Arizona republican., 1910-11-17
NOTED LECTURER HAS
 ARRIVED IN PHOENIX DR. MCCORMACK WHO SPEAKS AT ELKS' TOMORROW
 EVENING.
Arizona Has Excellent Opportunity to Make Herself Model of the
 World, He Says.

ture tour under the auspices of the | American Medical Association, Dr. J. N Mccormack. an officer of the i American Association for the Ad Vancement of Science. an associate of | Prof. Irving Fisher and recognized as the leading hygienist of the United 1 States, arrived in Phoenix last even ! ing. This evening he will be the | guest of honor at a dinner given by the Young Mems Phoenix Club and | tomorrow evening he will address the public of Phoenix at the Elks' the
 ater.
 For ten years Dr. Mccormack has
 been engaged in lecture work. He l has spoken in every state and terri | tory in the union, excepting Alaska.
 In some of the states he has spoken i in every county. His present tour
 began six weeks ago and in that
 time he has averaged two addresses
 a day.
 | When seen in his room at the Adams Annex. Dr. Mccormack stat ed that he considered Arizona and
 New Mexico two of the most import ant fields for health work in the
 United States.
 These are new states and have the examples of the whole world to
 guide them," he said. For that req 1 son they should be able to snake right beginning and take measures 1 for the protection of public health and the prevention of disease that will make them models for the world to follow Not only should they be
 able. by following the examples of | other states. choosing the good in other systems and eliminating the bad to form health departments that will be better than anything the ma tion now boasts. but they should be able to choose the best and simplest laws from among those that other states have adopted and tested" Dr. Mccormack has been associat-
 ed with Prof. Irving Fisher and the
 American Society for the Advance
 ment of Science for number Of
 years. Many of the health doctrines
 he teaches were first given the
 world by Fisher. while others are his
 own.
 Prof Fisher is working for the
 establishment of a national depart
 ment of health. A bill providing for such department was introduced
 in the last session of congress by Senator owen and Dr. Mccormack
 believes that it has an excellent chance of passage at the next ses-
 sion. Whether it be at the next session or some future time. a na- tional department of health is cer- ra.fra tg Il,. T.lsT. mack.
 While Fisher is working for a de- partment of health. l am campaign ing with the public, teaching the people how to best make use of and follow the advices of that depart ment" he said. My work. which is under the direction of the American Medical Association. is purely altru- istic. One of the hardest things | which We have to contend with in | educating the public is the disbelief 1 of large proportion of the popula- l ton that doctors. whose business it | is to cure sickness will voluntarily | do anything to prevent it. I take | the stand that the learned prOfes- l sions. such as medicine and the law, 1 are not gainful"
 Monday evening Dr. Mccormack | spoke at Flagstaff and Tuesday | night in Prescott. In each place he | was heard by a large audience. The people of Flagstaff were particularly | interested in what he said about the slaughter pen from whence comes their meat Yesterday morning he addressed the doctors of Prescott In Prescott and Flagstaff he organized post graduate schools for the doc tors. One of the tasks to which he has been assigned is to establish such schools in communities where there are enough doctors to carry them forward. The doctors develop their own instructors and take up all branches of medicine. A school will be formed here before Dr. Me rormack's departure.
 The coming of Dr. Mccormack has been widely advertised and it is a that the Elks' theater will be filled tomorrow eevning with an audience anxious to hear what ad- . rice he has for the public in gener- ll and Phoenix in particular. upon he prevention of disease. Like Prof \ Fisher. ne takes the stand that fully III half of all sickness is needless. He declares that all the 30000 infants who die in the United States every 'ear of summer complaints could be 'aved by the exercise of a little com non sense, which. of course, includes cleanliness and pure milk Dr. Me cormack is inclined to lay the heavy infant mortality rate of this country II b impure milk more than any other .ause.