THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 7, 1921 HOBBY OF PRESIDENT'S PHYSICIAN IS CURING INCURABLES Charles E. Sawyer, a Little Country Doctor, Finds Himself a Brigadier General in , Equipped Beyond His Fondest Hopes for Carrying on His Life Work

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' l0Te because you're different." This refrain of a soar furntshed ' r. 8"7 wit another Inspiration. 0'? ' ' V jVlw' j UlL

1- f - I nfY....i..lfc t ytZ? ' . ...., faculties - i. ' " wisp j -" krve what there waa of Interestf Kn the bed waa a little of a SZz " woman who had lain there for three I jZ i - - t - rVSXx In a fence corner even." Another of Dr. Sawyer's in Qt-- surables who waa cured. BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUT. jr Y life work," said Brigadier- - fTi general r,. sawyer, - k VI unines t 1 WW - I las been a search for the i' S t f t " 'toJ3TiT& curable Incurables." IKVvS If This sprightly little man. physician to President Harding', nucleus about which is to be built the welfare de- partment of the United States govern- ment, looked out owlishly through thick glasses and ripples of humor ran up and down his face. "Curable Incurables." he continued, ounds like a contradictory term, but for practical purposes it is not. There are people everywhere who are incurable under ordinary circum- stances, but who, under highly spe- cialized treatment, get well. "I remember my first case well. I was a young doctor and felt compli- mented when I was called 15 miles Into the country to see one of these shut-in- s. I opened a gate in a high picket fence and saw a little log cabin of one room and a leanto. When I went In my first impression was of immaculate, The of him; that I would visit this friend whitewashed walls. In Angeles; floor was as clean as a varnished din- Los that we would meet ner table. The stove was polished later in San Francisco and sail. . until it threw back my reflection. " 'I love you because you're differ- "On the bed was a little wisp of a ent' ran In my head all the way to woman who had lain there for three the coH.t. People stick so to the years, her legs being useless, the re- beaten path, I said to myself, that it a But ' l sult of railroad accident. her one - ' I - I f f . 3 . t "The Chlleaa Indian wa eeat half-witte- is should be d in little' wonder that - ? - " - spirit djrected a girl s, I VvV-"?W S I' loft. where throngs the loved being different. All hos- f " " ' ""r-- the maintenance of a spotless home. for I J ' J ' ' - n'Kht he waa to observe and Incapaci- I VV v'' ' " - ' r Here, I said, is a flame feeding. pitals, institutions for the " v out the neceaaary worth f $ VVV' f ,s " " ins calla woman to are very much alike. Why X V I for Koldanee of those "I took the little back tated f W v e- - - " SS the town with me, hired a room for should one not be created that is dif- f I VOVi , , t below." The mnrvelons her, her, cured her. Three ferent? I will build this one that I aweetnesa of his voice at- nursed tracted attention and he be- years later she drove up to my house have been planning different from all came a famous singer. a new buggy, in came in and forced others. Sawyer a $300 on me, money for which I had "I worked all the time I was in Los Or. feels bit restrained In open her eyes. She was intellectually much need. She had obtained a pen- Angeles on those plans. I became so his brlsrndier areneral's uniform and stone blind. I, the doctor, would pre- pay a husband absorbed that I canceled the trip to ha unintentionally misses soma of sion with back from the aalutea snapped at him, scribe for her. I would cure her if who had deserted her. Honolulu, and neither Mr. Harding out from town. We would blindfold she would follow my directions. "I well remember another woman, nor I went. I built the institution and them and lead them ,out on a log Harding; , the animals otherwise minister- Presfdent and hia physician snapped sn tha White Rouse grounds. "She should return to her schooL young-- she waa only 22, who had been that was different, and in it I cured to wejl being. bad been thrown the 25 per ing their that across and got Into trouble. Out of my sav- ing. . I was case, be- Eut she should promise me that she 'bedridden for four years. Her teeth cent more patients than did the young Sawyer stream below we led interested in her bad fallen out and her nails had come conventional hospital. A snatch of a But the mother of the falls. As ings I had bought myself a beef heart cause I have always felt that the would do as I giid for one hour each off. Bhe lived in a darkened room. song in a light opera did it." as ambitious for his advancement them out we would describe the tor- from the butcher. I went to my world was full of tragedies of people day for a wek. She should go into Yet she had much ahead of her if she I found that I was being fairly and. through her efforts, he eventually rents rushing below. As a matter of rpom and dissected that heart. I be- wrongly placed. one of tpose commonplace fence cor- could be caved. I had the satisfaction borne along by the enthusiasm of