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Show CATCHING UP WITH CHINA Western World Has Adopted System Long Popular In Great Empire of the Orient. Gradually, very gradually, civilization civiliza-tion is catching up with the Chinese. The University of California has established a new profession that of keeping people well. Those who adopt this calling will go into the world and earn fat fees by not letting folks fall ill. Sickness will mean starvation to the practitioners; a healthy populace will make them rich. In China the doctors have never looked to the sick for business. Only while their patients were well could the physicians charge for services rendered. When a patron fell 111 the doctor's income shrunk; when recovered recov-ered the convalescent resumed feeing his medical adviser. It is a good scheme, evidently, or we of the wiser world would not have taken up with it after having so many thousands of years to investigate its workings. In time, perhaps, all the wisdom of the Celestials will become ours by adoption. St. Joseph Gazette. |