Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-20
NEW INSTITUTION , FOR WASHINGTON Surgeon General Would Add a Museum of Hygiene
 and Sanitation.
BEaOF UNTOLD BENEFIT
One Division to Appeal to tke Intel. Iectual Class While Other Would
 Re By Installing Fear.

Washington, Oct. 19.-Still another great public institution is to be added to the galaxy of institutions already assembled in Washington which will go one degree further towards estab- fishing the Capital of the United State as a world renowned seat of scientific learning.
 It is proposed by Rupert Blue, Sur geon General of the United States Public Health Service to erect in the capital city museum of hygiene and sanitation. The purpose of this mu- scum is to show the public the dan gers which they have to fear if they are needless of the rules laid down for proper and sanitary living. It is believed by the Surgeon General that this will prove splendid means of instructing the people. Surgeon Blue holds that the public may be divided into halves: One the enlightened half that may be appealed to upon a purely intellectual basis; the other, those who may be educated only through fear. For the first half there will be lectures at the museum, attend apce upon which will provide an op- portunity to learn the secrets of san itary living for the second half there will be the actual exhibits, showing the effects of disease. Of course, these means of learning will be open to both classes, but it is believed, that by providing these two means both class es will be more certainly reached. The exhibits will be very comprehensive. There will be models of parts of the human anatomy, partaking of the na- ture of Mrs. Jarley's waX-workers, and upon these models may be traced life-like productions of the ravages of disease Examination of these models will be sufficient to instillt fear into the beholder and as a result greater care in self preservation is expected.
 Surgeon General Blue derived his idea from the exhibit which the Eff teenth International Congress on -Hy- giene and Demography held here last Red Cross building and was attended by thousands of persons who evinceG such interest in the objects displayed and in the lectures given, that it is believed a permanent exhibit would be equally popular and instructive,
 Secretary of the Treasury Mac Veagh has heartily endorsed Surgeon Blues proposition and it is more than likely that bill which will be intro duced at the coming session of Con- gross will pass. Of course this con gressional authorization will have to come before any actual work can be done on the museum. But the con sensus of opinion here is that the proposition will meet with little if any opposition.
 Should the money be appropriated, the museum will, in all probability, be located on The Mall, the broad stretch of parkway extending from the. capitol to the Washington monument. It is planned to flank this parkway with public buildings and large amount of ground already has been condemned for the erection of these new buildings. Many public bulld- ings stand there at present notably the New National Museum, the Old Smithsonian Institute, and the new Department of Agriculture building. The new buildings, for the State, War, Navy and Commerce and Labor de- partments and that for the Department of Justice are to be placed along the Mall.
 Exhibits of many kinds will be placed within the proposed Museum of Hygiene and Sanitation. There will be model dairies, model slaugh- ter houses, model poultry yards. There will be model operating rooms, fully equipped, model camps, such as arc made by the United States armies; sick room appliances will be shown in all their glory and there will be charts by the score, giving facts and figures on how to live.
 Bugbears of disease will he care fully described and the scope and measurements of every ailment known to man will be literally and exten- sively dwelt upon, and the symptoms thereof exbaustively exposed.
 Many of the exhibits will be provid- ed by the government, many by hos pitfalls, and many by manufacturers. It is considered that manufacturers of surgeons tools and doctors access sories will be glad to contribute ar ticles of the nroduCtIOn to help make