attained the distinction of becoming fact there was a perfectly safe and came absorbed in it, spent hours dem- "I asked this country school teacher ners on her way home from school of curing her and seeing her de.velop this small man. Already I realized he a clerk in the village shoe store. soft landing should anybody tumble. onstrating to myself the mysteries of to tell me of her tasks. She said that and she should remain there for one Into one of the kindergarten pioneers was making his peculiar impression There ha labored for years and there "We would tell the visiting boys the operation of its different cham- there was nothing to life but a mile-lon- g hour each day. She should arouse of her time and lead a long life of on Washington. With each succeed he came to know Pr. W. F. White, that the log was shaky and that they bers and the valves that divided them. trip down a dusty road between her faculties to observe what there usefulness. ng administration it seems there is who was to be his preceptor, guide were sure to fall and they Invariably Art alarm had been sent out for me two rail fences twice a day and the was of interest in that one fence "These women were curable incur- develop some figure and friend. Under rr. White he did. Then again,' we would tell them as among the missing before my fath- intervening hours in teaching the corner She should watch the bee in- ure to particular way ' ables. I operate an institution near that finds for itself some special studied for three years before he that the was secure, that it was er finally found me, lost In this first same monotonous lessons over and dustriously delving into the flower, Marion which devotes itself entirely niche in the affections, of the people. went away to a homeopathic school but a lttle distance to the ground, hard study. over again. extracting from it those peculiar ele- Vice-Preside- in Cleveland, which he was they had but to ahead to "I one greatest "I said to young to this sort of cases." nt Marshall, with his from that walk hold that of the this woman that ments that constitute the honey of "Where," I asked, "did you get the quaint Hoosier philosophy, was the graduated, and where he took subse- safety. And these boys always came good fortunes that can come to any she was not temperamentally fitted commerce, storing that honey p.ni idea of this specialty?" member of the Wilson administration quent courses in orthopedic surgery, undisturbed across. So did I learn individual is that he should come to to become a nurse. A nurse must be bearing the harvest away. She should "That is a story all by itself," he who won a sentimental esteem from which he chose as a specialty. the lesson of the v.lue of confidence. J study the minute detail of any one must think only of take note of the procession of ants said. "I have long subscribed to the a whole people. In the time of Taft I had two boy friends," said the While I was studying medicine I of the thousands of things that are her patient. She. on the contrary, that wound' its way with military pre- belief that every man's life runs in there was Archie Butt, his military general, "wbn lived in the country. did many odd jobs to keep myself in around him. thought of herself and not of her cision under the command of its con- some beloved, Near their house was a brook which spense money. One of these was to "There once came to me at my san- tasks. She thought of the distinction stituted authority, demonstrating the the channels it does because of aide, who was dearly the ran through a a I a young infinitesimal happenings that turn it greatest peacock of, his generation, a forge and took act as caller for local hotel. went atorium woman who was of the nurse's uniform when she establishment of a community lifs way or My selection of in- plunge over a cliff. Its water ere. down to the trains with the bus from very unhappy with her lot as teacher would wear it and not of the service that is an ambitious competitor to this that. the man who unflinchingly yielded me a Ti- - ated quite roar in doing so and the this hotel and told the arriving of a country school. She wanted she might render in it. It was the that of man. She should watch the curable curables as life work was his place in the boats when the advantages making give wrong due to one of these small incidents. anic was sinking and went smiling to youthful imagination easily saw the throngs of the of to her an opportunity to become spirit for this exacting calling. ragweed as it shudders to shake from was on a bridge over cataract as another Niagara. it their headquarter while In town. a trained nurse that she nflght aban- "On the other hand, she might be- its leaves the dust that has settled "I standing his death. Under Harding, I forecast, boys to come one day my good) the Grand river at Grand Rapids, BrigadierrGeneral Sawyer, but yester We used to ask other "But I missed trains don the career she had been fallow come a teacher if she would but on them from the wagon that has Mich., one day, watching two fisher- day country Marion, just passed. She should come to know a doctor out in ragweed always- men. Each was baiting his hook and a to drive up and park himself in sailed from Melbourne to Liverpool, that this occurs ir throwing into the stream. One was sunny where personal affec 12,190- - miles, in' 64 days. The' family groups, a little community it the lot TRANS-ATLANT- IC here, and yon catching minnows. It was minnows tion sheds its glow. tf GREAT DISTINCTION OF of New York sailed from Liverpool another there another he wanted. He was baiting for min- The doctor, I should guess, weighs to Hongkong. 