The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK. - Once, at an al
~ ley's end in Guayaquil, this re-
porter then young and indiscreet,
became involved in an argument
with certain of
K. y. the native citi-
W Will and zenry, who in
Ee,.r I'm 6. A. sisted that North
Americans ate
only dog meat. Your correspond
ent knew only enough Spanish to
get him into trouble, and was using
it diligently to that end when DR..
Robert Entwistle, once of Philadel-
phia, later a student and practition-
er of tropical medicine along the
west coast fever ports, appeared.
He Gained the excitement and
saved his countryman much en-
barrassment and possibly a broken
head. It was like magic, the way
he piped everybody down. They
loved and trusted him and he was
their authority on everything from
international relations to beri-beri.
So, today, it seemed almost
like old news to read in dis
patch from Lima that it was an
American doctor and not a
statesman, who, possibly more
than any other one man, has in
duced respect and good will for
this country, down around and
below the equator. With num-
Der of other American doctors,
DR.. John d. Long, of the United
States Public Health service,
has been carrying on fight
against the bubOnic plague,
malaria, chagres fever and other
tropical curses in Ecuador, Bra
zil, Peru, Chile and other coun-
tries. He holds decorations from
half a dozen South American
countries. He and his col
leagues have served only in re-
Spouse to specific requests for
their services, and the sum of
their efforts has been to allay
ill will, dispel prejudice and
misunderstanding and promote
friendly relations.
Doctor Long, "a years old, quiet,
precise, unassuming, is a typical
American professional man, whose
home town was Mt. Pleasant, Pa.
After his graduation from the med
ical school of the University of
Pennsylvania, he entered the nation
al public health service, became its
assistant surgeon, and, assigned to
the Philippines, won eminence in
his profession in his work in sani-
tation and in fighting disease. In
1926, he was loaned to the Chilean
government for a similar encounter
there.
In this writer's observation of
South American countries, par
ticularized instances of civilized
behavior, fair dealing and re-
gard for native traditions and
amenities, once the fear of pred
atOry designs had been over
come, were effective where all
else failed, including our most
eloquent offerings of official
friendship.
THE New York aquarium gets
= three African fish which have
high foreheads and bigger brains
in proportion to their size than any
Plan !. Q. Rating below the Pri.
Rare Fish With mates. This
OUTSIDE Brain makes h m
skittish a n d
doesn't seem to get them anything,
although they manage to keep out
of aquaria and frying pans. These
are the first ever brought to this
country.
DIR. Charles Nj. BREEDER Jr.
plans to go to Africa as soon as
possible to check up on their I.
@. The ancient Egyptians re-
vered and protected them, in the
belief that their huge brain cav
tiles were inhabited by the souls
of departed men. Doctor BREEDER
thinks study of their intelli-
gence, if any, in relation to their
Out-size brain, might be enlight-
ening.
Doctor BREEDER was boy icthyol-
ogist at Newark, where the family
was apt to find the bathtub full of
killies and sticklebacks. In his ex-
animation for a biologists job in
the fisheries bureau, he COMPOUNDED
his elders and beat out Phi. D. en-
trants in the competition. He was
assistant director of the Aquarium
for IA years and became director
a year ago.
Doctor BREEDER is said to rank
all other scientists. He is 40
years old, a fragile, clerical
looking man, with blue eyes and
yellow hair. But his appearance
is deceptive. On the Richard
Oglesby Marsh expedition, to
the Chucunaque river country in
southern Panama, in 1924, in
which DR.. ]. L. Baer of the
Smithsonian institution lost his
life, Doctor BREEDER came
through swimmingly, with no
chagres fever or beri-beri and
a brand new fish. Its name,
Rivulus Chucumaque BREEDER, is
in SPIT. body type, five-sixteenths
OF an inch longer than the fish.
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