THE OMAHA SUNDAY HER: DECEMT1EU G, 1914.
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Strange Islands Opened to Travel by Canal
(Copyright. Wit. by Frank O. Carpenter)
.ALPARAISO, Chlle.-I dined
T I the other night on lobsters
. I caught on the shores of the
kirk, the real Robinson Cru
soe, csat away. Thev
were targe, tender and Juicy, and I doubt
If better can be found In the world. Rob
inson Crueoe's Island Is becoming a (treat
fishing grounds. It has fine rod In Its
waters, and It Is noted for Its lobsters
and other shellfish. It hss also a large
Chilean fishing colony, and the Japanese,
who are organising a fishing Industry In
northern Chile, are considering the ex
ploitation of that territory.
Robinson Crusoe's Island Is known on
the maps as Juan Fernsndci. It belongs
to Chile, nnd It lies about 400 miles west
of this port of Valparaiso and 2.C00 mllU
south of tho Panama canst. It Is reached
by government steamers, which go there
to supply the colony at certain tlmea of
th year, nnd It is ruled by officer of
the Chilean government. During my stay
l.cre I have met men who know the Island
well. ' '
They describe It as a. paradise. It has
plenty of rain and Is covered with a
luxuriant vegetation.' It Is affected by the
antarctlo current, which keeps it perpetu
ally cool, and the northern half on which
the rains fall l covered with green.
- , tslaad Not Very. Lara:.
The Island Is only twelve miles long
by seven miles wide. It consists of a
grcsl mass of rocks rlning out of the
ocrfin to a height of more than four
thousand Teet. It Is made up cf bills
ami' mountains, with ninny ravines and
short valleys. The most of the shores
are Inaccessible, but at Cumberland Ray
there I an excellent landing place. Be
hind ths Is a settlement of cottages and
huts made of cone wattled with straw.
Tho houses have gardens about them, and
st one time there was an attempt to start
a stock-raising Industry. One setUer !s
said to have had as many as SO.flOO cattle
and nn equal number of sheep. In time,
however, bis business fell off nnd the
attle ran wild. The Island now has wild
rhoep. wild goats and wild mules, and the
nulmalB thrive without human care. The
uross Is excellent and -overs every open
pot on the northern side of the Island.
There are wild oats on some of the hills
and also wild vegetables. There are wild
fruits which have reproduced themselves
from tho trees planted by Alexander Sel
kirk, and from tho same source there aro
wild grapes as delicious as those which
Robinson Crusoe dried for raisins.
Original Ronlnsoa Crusoe.
Alexander Selkirk was the hero of
Defoe's story and the real Robinson
Crusoe. He was cast away on this Island
more than 200 years ago, and there Is a
monument to him, consisting of a marble
tablet set In the rocks on one of the
higher parts of the Island. The place
is known as Robinson Crueoe's Lookout,
and It Is where he Is supposed to have
kept watchfires burning to attract
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MEND HAPPY HOLLOW COURSE
Two Roll in (f Qreent Leveled, One the
Famous Eleventh.
WATER SYSTEM INSTALLED
Rrlnrra fl.OOO aad f I.SOO Mill He
pent In the Installation of n
l.nrarer Main for Water
ing the tireens.
The Happy Hollow cfub Is preparing
to make extensive Improvement on the
golf link at the club. The new golf com
mittee has been elected and will consist
of C. K. Reed. Cliff Padler and F. I.
Wead.
Two of the greens, the elevctith and the
eighteenth, have been leveled already,
thus Improving the course In that respect.
The eleventh green ha been regarded as
the hardest In the rlty to make. On the
aide of the green runa the creek and the
green slope toward the creek. The dis
tance Is so long that the first approach
Is almost a drive and Invariably, If the
approach puts the ball over the creek on
the green It will roll down tha grade Into
the creek. That green ha been leveled
so that the ball will stick to the green
and not roll back.
Xrn Metering gyste.m.
Dana aro now being consummated to
spend between H.OilO and 1. on a water
ing system. Charley Johnson, professional
at the club, has In the past found himself
confronted with constant difficulties In
maintaining bis green because of an In
adequate water supply. He has asked for
an extensive rystem with a large main
and the request hns been granted.
