OOK gears without it? Think of the saving in metal alone, not to 

 mention the foot pounds in pressure! Of course there may be 

 a slight difficulty in the way — if one were to crank the machine 

 it might run him down. But then, that would develop agility 

 in the next generation according to your teachings and thence- 

 forward the Yellow Peril with its ju-jutsu tricks would be no 

 more. And anyway, a man who cranks a machine is a damn 

 fool. 



Wherry was revising his contributions to Forchheimer's 

 Therapeusis of internal diseases to comment thus upon his 

 labors: 



Marie, who is looking over my plague article (which is poor) 

 interrupts my train of thought here by saying "Your spelling 

 is rotten — there are tivo m's in inflamatory & one I in 

 travells." How many things have been overlooked in the official 

 marriage oath! 



Marie had corrected the first line by penning on the side: 

 "It is not; it is fine! Marie." 



Telegraphic attempt to locate Wherry in Cincinnati had 

 failed as usual, and Edmund M Baehr, just returned from 

 service, had relayed the message to Michigan. Wherry answered 

 him directly: 



I was so glad to learn that you were back. The telegram was 

 sent by post to me from Traverse City & came yesterday. As 

 the telephone lines are down, I am mailing this note. Please 

 wire Martin that I cannot consider the St Francis hospital 

 position. It will take much more than a mere increase in salary 

 to make me consider leaving our medical school which I believe 

 is just on the point of developing into one of the best in the 

 country. All we need is a little more team play on the part of 

 those in the faculty who are interested in seeing real work done. 

 In spite of various handicaps its growth is most encouraging. 

 If the progressives get together and boost this tendency and 

 really utilize the material equipment we now have, nothing 

 can prevent our further development in the right direction. 

 The more I see & hear of medical college situations elsewhere 

 the more I am impressed with our good fortune in having a 

 dynamic, forceful & resourceful dean like Holmes back of us. 

 He really considers the school his child, as it is, and is not only 



