The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-02
WILL DISCOVER
 CONTAMINATED FOOD
TEST DISCOVERED BY ATLANTA PHYSICIAN WHICH MAY BE
 FAR REACHING.
Believed to Be of Still Greater lmpor- tanee Than Discovery of the Hook. worm.

Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 1.-Discovery of a test whereby it is possible to ascer- tain whether or not a person has eat en contaminated food was announced today by Dr. Charles W, Stiles, of the United States public health service, in an address before the Zoology sec tion of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
 Dr. Stiles said he considered this discovery of more imnortance than hat which revealed the>-bok worm as the germ of laziness" Hookworm, he said, is restricted to the south, be- ing a tropical, and sub-tropical dis ease. Food contamination, however" he continued "is found everywhere. This new test very simple in nature and made with a microscope, is of interest to the whole nation for it is the means whereby the people are to be educated to the perils of infec- tion from unsanitary surroundings.
 "Thus far the direct agency of the fly in the contamination of food can be clearly demonstrated in any com munity. Anywhere that the fly ex- ists this test can be applied to warn the people against the insects men, ace. While the test itself has no medical value it affords a simple but convincing demonstration which can not be ignored"
 Warning against fake radium can cer cure" was voiced by Dr. Carl l.. AlsbeTg today, chief chemist of the department of agriculture, in his ad- dress to the chemistry section of the association, He said that because of The wonderful cures effected by ap- plication to cancer of the radium gamma" rays, there had sprung up a host of imposters who are foisting alleged cures upon the public under the misrepresentation that they con .ained radium Since there now are less than two grams of radium in the United States" he added, "and it is valued at $120,000 a gram these claims scarcely are plausible
 An account of the wonders that ac- tually had been accomplished in cur ing cancer through the use of radium were described to the chemical sec ton by Dr, Charles L. Parsons, chief of the division of minerology in the government bureau of mines. In con- nection with his address, he exhibited a number of photographs showing the results of radium treatment for can cer.
 Lack of cooperation between mine owners and miners and deficient state and national regulations of the min ing industry were blamed for the high death rate among mine employees by Dr Jos A. Holmes, director of the United States bureau of mines, in an address before the Mechanical Sci- ence and Engineering section.
 "The death rate among miners" said Dr. Holmes, lis a national dis. grace. We have been making prog ress in behalf of greater safety and there has been considerable reduction in th death rate but We have not made the progress we should have made. Last year we took a decided step backward If it continues the country will soon see legislation more drastic than we have yet believed possible"
 Applied science win overcome any which tariff reduction 1r dissolution of great business con- eeTns may bring, according to Dr. Rob- art Kennedy Duncan, head of the Mel on Institute of Applied Science, Pitts burg, Pa
 With the high degree of utilization of waste material that can be obtain. d by scientific methods Dr. Dun- ]an told one of the sections today, American manufacturers need not fear oreign competition or the reduced ariff; and the great loss of money trough the slack business methods ,f great combines readily can be re- through the application of scientific methods in case of dissolu- ion by the government"