At present a one-inch pipe furalshei
water. It Is planned to Install two
Inch main or even a four-Inch fMP In Its
stead. That "will provide ample water t
freshen the green continuously nd ny
golfer know that perfect greens are
msde nd maintained by liberal us of
water on them.
Hope for Perfect CJreens.'
Charley Johnson and hi assistants hope
to have a perfect greens a possible.
While the Happy Hollow course Is admit
edly a very hard eotirso the Improvement
made on the greens will aid materially.
They will make It possible for the u
perlor golfer to play superior game
without constantly encountering hard
luck as was often tho case with the pe
culiar roll of the eleventh and eighteenth
greens and the extreme hardnes when
the water supply waa Insufficient.
HOW TO USE A DOCTOR
CHAPTKIl VI.
By IIEN11Y S. MUNllO, M. J.
'Oh wad the power some giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us." Darn
In my last article I mentioned the great i well rounded medlc.il Institution. Rut.
Jlplanlahon tn Llv& GslapagoJ Islands
tlcted, Is the Archipelago de Colon. The
name on the maps is the Galapagos
Islands. Thee Islands belong to Ecua
dor. They are situated about aa far from
Panama as New York I distant from
Chicago, and In such a location that they
might form an important coaling sta
tion for the ship on their way north and
south between the two continent!. They
the attention of any ship that might pass, j about goo miles from Ecuador an J,
The monument wa erected In 1868 by u000 mieB north of Valparaiso.
gome English naval officer. I have
photograph of It The inscription read
as follow:
. IN MEMORY OF
ALEXANDER SELKIRK, MARINER,
A native of Largo, in the County of
Fyfe, Scotland, who lived on thl Island,
in complete solitude, four year and four
month. .
H wa landed from the "Cinque Porta"
galley. S6 tons, 18 guns, A. D. 1704, and
waa taken off In the. "puka". privateer
12th of February 1709. i J
V Rff died Lieutenant of JX. M. S. '"Wey
mouth" A. D; 1723, aged 47 year.
This tablet I erected hear Selkirk' Look
. out by Commodore Powell and the
officer of H. M. 8. "Topai"
A. D. 1868.
Alexander Selkirk wa rescued In 1709,
just a little . more than 200 years ago.
31 went to London and there met Defoe,
who had many talk with him and there
from got the idea and background of hi
story. The work "Robinson Crusoe" waa
published ten year later. It ran through
four edition in a many month and
was the big seller of it time. It is one
of the biggest seller of today, and it
ranks with the Bible and John Bunyan'a
"Pilgrim' Progre" as the greatest
sellers of history. "Robinson Crusoe"
lias been translated into . nearly every
known language. It ha been printed in!
Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, Greek
and Arabic. It is one of the boys' book
of Japan, and a Chinese edition has been
recently issued which is having an
enormous sale.
Excursions to PInce. '
. Now that the Panama, canal is com
pleted there will probably be soma special
steamship excursions to Robinson Cru
soe's Island. The round trip, from 'Val
paraiso can be made in three or four
days, and it might include a look at the
cave in which Alexander Selkirk lived,
t the Lookout, where for four long years
e scanned the-sea for ships, and. I
doubt not, at vestiges of Crusoe's man
Friday, and perhaps a petrified footprint
of that which the savage mad upon the
sand.
- Selkirk was found by a ship that had
seen the fire on the Lookout .Accord
ing to the narrative of the captain who
took him to England, he was clad In
goatskins and was running about as
though crazy. When, he reached Lon
don hi talk was the wonder of the coffee
house and hi adventure were diacussed
by everyone . Sir Richard Steele told of
them In one of hi paper, and Selkirk
published a little pamphlet of twelve
pages describing his wanderings.
The Robinson Crusoe cave, where Sel
kirk lived, lies in a ridge . of . volcanlo
rock. It is easily identified. It is about
thirty feet deep, and Its roof is from ten
to fifteen feet from the floor. The en
trance la about fifteen feet high, and is
almost hidden in ferns. The cave shows
signs of having been lived in, and It is
like the description of that In "Robin
son Crusoe." Ther are holes and pockets
scooped out of the walls and her and
there Is a rusty nail that had been driven
In between the stones. The cave la said
to have been the resort of the buccaneers,
who once ravaged the west coast of South
America. There are other cave upon
the Island, and there are also car
dungeon which were occupied when the
Island wa used for criminal. Some of
the cells were far underground, and the
prisoner could not stand upright within
them. History record that the convicts
once mutinied and murdered their guards.
