Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — Catching Up With China. [ARTICLE]

Catching Up With China.

Gradually, very gradually, civilization is catching up with the Chinese, The University of California has establish 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 folk fall ill. Sickness will mean starvation to the practioners; a healthy population will make them rich. “ In China the doctors have neverlooked to the sick for business. Only while their patients were well could the physicians charge for services rendered. When a patron fell ill the. doctors income shrunk; when re- „ covered the convalescent resumed feeing his medical advisor. 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,