The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-10
Scores Public for Failure to Conserve Human Life
MILLIONS FOR
PIGS; NOTHING
FOR CHILDREN
Continued From First Page.)

(SoHtH1ueu FrOrl flrBt fa8O.1
sources and add to It all our bank de-
poBits. and to that add the capitalize
ton OF all our banks and the value of
our trade. import and export, how In
significant II would be as compared
with tho health and happiness OF our
people. So appeal to you through
your pocketbooks to awaken from your
asset. 1t should be husbanded as our
othor wealth, so that 1t would pay
quarterly and annual dividends. Our
average length Of iife is forty-four
years, which is behind some nations.
Yet we ought to lead the world. We
ought to live longer than tho Bull
garians. oven II they do have sour
milk"
DR.. Wiley said that the health of tho
nation could DO protected, and that tho
creased. and cited as an example of
what could be done the great work
accomplished by Colonel w. s. Gorgas
I'm making the Panama Canal Zone tho
hcaithiest spot in the world.
SPENDING MONEY FOR ROADS
LEADING ONLY TO CEMETERIES
"If you pay for IT," he said. you'll
stay alive. II you skimp. you'll die.
We have now scheme for national
sanitation, but 1t costs money. You
spend money for your roads, many Of
which lead to your cemeteries. They
are the ones we want to block up, and
IL you spend money for health, you
they will not be filled so soon. In
New York they spent $100.000.00o for
widening md deepening the Erie Canal.
II could have that money I would
clean New York State OF every vestige
OF the whits plague and slaughter and
pay for every tuberculous COW. Yet
II 1 went to Albany to ask for tho
money. what would get? The merry
ha, ha.'
AS one OF the most important OF all
the preventive measures DR.. Wiley In
sisted on school medical inspection.
He told story of woman who sent
her little girl to school so that she
could catch the measles and whooplng
cough. IT have two fine boys" he said
with happy smile, but I would
rather that they grow up ignorant of
the alphabet and unable to do a sum
In arithmetic than to come home and
die of dlphtheria. 1t may cost you
about $1,000 TO employ n medical in
spector for the schools, but, no. you
construct new curb instead. or in
crease the salary of the chief of
police"
MORE Liberal II TnK KlIL n SAVING
Everybody laughed, 1T Is sad COM
nations are more liberal In killing men
u
BILE lesson before US In Europe. For
forty years the European nations have
spent millions to preserve the peace, to
keep 1t from going to pieces. And with
what result. They prepared for
Armageddon, and they have 1t. though
7. X. Is not there. 1t Is n part OF our
erutishness. You will have 10000 peo-
pie run out to see a murder, while
about 400 will come to hear me.
wish that this beast OF gore, lust and
slaughter could be exercised, and that
wo could teach men how to live"
DR.. Wiley said that the opportune
timc when NIL the energies OF the peo-
pie could be bent on saving life in this
country had come. and pointed to tho
altruistic work OF the medical profess
sion. which is committing suicide in
order that mankind may BIO benefited.
But most OF the health laws In, eX-
istence to-day, he charged, were made
for mercenary interests. for the life
Insurance companies would have their
policyholders keep away from tho
grave forever IL they could, 1--WE owe
the insurance companies q lot" he
said, even IL they are working not SO
much for US as Tor themselves Some
day some political party will write a
health measure i'm Its PLATFORM, and
win keep Its promise true, and when
that day comes. for the sake OF our
selves, for the sake of our little chill
dren OF to-day and to be, and for tho
sake of the future welfare Of the ma :
ton. call on you all to lend aid In
preventing disease and increasing the
efficiency of humanity"