They captured the boats in the harbor.
and 300 of them made their way to Chile
and landed there.
Chileans Bnlldlns; Prlee.
Within the last year or so the Chilean
government has decided to make Juan
Fernandes again a convict settlement
The officials have visited It, and they
find It well fitted for Uv purpose. They
have sent a number of convict there,
and are now erecting a model prison
tipoii it.
Another group of Isiar-ds that will be
important, now that the canal U cora-
These islands were for a long time
uninhabited, and not long ago they had
a sort of a Robinson Crusoe, who lived
there for years upon fruits and roots and
upon the wild cattle and pigs which he
waa able to kill. He caught the anlmaJs
In traps and killed them with s. spear
made of & pocket knife tied to a stick.
He had a hut' with a roof of cowsklns
and plgaktr.. . When found he wan naked
and waa carrying a pig cn his back. He
had been on the islands for yearj, having
bean left there. by soma ship, lie had
almost lost the . power .of speech,' and it
took some time for him to grow accus
tomed to civilised ways. '
Uncle Bmm Mar Buy Island.
At several' times durWg our history the
United States has considered the getting
possession of the Galapagos Islands. In
1851 preliminaries of transfer were ar
ranged with Ecuador, nnd at that time
$3,000,000 was offe-- for the right of col
lecting the guano on the islands. The
sale fell through, however, and so far
none of the subsequent negotiation ha
uooeeded. Now that w have thu canal
the. sale may again conw up In connec
tion with cur Pad"- coast trade?
It Is claimed that the Islands are fer
tile. Borne parts of them ara, now being
settled. The Ecuadorians havo estab
lished several plantations, and say that
they have enough grazing grounds to
teed thousands of cattle. The Islands
have excellent cod fisheries along tho
shore, and are also famous for turtles of
enormous sUe, which are found nowhere
else. These turtle when full grown
measure about three feet thick and weigh
as much as 600 pound. They are valuable
for their oil, which can be ued In place
of lard. An ordinary turtle will yield
about lz gallon of oil, and this will sell
for 78 cents a gallon. The islands have
also seals and wild dogs, as well as wild
donkeys and cattle, all of which are the
descendant of those brought by a colony
from Ecuador, which once attempted to
settle the Island, but failed.
-Valnable for Fertiliser.
There are other Islands lying off the
west coast of South America that have I
yielded mora money than any other spot
upon earth of a similar size. I refer to
the guano Islands, which have produced
more than 11.000,000,009 wo Ah of fertilizer,
and which. If the present movement for
their renovation succeeds, will produce
hundreds of millions of dollar more. Thl
movement 1 backed by the Peruvian
government, and 1 based upon aclentlflo
Investigation I will describe It further
on in thl letter.
The guano islands begin at the north
ern part of Peru,' and they run here and
there through the sea off the west coast
of the South American desert far down
Into Chile. They are so situated that they
have no rain, and they are absolutely
barren except for tbe vast flock of bird
which use them for their breeding place.
X saw many of these Island on my way
southward through the Pacific. At first
they seemed to be rock of white chalk.
The white, however, was made by the
droppings of birds, which come there by
the tens of mil 'ions every year to nest
and raie their young.
The great value conies from the drop
pings or manure of these birds. At the
time they were dlacovered the deposits
were so large that the Peruvians were
two generations In developing them.
They shipped the guano to tho United
States and Europe, and a fleet of vessels
was engaged In carrying It The receipts
paid a large part of the expenses of the
government, and they kept the country
rich.
I. oat as Reaalt nf War.
Then Peru had its war with Chile and
was conquered. The result was an enor
mous foreign debt in the settlement of
which the best of the guano islands were
given over to tho foreign bondholders,
and came under what la known a the
Peruvian corporation, which corporation
Is still shipping from them thirty or
more thousand tons every year.
The guano deposit are now almost ex
hausted. The most of the product had
been consumed before the war with Chile,
and a continual export La gone oa sine
then. The output now amount to only
a few thousand ton a year, but through
the plan now making by the Peruvian
government the Island may be renovated,
and a 'continual supply received from
them for all tlmo to come. These plans
are uased upon the work of Dr. H. O.
