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| Andrew Dickson White. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, Feb. 22, 1902.
"REIGN OF GOOD WILL."
Speech of Ambassador Andrew D. White In Berlin.
A WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY PARTY.
No Hatred of Germans or Germany In America—Mr. White Says Conduct of German Government During the Spanish War Was Excellent—The Royal Guest.
Berlin, Feb. 22.—Andrew D. White, the American ambassador here, presiding at an assemblage of 300 Americans who celebrated Washington's birthday at the Kaiserhof by a musical entertainment followed by supper and a dance, said in an address:
"Sundry writers on this side of the Atlantic have been especially eloquent in denouncing the general hatred of Germany and Germans which they insist obtains in the United States. Much has been said of 'Deutschen Hetze' (German baiting), and this has been placed in such a lurid light that one would almost believe that on the appearance of one of our German-American fellow citizens upon the streets of an American city, the citizens of American birth were ready to cry havoc and let loose on him the dogs of war.
"It has been my duty for five years to read with considerable conscientiousness a number of the foremost American newspapers representing the dominant thought in various parts of the Union, and I can most truthfully say that I have failed to find the slightest trace of such 'Deutschen Hetze.' I did not discover anything like hatred or a persecuting spirit toward the German-American on the American continent. Even if there were no other reasons, the Americans are too busy and too good natured for an amusement of that kind.
"On the other side it has been insisted by more or less well meaning people in the United States that a dark cloud between the two countries really exists and that in the times of which ancient history makes mention, and especially during our Spanish war, the German government was somehow hostile to the United States or in some manner which nobody seems to be able to give with precision the German government did something which it ought not to have done, and left undone something which it ought to have done. To this answer has been made, if I may be allowed to refer to it, by myself, as one competent to express opinion on the subject, with the declaration that the conduct of the German government toward us during the Spanish war was excellent. The German government observed strict neutrality and showed no unfriendly spirit. From first to last, it never made any suggestions or proposals that embarrassed us in the slightest degree. In fact, the conduct of the German government was all that we could desire it to be.
"Some self-constituted guardians of the welfare of the United States have insisted that if not the imperial government it was the honored and revered sovereign of the empire who spread this cloud over the relations of the two nations by promoting or, if not by promoting, by joining a league to intervene and stop the war.
"On this account various people have really made themselves very unhappy. Now, however, within a fortnight all this has been cleared away and it has been shown beyond a doubt that the revered and beloved sovereign of this country refused to take part in anything which could be construed as interference in the contest and, refused in such a manner as to show that he respected the motive and appreciated the feelings of the American government.
"Tonight, even at this very moment, other exhibitions of the good feeling between the German and American governments are taking place. Thanks to wireless telegraphy, messages of hearty good will are flashing to and from the Kronprinz Wilhelm which bears the honored representative of the emperor to our shores. These messages go to all parts of our country; they also come from all parts of our country, for the mission of our royal guest is clearly seen to be one of peace and kindness.
"It is sometimes said by the gainsayers that missions and demonstrations like the one now beginning in America accomplish nothing, for the reason that they settle no really important questions. An assertion like this betrays a very narrow view of public affairs on the part of a person making it. It is doubtless true that such demonstrations do not directly settle pending questions between nations but it is none the less true that such demonstrations, hearty and kindly, are arousing a better feeling in both nations, are powerful in creating an atmosphere in which the pending questions are more easily settled.
"We have every reason then this evening to rejoice at this restored reign of good will. As to the clouds of myth and legend hanging over the relations of the two countries, we have every reason to hope they have passed away. Certainly, this eve of Washington's birthday may well be celebrated joyfully."
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| Guglielmo Marconi. |
MARCONI RETURNING.
Expects to Use Wireless Telegraphy for a Thousand Miles.
SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 22.—Signor Marconi sailed for the United States today on the steamer Philadelphia. The American liner is fitted with a new and powerful wireless receiver and transmitter, and with these instruments Marconi expects to communicate with England and Nantucket at a distance of 1,000 miles. The Philadelphia will thus be severed from land communication for only a day during the voyage.
EDUCATING A MIND HEALER.
Would a Thorough Medical Training Destroy His Power to Cure?
To the Editor of The Standard:
Sir: Editors are supposed to be qualified to answer any question proposed. If this should be too broad a statement in regard to every field of present day investigation, I am sure that it is not so with the present question and the editor addressed. [See Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, Feb. 20, 1902, Christian Science—CC ed.] I considered myself fortunate in having been permitted to listen to the comprehensive and fair-minded address on "Christian Science" at the Science club last Saturday evening.
This is the problem arising from that discussion, however, upon the solution of which I am not quite clear. Suppose a mind healer, Christian Scientist, Dowieite or a Schiatter, ignorant of medical science, but with unbounded faith in his own powers. Suppose that he tries his ability upon all sorts and kinds of diseases, functional and organic, acute and chronic, the commonly considered curable and incurable. Suppose from this number he cures the same percentage that we find are cured by the spring at St. Ann's, Our Lady at Lourdes, or the Boy Phenomenon. Suppose that some charitably inclined person should give such a person the best medical education that the schools afford, broad, thorough and scientific. Could he then perform the same class of cures that he did before? Or would he be like Samson shorn of his locks? If the answer is that he could not, did our charitable friend do a kindness to the healer? Was or was not society benefited by his education?
