The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-11
OR. STOCKBRIOCE EXPOSES HUCHES'
 MEASUREMENTS
President of Farmers Congress Says He Shows Lamenta-
 ble Ignorance.

i New York. Oct. 1.-The hopes of Candidate Hughes and the Republican managers for capturing the farmer vote received a severe jolt in the cur rent issue of The Southern Ruralist. In this journal. edited by pr. H. E. Stockbridge, President of the Farm CTS National Congress of the United States and former Director of the North Dakota Experiment Station, the editor reviews the statements made by Mr. Hughes in his opening speech of the campaign at Detroit, referring to the resignation of E. Dana Durand, former Director of the Census, and the resignation If Dr. Tittmann from the coast and geodetic survey. The facts. as recited by Dr. Stockbridge, call forth the editorial comment that 'sMr. Hughes showed lamentable ig- lnorance, and by attempting to sup port opinions by misstatement of fact becomes as censurable as any other violator of truth"
 1 MT. Stockbridge states that MT. Dur land, instead of being 'an expert sta- dstician.' as candidate Hughes says, held four different political appoint ments under Republican administra- tons in the nine years preceding his census job, in none of which any sta t1sdcal ability was required. More lover, the editor declares that Durand received his government jobs as a re- ward for service rendered to Governor Hughes when Durand was legislative librarian of the State of New York land that a non-partisan board of ex- lperts reported that the efficiency of ithe census bureau was greatly increas- ! cd by his retirement.
 N Replying to the criticism made up- lon President Wilson's administration iby MT. Hughes because of the retire. ;ment of pr. Tfttmann, MT. Stockbridge says: sf
 ''Dr. Tttmann actually. resigned his position after repeated attempts He swas at the time two years above the age at which army officers are ob- 1iged to retire. He had been in gov ernment service continuously for for ty-eight years. No one can sincerely cr1tfcise the administration for allow ing him to retire.
 ! "The real complaint however, is that mere stock breeder and veteri- marian should have been made ad- ministrative chief of a division of the scientific work of the government Such criticism displays ignorance and caddishness, inexcusable in any as- pirant for public favor. The veterin- ary profession stands on a par with any other profession. The United States Bureau of Animal Industry, among the most important of our gov ernment bureaus. was organized and has always been administered by a veterinarian.
 ''It Is an indisputable fact that much Eof the most important scientific re- search of modern times has been &C., lcomplished by veterinary investigators. This work has been of incalcuIable benefit to the human race. The hook worm, anthrax, cholera, tfichinosfs .hoof and mouth disease, and rabies { have yielded to the inability The whole modern germ theory of disease with it's resultant antiseptic surgery came from the veterinary laboratory of the great Pasteur
 Tt must shock this critic of a Dem- ocratic administration to learn that President Mckinley made Dr. Huide- Roper. Dean of the Veterinary De- partment of the University of Pennsyl- vania. chief surgeon at the Chicka-