Forbeg, a celebrated ornithologist, who
has been sent by the president of Peru
to report upon the Islands and advlso the
government aa to their future. Dr.
Forbes has -visited the whole coast In a
motor boat, and has Investigated all th
Island and roosting rock, studying the
birds - and their possibilities. He ha
caught some of the bird and kept them
with a view to see how much guano each
will produce. He find that the amount
of fish consumed by them Is enormous.
A single pelican will eat from eight to
ten pound a day and it deposit an enor
mous amount of guano In the Course of a
nesting season. A sea gull will drop from
four to six ounces per day or something
like twenty-eight pounds during the Urn
It Is' breeding. Other birds produce more
and the total amount Is very great
Deposits May Bo Worked Again.
Dr. Forbes has divided the guana ar
chipelago into ones and it Is his idea
that each zone will be worked, only
once In four years, during which times
tho oth.r zones will be accumulating
guano. In this way the supply will be
continuous and the islands may again
be enormously profitable.
During my trip off the guano Island
we had millions of pelican flying over
our steamer. There were also ea gulls,
wild ducks and diver of many kind.
In place the sea wa covered with bird,
and a great flock of cormorants or
pellcans woiild drop out of the sky on
to the water, covering an acre or so at
one time. The birds feed in the sea. The
pelicans have pouche or bag of yellow
skin under their necks. arl they coop
the fish into those. They often gorge
themselves to uch an extent that they
cannot rise from the water, but remain
there until they have digested sufficient
of their catch to lighten the weight They
always hunt In flocks, and when they
settle on some place where the fish are
abundant, they form Islands on the sea
a mile or so in diameter. . Dr. Forbes
says that they sit so close together that
those on the outside have to rise first
before the bird In the Interior are able
to get enough air under their wing to
enable them to rise from the sea.
Dr. Forbes has found that the most of
the guano comes from eight species of
deep and Alexander Humboldt, who visited
them 110 years ago, said that they then
contained enough manure to enrich all of
the wornout lands of the old world. They
were not thought to bo of value, however,
until about fifty years later, when a
Frenchman called attention to certain of
the deposits, and claimed one-third of the
product by right of discovery. The Peru
vian congress voted him 5,000 tons, but it
Is said he never got It and died In a
poorhouse In Paris.
Other deposits were discovered by an
American named Landreau, and he was
treated in the same way, although our
State department took up his case, and
President Hayes referred to it In one of
his messages to congress. The deposits
Landreau discovered were worth HOO.000,
000, and according to the Peruvian law
he should have had 1133,000,000 from them.
He received nothing,
FRANK O. CARPENTER.
PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS
Mamma Nettle, what are you doing to
baby that make him cry so?
Small Nettle Oh, he got fussy because
I tried to open h.ls mouth wide with your
glove streachcr.
"Oh, mamma." exclaimed small Willie.
"I'm sure there I a great big mouse in
my bedroom."
"Did you se it. dear?" she asked.
"No, I didn't se It',' replied Willie, "but
I heard It wagging Its tail."
Drowsy and warm was the afternoon,
and attention flagged considerably In the
class room.
Grammar seemed such a dry old thing
after tho splendid battle that the boys
had revelled In on the playground. The
teaoher'a curt voice cut through their
happy meditations, and the small lads
pulled themselves together as best they
were able.
"Two cows In the field," repeated' the
teacher, Indicating the writing on the
blackboard. "Now, that sentence Is
wrong. Can any boy tell me why?"
Wearily she looked over the apathetic
little gathering.
"Come, come," she enld encouragingly.
One youngster, with a latent spark of
chivalry, sought to help her out of the
difficulty.
' "P'r"aps one of them are a calf, miss,"
he suggested Innocently.
world movement toward a more efficient.
more sx-lentiftr, and more practical medi
cal sen-lee In accord with "Th New
Km In Medicine" as outlined by the
writer. Time did not permit me to cata
log the scores of wlontlflc physicians In
all parts of the civilised world whu have
contributed their quota to the develop
ment of the high statu of practical ef
ficiency, which has been attained In all
I branches of medicine and aurgcry, nil
'of which, have kept race with the mod
ern advancement in Scientific Psychothe
rapy, Cllnlca Medicine, or Psychiatry
and Neurology, to which my work has
been more especially devoted. Suffice
It to say that these last mentioned
branches (these correlated branches)
have lingered longest In the darkness
of Ignorance, pretension and despair. It
Is fitting, therefore, that the beginning
of the 0th century should have been
marked by such marvelous therapeutlo
advancement In these belated branches
so as to almost completely eclipse the
progress made In this particular field
within the last half of the 19th century.
