Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-07
TAFT WILL attend.
TO Welcome Delegates to
Congress on Hygiene.
PROGRAM Is DISCUSSED
Forty Four States Will Send Repre-
sentatives to Big Meeting
Here in September.

Announcement that President Taft has
reserved definitely the date and that he
will attend the opening session Of the
fifteenth International Congress on Hy-
giene and Demography, which will be
held in Washington under the auspices
of the United States government Septem-
2S-2S, was made yesterday at joint
meeting of the executive program and
organization committees Of the congress.
The meeting, which was held at the Sem
ate Annex, was attended by DR.. William
H. WEIGH of Baltimore, chairman; Prof
Walter +. Wilcox of Cornell University,
vice chairman: DR.. Henry G. Boyer, med
ical director United States navy; Dr. Her
man NJ. Biggs, department of health,
New York; DR.. John S. Billings, director
of New York Library: DR.. Edward T.
Devine. general director. New York Char
ity Organization; Surgeon General Rupert
Blue, United States public health and
marine hospital service: E. Dana Durand,
director of the census; Lieut.. Col. Wal
ter d. McCaw. L. S. A.; DR.. John A. Full
ton, secretary general. and DR.. J. w.
Schereschewsky. director Of the con-
gresS' exhibition.
1t was decided by the committees that
the only extended address of the opening
session shall be that of Prof. Max Rub
4 ueI Ol doTIldQy, president Oh the inter-
national commission Of the congress,
who will discuss what has been accom-
| pllShed by former congresses and what
may be expected to be accomplished in
| the future by closer cooperation between
the nations in health matters. A COM
mittee was appointed to select a design
for the commemorative medals for the
congress. The program committee voted
that the program shall be printed in three
| languages, English, French and German.
| Members 10 committees
formed that acceptances received up to
date seem to indicate that there will be
| only four states in the forty-eight in the
| Union that will not participate in the
congratulations, Arkansas, New Jer-
sey and West Virginia.
Col. Gorgas May Not Come.
All three committees are much con-
cerned because of the doubt that has
| been raised as to whether Col William
| c. Gorgas, chief sanitary Officer Of the
| isthmian canal commission, will be able
| to attend the congress. His absence
would be particular disappointment to
| the delegates from foreign countries,
| since what is termed the bloodless con-
quest of tropical diseases of the canal
| belt is conceded by medical authorities
| the world over to be one of the most i'm
| portant advances in hygiene Of the dec
| ade.
| In response to requests Of foreign
| ply siologists that more space be given
| to the subject of alcoholism, the COM
| mittees instructed the secretary general
I to write to the European authorities
| that the program committee would be
| glad to consider additional papers on
| alcoholism. if the writer's would come
| to this country TO attend the congress
| and deliver the addresses. The foreigners
| who manifested this interest in alcohol
ism were Prof. August Forel. professor
| emeritus of psychiatry of the Uniyer-
| sity of Zurich: Prof. Blueler Of the
! same institution, Prof. Won Bunge of the
department of physiology, University OF
Basil: Prof. G. Simms NOodhead OF the
department of pathology, Cambridge
| England. Prof. WeStergaard of the Uni
| versity of Copenhagen; Prof. Weichsel-
| baum of the University of Vienna and
| Prof. Max Won Gruber Of the University
of Munich.
President Tafts part in the program
| will be to deliver the formal address OF
| welcome to the foreign delegates.