Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-28
Secretary Of Interior Says
He is in Perfect Accord
With Presidents Alaskan
Conservation Plans.
ROOSEVELTS LETTER
WAS NOT READ TODAY
Former Presidents Reasons
for Absenting Self From
Congress Not Given;
Many Speakers Heard.


speech by Walter L. Fisher, secretary
Of the interior, on CONSERVATION anc
the public domain" was tthe feature ol
todays session OF the Third Nationa
Conservation congress.
Henry Wallace, president OF the con
gress, had announced that ne Woulo
today read letter from former Presi
dent Roosevelt, explaining the latter'f
absence from the congress, but up to
noon he had not done SO.
William Jennings Bryan was guest
of the congress today. He will deliver
speech tonight that will be "in thor
ough accord with the spirit of this
congress- according to announcements
by President Wallace.
Secretary Fisher said that after
conference with President Taft he was
convinced that he and the president
are in thorough accord in regard to a
policy of conserving the public do
main. He says the Alaskan situation
was discussed and that he and the
president were agreed as to policy
for that much-misrepresente country.
Good roads and the conservation OF
forests and the fertility of soils were
subjects given important confederation
Of the congress today. w. D. Hoard,
former governor OF Wisconsin, was to
have addressed the congress today but
could not attend. 81.
Fisher and TAFT u Accord.
~ have just come from Hutchinson.
Kas., where I had q long conference
with President Taft relative to the
policy OF my department" " said Walter
u. Fisher, secretary OF the interior.
addressing the congress shortly before
noon. 81 find that his views and mine
relative to the conservation OF the
public domain are in accord.
/" We especially discussed the
Alaskan situation that is so much be-
fore the public Of late. and found that
we agree completely on policy for
that much ch-misrepresented country. MY
plans IN regard to Alaska are perhaps
not rips enough for a full delineation
at this time, but they will constitute
remedy.
"My idea of the proper. conservation
Is a wise development of all the
natural resources in the public inter
est-public interest, in the broadest
sense Of the word, which recognizes
the rights Of all"
Wiley Gives Talk on Health.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley of Washing
ton. D. c.. chief Of the federal agri-
cultural department chemistry bureau
and exonerated star figure in the So
called Wiley pure food controversy,
told the National conservation con-
gress that the health of the nation
was worth $4,000, 100000. He made
this estimate on the basis of $500 per
capita average annual earning of 49,.
600. 900 wage earning adults, each
representing a capital OF $4,000 In
vested at per cent. This declaration
was made in an address In which he
advocated limitation OF marriage to
normal and healthy individuals. segre-
CATION of tuberculor and typhoid fever
patients as in small pox, yellow fever
and leper cases, establishment of
national department of health and
rigid enforcement of pure food and
drug laws.
Dr.. wiley said that eff in the remote
future. coal, iron, gold and silver
should become extinct, science would
provide substitutes" and that science
would "secure the maintenance and in
crease Of the wealth in forest, field
and stream.
"But there is another natural asset, !"
he continued, Lying at the very basis
Of the prosperity Of the ctuntry which
IS sometimes overlooked. namely, the
normal function of the human machine
commonly expressed by the term
health This has more to do with the
happiness, prosperity and utility of the
human organism than any of the other
natural assets which have mem
toned. The dangers which confront
this vast asset of the nation" he said,
"are the inheritance Of disease or OF
weakened bodies, poor nutrition. un-
and adulterated food the
taking OF disease by infection and un-
sanitary conditions, the latter caused
by overcrowding in big cities and by
lack of hygienic knowledge in the
country districts.
Eavors National Health Department.
'sIn order to unity the national and
state activities making for the public
health" he declared, sthe establish
ment Of a national department OF
health Is almost necessity Do not be
deferred by the cry which goes up Of
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