so far as Its scientific application to the
amelioration and cure of many of the
diseases of mankind ara concerned,
coming as the result of the practical
employment of the theories of evolu
tionary monism, or the aipllcatlon of the
biological principles of evolution, to thai
conservation of human life, the pre
vention and cur of disease, and the
achievement of health, sanity and effi
ciency. In fact so rapid hns been the recent
advancement In practical clinical medi
cine, aclentlflo psychotherapy, or mod
em psychiatry, and neurology that few
physician of th present time have kept
up with the vanguard of progress, a
the papers presented at our recent Ne
braska Medical Association clearly Indi
cate, and a a comparison of thene pa
ler with the more advanced article
presented before the last meeting of the
American Medical Association also, Il
lustrate In no unmistakable manner.
The reader can well understand, then,
why th writer felt cramped beyond fur
ther tolerance, with condition a they
are In Nebraska, since ' the medical
tchoola had the local medical and state
societies within their grasp, forcing them
to conform to th financial Interests of
tho medical school and hospital machines,
while the Interest .of the larger profes
sional and social organizations were be
ing neglected, so gullible wero the
scarcely articulate mas constituting th
rank and file of the profession. That
the more enlightened minority outside
the schools keenly felt the cramped po
sition, from whloh thoy were unable to
extricate themselves, I am more than
glad to concede. Indeed, there I a
high a quality of professional brain
In th state of Nebraska as can be found
In any state In th union and all that
they require in the psycho-physlologlcsi
stimulus of the light that I am now
turning upon th situation, so a to
evoke the reaction, that will set tho en
tire herd aright in keeping with the ad
vancement of the 10th century rrogreas
In medical science and art
More yet th rank and fll of tho
constituting th faculty of th Medical
Department of the Nebraska State Uni
versity do not dessrv the sham and hu
miliation to which they are aubjeoted
by the searchlight being thrown upon
th body a a whole; but sloes no ma
chinery or organisation, I stronger than
It weakest point they must taki tbelr
part of th medicine. There are, on
th other hand, In thl faoulty depart
ment of medicine, eurgary, obstetric,
gynecology, therapeutics, pharmacology,
pathology, physloologlcal chemistry, bac
teriology, and other laboratory studies
that have no superior In th United
State, to- say nothing of th OTHER
EFFICIENT SPECIALTY DEPART
MENTS, all of whloh are essenUal to a
bird. The chief of these is Bougain
ville' cormorant, whoso chief nesting
place Is the Chlncha Islands. Last Feb
ruary Dr. Forbes found 10,000,000 of these
birds nesting In the middle of one of these
Islands. The nests were close together,
and the whole formed ono of the most
wonderful bird sight ct the world. He
watchei them, and found that each nest
had It male and female, and that one
bird sat on the nest while the other wa
feeding, and that it. In turn, wa relieved
by It mate. The cormorant started for
their fishing ground at 6 or ( tn the
morning, and flew in a broad tream
perhaps 1P0 feet wile. Thl stream con
tinued for hour.
Pelican Comes Mejtt.
The next bird In Importance Is ths
pelican. This also nests In great flocks
and in the same neighborhood as the
cormorants. When the pelicans sre feed
ing 5.WO or 6,000 of them may be seen
diving together. They fill the. great
pouches under their bills, and carry the
fish away to eat them at their leisure.
Another Wrd is the gannet, whose
young are beautiful little creatures cov
ered with the purest white down. The
gannets fly In flocks of from ten to
twenty thousand, and they go down, like
so many rockets, Into the sea.
The guano of the Lobaa islands la
found In pockets covered with layers
oi sans irom two to fifteen feet deep,
are old aeposlt. The sand is
snoveled orr. end the guano Is dug out
The stuff looks like fin sand. A it I
dug up a strong smell of ammonia raise
and the workmen wear iron masks ovsr
their face to keep the ammoneal dust
out or their lungs. The guano is loadad
upon truck and carried on a tramway
to the rhore. where it I transferred to
tne ship for Europe or the U lilted Statea
Such loading Is now being done on th
Chlncha Island a well, and' upon the
smaller Island still in th hand of th
Peruvian government.
