Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1911-11-16
Aid of Trans-Miss ssippl
Commercial Congress is
Sought in Campaign to
Fight Disease.
THREE GOVERNORS
ON PROGRAM TODAY
Harmon Of Ohio, Aldrich Of
Nebraska and Stubbs Of.
Kansas Among Speakers;
Aldrich Hits Courts.

Oklahoma created sensation at to
days session Of the trans-Mississipp
commercial congress when he de
clared he had every reason to believe
that the same people who fought DR.
Harvey w. Wiley, chief OF the bureau
of chemistry, were now furnishing
money to oppose the movement look
ing to the establishment of national
department OF health.
Senator Owen had delivered a set
speech strongly urging the necessity
for the new department. Rinally he
departed from his written address to
assert that vast sums of money were
being spent by those antagonistic to
the idea.
II have every reason to believe he
said, that this money is being sup.
piled by the same people who have
been manufacturing impure drugs and
food stuffs to fight DR.. Harvey ".
Wiley"
"The United States loses annually
from preventable causes over 100000
people, men, women and children.
These lives might be saved. Estimat
ing human being worth $4,000 and
this is q low estimate, the loss from
preventable death annually amounts
to twice the expense OF cohdudt
the United States government. ap
proximately q loss Of two billion dol
lars. A human life can be PROLONGED
eight and one-half years on an aver
age in the United States almost i'm
mediately by the establishment OF
department of health which would In
form the people how to protect them.
selves against disease.
$50 far as securing aid from thu
government was concerned Senator
Owen said, he would rather be q fAt
hog suffering from cholera than the
mother OF q large family In the first
stage of disease, for II the govern
ment was notified by the owner OF the
hog it would hasten immediate aid In
| the form of bottle of serum while II
the mother asked aid she would re-.
ceive none, for there Is no government
bureau to help her. Z
There is something radically
wrong with country that has q bu-
feau conserving animal life and plant
life and no department adequately
conserving human life, continued the
senator. Senator Owen closed with q.
plea for, support for senate bill No.
/" creating national department OF
health
Senator OWENS remarks were ap-
p1auded. At the conclusion OF his
speech resolution endorsing the
move to create the proposed depart
ment of health was presented and
read. Action on the resolution will b0
taken later.
| Alva Adams, former governor Of
Colorado, introduced resolution, de-
claring that all public lands in the.
United States should be ceded to the
states in which they are situated.
''It is time," said Mr.. Adams, for
the United States to go out Of the land
business.'i Action Of the resolution
was deferred. s
Gov. Harmon had been assigned to
speak at the meeting of the morning
session of the congress, but said he
preferred to address the night session
in convention hall on his subject
waterways"
Gov. Aldrich gave his thought on
the subject OF the regulation OF inter
state rates and their relation to the
| producer and consumer, while Gov
stubbs told the delegates what he
thought OF the rate question general
ly. Z
| lowan Talks on Health Subject.
| Safe guards for the public health
were urged by both DR.. w. A. Evans,
/ former commissioner OF health Of Chi.
cago, and DR.. Henry Albert OF lows
state university. $50 long rs q large
proportion Of the people are willing
to regard sickness and death as an act
of providence" said Or. Albert, "rath-
er than the result OF definite causes
which in many cases may be prevent
ed, so long will It be difficult to make
much substantial progress in public
health. II on the other hand, we re-
gard the occurrence Of epidemics 40
the result Of ignorence or neglect as
indeed they are, and II we are willing
to remedy them, then we are near the
time when we may expect many OF
these diseases to entirely disappear.
"The public health and marine hos
i pital service is doing excellent work.
! It is nucleus around which great
! er public health structure may be
/ built. There Is no doubt but that its
work should be made more compre