The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-24
RACE SLAUGHTER, NOT RACE SUICIDE c. w. Stiles Urges Saving of 630,00O Lives Needless ly Lost to Country
 Each Year.
PLEADS FOR
 THE MOTHERS
Cites Typhoid and Tubercu- losis Death Rates as Proof of Neglect in Speech at Wesleyan University.

Middletown, Conn, Feb. 24.-Speak- ing at the Washington's Birthday din- ner at Wesleyan University Wednes- day night Charles Wardell Stiles of the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, discoverer of the disease due to the hookworm, urged that duty to the American wo- man required action to reduce the 630.000 deaths per year in this coun- try-42 per cent. of the 100000 to- tal-which he said were due to pre- ventable causes. |. 900 of these human sacrifices are due to that easily prevsntable disease. typhoid fever. Recall that our typhoid death rate is about 46.5 per 100000 inhabitants, that of Germany 6.3, and that of Switzerland 4.80 per 100000. permit our country to be about seven times as dirty as Germany, and ten times as dirty as Switzerland. And, besides these 35,000 deaths, there are each year about 100000 persons who contract typhoid.
 "Recall that each year we bury about 150,000 of our fellow-citizens who die from tuberculosis, yet if proper measures were enforced we could save these lives and this great sorrow to so many American moth CTS. Besides these 150,000, there are about 500.000 of our citizens suffering From the same disease.
 Recall that about one-siXth of all American children born die before they become year old, and one children born die under five years of age-children, the great majority of whom could be saved to make their mothers happy during old age. Each year we have over 100000 cases of malaria, and over 12,000 deaths from 900 persons from diphtheria, 5000 from scarlet fever, and 10000 from whooping cough.
 We have at least 3.000,000 cases of hookworm disease, but we do not know as yet the number of deaths, directly or indirectly traceable to this infection. About 30 per cent. of the blind in this country would have their eyesfght were 1t not for the wild oats the American men have sowed.
 Mot long ago an eminent author ity on American public affairs was widely quoted on the subject of race suicide.' Looking at the matter from medical viewpoint it is somewhat difficult to escape the conclusion that there are phases of the subject size. For instance: Is the real trou- ble in this country that not enough children are born in any class, or that too many are permitted to die in all classes? Is it race suicide by the women or race slaughter by the men? What real encouragement is there to the American mother to bear more children when the American father permits our country to be SO behind the advance in science that ican lives per year to preventable causes 2" t Hs
 Leslie M. Shaw. ex-Secretary of the Treasury, another speaker, declared that "the Constitution of the United
 The faphers nannss and representative and not popular Gov ernment." He asserted that our forefathers must have carefully con- sidered before instituting the present method of elected United States Sen ators by Legislature. and declared that the initiative, the referendum, the direct primary, or the election of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people unquestionably would have given us unlimited green backs in the seventies" that the di- rect primary would have given us a Congress unanimously in favor of the free coinage of silver in the nineties, while the initiative would have giv- en us a President and both branches of Congress unanimous for the free
  "the recall as now advocated by many would have retired to private life any one who had the temerity to support sound money"
 "In other worlds he added "the evolution in matters governmental now urged by nine-tenths of the met ropolitan press and by all the new and untried leaders in both houses of Congress would have wrought abso- lute and unqualified ruin in the sev- enties and again in the nineties.
 The initiative, the referendum, and the recall are each and all so foreign to the spirit of the Constitution, and in such open antagonism to the thought of the fathers who gave us the Constitution, that one seems no | less vicious than another" One New York paper recently con tained an editorial in laudation of the Chief Executive of certain State for | having dictated to the Legislature the | election of a United States Senator. l though before the article closed it 1 conceded that the man elected was | wanting in ability. in training, and | was personally unfit for the office. | The one thing which the metropolitan | press approves is interference of Exc cutives in matters which Constitu- tions place exclusively in another CO., ordinate and not subordinate branch. All these may be improvements upon | what the fathers planned, but they | are not what the fathers planned. 1 They evidence evolution, if not reyo- l lution, in matters governme ental.
 NEWTOWN