Evening star., 1939-01-08

principal, sent for him, asked him what HI
was going to do next. Harry Plotz shook hi
head doubtfully.
60 to work, l suppose" he said. 20
course. Id like to study medicine but can't.
why not?" asked Campbell.
1T costs money" said Harry Plotz.
'Of course it does, said Campbell. "NoV
let's see what you could do -"
The next fall Harry Plotz entered medica
school. Campbell didn't see him again fo
three years. Then he met him on the street
near the Board of Education building wher'
Campbell, having stepped up another notcf
in the school system. now had an office. Young
Plotz looked frightful. His eyes were blood
shot, his cheeks pale and drawn.
Hello Harry" said Campbell Come or
up to my Office" And when they were ur
there: Nov what in the world are you
doing?" he demanded. Hitting the booze
or something?"
Harry Plotz shook his head. He hadn't
been getting much sleep. he said. He had been
sitting up over his microscope.
Getting along all right" Campbell asked
NO." said Harry Plotz, heavily Il think
may as we'll quit" Anatomy had him down.
he said. There was an examination coming,
and he knew he wouldn't be able to pass it.
Anatomy bored him. and he couldn't study it.
Nov, bugs" he said. There's something
worth while" His whole attitude changed,
and he began talking eagerly about his micro
scopic studies. He had been putting all his
time into it. He couldn't see why he should
bother himself with stuff like anatomy.
Come to my house for dinner tonight" "
said Campbell LET s talk this over"
Harry Plotz came, and his old teacher gave
him two-hour talk as severe as any football
coach ever gave losing team between the
halves. When Harry Plotz left that night, he
knew that he was going back to get his degree.
even though it meant studying anatomy.
He got the degree, A few years later, the
newspapers carried an important story: a
young intern named DR.. Harry Plotz had
isolated the typhus bacillus When the World
War broke out. it was DR.. Harry Plotz who
cleaned up typhus- plagued Serbia. And few
years ldtCi, IL was Ii IldIl y lOlL VIII was
called to carry on the work of the great Pas
teur as head of the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
And OF course it was Dr. Harry Plotz who was
directing the research that might virtually
end that scourge of children, measles.
The guest of honor - his name was DR..
Harold c. Campbell, and he is now superin-
tendent of schools of the City OF New York
paused. then turned to the tired-looking
teacher.
1T S not such a thankless job. working with
young people" he said. When the news came
out about Harry Plotz's success in isolating
the typhus bacillus, he received letters of
congratulation from distinguished men all
over the world - from men like Sir William
Osler and the Mayo brothers. He told me
about it when he acknowledged my own letter
of congratulation. And he said, But it was
your letter was waiting for. You are the man
who really isolated the typhus bacillus ,"
DR.. Campbell smiled. ''Perhaps I'll develop
serum for measles. too, )" he said, though
haven't the faintest idea how one would start
doing it,
Reward enough. for teacher or parent
to be made able to do the great things that
you don't know how to do!