OUR JUDICIAL OLIGARCHY, (THIRD ARTICLE)
Roe, Gilbert E.
HOME AND EDUCATION The tome is the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gifts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Professor...
...Hodge was from the civic and scientific...
...WE FOUND the factory a busy place,—rushed to the limit of its capacity in meeting the demand for outdoor traps...
...I suppose I have been told more often—than any other bit of encouragement that has been handed me—'you have the common sense view of the problem.' I am just a bundle of faith and common sense...
...They say, 'Oh, yes, it's ideal, fine, splendid, glorious, but it is utopian to think you can educate people to doing it.' "Bejabers, why not...
...Harry Veatch, Secretary of Boy Scouts, Weir, Kansas...
...But he felt it was too valuable in possibilities of conserving health, and life, and human comfort, too valuable in possibilities of ethical, social, and biological education to warrant delay...
...the Animal Rescue League, Boston, Massachusetts...
...he said, a little suprised,—and I was afraid I ought to know without asking,—"Why, my definition of faith is that source within us from which action springs...
...Hodge said he would rather sit alone in his room and just think than to read or do anything else except to go to work and materialize his thinking and test his theories by experiment...
...I made a note of some of them: Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C; Pure Food and Drug Inspection, Nashville, Tennessee...
...HODGE said that one man, in Worcester,—and he was not a rich man either,—had volunteered to buy traps for every garbage pail on his street, for three blocks, if the people would use them,—and for the next street either side also...
...Hodge was urged by his friends to patent the fly exterminator and make a million, with which to build and endow the great laboratory of which he dreams...
...Does he milk and take care of her...
...I inquired...
...Anthony Park, Minnesota...
...There are millions of us and should we not each want at least half a dozen traps...
...Collier, the President of the Company, was as enthusiastic from the business point of view as Mr...
...It was nearly five o'clock when we reached Clark University but we found Mr...
...One method does not preclude the other...
...How did you happen to think of it...
...The Countess Gray, Ottowa, Canada...
...There goes my boy after his cow," he said...
...Hodge is able to awaken...
...Then incidentally he told us that he had himself been born on a farm,—Bluffwood, on the Rock River, below Janesville, Wisconsin...
...City of Cleveland, Board of Health...
...Mr...
...Are not all we housekeepers tired of flies...
...For why should we not use all available means for fighting flies...
...he exclaimed earnestly, but with a...
...Then he went on to say that the only trouble was he could never hope to do, or to get good students enough to do, all the good things he thought of...
...And if all the women in America were as alive to their civic responsibility as this great scientist, all the factories working night and day, could not supply the demand for traps...
...I asked Mr...
...Agricultural Experiment Station, St...
...And do we not know the danger and suffering from typhoid...
...It is their application to outdoor extermination that is indicative of genius...
...After the family was transplanted to Ripon,—a small college town farther up the state,—he put in eight years at that college...
...Hodge pointed out a fine lad in shirt sleeves and overalls...
...so he made no effort to do this, but gave his idea freely, and is trying in all ways to get it into the life of the country...
...Why," he said, "it may prove worth a hundred million to the country yearly in saved health and comfort in life, and one cannot tarnish his soul with muck-raking when such values stare him in the face...
...He impresses you as one who never stops working, but there is a joy in it that keeps him young...
...Department of Physiology, University of Chicago...
...But I have faith, and that is the secret of all I have been able to do," he remarked in the course of our talk...
...The traps are simple and could be manufactured by any firm that handles the materials...
...He took us all through the factory, showed us all the processes, and the large orders ready for shipment...
...Hodge at work in his laboratory...
...This is the spirit of EXTERMINATION...
...But," he declared, "the happiest and best year of that period of my life was spent on a farm, working for fifteen dollars a month, and my health...
...W. H. Crosby, Federation of Women's Clubs, Racine, Wisconsin...
...Since his work at John Hopkins he has been mainly at Clark...
...I have often thought I must do much of my very best mental work in my sleep," he added, "I go to sleep with a problem simmering in my brain, and wake up with it clear as a bell—never dream consciously about it either...
...When he finished Ripon, he spent three and one-half years on land and railroad surveys in Montana, working hard in the outdoors accumulating, "a little money to pay for my university course, and a great fund of health...
...To my question as to the university from which he graduated, he replied that he had really found himself in the biological department of John Hopkins University, where he devoted himself to the study of problems in the physiology of nerve cells and spent five years in research as to the physiological effects of alcohol...
...I was especially interested in unsolicited orders from various sources, indicating a widespread, intelligent interest in the new plans...
...The National Manufacturing Company is at the opposite end of the town from the quite dignified university, with its far-reaching influence...
...Oh," he said, "my pastime is thinking—you might almost call it dreaming out problems and ways of solving them...
...And Swatters, and poison and fly paper too...
...I know I am not great and have no desire to be...
...I stand for the swatter It swats the one or two flies that will find their way into the best screened houses, and get on your nerves as well as on bald heads...
...Hodge...
...he said emphatically...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Professor Hodge---An Interview WHEN MY FRIEND asked me to go to Boston with her I doubt if I should have overcome the dread of leaving home if she had not suggested that we stop in at Worcester and visit the factory where the fly traps are manufactured about which our readers are making many inquiries as a result of the article by Professor Hodge on fly extermination, published in our issue of April fifteenth...
...But your definition of faith," I asked...
...that he had there attended the District school, which his father taught for a number of winters...
...It is the kind of enthusiasm that Mr...
...On the way Mr...
...Possibly the brain rests, and then is able to think the thing out in a flash...
...And they were making more machines as fast as possible, and attaching those they have, on to motors which will give them greater speed and enable them to run night and day...
...Then he went on to say that it was a constant surprise ta him to find how little faith many educators have in the possibility of education...
...Part of his education," the father answered...
...The Woman's Civic League, Baltimore, Maryland...
...Faith...
Vol. 3 • July 1911 • No. 26