When' these Islands were first discov
ered they had fcuaQo deposits sixty feet
For Rasiies
fliiiiniiiiMs
Hi ii Batlisi;!
(McnrasoaD
Followed by light applications of
Cuticura Ointment afford imme
diate relief, permit rest and
sleep, and point to speedy heal
ment even in severest cases.
Try them before you buy them.
Samples Free by Mall
Although Cutieura op (I5a.) and Otatmael
(5(o.) n tout ywiMn Md br suit, s mis pi.
I xwk lik Ai-v. soak wlU b Mt tnm. AiOnm
be these ever so efficient, th Inefflcl
tncy of what has nosr I erom the most
progressiva and all Inclusive branch of
clinical medicine leaves th school de-
fectlve at Its most vital point, so fur
a the welfare of "the physician In the
making" Is concerned, as well as for the
Interest of the larger social organisation.
Respect for age and physical Infirmity,
should not blind us to the recognition
of Incompetency, whether In referene
to the teaching facilities of a medical
school, or to the censor of a state medi
cal association. SUCH DECREPITUDE
CANNOT STOP TH K PROV1RK88 OF
MEDICAL VCIENCK. EVEN IF A
DAILY NEWSPAPER MI ST BE CON
VERTED INTO A MEDICAL JOl'R
NAL. The members of the medical
faculty of a State Vnlvrrslty should be
hospitable to every advance In applied
scientific knowledge In a profession whose
avowed purpose I to conserve th.? lives,
snnlty and efficiency of our fellow cltl
aen. They should be such men that. In
their presence, even the humblest con
tributor to medical knowledge could feel
at ease. At least there should be no
ungentlemanty outbursts of derision
against an advance In the application of
science to the amelioration and cure
of the diseases and weaknesses of man
kind. As o cltlsen of the state support
ing the medical drpartrrent of a state
university, the humb!-vl ha the right
(IF HE HAS THE INTELLIGENCE
TO DO SO) to demnnd that only such
personalities aa those that have attained
th stature of completely developed man
hood are to be found occupying uch posi
tion of promlnanc anl responsibility.
AS A MEMBER OF ORGANIZED
MEDICINE. AND AB A CITIZEN OF
THE STATE OF NEBRA8KA, I am far
more loyal to my profession and to
my country by specking out upon uch
question than I would be to complat
aantly acquiesce In such manifest Incom
petency, or to condone snich conduct on
the ground of age. mi.ocenc o' Ignor
ance. By such an attitude ONLY could
I maintain my own self-respect which
I a thousand times more valuable to m
than the cpproval of one hundred thou
sand American phylclati.
Not for the wealth of th combined
banks of Nebraska. TOGETHER WITH
THE GUARANTEE OF ETERNAL
YOUTH, would I exchanie the satisfac
tion that Is mine ao tho result of a flf-tetn-year
struggle, not tor profit but
for service to my profession and for tho
welfare of my fellow.
The melancholy whin that "he la un
true to the Medical Department of the
Nebraska Bute Unlvvlty," Is but THE
WAIL OF INCOMPETENT AND UN
TRUTHFUL WEAKLINGS. Without
the assistance of the men who are to
manhood true, in the members of this
faculty, could I have made the success
ful fight which has secured a victory
that ' Is for the entire medics 1 profes
sion and for th whole of mankind, and
far from It would I bo unloyal to their
confidence and friendship. BY ALL
MEANS LET UU HAVE A REAL
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE
NEBRASKA STATE UNIVERSITY,
WITH ITS OWN GENERAL AND
PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITALS, RUN
IN THE INTEREST OK THE ENTIRbJ
STATE OF NEBRABKA, IN HARMONY
WITH THE ACADEMIC DEPART
MENT OF THI8 GREAT INSTITU
TION, WHERE THE WORK OF
ALL DEPARTMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC
KNOWLEDGE CAN BE CONCEN-
T RATED AND THEIR PRINCIFLEH
APPLIED FOR THE AMELIORATION
AND CURE OF HUMAN SUFFERINO,
AND EVERY PARTICLE OF ENERGY
AT MY COMMAND WILL BE READY
FOR SUCH AN ALLIANCE. If the
Institution la to be maintained as 'an ad
vertising machine, run In the Interest of
a few "clinical teachers." In competition
with th larger professional and social
organisations. I WILL fTAND ALONE
F I MUST, and fight thes parasite
alngle handed". Hut I AM NOT ALONE.
