Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-19
DAVENPORT DEMOCRAT TO BE
CANDIDATE AGAINST WILSON,
OF ALMoNT.
DE ARMAND WAS BEATEN
BY WALSH OF CLINTON
Congressman Dawson Will Undeubted-
Iy Be Renominated BY the Republic
eans-Iowa Leads the Way in Fight
Afiainst Tuberculosis-lowa to Honor
Gen. and Mrs. Frederick Grant.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 19.-There will be
two candidates for the democratic
nomination of congressman in the Sec
ond district, Senator John l.. Wilson,
of Almont, Clinton county, and Sem
ator John A. DeArmand, of Davenport
One of the newspapers in Senator Will
sons end OF the district has already
announced his intention to run and it
is expected that Senator De .Armand's
nomination will appear shortly. Both
are strong men and both occupied con-
spicuous positions in the senate of the
Iowa legislature
At the last campaign Senator De
Armand was candidate against At
torney Wash of Clinton, and Walsh
won. This year De Armand thinks
that by rights the nomination should
come to his end of the district. Con-
gresham Dawson will undoubtedly be
renominat.ed by the republicans. The
district is close one and Dawson won
it from the democrats after it had been
held by them for one term under Judge
Wade, of Iowa City. Now that the
tariff has been revised there is more
OF desire on the part of leading dem
ocrats to get the nomination than ever
before since they count on some re-
publicans- being dissatisfied with the
revision of the tariff
Iowa is blazing the way for the rest
Of the world in the fight against tuber-
culosis. At the meeting of the Inter
national Lyceum Association in Osh-
kosh, Wis, Sept. 3, DR.. A. E. Kepford,
state lecturer for the board of control
on tuberculosis. will deliver his lee
ture on the social and economic side
of the tuberculosis question. There will
be 5000 lecturers managers, bureau
men, and committeeman of chautau-
quas and lyceums in attendance and
from this gathering an dthe presenta-
ton of the subject by Mr.. Kepford it is
expected there will grow the movement
! to have this subject properly treated
on all the chautauqua and lyceum
platforms of the world. Nearly every
state in the union has taken up the
or other but the lectures and the edu-
cation has been almost exclusively
along the lines of medical treatment
DR.. kepford has stirred up the entire
state of Iowa in systematic cam
paign of education in which he has
shown that the hundreds of deaths each
year are a most gigantic waste and
/ thus has interested sound healthy peo-
/ pie in taking measures to prevent con-
tamination. Prevention is much more
4 important than cure and when the
stage where a cure is needed has been
reached it is often times too late.
The first college of optometry which
! opened some weeks ago in Des Moines
| is meeting with flattering success and
among the first enrolment of students
there are two physicians. When the
law was enacted George j. Feige, Of
Des Moines, was one of the most ac-
tive boosters for the new law and he
is active in establishing the college,
| He considers that when two regular
ly licensed physicians enter the school
1t is conclusive argument that there
was a need for the school and for the
new law, and som ething to be had
from such school not to be had from
! the medical schools.
| The summer course has been merely
to brush up a few who will wish to
take, the first examination before the
state board the coming fall. In the
fall there will be opened the regular
| two years course. When the law was
enacted one of the senators insisted
on requiring knowledge of medical
physics" Of the applicant for a state
license. Those boosting for the bill
didn't know what medical physics
meant and could And no definition for
1t in any medical work or other work
Just what the senator meant unless he
wanted to appear learned they did not
know but rather than lose the bill
they let the words stay in.
| Since then they have racked their
brains and have decided that 1t means
medical results by physical means
which is what optometrists claim to
accomplish so they have fixed it up
alright.
Iowa will do honor to the wife of
Gen. Frederick Dent Grant as well as
to the general himself during the state
fair and the general has decided to
stay over another day. He was to come
for the old soldiers day and will now
in addition be here for the next day,
(which will be Iowa day when the state
officials and members Of the Wash
ington delegation and other prominent
1owans will be in attendance. Arrange
::..en.s are being made tn do them I'M
usual honors on that occasion.
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GERMAN LuTHERANs At BOONE.