Of course the bearing of all this on the osteopathy bill of the present session is obvious, but is not the main reason for my wishing for the answer.
Respectfully yours,
F. W. HIGGINS, M. D.
[EDITOR'S REPLY.]
Had not the editor of The STANDARD [William H. Clark] been bottled up in East Freetown snow drifts, the above would have received earlier attention. The idea that editors are qualified to answer any question correctly is as mistaken as the idea that any physician, however eminent, is infallible. Almost any one can try his hand at answering almost any question, but whether any given answer is correct may require years to decide.
Whether a so-called natural healer or bonesetter, or person who performs surgical operations or cures disease by reason of some peculiar gift—and without any special training or education such as ordinarily fits men for such work—would be spoiled by such an education, we should say might depend very much on the kind of man who was educated. We remember some years ago reading of one who might be called a natural eye doctor, whose skill in performing certain operations, without any technical education, so impressed a rich and liberal gentleman that he sent the operator to a surgical institution, to take special instruction covering the eye. When the operator learned from the anatomy of the eye what a delicate organ he had ignorantly and presumptuously been tampering with, he not only refused to touch it again, but left the school. The story may or may not have been true, but it is by no means impossible, and serves to illustrate what we mean. Had this man been made of different metal, he would have braced up, mastered his profession and helped his natural ability by adding to it the best technical training.
It is our own opinion that the principles underlying all mind-healing are the same. Natural and peculiar qualifications enable some persons to accomplish results in this direction—often in ignorance of what the power is which they exert—which would be physically impossible to other men, no matter how thoroughly they might understand the principles. A man may understand the theory of surgery thoroughly, and fail through lack of nerve and operative ability, where a sawbones of comparatively little theoretical knowledge, but possessing the other qualifications which his brother lacks, will succeed.
Education spoils some men, just as cutting off a pig's tail and trying to make a whistle of it destroys it for the humbler purpose of decorating the pig's extremity. A percentage of all boys sent to college are ruined, either by acquiring bad habits or by being made Miss Nancys or la-de-das. Many a boy who would otherwise have been a good carpenter or blacksmith or mason or farmer or business man is spoiled in this way.
Schiatter and other mind healers have accomplished similar results to those which scientific physicians and investigators on both sides of the Atlantic are now reaching without the use of medicine, and in accordance with certain well defined principles or natural laws, which they explain and in harmony with which they work. The natural gifts which make mind-healing possible, and which are much more efficient in some healers than in others, seem to us not of a kind which ought necessarily to be destroyed or lessened by a thorough medical and surgical education; yet in some cases such an education might result as it is said to have done with the natural eye doctor above referred to. In many, if not most cases, however, the healer would probably reject the offer of such an education on the ground that he didn't need it.
Hydropathy, for example, which has been becoming [popular] and more generally recognized [by the] scientific department of the healing art, was for years in the hands of empirics, its governing principles not ascertained, or at least not formulated or scientifically taught. It seems to us that the power of diagnosing a disease, and the experience and observation in the use and application of water, and the conclusions deduced therefrom, which made many of the early hydropaths measurably successful, would have been greatly aided by the investigations which have since been made into the principles of this science, as well as by that thorough medical training which the best hydropathic physicians in other countries now receive.
Some persons, however, are incapable of receiving a technical education, others can make no use of it after they get it, and still others are actually made of less value to the world because of it.—(Ed. STANDARD).
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| William Dillon. |
WILLIAM DILLON.
Bought a Half Interest in the Maude Hillman Company.
Mr. William Dillon of the Maude Hillman company, who was a guest yesterday at his home in this city, has bought a half interest in the company and has become its general manager. The company enjoys a widespread popularity, and the Cortland lad of only a few short years ago has done much to make it what it is. Since last Christmas the company has been playing to much larger houses than ever before, and under the present management continued success seems apparent.
BREVITIES.
—The choir of the First M. E. church will meet for rehearsal this evening at the church at 8 o'clock.
—Governor Odell has signed the bill making the office of sheriff of Broome county a salaried office, the salary being $3,000 a year.
—New display advertisements today are—The Corner Grocery, Maple Sugar and Syrup, page 4; Sager & Jennings, Pure drugs, etc, page 5.
—Senator Slater has introduced a bill providing for a state appropriation of $200,000 for a building for Cornell's agricultural department.
—The Remington farm of 346 acres at Cazenovia, on which the Remingtons spent $300,000, has just been sold at a forced sale for $16,000.
—The Y. M. C. A. basket ball team returned from Waverly, N. Y., this morning. The boys were beaten in the game with Waverly last night. Score 43 and 40.
—R. D. Woodford of Cortland has been granted a patent on a brace for a carriage running gear. The patent was secured through his attorneys, Risley & Love of Utica.
—The funeral of Garrett Nagle, the fireman who was killed at the Little York [train] wreck on Thursday, will be held at St. Lucy's church in Syracuse tomorrow at 2:30 o'clock.
—The funeral of Mrs. Angeline Ogden, who died yesterday at the residence of Mr. Stephen A. Simmons, 99 Groton-ave., will be held from the house at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
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