Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-07

sistant surgeon general and
Surgeon G. N Guiteras of the
United States public health
service. will represent the United
States at the sixth international sani-
tary conference. to be held December
10 to 20, in Montevideo, Uruguay. The
delegation, of which DR.. White is
chairman. will leave the middle of
this month for South America. carry
ing report which will show what the
United States has done in the last
nine years in the development and
enactment of sanitary measures.
DR.. White is at present gathering
data for this report. which Will in
clude not only the work of the United
States public health service. but will
show what states and cities have
done toward safeguarding the public
health.
The conference in Montevideo will
be the first since 1911. 1t was planned
for 1914, but the war caused its post
ponement. Aside from it's Importance
as an international clearing house for
the discussion of methods of SANTA
ton. the conference this year Will
hold peculiar significance.
The last nine years has witnessed
the beginning of a general cleaning
up" in several of the South American
republics. A number of these gov
ernments have appropriated large
sums for reconstruction work under
the supervision Of American sanitary
engineers. Cities whose foundation
antedates the discovery of North
America have been practically re-
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tieth century systems of drainage.
sewerage and water supply. What
this reconstruction has taught VIII
prove of value to the world at large.
The first and second international
sanitary conferences were held in
Washington in 1902 and 1905. The
third took place in Mexico in 1907; the
fourth in Costa Rica and the fifth in
Santiago. Chile, in 1911.
Charles NJ. Pepper, director of he
Chilean-American Association OF New
York. an organization composed or
American business men who hold in
terests in Chile, devoted to closer
trade relations between the two re-
publics, has been in Washington this
week comforting with officials of the
Pan-American Union on certain prof.
ects entertained by his organization
One of these plans is to furnish Amer
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of American books will be presented to
the Municipal Library in the city OF
Valparaiso within a short time. The
Chilean-American Association already
lean journals to Chile and placing
them at the disposal Of the public.
DR. William Lyle Schurz will leave
next month for Brazil to take his post
there as commercial attache at the
American embassy. DIR. SchurZ has
spent some time in Bolivia and Para
quay. where he compiled satisfies for
the United States Department of Com
merce He represented the University
of California two years in Spain, where
he was sent to look up historical data
relating to the discovery of Califor-
mia.
Following its introduction recently at
the Pan-Amercan Union building dur
ing a celebration of the independence
|of GuayaQuil, Ecuadorean music has
proved popular in this country. There
have been many requests for the COM
positions played for the first time here
by the Marine Band. These selections
were arranged bysHugo G. Gante of
New York, formerly a professor of
music in the University of Quito.
Ecuador.
South America learned of Senator
Harding's election in short order last
week. for practically every repre-
sentative here of a South American
country flashed the news to his coun-
try as soon as returns indicated re-
publican victory. There has been, per-
hape, more interest in South Amer
lea over this election than ever
before. because of the league of
nations issue.
DR.. Pedro Seoane of the council of
national administration of Uruguay
is studying the meat packing industry
Of the United States and compiling a
report for his government on methods
used in this country. He has visited