Evening star., 1928-04-22

.n the lad could not be Stilled. The
war in Cuba was over, but there was
still fun In the Philippines Pvt KiSsin-
ger walked down the street an hour
after he had got his honorable dis
charge papers 10 where regulars were
being recruited Soldiers were being
sent 10 the Philippines He joined up,
At last he was to see active service.
One morning the names of the newly
enlisted men who were 10 go to the
Philippines werc read Oft. but his name
was not among them, The painstaking
medical officer had found something the
matter with one OF his toes. Ii was
longer than toe ought TO be. OF
shorter. or something else terrible, and
kissinger watched the men with the
right kind OF toes march away.
, But he was in the Army now. a real
'flghting man, except that he didnt
get TO fight Still the flame OF the
soldier burned in him Kissnger man.
aged a transfer TO the Hospital Corps.
Then something else happened The
section OF the Hospital Corps that he
had joined was packed up and sent
of in the opposite direction~~to Cuba.
The American Army had taken over
the occupation OF Cuba and was try
ing to get It ready for company. This
time the ship sailed right up and bore
him away without humping a single
pier post. The boy who had tried
three times 10 be a soldier now found
himself in Columbia Barracks. max
ing Cuba safe for democracy Here
We see him. hospital steward s
stripes on his sleeves, trusted now and
then. OH occasion OF great emergency.
fp ia Ea a tnp1tApEafltrA But Is 5igiyt
think much OF such "A puny thing aS a
fever thermometer. and when the Boxer
uprising came along he petitioned
Uncle Sam to send him into the open.
but Uncle Sam had other uses Idt him.
The war In Cuba was over, but an
other real enemy had not been licked.
The enemy was yellow fever and Ii
had caused more damage than the
Spanish Armada and all the Spanish
bullets. yellow fever had been the
source Of trouble since the year |, SO
far as any one knew
For 200 years medical science had
been trying TO flnd what caused yell
low fever For time 1t had been
thought that IL was some sort of mi-
asma that came out OF the SWamps
and was blown along by the wind.
The theory had holes, and expert
menters had begun To doubt that It
simply rose up out OF the ground There
was the perpIeXing question of what put
1t IN the ground. Bit by bit the quest
had narrowed down until the mosquito
looked like the guilty party,
-Four doctors, who have passed into
history we're assigned to the work Of
running down the Culprlt. They were
Walter Reed, Jesse w Laxear. James
Carroll and Aristidea Agramonte. him-
self Cuban, In Washington stands
the Walter Reed Hospital, raised tn the
memory Of Reed Dr Agramonte Is the
only one OF the four alive At the present
time.
NOV we return 10 our boy who
wanted To be a soldier While go
Ing about his duties ot cleaning up the
operating room, carrying pails OF water
and washing floors, he watched the ex-
pefments These were being performed
on mice guinea pigs aud rabbits, but
they were getting nowhere. because ami
mails do not contract yellow fever, Tor
the disease Is hlgsgame hunter, The
doctors were beginning 10 suspect tlisa,
but they were not sure.
one day while they were Wotking on
the experiments "a mosquito settled on
Dr Iaaear's wrist Dr. l.agear let Il
take It's MI this would be test he
said Three days later he fell Ill and III
little more than week he died, nF,
Carroll also knowing what he was face