Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-29

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patients in Texas. But neighbors will
have to stop looking to Texas t6r help. or
the bill will never pass the legislature.
At least Dr. Smith thinks SO.
Big Germans at Congress.
Germany has sent thirty-four scientists
and health and sanitation experts to the
congress. Notable in the group is DR..
Robert Koch of Berlin. who discovered
the tuberculosis germ. and Prof. Gotthold
Pannwitz, looked up to by the officials of
the congress as a giant in the army of
science.
Dr. Koch was the discoverer of the
tubercle bacillus and of the cholera germ,
and is native of kiausthal where he
was born September IL, 1S43.
Dr. Koch became a member of the force
of the imperial health office at Berlin In
1880. Three years later he became privy
councillor. In 1885 he became director Of
the Hygienic Institute of the University
Of Berlin. and he was made director OF
the institute for infectious diseases in
1891.
DIR. Koch went to Italy Egypt and In
dia as the head of the German cholera
commission in 1884, and was decorated by
the emperor and received the gift Of 1OO.-
600 marks for services in this connection.
In 1886 and 1903 he went to South Africa
to study rinderpest. In 1891 he went to
Germany's East Africa to study ma aria.
Prof. Gotthod Pannwitz Of Berlin rs
secretary general of the International as
ISOLATION and conducts large SAINT arium
at Teneriffe. He was in the army for
twenty years and was then appointed a
member of the imperial board of health
Germans who will read papers are: DR..
Helm DR.. kirchner, DIR. Carl Hart. DR..
A. Wolff Eisner, Dr. Richard Freund. DR..
n. Zun,z. DIR. William karo. nr; b
Director Mayer. Won der L'V. A. Bran
denburg of Berlin. DIR. Wilhelm Won
Wurzburg. Prof. Karl Hammer. Heidel-
berg; DIR. George Hermann. Munich: DR..
Holsterhausen; iDr. Chlman. Leipzig. and
DR.. krause. Jena.
6. p. o. Exhibit Noticed.
A number of manufacturers who are at
tending the sessions of the congress mani
fest interest in the government printing
office exhibit, in charge Of DR.. William
J. Manning, medical director and sani-
tary officer of the printery.
Horace Bushnell Cheney of silk manu-
featuring company at South Manchester.
Conn.,, and a member of the Connecticut
state board of health announced yester-
day that his company will adopt the Man.
ming system at it's extensive works. and
will recommend it's adoption by the other
manufacturers of that state who are IN
terested in stamping out tuberculosis
among their employees
Many foreign delegates have also ex-
pressed their desire to introduce the sys-
tenn in their countries.
Minister WI Looks Around.
Minister WI was an interested visitor
Yesterday
was escorted through the rows Of speci-
mems by young Chinese medical student
who took delight in showing the min
lister around that was impossible to con-
ceal
He explained the exhibit to Minter WI
in English Every now and then he would
run across a technical term that was too
much for the diplomat. pneumonia" was
hard one.
say it in Chinese" said the minister.
IT cannot replied the student.
Then 'larynx" was sticker. too. The
Chinese tongue is not up to ''larynx as
yet.
DIR. Wiley Still Militant.
r. Wiley. the pure food man. was on
the job last night, and stood among the
classic figures of Anacreon, Pallas. Venus.
the Boxer. Terpsichore. Zeus and few
also rams of Mount Olympus. He was
easily distinguishable from the marble
statue of AdOnis. as he wore dress suit.
Are you against tuberculosis dostor?
said young Miss Bromide. who could
see a large anti-tuberculosis badge wav
ing from his coat.
I'm agin' everything, was the doc
tors Suave answer.
Newspaper Men Surprise Journalists
hnv,
spondents attending the sessions Of the
congress- The American newspaper man
is a marvel to the European journal
lists"
1t seems that a newspaper man in Eu
rope would be kicked out bodily into the
boulevards If he attempted TO enter
building where a reception is going on
and talk to anybody there who was high
err up than a butler.
DR.. de BlOeme, correspondent for syn
dictate of Holland papers. saw Star
man last night in the art gallery sitting
on the same seat with the great DR..
Flick and talking in friendly manner. hav-
ing no trace of morocco covered note
book, and wearing no look of consterna-
ton or apprehension. After few min
utes the scientist moved away.
DR.. de Bloeme told The Star man he
would never have thought Of talking to
a great man at a reception.
But how do you get your stories?"
by looking on and taking notes. But
in America you don't look on and you
don't take notes. You simply make your
self at home and then fill a paper with
the greatest ease"
Puzzle: Is it easy?
No Reception Planned.
No reception. as has been enormously
reported, has been planned by Mrs. Wal
lace Radcliffe, for delegates to the tuber-
culosis congress.
Catholic Women to Entertain.
The Catholic Women's Circle has ex-
tended an invitation to the Catholic wom-
an delegates to the tuberculosis congress
to be present at the first fall meeting OF
the organization. to be held Thursday
evening from 7:30 to 10 o'clock at the
home of the president of the circle. Mrs.
Harry Coope, 7O6 18th street northwest.
apartment AZ.
The object of the circle Is to bring
Catholic women together for the discus
sion of Catholic literature and art.
RECEPTION TO DELEGATES.
Brilliant Assemblage Of Foreign
Visitors at Corcoran Gallery.
In the midst Of the city's art treasures
the delegates to the international con-