Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1911-09-27
HE and TAFT ARE AGREED
SAID HE COULD NOT MAKE DIS
CLOSURES AT PRESENT RE-
GARDINe ALASKA
ALL OFFICERS ARE Selected
DR.. HARVEY w. WILEY, IN ADJ
DRESS, SAYS PUBLIC HEALTH
is WORTH $4,000, ,ooo,o 900

Kansas City, Sept. 27.-A speech
by Walter L. Fisher, secretary Of the
interior on Conservation and the
Public Domain was the feature oi
today's session of the third national
conservation congress. He said that
he and the president we're at one mind
a sto Alaska, but that plans were
insufficiently matured to warrant pub
lie announcement. w. J. Bryan was
a guest Of the congress. He will
speak tonight.
The report of the nominating com
mittee was accepted today and the
following officers were chosen for the
ensuing year: President, J. B. White
Kansas City, Mo-. executive secre
tary, Thomas R. Shipp, Washington
D. O.; treasurer, d. Austin Latchaw,
Kansas City, Mo-; recording secre'
tary, Jas. G. Gipe, Clarks. Iowa.
The newly elected president has
been chairman Of the executive com
nittee of the congress FOR two years
and has long been interested IN s'on-
servation.
Good, roads, the conservation of for
ests and the fertility Of soils were
subjects given special consideration
of the congress today.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley of Washing
ton, D. c., chief of the federal agri-
cultural chemistry bureau and exon
Grated star figure in the so-called
Wiley-Pure Food controversy, told
the national CONSERVATION congress
today that the health Of the nation
was worth $4,000, 100000. He made
this estimate on the basas of $500
per capita average annual earning o1
adults. This declaration was made
nj an address in which he advocated
| limitation of marriage to normal and
healthy individuals, segregation o.
tuberculosis and typhoid fever pat
tients as in small pox, yellow fever
and leper cases, establishment of 6
national department Of health ant
rigid enforcement of pure food ant
drug laws.
Dr. Wiley said that "if in the re
mote future coal, iron, gold and sill
yer should become extinct. scienc'
would provide substitutes and tina
science would secure the mainten
ance and increase Of the wealth il
forest field and stream"
"But thereis another natural as
set he continued Lying at the yer.
basis of the prosperity of the coun
try (which is sometimes overlooked
namely the normal functioning of th'
human machine, commonly expressed
by the term health This has more
to do with tn happiness, prosperit!
and untility of the human organism
thany any of the other natural as
sets which l have mentioned" Th'
dangers which confront this vast as
set of the nation, he said. were thu
inheritance of disease or of weaken
ed bodies. poor nutrition, unwhole
some and adulterated food, the taking
of disease by infection and unsani
tary conditions, the latter caused b,
overcrowding in big cities and by lacl
of hygienic lsnowIeged in the countr.
districts.
In order to unity the national ant
state activities making for the publi'
health" he declared, "the establish
ment of national department o
health is almost a necessity. Do no
be deferred by the cry which goe
up of doctors trust The wis
physicians are in favor of such de
partment not because it is a 'physl
clans trust bu because it is for tn
good of the people.