13.040 miles, in 84 days; der, but never alone. She should ex nows. The other waa catching trout. about 106 pounds. He is not particu RECORD 'AWARDED RED the Mary Whittredge of Baltimore, amine the piece of this plant upon JACKET Cape Henry to Liverpool, 3400 which she has sat and see how it has He was baiting for trout. He wanted larly looking. He is merely ' from delicate . already begun to repair trout. Each of these men- - specialized small and slim. He is that way by " miles. In 13 days and seven hours, the wounds Nothing in Sailing: Annals Known Than Time of 13 Days 1 Hour and 25 Minutes and the Dawn of New York she has inflicted upon it. She should Why should a doctor not specialize? nature. There is but one smaller Faster Attested From bark open, would for curable incurables public Sandy Hook Lightship to Liverpool Head. from Buenos Aires to Sandy Hook. her mind to these and a multi- I fish man in Washington life, and Pier tude of happenings in one I began right away and I have houses that man is Augusto 6010 miles. In 36 days. The Nabob of other her Boston ran from New York to Ran- fence corner. She should study them full of them on my hands ever since.' Cochrane del Alencar, the accredited up "Tell me of inci ANGOR, Me. Much testimony and, throwing the Into from Boston home goon in 75 days. It is related of that for an hour each day for a week and the other small diplomatic representative to this been of to show along- from San 76 days and return to me. dents," I said, "that have affected country from Brazil. The Brazilian's has offered late the wind, actually backed her Francisco in voyage that the Nabob carried away your B that the New Yorlf clipper ship side the pier, while the crew took in eight hours; the North Wind of New 71 stuns'ls, ffhd that when all her "This she did. She pronounced the career." coat is so diminutive that when his Dreadnought never made the run York from England to Port Philip" gone monotony of her existence gone. She "The first of them," he went on, post was advanced from that of min- - sail with a celerity that seemed like stuns'l booms bad by the board "happened I was credited to her by some writers magic spectators. head, Australia, 12,600 miles, in 7 6 the old man began using long .boat became a teacher of many times her when still in kilties ister to ambassador there was not 17 Sandy to the days; Young A carpenter by name on nine days and hours from the of New oars. original value and a woman for the of Jacobs room enough it for the gold braid Hook lightship to rock, The Red Jacket was a ship of about York from Liverpool to San Fran- whom idle unhappiness was and my father were making some re arbitrarily prescribed, a very Daunt's 2500 tons, measurement; The , an earlier racer banished and Queenstown. but there is little need of old had cises, 13,800 miles in 96 days; the than any of named, is forever. pairs to our house. The carpenter developed. very long floor, like a PenobBe'ot ' those credited delicate situation evidence or argument on ques river Euterpe of Rockland. Maine, from 433 V4 "There are innumerable people in passed end of a long to my age SI that carry - with a day's run of miles, this the board Having reached the of and tion, for few who know much of lumberman's batteau, and could New York to- Calcutta. 13,500 miles. record having been made on a voyage the world who may be helped: in ways father who was on a ladder and to- having always managed ta get along a tremendous spread and also point in 78 days; of are beyond measure. gether they slipped into place Sawyer ships and the 6ea have ever believed high. as tha Richard Bnsteed from New York to San Francisco. that I remember it the in mufti. Dr. felt a bit re She carried figurehead the Boston, Sidney, N. 8. W..- - to Cal- - 89 attending a. banquet once given a was to occupy. togs that the famous clipper sailed. tns.t Image of from covering 13,610 miles in days and to It strained when he got into the fast. the Indian chief. Red Jacket, cutta, E80O miles in 42 days, and the 18 hours. ' very distinguished group of medical TiOn, does it fit?" asked Jacobs. of a brigadier-gener- al and at first he artistically carved from a log. of bark of Boston, Among passages compara men. It was an occasion of impos- " fits well enough to do,' my missed, not from intent, a good many While they are at it, however, the pumpkin pine. She prospered finely fast .of It sea sharps might as well tell who did home from Callao, 9979 miles, in 58 tively recent times, by rather full-bui- lt ing proportions. One of the enter- father replied. "Nail