Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-02
TEST IS DISCOVERED
TO REVEAL BAD FOOD
DR.. Charles w. Stiles Tells Scien-
fists Congress of Contain
nation Evil.
DR.. Carl L. Alsberg Issues Warning
Against Fake Radium Cancer
Cures-Oficers Elected.

ATLANTA, Ga, January 2.-Discovery
of test whereby it is possible to ascer-
tain whether or not a person has eaten
contaminated food was yesterday an
nounced by DR.. Charles W. Stiles. United
States public health service, i'm an adj
dress before the zoology section of the
American Association for the Advance
ment OF Science. DR.. Stiles said that he
considered this discovery of more i'm
portance than that which revealed the
hookworm as the germ OF laziness.'
Hookworm, he said, is restricted to the
south, being a tropical and sub-tropical
disease.
Food contamination, however" he con-
tinued, is found everywhere. This new
test, very simple in nature and made
with microscope, is of interest to the
whole nation. for it is the means whereby
the people are to be educated to the perils
Of Infection from insanitary surround
ings.
Thus far the direct agency OF the fly in
the contamination of food can be clearly
demonstrated in any community. Any
where that the fly exists this test can be
applied to warn the people against the
insects menace. While the test itself
has no medical value, it affords simple
but convincing demonstration which can
not be ignored"
Impostors and Quacks.
Warning against flake radium cancer
cures was voiced by DR.. Carl l.. Ais
berg. chief chemist of the Department of
Agriculture, in his address to the chem
istry section of the association. He said
that because of the wonderful cures ef-
fected by application to cancer of the
radium gamma rays there had sprung
up host of impostors and quacks, who
under the Misrepresentation that they
contain radium
"Since there now are less than two
grams Of radium in the United States.
he added, land 1t is valued at SIG, 100 a
gram, these claims scarcely are plausi-
ble."
An account Of the wonders that actu-
ally have been accomplished in curing
cancer through the use Of radium was
described to the chemical section by DIR.
Charles L. Parsons. chief of the division
of mineralogy in the government bureau
of mines. In connection with his ad-
dress. he exhibited a number of photo
graphs showing the results of radium
treatment for cancer
Philadelphia Next Meeting Place.
DIR. Charles w. Eliot president emer-
titus of Harvard University, was chosen
president of the association. Philadelphia
was selected as next years meeting
place.
w. A. Worsham OF Georgia University
was elected general secretary. and DR..
Henry Skinner of the Academy of Nat
ural Science, Philadelphia, secretary OF
the council
The following vice presidents were
chosen, to be in charge of the various
sections of the association: Mathematics
and astronomy. DIR. III. S. White, Vassar
College: physics, Prof. A. Zelen, Uni
versity OF Minnesota; mechanical science
and engineering. Alfred Noble. New York
city: geology and geography, Prof. l.. S.
Grant. Northwestern University; zoology
DR.. Z. r. Lille. University of Chicago;
botany. DIR. G. 3. Clinton. Yale Uni
versity; anthropology and psychology,
Clark Wissler American Museum of Nat
ural History, New York city: physiology
and experimental medicine. r. NJ
Pearce, University of Pennsylvania; edu-
cation, Prof. Paul II. Hanus, Harvard
University.