The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-20
PROF. FISHER ANNOUNCES
THE NAMES OF THE COMMITTEE
 or ONE HUNDRED.

PrOgresS Made in Movement to Raise il
 Bureau of Health of the Federal Gov
 ernment to Supervise the Manufac-
 ture, Distribution and Sale of Food
 Products.
 Full of promise for the success of the undertaking is the announcement made this week by Professor Irving Fisher, of the university, of progress accom- pllshed to date in inaugurating the movement to raise a department or bu- reau of health of the federal govern ment to supervise the manufacture, dis tributlon and sale of food products The initial suggestion for such a movement was made at the meeting last June and July, in Ithaca, of the American Association for the Advance ment of Science, through a paper which was read in the economic section by Professor J. Pease Norton 99, of Yale university, on the Economic Advisa bility of Inaugurating a National De- partment of Health This paper was made the subject of an animated dis cussion at that meeting. Since then its contents have been published in full in the Journal of the American Medi- cal Association, together with an edi- torial strongly endorsing the proposal and have received wide notice in the public press of the country.
 The Ithaca conference voted in Sec tion I that Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale, chairman of the section, should appoint a committee to keep alive the subject of Professor Nortons paper and, furthermore, to consider the best methods of securing the objects set forth in it. It is probable that it will be recommended, as matter of admin istrattve policy, that bureau of a fed eral department be raised to take charge of health interests, rather than to press claims for the creation of a I separate department with a new cabi- net officer at the head of 1t. though many of the prominent men interested in the project urge new national de | eN''NAiN presentation.
 Professor Fisher has named a body of eminent leaders in the professions who are well known for public spirit of a practical and efficient type, and who are thoroughly representative of the entire country. This committee Is to he known as the Committee of One Hun dred," and its personnel is announced as follows:
 1 Appointed from the American Associa ! tion for the Advancement of Science.
 Dr. William H. Welch, 70, president A, A. A. S. and of state board of health of Maryland; professor of pathology Johns Hopkins university.
 Professor Irving Fisher 'SS, chairman of the Committee of One Hundred, and of economic section, A. A. A. S.; pro. lessor of political economy, Yale uni. versity,
 J. Franklin Crowell, secretary eco. homie section, A. A. A. S.; editor Wal Street Journal
 Professor J, P. Norton, 99, author ot the paper on National Health Depart. ment, on the basis of which the com. mittee was appointed; professor politi. cal economy, Yale university.
 Professor James McKeen Cattell, ed, itor Science, the official organ of the A A. A. S.; professor of psychology, Go. lumbia university.
 Appointed from the United States
 Government.
 Dr. Robert M. O'Reilly, surgeon-gen. eral, United States army
 Dr. P. M, Rixey, surgeon-general | United States navy.
 Colonel William c. Gorgas, sanitary officer isthmian canal
 H. W. Wiley, chief bureau of chem. istry, department of agriculture.
 L. o. Howard, chief bureau of ento. mology, department of agriculture.
 Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, chief statisti. clan, vital statistics, United States cen. sus.
 A. c. True, director office of expert. ment stations, department of agricul. ture
 Charles P. Neill, commissioner of Ia. bor, department of commerce and Ia. bor.
 James R. Garfield, chief bureau q, corporations, department of commerce and labor (nominated for secretary ot the interior).
 Clifford Pinchot. 80, chief forester de. partment of agriculture.