it on. snapped by men in the clipper service, was sold sweet-voice- of the salutes at him York-Liverpoo- l, later days. tainers, a d singer, was of It fit?' Jacobs insisted, and yet make the transatlantic, or New to English account and in American ships, is that of the "Does in khaki along the curb. Even he record, if Captain Samuels sailed the In 1S51 the Sovereign .of the Seas S. D. Carleton of Rockport, Majne. in such unusual appearance as to arouse lie came up the ladder tr see. It did does not boast of any particular Australian trade, and at last accounts. my up didn't. Downeasters are inclined to sailed from New York to San Fran- 1192, from New York to San Fran- - curiosity, so I asked about him. not. He took it down, squared the swagger in his soldier clothes,, but he after some years of carrying lumber 14 I found he was a exactly. I goes award the great distinction to the St. cisco in 102 days, days of whicu clsco She arrived off the River that Chilean Indian end, made it fit always at home in them. He abou.t from the Lawrence to the United she spent lying Valparaiso, 40 days, 76 by birth. He had grown up in remembered this incident. I watched. anybody clipper Red Jacket, built at Rockland. Kingdom, was dismantled and used time off Plate In the Horn in and the as much as in official life Me., in 50s. The Red har she having been partially' dismasted San Francisco in 106, and 18 days obscurity of that faraway commun- Jacobs after that for many years. He and in as big an automobile and if the Jacket as a coal hulk at Malta. well-attest- ed 12 days I in a gale. After discharging at San were rolling in a ity. He was poor, almost without ed- was always working on newel posts record of some in lost around winter the folks in Marion could see him 25 Sandy In records the Dreadnought Francisco she sailed to Honolulu, and gale between the Gulf Stream and ucation. He regarded himself as very stairways and such particular jobs they would be mighty proud. hour and minutes from credited with a run of 13 days and money Hook lightship to Liverpool pier head, from that port ran to New York in Hatteras. About a dozen years ago fortunate when he became roustabout He s;ot more than the other General Sawyer has been assigned eight hours from New York to Liv 88 days without starting a tack. In the Henry B. Hyde sailed from New on a freighter that touched at his carpenters. He worked when, they spacious offices in corner of and it is. not recalled that anything erpool, and it is the the faster has been claimed for a sailing well authenticated fen consecutive days she made 2300 York to San Francisco in 102 days, native ports. It was a hard life were laid off. I would follow Jacobs. state, war and navy building she ran from to New full-bui- ' that is vessel. that Honolulu miles. From New York she sailed which was great going for a lt aboard ship. for he was the most I would make things fit. t nearest the White House, just across Bedford. 13.470 miles in 82 days. She lowly pf crew is related Collins line for Liverpool, was becalmed on the ship of her size, deep loaded. member the and the "Then there is the third event in the street, and there, surrounded by It thta the was built at Newburyport, Mass., in Banks of Newfoundland, and when Some of the fore and afters also worst of the tasks fell to him. my life, a very small event indeed his staff, he is studying the establish steamer, which left New York a day 1B53 by William Currier and James got vessel, threading endless my great- or two the Red Jacket arrived she a chance ran from the Banks have done great sailing. It is recalled "Thia the which led me to accomplish ment of the department of welfare after T. Townsend to the order of Governor one-ha- lf three-maste- d spaces of finally came in Liverpool one Sunday afternoon to the Mersey in five and that the little schooner, the world.' to est success. I was getting well along All day long people come to see him, E. D. Morgan, Captain Samuels of days, the whole passage being jnade Carrie E. Woodbury of Bangor sailed port at Liverpool. For some reason it by this time. I had gone to Chicago and you an you and brought the news that the Yankee Brooklyn, her first master, and oth- if ask. for interview clipper in 13 days and 19 hours. Among her from this port to Bristol, England, could not enter the harbor, but must to see my son, who was then a grown are likely to be set down for an hour was just astern. Those were ers. Her fame was as wide as the 18 through night. sporting days in the clipper service, best single day's, run are recorded deep loaded with deals, in days, remain outside the The man. We went to see a show. I three days ahead. But the visit will seas and she soon acquired the name 419 437 miles, on a passage from even in recent war days some of Chilean Indian was sent aloft, where, opera and there was as much interest in the a racer wild At- and and happened to be a light known be 'Worth your while. of "the ship of the' New to San Francisco. ... Nova schooners, through the night, h was to observe Mayor was performances of fast ships as there sa.i!6rs used to