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 Washington, Equipped Beyond His Fondest Hopes for Carrying on His Life Work ' ' 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.