Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-27
PROMINENT MEN FORM COMMIT
TEE TO SECURE NEW DEPART.
MENT IN CABINET
EMPLOYEES ARE BARRED
Observation-Disclosures, While Not op-
posing Movement, Orders Govern.
rent Heads to Take No Part in
Movement.
Washington Bureau OF
The Ottumwa Courier,

W oSAluSLOu, u. u, April %.
president Roosevelt has, taken al
nand IN the movement to create a new
department of public health to be rep.
resented in the government by cab
met officer. He has issued instructions
that government employees must not
serve as members of the general COM
m1ttee of one hundred which is in
charge OF this movement, or Of subor-
dlnate committees to promote it.
The movement has for it's purpose to
establish department that shall not
only take over the duties OF the meat
inspection, federal quarantine, pure
food, public health and marine hospital
service, vital statistics work of the
census, life savings service and some
other bureaus, but shall include num-
Der Of new ones. Among these are
proposed bureaus of infant hygiene,
education and schools. sanitation, i'm
migration and labor conditions, regis
tration of physicians and surgeons, and
number Of others It is declared
that the bureaus already organized
which it would be desirable to place
under the new department IRE costing
the government about 100000
year, and that hundred millions could
well be expended in the aggregate &C
tivities of such department.
The government scientists were
greatly interested in the movement at
first, but the President stopped their
activities and those who had become
members Of committees retired.
Among the government officials who
had been placed on the committee of
100 and who were thus retired are Sur
geon General O'Reiliy OF the army
Surgeon General Rixey of the navy
Col. William G. Gorgas, sanitary Off
Ger Of the canal zone, Dr. Harvey w.
Wiley. chief chemist, L. o. Howard
chief of the census bureau of vital sta
tistics, A. G. True, director of agricul-
tural experiment stations, Commits.
sioner of Labor Nein Secretary Gar
field, Chief Forester Pinchot. and Max
j. Baehr, consul as Cienfuegoa, Cuba.
Leading Men in Movement.
| The committee, however, is scarcely
weakened by these losses. There are
still in the service such men as Presi-
dents Angel of Michigan university,
Eliot Of Harvard, Hadley of Yale, Hall
of Clark university, Hazard Of Welles-
| ley, and Booker T. Washington, DR.. Ly-
man Abbott, Archbishop Ireland DR..
Felix Adler, Ex-Secretary Long, Bishop
Charles H. Fowler, Luther Burbank,
| Alexander Graham Bell. Thos. A. Edi-
son. Melville E. Stone, Andrew Car
negte, the officers of the American AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
4 Science, headed by President VIM. II.
iWelch, the health officer Of many states
and cities, and leading men of science
and economics all over the country.
4 1t is explained that President Roose
velts prohibition of government Off
Gals interesting themselves is moi
based on opposition to the project pel
Sc, but on his sense of the properties
Prof. Irving Fished of the department
of political economy at Yale has taken
active part in the propaganda, which
is now circulating many letters an6
much printed matter. The need Of the
department is to be widely set forth
but the circulation of an article by ]
Pease Norton, assistant professor Of
political enonomy at Yale.
Norton Discusses Need,
This article of Professor Norton,s b,
the way, cannot be fair to interest peo
pie who like a cold-blooded, scientific
discussion of things. Professor Nor
ton explains that the chief reason VIII,
the country doesn't get rich any fas
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