Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-04
EXPOSITION FIGHT
CREATES FURRY
New Orleans and San Francisco
Struggling for Panama
Celebration
CAPITAL ALSO WANTS SHOW
Project of Making the Occasion a
Double BarreIed Affair
Being Considered
CAPITAL ALSO WANTS SHOW

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 9.-Nc
exposition campaign has ever caused
the furry in Washington that is being
| caused by the contest between San
Francisco and New Orleans over the
Panama exposition of 1916. San Fran
cisco is somewhat handicapped by the
| distance between it and Washington,
| Of which New Orleans took advantage
to send to Washington a trainload OF
| legislators and business men who have
been "whooping it up" but, on the
| other hand, It is favored in official
circles here, outside the capitol, at
| least, because of the proposition to
have one exposition In San Francisco
and one in Washington, making it a
double -barreled affair.
1t is true that Washington would
have to depend almost exclusively on
congress to supply the financial back
| ing for an exposition, but in celebrat-
ing an achievement such as the COM
pletion of the Panama canal, with the
incidental expenditure of hundreds OF
millions of dollars, congress could af-
ford to be generous with Washington
and put up the guarantee for first
class exposition on a smaller scale per-
haps than that of either New Orleans
or San Francisco. On the other hand
the activity, urbanity, generosity and
general progressiVeness of the south
ern visitors have most favorably i'm
pressed the official circles and the
sympathies of Washingtonians are
about equally divided between the two
contestants.
In any event it is hoped that con-
gress will take some step at the time
the exposition is provided to establish
a permanent building of fitting char
| acter, architecture and dimensions, in
which a permanent exhibit of the in
dustries of the United States can be
housed to mark the epoch, the same
of course, to be located at the nations
capital.
A DIsAPPOINTMENT
| 1t was a disappointment to Wash
| ington medical circles that the matter
| Of the establishment of a department
| of health went over until next session
| of congress. Many medical associa-
tions and societies hold their meetings
in Washington every year and the city
! is full of scientists connected with the
government. Through the state boards
OF health the medical officers of the
marine hospital and revenue cutter
services, army and navy and the dairy
and food departments, Washington is
in closer touch with the general health
| SlIudllOll lIStu etIly OlIleT Clly.
For many reasons it favors the Gre
alton of department of health, not
| the least of which is the belief that
the enforcement of the pure food law
and the enacting of additional legis-
lation to protect the general health
will be greatly strengthened by the
creation of a department to have
charge of such matters. Had such q
department existed when the pure
food law was passed there would have
been no reason to go outside the gov
ernment scientists to create the Rem
sen board to pass upon such questions
and much unpleasantness would have
been avoided.
FOLLOW CASE CLOSELY
The department of agriculture Off
cials and the medical profession, as
we'll as the friends of pure food in
congress and elsewhere, are closely
] following the famous benzoate of soda