York the Maine and Scotia as The of Tokio." There I asked the general to reveal for me any lantic," call her. She The Natchez, another famous clip little fellows hardly fit to go off- and eing out the necessary calls for a Yankee in it with a penchant for that eternal miracle of the evolution now is in other time records, big carried on her foresail a fiery red per, of below. he money often being wagered on sail- once made the run from Canton shore, did as well or better between the guidance those This advertising the thing he had for sale of an individual from the gloom of cross by which she was easily identi- to New York in 76 dys. The Samuel Nova Scotia ports and the United did and, while his voice floated out who fell in love with the maid of obscurity to the spotlight of ing contests. fied at sea. She was 200 feet between on an ear away on and national ' Russell of Boston in .1154 made 311 Kingdom. the stillness, far the . He sang a song to her public interest, to tell me where he Multitudes Cheer Racer. perpendiculars. 217 feet on deck, 40 miles in one day, homeward bound shore heard and a critic marveled at There was a refrain in it which ran started and what Incidents led to his When the news spread along the feet beam, 26 feet depth of hold; gross Whampoa. In 30 consecutive the wondrpus sweetness of voice. tonnage. 1413; net, from Oeean Mines Hidden Perils. tlxt " I love you because you're differ making. Liverpool harbor front the people 1227. Strictly days she covered 6722 miles, or nearly Telegraph. "So to the poor Indian. 7000 miles . said his father was to docks speaking she was only a half clipper, away home, ent.' He that rushed in thousands the and gave half the distance from New York to It IS said that about 20 English from his in the darkness "I went away with that phrase run farmer living within 20 miles of every pier was blank with spectators but her unusual beam her the China. . In 1852-- 3 the Flying Dutch- of night on the top of a ship's mast, my ability to stand up a press of and French fishing boats have mys- ring in head. It was still going Marion, right there in the heart of awaiting the advent of the new sea under man of New York went to San Fran- teriously disappeared during the came opportunity, for the ear that when I woke up. It went on fo Ohio where his whole life has been racer. Outside the port tugs had of- sail that would send a full clipper cisco, discharged, loaded and got back, hear provided training for his voice. under.- time since the ending of the war, and weeks. Nothing seemed able to stop spent. But the elder Sawyer went fered to tow the clipper, but the ship plowing' She was lost on July to New York, a round voyage of 27,-2- "To me the Indian, the schoolteach-- " 4, 1869, while on voyage Liver- it is thought that these disappear- it. away to the civil war when his son was going so fast that they couldn't a from . miles, in 101 days, wharf to er. the ittle woman of the white- pool to San Francisco, being piled up ances may be accounted for by un- "Mr. Harding and I had been plan was but 3 or 4 years old and when he keep the hawsers taut, and so had to wharf. She ran from the Golden Gate up washed walls were curable incur- long In give up. on Cape Penas, to the northeastward 35 days. wittingly bringing a mine with my ning a trip to Honolulu for a came back the family went to dwell it The Red Jacket swept to the Horn, 6380 miles, in to ables. I have been baiting hook time. It was at about this time that Nevada, O. (pronounced by the docter into the Mersey with everything of Tierra del Fuego. At that time In 1853 the Trade Wind of New York their haul. It is said be impos for this sort of people for a long May-he- presence we decided we would take it. Out i with a long a). There they engaged drawing, presenting a spectacle that she was commanded by Captain ran home from San Francisco in T5 sible to detect the of a mine time and catching them. The oppor- Angeles was a doctor, business, buying brought from assembled . days. in the net for the reason that it is president Los there In the horser these cheers the covered with the fish seaweed, tunity that the has given -- as tugs came Records Are Cited. 1354 and youngster whom I had taken off the animals and selling them on various multitudes. Xhen, The of Boston in but when it Is dumped out on the me in working toward the creation street and educated. He had made markets. This necessitated the main alongside to dock her, the ship's mas The ship of Boston crossed to Liverpool in less than 14 deck or in the hold of the vessel of a welfare department Is but the great success. I told Mr. Harding tenance of stables and here the young- - I ter gave all hands a thrill they had sailed from New York to San Fran- days, and after being sold for English there is likely to be an explosion that same task many times multiplied. It Ui&t I would start two weeks ahead star labored, fee dine o4 currying 1 least expected he ignored tb tugs. cisco la SO cUi'S and four b.oujsj the account and rigged, as a baxk, she will 6en4 all on board to eternity,. is my fondest Axeam coma true,"