The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-09-01

q 30 Quit sending men % congress, "
o Legislatures, or other positions, q
o who have no sense 90 appreciate o
O the value Of the health and lives o
. OF human beings. @
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Governor Frear, in introducing DR..
!. N. Mccormack of Kentucky, chair
man Of the organization committee Of
the American Medical Association, 70
very large audience at the Hawaiian.
Opera House last evening, took occa-
sion to declare ngain that Hawaii has
peculiar mission to perform not only
for itself but for the Pacific Coast.
States and to shipping and commerce.
This mission is TO demonstrate that
the Territory has come to the front.
in developing scientific sanitation, The
Islands should now endeavOr to reach
the sanitation basis which the legela-
ture has endorsed and backed up the
endorsement this biennial period with
million and quarter dollars as a
health defense fund.
The Governor spoke Of what has
been accomplished by Hawaii i'll build
inc up its health measures and of what
the Territory hopes to accomplish in
the future, calling attention to the
fact that Colonel Carter, one of the
most eminent of the Panama Canal
health experts, had been invited to Ha-
wall to look over its sanitation prob
lens and suggest methods of solving
them.
Doctor Mccormack, the Governor
stated, is regarded as among the fore
most of the medical men of the United
States, particularly in organization for
health defense.
Doctor Mccormack, who spoke under
the auspices of the Hawaiian Terri
rorial Medical Association, was given
an attentive hearing and hearty ap-
plause. Upon the stage with Governor
Frear and the speaker were DR.. J. s.
B. Pratt. president of the board of
health; f. A. Mott-Smith, secretary of
medical association. Doctor McCor-
mack spoke as follows:
The Address.
Gas part of nationwide reform,
one of the most important, far-reaeh-
ing and unselfsh ever undertaken, and
as the official mouthpiece of $4,000
doctors who live by the cure of disease,
i am here to. proclaim the gospel of
health, and to try to persuade You men
and women that, with a proper knowl-
edge and practise of the laws of plain,
clean, healthy living, personal, domes-
tic and as communities, good health
can and ought to be made more CON
tagious than sickness.
1T has become very much the fash
ion to talk about the conservation of
Che nations resources, limiting the
term, as Mr.. Roosevelt unfortunately
did in calling the first convention
to consider the subject, to farms, for
ests, mines, factories and other
things having recognized money
value. Now, far and away the great
est resource of any nation is it's women,
children and men, and except as there
is vigorous, healthy population to
develop, operate and enjoy them, all
other things called wealth have only
an abstract value. Because this resource
and the possibilities of its cOnserva-
ton have naver been recognized in our
system of education, by our law
makers, or in the homes of the people
diseases and as the result of vicious
and immoral living is now estimated
at more than one-third of the entire
annual sick and death rate. The
recognition of this constant yearly
drain and its causes, and a comparative
study of the results of better santa
ton in other countries, and in some
sections of our own country, have Sc
impressed political economists, teach
ers and other leaders of thought that
under direction of Professor Irving
Fisher, of Yale, one of the world Is
greatest publicists, great lay organi
zation of over $4,000 members has beer
formed to arouse and educate public
sentiment. as to this danger to the
nation. If each of you will write your
senator or representative in congress
for Professor Fishers Report to the
conservation Conference on Nationa
Vitality, you will obtain free of cost
reference book invaluable to every
intelligent family.
"As an argument for peace it i,
often shown that 100000 men were
killed in both armies during the five
years of the Civil War. In the move
ment for better living it may be shown
that during the last five years 100000
pcOpiN hdNt uAtu AlOlH dut
100000 from typhoid fever, with ar
enormous sick and death rate from
these and other diseases preventabl'
with present knowledge, and with
proper laboratory and research worl
by the Government this life saving
knowledge Should ike constantly ,ex
tended. II may then be shown while
in the last ten years our Nationa
Government has very properly expend
ed s40,000,0O0, and now proposes to ap
propriate very much more, to prevent
tick fever in cattle, cholera in hogs
and chickens, pests to crops and trees
and to protect other interests having
commercial value in all Of its bistorl
II has never spent dollar or. LITE,
hand TO protect human beings from
these far more important domestic
pestilen which bring constant sick
Mas anrrour aud 1aafh into fha hanrn