The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-15


Senator owen had delivered a set
speech strongly urging the necessity
for the new department. Finally he
departed from his written address 10
assert that vast sums of money were
being spent by those antaeonlstic 10
the idea.
4 have every. reason to believe. be
said, that this money is being sup
piled by the same people who b.,-e
been manufacturing impure drugs ana
lood stuifs to hFht DR.. Harvey Wiley"
senator owens remarks were aupiaus-
cd and at the conclusion of his sueecb
resolution endorsing the move 10
create the proposed department az
health was presented and read. Action
on the resolution VIII be taken later
= IVA Adams former governor OF COL
orduo. introduced a. resolution decfar-
ing all public lands in. the -rnited States
should be ceded TO the states IN which
they are situated.
1t is time" said MIR. Adams. for
the United stetes to go out II the land
business"
Action on the resolution was do
ferred
A clash over the selection of the
meeting place in 1915. for which san
Francisco and Seattle are 6rhffne v,-a-
narrowly averted at the rnorniua sos
sion. Colonel II. j.. Loveland intro
duced a resolution favOring the hold
ing of the congress in San Francieco
in 1915. the year OF the Panama-pa-
cific expCRtion.
Alva Adams Of Colorado Immediate
" moved the resolution be. changed 10
read mat the present congress recon-
mend TO the congress of 1914 that the
session IN the following year be held in
san Francisco.
At this point a delegate from wash
ington offered an amendment that the
1915 congress be held in Seattle. This
brought several delegates to their feet
and turmoil was ended cunorarlfv
when the chairman blandly ruled am OF
the matter OF selection Of conven-
tion city out Of order.
It II Governors Day.
Kansas city. Nov. 15.-Today was
Governors day" at the Trausmfssis-
sippi congress. three state cxecutives-
Harmon of Ohio. Aldrich OF Nebraska
and Stubbs Of kansas-addressin the
delegates. In addition. United States
Senator Robert L owen Of oklahoma
delivered an eloquent plea for the con-
servation + the nations hcol lth and the
establishment Of a government health
bureau
The United states loses annually
from preventable causes over 630. 600
people-men women and children.
These lives might be saved. Estlmat-
ing "A human being worth $1,000. and
this is low estimate the loss from
preventa bic death annually amounts 10
twice the expense Of conducting the
United states government approximate
" a loss OF billion dollars A human
life can be prolonged eight and one
half years on an average in the United
States almost Immediately by the es-
tablishment Of department Of health
which would inform the people how to
protect themselves against disease"
So far as securing aid from the gov
is concerned Senator owen
said he would rather be a fat hog sur
fering from cholera than the mother
Of large family in the first stages of
disease for If the government were no
tilted by the owner Of the hog it would
hasten immediate aid in the form or
o bottle Of serum. while If the mother
asked aid she would receive none for
there is no government bureau TO help
her.
There is something radically wrong
with a country that has a bureau con-
serving animal life and plant life and
no department adequately conserving
human life" continued the senator.
Senator owen closed with "a plea for
support for SENATE bill number 1" Gre
ating a national department Of health
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