Medicine: Two Kelloggs

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From all his activities Dr. Kellogg has perhaps earned more money than his wealthy brother. He gets $1,500 yearly for devising the "daily dozen" phonograph records; the money educates two girls. The royalties of his 20 books, from his many surgical inventions, the fees from some 15,000 surgical operations and 277,000 patients in the sanitarium, all his income except a bare living have gone to support his lifelong doctrine of "not doctoring, not surgery, but education." He supports the Race Betterment Foundation, of which he is founder and president; the Battle Creek College which he created out of his sanitarium dietetic and nursing classes.

These things Dr. Kellogg tells you in his quiet, quick voice. His little white goatee flicks his sincerity at you; so too his gentle eyes back of his darkly rimmed spectacles. He likes, too, to recall how he was a member of the Michigan State Board of Health under four governors; that he is the oldest living member of the American Public Health Association; that he likes to do hard things for mental exercise.