Medicine: Surgeons & Fathers

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In addition to being the most famed U. S. surgeons, Brothers William James Mayo, 72, and Charles Horace Mayo, 68, are also fathers of some renown. Brother William has two daughters; Brother Charles has two sons, six daughters. When last week the Mayos placed a fresh $500,000 beside the $1,500,000 with which in 1915 they established University of Minnesota's Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research at Rochester, they accompanied their gift by a statement in both capacities.

Wrote they: ''Since our money came from the sick, we believe it ought to return to the sick in the form of advanced medical education. . . .

"It seemed to us, then [in 1894] as now, that monies which should accumulate over the amount necessary for a living, under circumstances which would give favorable conditions to work and prepare reasonably for our families, would interfere seriously with the object we had in view.

"How many families have we seen ruined by money which has taken away from the younger members the desire to labor and achieve and has introduced elements into their lives whereby, instead of becoming useful citizens, they have become wasteful and sometimes profligate."