The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-15
BETTER MEN
 AND WOMEN
GREATEST NEED OF THIS coUN, TRY, PRocLAlMs DR. w. A.
 EVANS IN ADDRESS.
Conservation of Our People Far More Important Than Conservation of Any Other Resources in
 the Country.

The conservation of our men and women, and particularly of the men and women of the south not as an incident of advancement but as a great and growing necessity in order to keep pace with our civilization, was forcefully impressed on a large audi. ence at the Auditorium theater last evening by Dr. w. A. Evans of Chi. cago, confessedIy one of the greatest authorities on sanitation and pre- ventive diseases in the wori1
 The address was under the auspices of the Arkansas Medical association. which is now in annual convention in this city but 1t was a public meet ing in which general interest was urged.
 Chairman Harry Myers of the Hot Springs reservation, introduced MT Evans. after Frank Schleiter of this city had presented an address on Why the Pure Food Laws of Arkan- sas Are Not Enforced" In his intro duction Mr. Myers took occasion to remark that health was the one thing that money could not buy.
 in his opening Dr. Evans took friendly issue with MT Myers when he declared that after a certain line had been drawn. public health was purchasable and that the health we have and the health we enjoy is the health We pay for. The protection against disease, he also said was the protection that we paid for. He urged the people to read everything pertain ing to Senate Bill No. l. the Owen bill, which he argued for in detail
 The owen bill is designed, accord ing to Dr. Evans, to create an anal gamation of the several bureaus into a public health service. He stated that it had been argued against this bill that it was designed to favor a certain school of medics. but that the best argument against such opposition was that the bureau was designed par ticularly for the prevention of diease, and that while the various branches of medicines differed as to cures of diseases, they agreed as to the meth ods of prevention.
 Dr. Evans reviewed the history of the plague fight in 1900 in Califor- mia. when the Marine Hospital ser vice, the governor, the Southern Pa. cific, and other interests conficted in the early plague fight, which the hos pital service later had to conquer, and only after an expenditure of four mil lion dollars, when preventive policies would have saved almost the whole of the outlay.
 He spoke of the flood situation in Arkansas, where thousands of acres of land were laid waste through lack of proper protection. Then he declar ed that the people of Arkasas and of Mississippi and other nearby states were not in the union. They were not recognized. They are not playing the game. There are millions being spent all the time in the north and east, anu in this section public necessities are being neglected.
 He declared the people of the east had advantages over the people of the south advantages of wealth, of ma chinery, and of other things, which the proper development of the people of the south would meet anu over come He stated that there was not an acre of land in Arkansas but the price of which was effected through Malaria and the hbokworm, yet these were preventable diseases. He said the people of Arkansas could have health, if they were willing to pay the price. not alone the price in mon ey, but the price in brains, in work, in legislation, and on power of influ- ence.
 ] He declared it the duty of the med ical men of this section to be the leaders in these affairs, and congrat. ulated them on the stand taken. And when that great man should step forth who would get into operation legis- lation that would make first for the conservation of the men and women of this nation, the speaker said he hoped the south would produce that man.
 He was followed by Dr. J Morgan Smith of the Arkansas Medical asso- ciation, Dr. dsadore Dyer of the ru.