Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-09
many PAY TRIBUTE
/. TO DR.. RICHARDSON
Memorial Service Is Held al
New York Ave. Presbyte-
rian Church for SaVant.

The New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church was filled almost to capacity
yesterday afternoon with those who
gathered there to pay tribute to the
late Charles Williamson Richardson,
Washington physician, who died last
August. The occasion was memorial
service undertaken jointly by the Med
ical Society of the District, by George
Washington University and by the
church, of which DR.. Richardson was
both trustee and ruling elder. The
audience, which heard distinguished
speakers tender praise to the reputation
and the character of this native of the
Capital, represented every walk of life
and included Government officials of
high rank, diplomats, educators, scien-
lists, physicians and permanent and
temporary residents of the Capital.
II count it an honor to say a few
words of appreciation of my friend and
yours" DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur. ~ccre-
taHy of the Interior and former preSi-
dent of the American Medical Society,
told his hearers. DR.. Richardson was
for 43 years a member of that organi-
cation and for nine years served as one
of its trustees. The Secretary lauded
his former colleague, not only as a
member and as a worker, but as an in
valuable legislative reporter, who, re-
siding in the shadow of the Capitol and
with a wide acquaintance among Gov
eminent officials, acted as most eff
cient liaiSon officer for the welfare legis-
lation sponsored by the association.
Praised by Marvin.
Future generations will be his
debtor" was the opinion offered by DR..
Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of George
Washington University, who paid tribute
to DR.. Richardson, who as former
student, alumni leader, professor and
trustee had brought fame to his inSti-
tuition through his scholarship in pio-
neer fields.
DR.. Richardson's accomplishments in
the combat against diphtheria epidemlcs
before the efficacy of antitoxins was
known we're described as almost
miraculous by DR.. John A. Foote, presi-
dent of the District Medical Society
and dean of the medical school OF
Georgetown University. Having become
in a brief time among the most expert
users of the tube which opened and
kept open Threats whose construction
was causing apparently certain death,
DR.. Richardson was constantly called
en- by colleagues for this service, often
four and five times in single night
DR.. Foote further described his pioneer
study of lung assesses. HE was fore
most In every battle on behalf of public
health; could all the moments OF all
the lives he saved have been added to
his own span, he could almost have
enjoyed eternity" declared DR.. Foote.
Tells Of War Work.
Mai. Gen. Merritte w. Ireland,
surgeon general Of the Army under
whom DR.. Richardson served as
colonel in the World War. told his hear
ers of the vast value of the creation
of the Army Medical Reserve Corps
which included the cream of the pro-
fession at that time and in which his
subordinate had early been commits
stoned as representative of his speciality
Not only his professional medical labors.
but his administrative staff work had
been of the greatest possible value, MS
former chief testified.
Gen. Ireland was followed by Miss
Enfield Joiner, superintendent OF Base
Hospital No. IL, which was established
and administered by DR.. Richardson
and which was devoted to those soldiers
suffering from defects OF hearing ana
of speech. So many of these men, she
pointed out, leading normal, healthy
lives as the result of the skilled care
there obtained, had failed to come to
the Government for subsequent aid that
the Army had been more than repaid
from the establishment of a hospital
which had proven a success from the
very beginning and whose keynote was
spirit of optimism.
DR.. Richardson's exhaustive 1nvesti-
cations into the causes of deafness and
his invaluable contributions to the cure
or amelioration thereof were described
by DR.. John Campbell Merriam. presi-
dent of the Carnegie Institution OF
Washington, with the researchers of
which the former physician had long
elaborated.
That the enthusiasm of his boyhood
for juvenile interests had never left
him, but had persisted in higher
things throughout his long, active and
useful later life, was the conviction eX-
pressed by DR.. James Montgomery
Beck, former Solicitor General, and
former president of the Society of Fos-
sis, group of juvenile amateur
journalists who later effected an or
ganization which is still in existence.
DR.. Beck's tribute, based on personal
friendship of more than so years, was
an appealing one.
Citation Of Pennsylvania Degree.