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Show THE CITIZEN '8 How Doctor Osier' Stirred The World pv NLY death squared Sir OBSERVATION PLANE William Osier, the great American physician, with the world. For years he was quoted and criticised as the author of an epigram to the effect that after forty men were comparatively useless to the world and that at Bixty they should be chloroformed. It appears that he made a formal denial after a lqng silence, but the denial did not travel far, whereas the statement he was supposed to have made circled the earth in twenty-fou- r hours and every twenty-fou- r hours for monthly and mayhap for years was the thesis for discussion among the monks of the mountain monasteries of Tibet and a favorite topic among the younger folk of the Cannibal isles every time they got hungry. BimilllllMllllllimHIlimilllHMMIIHimillllMWIUlllMIHUIIIIMimillllllWIMIHIIIIUU immortal, not because they are Greek, but because they search to its very Shades Of Bobby Burns, What Is This? now the Scots or some of AND are demanding that Mac- depth the soul of man. Some one must be a villain in the i play. If the poet, his eye in fine frenzy rolling from Jew to Scot and from Roman to Englishman chances to select one or another Of them for villains he is not to be condemned and will not be condemned except by those who see the world and humanity through the microscope of a petty beth be eliminated from the school curriculums because 'the character is alleged to be a libel on the Scotch in that it misrepresents King Macbeth as a murderer and a traitor.' Mac beth murdered many in the play, and even murdered sleep, innocent sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care; and now, forsooth, the royal knave has murdered the sense of hu- Social Welfare And mor. Because, at the behest of men, Shylock has been banned as a libel on the Jews, certain dour Scots would banish from the schools of Hamlet the greatest next to well-meanin- g Shakespeares tragedies. If the Jewish gaberdine is to be cleansed they should also remove the stain from the Scottish kilt, says Captain McTavish of the Gordon . Highlanders. , Bobby Burns would never have made such a fool of himself and, if you should speak to Harry Lauder about it, he would laugh Captain McTavish to death with a song. We would go farther, if we were as gloomy a soiil as is Captain McTavish, and bar other of Shakespeares characters as libels. The king in Hamlet should be banished from school and stage as a libel on theTDanes; Iago as a libel on the i Italians; Caesar as a libel on the Ro- mans and on that great man himself; Falstaff and Richard the Third as libels on the English. It does not occur to protesting Scottish veterans that Macbeth is not, in the poets concept, a Scotsman at all. It was Shakespeares purpose, obvious to every discerning critic, to make Macbeth a universal character as an ' example of what mad ambition might do to distort the soul of any man of any nation or clime. On the other hand, Macduff is not an example of the good man of any nation or clime; he is a good Scotsman and is presented with historic versimilltude. . mind. In all of his tragedies Shakespeare sought the universal note. He could not have made them Immortal poems had. he attempted nothing more than to wrtie a play about Scotland and the Scots. All enduring literature strikes this universal note. The tragedies of Sophocles and Aeschylus are Free Spirits 4 T' HAT was a mean trick Chief of Police Parley White played on the Social Welfare League when he challenged the members to stand up and tell whether they all or any of them had ever purchased a drink in violation. of the law. And when not a single Leaguer arose he raised his voice in exultation, shot through with shafts of sarcasm, and cried aloud: It apears that when Dr. Osier made 1 Why dont you get up? - Naturally it would require courage worthy of the distinguished service medal for a reformer to admit among his virtuous comrades that he had been in a den of vice imbibing illegal liquor in company, let us say, with uniformed policemen and plain clothes i men. If the chief asks us whether such things have occurred we shall truthfully deny personal knowledge, but there are those who say that policemen are quite numerous at the various secret saloons in the downtown district If the chief should muster his own force and ask them whether they had ever purchased drinks in violation of law they could all stand up and take an oath that they had not They dont have to pay a cent Why should a bootlegger refuse to give a policeman a free drink when the guardian of the law edges up to the bar and releases the familiar business-lik- e sign? It would not be polite, tactful and or politic, and a genuinely-able well-traine- d bootlegger cannot afford his address in which the statement was supposed to have been included, he was discussing a novel, entitled, The Fixed Period, written by Anthony Trollope in 1882. He did not say that men at sixty should be chlor- oformed. He merely cited the fact that that was the point in the novel upon which the plot hinged. Dr. And, in turn, the policemen look out for the social and business welfare of the bootleggers. fl. B. 3138 COLE & CO., BROKERS Room 1, Stock Exchange At Salt Lake Bid.. tha Old ClMk Comir'1 Banking Perfection Under U. 8. Inapectioa Service is Our Highest Aim Utah State National Bank thorax of a goat. All sorts of funny combinations of age, youth and goats combinations of man, youth and goats were thought up by the humorists and cartoonists. The newspapers car- ried pretended dispatches for weeks telling how John Smith or Susan Jones of this or that community had acted after taking a shot of the elixir. The French doctor, so to say, got the worlds goat. And when Dr. Osier made his comments within the dignified walls of Johns Hopkins university he was quite unaware of the notoriety he was challenging or of the thought currents he was about to set in motion. It was a new elixir of life to the funny men and a source of wise saws and mod- The good doctor was a living proof of the usefulness of men who had passed the sad Mason and Dixon line of forty. As a doctor, an educator and a wit he continued to benefit the world even when he approached the chloroform age. licemen. 3IIVUIS OFTOI. When Buying or Selling Stoeke Phone 1373 or Bee believed that he had discovered an elixir of life in the The bootleggers who are said to thrive in spite of the law must look po- BMUSMED ISIS Brown-Sequar- d ern instances to the torial writers. out for the social welfare of the tHteZaEKt CbJJakxbej INI Not since the days of the famous Dr. Brown-Sequar- d had a physicians pronouncement gained so much notoriety, evoked so much criticism or so put the witty paragraphers and cartoonists on their mettle. to be anything else but polite, tactful and' politic. , More than oyer before, sueeessful business requires Banking Service of the broad, permanent character we giro. glummer edi- Mhr Fafaral I bum. tat The Great American Novel 'T' HE asylums ought to be, if they are not, adorned with the literary geniuses who have wasted their lives, young and old, trying to write The great American novel. Originally, we believe, it was a critic who invented the deady term and thereby set budding geniuses at a task no more sensible than trying to devise a means of squaring tlS circle. No doubt it occurred to some illogical critic that if there was a great English novel and a great French novel there ought to be im-matu- re, (Continued on Page 14.) |