Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

Following the recent furore over
radium paint poisoning and the warn
Ing Just issued by the Surgeon General.
H. 8. Cumming Of the Public Health
Service, that lead poisoning is one OF
the great problems of industrial hygiene,
1t Is interesting to find In that worlds
greatest treasury Of incunabula, the
library OF the Surgeon General Of the
Army, a treatise on this subject, pub
nshed In 17O0-"De Morbis Artifi-
clum Diatriba written by Bernardino
Ramazzini, the first physician to realize
the widespread hazards OF industrial
employment
Ramazzini comments that otis .
sordid profit that's accompany'd' with
the destruction of health" and Secre-
tary Davis Of the United States Depart
ment OF Labor, after reviewing this
treatise, comments that RamaZzini's
conclusions reached $50 years ago
might well be taken to heart by some
Industries today"
Surgeon General Cumming lists some
OF the principal industries and trades
IN which workers are exposed to lead
poisoning-lead mining and smelling,
making white or red lead, the manu-
Iaeture OF paint, storage batteries,
glazes. enamels, pottery and most lead
objects, painting, brass founding and
polishing cut glass and brass, and even
such diverse things as putty and win
dow shades
Ramazzini, after expressing the belief
that occupational diseases were caused
mainly by the noxious quality of the
material used or by improper posture
while working, described some OF the
diseases prevalent among miners, gold
smiths, potters, copper and tin workers,
glass makers and glass grinders, paint
ers, workers in lime and plaster of
paris, tobacco and SNUFF workers. bakers
ana miilers, starch makers, masons and
bricklayers, laundresses and washer
women, agricultural workers and mem
bers OF different professions.
This Ramazzini was born in northern
Italy In 1888. and received his DOCTOR
diploma at the age Of 26. His book
was translated from the Latin into Eng
lish In l705 under the title-"A Treatise
of the Diseases of Tradesmen."
DR.. Thomas Legge in q Lowell Insti-
tute lecture on industrial diseases de-
livered in Boston, Mass, November "a,
1919, stated that the value Of Ramaz-
zini's book lies in the fact that it was
written just at the time of the part
ing of the ways in industry and medi-
cine when both were about to make
greater strides In the next fifty years
than they had done In the preceding
500 years"
Representative j. D. Craddock of
KY, who has background
of wide and romantic experience during
the Philippine instruction, in China
during the Boxer uprising and for six
years with the Isthmian Canal Commits
sion in the Canal Zone, Is proud of gift
of some 1900 acres Of forest land in
his district which a resident of that
region for fourscore years has just
made to the State of Kentucky for a
public recreation park and demonStra-
ton area.
The gift was made by Isaac w.
Bernheim, "a years of age, who was
born in Baden Baden, Germany, at the
edge of the famous Black Forest, which
has been regularly producing timber
crops under forestry management for
seven centuries.
Representative Craddock explains
that plans are being pushed for resto-
ration Of this forest through intensive
for the maintenance of
q wild-life sanctuary, and an endow-
ment provides for this work and for
free distribution throughout the State
of trees for reforestation purposes.
TGQIldIQ .. SIdIk VI JAlC OLlIbCA 0I0ICs
Forest Service has been appointed chief
ranger in charge of the forest and a
fire protection system has been put In
operation as a first step in the conser-
walton program.
"A these Summer days and the vaca.
zion periods It Is interesting to note the
new attitude Of organized business
which officially recognizes that recrea-
ton is an asset-and broadcasts the
message:
THE future of the United States"
Gays william Butterworth, president OF
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, "as of any country, Is
dependent upon the younger generation
and those generations which are to
come. A responsibility, therefore, is
placed upon those of mature judgment
So to develop our facilities for educa-
ton, health and well being that those
who follow will be able to carry on
where we have left of.
The proper use of leisure, through
the development of adequate recreation
Is one of the most efficient means OF
securing the country's future. Well
directed play strikes at the root OF all
child evils. 1t makes for health; 1t
raises the moral standard; 1t develops
leadership and fair play: it creates a
proper sense Of responsibility and re-
spect for authority; It makes for happi-
ness, general welfare and good citizen
ship"
family a nice long vacation this
Summer
That the supreme sacrifice at Bunker
Hill and other great battles OF Amer
lean history is dwarfed by the death
toll at Savannah is emphasized by
REPRESENTATIVE Edwards of Georgia in
calling attention Of his colleagues to
she commemoration next october OF
the l50th anniversary of the death OF
Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski, who died
from wounds received at the siege OF
Savannah.
..'Within a half circle extending q
half mile from the City Hall Of Sa-
vannah," Representative Edwards re-
minds US, there was more fighting.
more lives lost and more wounded on
the side of the patriots than In any
similar area of land in any Of the
Thirteen Original Colonies. In the
capture of Savannah by the British IN
l778 patriotic soldiers were shot down
or bayonetted to death within o few
hundred yards Of the site Of the City
Hall today.
''For both battles Of Savannah the
list Of dead and wounded on the Amer
lean side totaled over 1900. At Bunker
Hill the American losses were 453. AT
Princeton they were 100. At Mon
mouth they were 100. At Germantown
they were 1900.
Savannah has never commercial
tied any of the wonderful, outstanding
features of its historical past. 1t has
never converted into money-making
proposition the heroism and ronances