and varied are the uses of dog,
~ his intelligence. fidelity and adaptability
to training. that the question. HAS the dog
a soul?' is by no means new or unusual
query.
At n meeting Of the Academy Of Medical
Science in New York: some years ago. the
celebrated physician, Dr. Paul Gibier, read
n paper in which he asserted that animal,
like men, are endowed with souls.
Dogs have SOULS" said DR.. Gibier.
"A dogs soul is just like a mans soul,
though it lacks some of the properties of the
human soul. he declared.
Dogs have reason. They can commune
cate with each other and readily make them.
selves understood to other dogs.
This is matter of everyday observa-
ton"
"A s AN instance of their reasoning power
al will tell you something that I have
noticed myself scores of times" continued
the doctor.
"If dog with hydrophobia appears. the
most quarrelsome and vicious dog will be-
come terror stricken instantly, no matter
how small the mad dog may be.
II do not mean that dogs have a spirit.
I think there is distinction between the
soul and the spirit.
"By soul mean that the animal has the
indestructible vital principle, the principle of
life.
II do not know whether DR.. Pasteur be-
lieves that dogs have souls or not. do
know that he has always been as careful Of
them in operating and making experiments
as II they were humans"
DOG days are approaching. and the name
- of Pasteur invoked by DR.. Gibier wakens
thoughts Of hydrophobia.
As to the origin of hydrophobia, Pasteur
declared that nobody in the world could ex-
plain the primal cause.
One of his ideas, advanced in answer to a
question by n member of the Academy of
Sciences, was the forced disappearance of
hydrophobia from the world.
His questioner asked whether a man cured
Of hydrOphobia could suffer from a second
bite. In answer Pasteur stated that the
malady is transmissible only by bite.
BY q general compulsory inoculation of
dogs for several generations, he said, the
malady would ultimately disappear, and
there would be no question Of danger to the
human race.
DR. LOUIS PAsTEUR's great discovery
- Of q cure for hydrophobia was first COM
municated to the world in October, 1885.
The results Of his experiments were made
known to the Academy of Sciences In Paris.
The story Of Pasteur's experiments is a
new one to the present generation.
Before the Academy he described the
process of cure by means of rabbit inocu-
lated with tissue taken from the spine Of
rabid dog
The incubation of the poison occupied if-
teen days.
As soon as the first rabbit was dead, n
norton of its spinal marrow was inocuotoJ
into a second rabbit. and 80 on until sixty of
them had been in0culated.
so viruent had become the poison that tbe
last period of incubation required only seven
days.
Pasteur discovered that exposure to dried
mir diminished the strength Of the yirns
He placed portions Of inoculated spinaI
marrow, at successive dates, in bottles NJ
! dried air.
For an operation he inoculated his sub.