THE DIFFERENCE 1ETWF.KN THE
REAL PHTSICIAN AND THE COUN-"
TKHFEIT HERE FINDS THE LINE
OF DEMARCATION. . WE CHEER
FULLY AWAIT THE RECKONING.
Nebraska is leading In Medical educa
tion, and the leadership will go on re
gardless of affiliation with organised
medicine or with a medical school.
Wc are going to have a REAL MEDI
CAL SCHOOL IN" NEBRASKA, wher
the prlnclplen of scler.tlflo knowledge
enn be '.irsctlcally taimlit and applied
to the alleviation of human suffering, tot
the conservation of hu.T.an life and the
promotion of efficiency a school that
will be neither Protelsnt nor Catholic;
Jew nor Gentile, neither "high" not
"low," hut above all these, AMERICAN,
and rtin In the Interest of our common De
mocracy, for the welfa,' of all the peo
ple. The men who ARE qualified to
man such a school ure here, and they
are not Inhospitable to a bearer of a
torchlight of any branch of applied
medical science, for they each have a
torch of their own, that has been seen
ml recognised from near and far.
THEY ARE MY FRIENDS, and they
have helped to sustain me In my pioneer
efforts In the most progressive branch
of practical clinical modiclne in such a
manner that I GLADLY SURRENDER.
;TO THEM THEIR DESERVED PART
OF THE CREDIT OF MY VICTORY.
For one thing, I feel that th conduct
of the entire herd deserve to bo cen
sured. The physician who put "Mamma's
little Hero" up to tell 'What the future
of ths Omnha-Douglaa County Medical
Society was going to be. AND TO SAf
WHAT THE FUTURE MEMBERS OF
THAT SOCIETY WERE NOT GOING
TO DO, ought to be ashamed of his
prank, and the bunch of gullible who
cheered him In hi tryannlcal and die-
tatory stopover, deserv their part of
the condemnation that such conduct de
serves. The two College Professor.
both State Medical Association Official,
who were boldest In their denunciation
of scientific medical progress, or THE
MOST PROGRESSIVE BRANCH OF
CLINICAL MEDICINE were either
elected as a County Medical Boclety
President - or loudly applauded by the
herd-?0 EASILY DO MEN MAKE
DUPES OF THEMSELVES, BY MIS
TAKING NOISE FOP. KNOWLEDGE! .
"HE LA t'Q US BEST WHO LAUGHS
LAST." I have not been supported by
n "endowment fund," or a "State Sup
plied Advertising Machine," but I am Up
with the most advanoel member of th
entire herd, local or national, and I
defy all of them to prove that what I
ay I not true.
Supposa we leave It to David etar Jor
dan, J. Btanley Hall, Victor C. Vuughn.
John B. Murphy and Simon Flexner to
decide.
EITHER HAVE MY CLAIMS CON
TESTED BY COMPETENT JUDGE!
OR BEHAVE YOURSELVES AS MEM
BERS OF A CIVILIZED SOCIAL
ORDER AND BE GOVERNED AC
CORDINGLY. Perhaps, also, it would be Veil for
those posing as high example of con
ventional morality to leara the "a, b, c"
of ethics. Then such "sample" would
have Just complant at th physician who
chouses to use a dally newspaper as an
Instrument of enlightenment.'
The cry of "unethical" has been heard,
but to use a church audience aa a me
dium by which to deride a branch of
practical medical science, according to
the report of a newspaper. Is quits the
polite thins to do. "LET HIM THAT IS
OU1LTLHJS CAST V- THE FIRST
STONE."
With the debris removed, w will (next
Sunday) proceed to th task at hand,
I. ., tell "How to Un a Doctor."
S06- Brandel Theater Bldg. '
There Are a Number of Advantages in Favor of
Early Christmas Shopping
7DU will find complete stocks of
of merchandise to choose from;
plenty of salespeople who are not
tired out, to wait on you; and you
will find Travel on the street cars
more comfortable 'now than later
when the Christmas rush is on.
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