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Rh has been constant. The hospital is supported entirely by voluntary contributions, has no paid officers, but a group of women, largely persons of wealth and influence, give unlimited time and serve to make the hospital what it really is, a Godsend to the state.

From 1400 to 1500 crippled children are treated annually; numbers of them are permanently cured, and there is always a large waiting list. This service is for children under 14 years who are destitute, and the records show that no child who could be benefited has ever been denied help. The area benefited is the entire Northwest and Alaska.

At the moment that mankind's adaptation to environment became conscious, civilization was born and cultures arose. The first great movement in history was the freeing of dominant personalities and their consequent sway over the common man, in autocracy and hierarchy. The second step, slow, painful, hesitating, was the freeing of the common man and the establishing of his right to enter the door of opportunity, pari passu, with the privileged few of the past centuries. This step was not completed until a new world had offered new fields for man's enlargement.

The culture, law, religion, which flowered with that earlier movement, the freeing of the few, crystallized historically as autocracy; that which was the precipitate of the later and wider movement which established the average man as the norm, became democracy in government. It established the principles of "separation of church and state" and "freedom of conscience" in religious polity. "Roman" best describes the autocratic tradition; for want of a more exact term, "Saxon" may be applied to the latter.

In the settlement of the new world, the Roman idea had the advantage of a century's start. The Santa Maria, over and above her ship's manifest, brought an intangible cargo of great potency, the Roman idea, but dressed in its most extreme, mediaeval vestments by absolute Spain. More than a century later came the Mayflower, likewise bringing her intangible freight, the Saxon idea, buttressed by the Common Law and wedded to the Christian Law, in the Doom Book of Alfred, great king of the Saxons.