Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-01
CRITICISM OF CRITIC BLOOD SPOTS CLUE
Dr. Charles G. Pease Defends Evidence Strengthens Theory
| Chart on Evils of Tobacco. Webster Was Cren,ated
|SAYS WEED IS POISONOUS STAINED BRICKS EXAMINED
Comment Removal of Exhibit Michael Barrett Brewery Empoy
From Health Congress Collection Says Jet Acted Strangely
COMMITTEE TO AWARDS SUSPECTS SUICIDE OF CRIME
Meeting Called
Series OF Illustrated
This Evening. Sitting Missing Mystery.
DR.. Charles G. Pease Defends
Chart on Evils of Tobacco.
SAYS WEED IS POISONOUS
Comment on Removal of Exhibit
From Health Congress Collection.
COMMITTEE TO MAKE AWARDS
Meeting Called for This Afternoon.
Series of illustrated Lectures
This Evening.

The first meeting of the jury which is
TO make the awards at the health ex-
hlb1t, which has been conducted for the
past two weeks in connection with the
meeting of the American Public Health
Association and the International Con-
gress on Hygiene and Demography, will
be held this afternoon, and preliminary
steps will be taken to determine which
of the hundreds of exhibits shall be given
the diplomas, etc, that have been pro-
vided. 1t is expected the diplomas will
be signed by President Taft. announce
ment to this effect having been made by
DR.. J. w. Schereshewsky, director of the
exhibit.
The jury on awards is composed of
Maj. Frederick A. Russell of the Army
Medical School. DR.. w. c. Woodward.
health officer of the District of Columbia;
Dr. r. B. Dole of the geological survey,
DR.. Tom A. Williams, Washington; s. N.
ID. North, former director of the census:
DR.. Reid Hunt. chief of the division of
pharmacology of the United States n.y.
glenic laboratory, and DR.. Ales Hrdlicka,
curator of anthropology of the National
Museum.
Diplomas will be awarded for superior
merit in each Of the thirteen sections Of
the exhibit, and awards will be made also
to those individual exhibitors whose dis
plays are worthy of special mention.
Program of illustrated Lectures.
The program of illustrated lectures for
tonight at the exhibit hall, at 18th and
streets northwest, opens at 1880 o'clock
with talk on welfare Work of Great
Corporation by Hugo Ernst Dr. E. H.
Egbert of Washington will deliver lee
ture at o'clock on "Quack Mechanic
therapy," and Standardization" will be
the subject of lecture by DIR. w. NJ.
Barton at $50 o'clock. The o'clock lee
on The Red Plaques" This afternoon
from to o'clock, in the child study
laboratory. the physical and mental tests
of Washington children were continued.
This afternoons lectures, all illustrated
included a talk on "Deleterious Patent
Medicines by Lewis E. Warren of the
American Medical Association, Chicago;
What to Do While Waiting for the
Warrington; 1.-The Making of a Newspa-
per-" by E. P. Cowell of Franklin Insti-
tute, Philadelphia, and DR.. Folkmar's
lecture on prevention and control of the
social diseases.
The action of DR.. Schereschewsky in
directing the removal yesterday of
chart forming part of the American Fed
Grafton for Sex Hygiene and purporting
to illustrate the evil effects following the
use of tobacco, was followed today by the
publication of letter from Dr. Charles
G. Pease of New York, president of the
federation. In the letter DR.. Pease char
acterfzes tobacco as the most poisonous
weed that grows, declares that Gen.
Grant died as result of the use of to-
bacco, and says Mark Twain's death was
due to the same cause. Further, he
states that President McKinley's physi-
clans have declared that the gunshot
wound which ended the Presidents life
would not have been fatal but for the
fact that Mckinley had tobacco heart
He goes on to say that users of tobacco
are not fit to be parents, and says that
tobacco is "a vital cause of the degen-
eracy of the race"