Show HEALTH BUREAU I I STRONGLY URGED I Bill Soon to Be Introduced Is Backed by Associations and Physicians WOULD SAVE NATION BIG SUM I President Taft and Senator Aldrich Busy with Financial Legislation Plans Administration Favors Central Bank Scheme Washington Congress Is to be asked before long to pass a bill creating cre-ating what shall bo called a National Bureau of Public Health It Is ursed that great associations and thousands of Individual physicians are anxious tho government shall take cognizance of the necessity for a more adequate system of guarding the health of the American people Time and again suggestion has been made that there should bo a department of health with a chief who would have a placo In the presidents cabinet It is not likely that congress for years to come at any rate will sanction the creation of such a department of government but It Is likely that a health bureau of some kind before long will bo established I It must not bo taken for granted that Uncle Sam docs not do anything to look after tho health of his nephews and nieces Tho Marino hospital service serv-ice Is efficient and It Is aided In Its work by the medical corps of the army and navy The American Health league Is petitioning congress to establish es-tablish a National bureau of health nnd It Is nuking the people to back up Its request Plea of Health Officers In a communication recently put out from Its Now York 1 headquarters officials offi-cials of the bureau of health say Responding to general demands for such a scientific check to the preventable prevent-able diseases and deaths that are now known to cost tho nation 1600000 000 In life and labor each year officers offi-cers of this organization are making every effort to have a law speedily made of their recommendation which was contained In tho platform of the three lending parties In the last presidential pres-idential campaign and which has been advocated by leaders of every political 1 faith since that time President Taft has just assured representatives of the American Medical association and American Health league they declare that ho Is heartily In favor of this plan If the people of every section of the land will declare themselves on this vital question In the next few weeks It Is asserted Uncle Sam soon may be persuaded to give the same attention at-tention to the physical welfare of human hu-man beings that ho now does to that of sheep cattle hens and hogs rho friends of the plan for a health > bureau under government control say that the bureau Is particularly necessary neces-sary to warn the people of this country coun-try of the dangers that menace their vitality In the most common walkp of everyday life Then the American Health league says that It Is calling attention to drugs as well as diseases Declaration Is made that numerous forms of drug habits are becoming I more prevalent everywhere In the United States than people realize Tho dangers of cocaine morphine and opium opi-um are pointed out and It Is said that vigorous efforts which are being mode to control and minimize their sale ought to have the sanction the backIng back-Ing and tho aid of a government bureau bu-reau While physicians are trying to get government recognition of tho need of federal safeguards for tho health of tho nation sociologists are trying to get Uncle Sam to establish what for lack of a better name they call n Laboratory of Criminology The subcommittee of the committee on jr dietary has just reported favorably a bill which appropriated a sum of money for the establishment of such a laboratory or bureau It Is not the Intention of the lawmakers If they pass a bill of this kind to make the bureau a largo affair What the friends of tho measure want Is to have appointed three or four specialists special-ists In criminology who will make n deep study of the causes of crime with n view of finding out If It Is not possible In some way to bring to bear the preventive measures which are so much better than cure measures Crime 1 Disease Some people go so far as to say that I crime In many of Its forms In a disease dis-ease A great many people admit that crime Is frequently committed by persons per-sons who are tho victims of circumstances circum-stances and who are not Impelled to crime by what may bo called real criminal motives If congress sin establish a bureau of criminology IH < experts will study living conditions tit I the people the effect of poverty and liquor drinking on crime and many other subjects which may shod light upon the main question Tim same argument that Is used by physicians for the establishment of such n bureau as they want Is used by till friends of the other project They say that If Uncle Sam Is willing to spend millions every year through tho agricultural department to check tho ravages of Insect In-sect pests that ho ought to bo willing to spend n few thousands to check the ravages of crime In recent years congress has paid more attention to what may bo oiled sociological matte mat-te s than It over did before Tho < Uidy of sociological subjects bus I spread nil through tho land and congress con-gress has felt tho affect Preparing Financial Measure Now that President Taft has Bent to congress all of his Important recommendations recom-mendations that he has a hope will bo enacted into law this winter he Is turning his attention to the question of financial legislation which must occupy oc-cupy tho time and minds of the national na-tional legislators Senator Aldrich who Is tho chairman of the national monetary commission Is in constant conference with tho president over the form which the great financial measure Is to take The president believes be-lieves that Senator Aldrich In this matter of reform of tho currency Is absolutely sincere and that the Rhode islander hopes to make constructive financial legislation something like a monument to his legislative memory It can be said that tho chances are 99 In 100 that it Is the Intention of the administration on the advice of the majority of tho monetary commission com-mission to recommend to congress next year some plan for a central bank of Issue In all tho speeches which Senator Aldrich made In the west and In all the Interviews to which he has submitted since congress assembled he has made no direct statement that he is In favor of a central bank but It is known that his mind and attention rest upon such an Institution as one of tho best means as he views It to mako stable the countrys financial system Details Not Worked Out Tho president has had presented to him a number of different plans for a central bank but to none of them has he given a final preference and it can bo said without fear of contradiction contradic-tion that Mr AldrIch himself has not stated definitely just which plan he thinks should be selected for ultimate approval Mr Taft wants a central bank if the country is to have one which in a measure will be a mean between two extremes President Taft has let It bo known that It is his earnest desire that legislation legis-lation Intended to give stability to tho countrys currency shall have attached at-tached to It no taint of suspicion of what Is generally called Wall street Influence The president Is telling his friends that he is confident from what Senator Aldrich tells him that the Rhode Islander Is no less anxious than he to see to it that Wall street shall in no way be given an entering wedge of Influence by means of the legislation legisla-tion when It is finally enacted Gift for the Kaiser The house of representatives has just passed a bill appropriating 5000 for a replica of the statue of the Baron von Steuben which Is to bo erected soon In Lafayette square Washington The replica of tho statue If tho senate sanctions tho house action and the president signs the bill will bo sent to Kaiser Wilhelm and the German people In the name of the people of America as a grateful recognition of tho services of von Steuben to the American colonies when they were trying to throw off the yoke of Great Britain Tho movement to present the von Steuben memorial to Germany was Initiated In-itiated by Representative Richard Bar tholdt of St Louis Mr Dartholdt was born In Germany but ho has lived In this country a great many years It is perhaps possible that the St Louis representative had the German people In mind more than tho German Ger-man emperor when he first thought of n plan to present the von Steuben memorial to the fatherland Once on a time If the records are not wrong Mr Dartholdt was In Berlin and desiring de-siring to pay his respects to the emperor em-peror he requested an audience and described himself as a GermanAmer ican It is said that Emperor William Wil-liam remarked Germans I know and Americans I know but GermanAmeri cans I do not know ThIs was Mm nn un emperors way of Intimating that a man must be one thing or tho other and that he did not like hyphenated nationalities Meant as Return Compliment The gift to Germany will be a sort of return compliment for tho gift which Wllhelm made to the United States eight years ago of the statue of Frederick tho Great It was with Frederick tho Greats permission that Baron von Steuben or Gen Steuben as he came to bo known In America was allowed to come to this country to act as a sort of a drillmaster chief to the Continental armies Germany Ger-many It is said has always felt mote or less keenly a regret that Americans Ameri-cans should have thought principally about Germanys attitude In the revolutionary rev-olutionary war as one made manifest by the dispatch of tho Hessian hire ling troops to this country to help the cause of the British The gift of the statue of Frederick the Great with marked reference to I the relation between Frederick and Gen Stoubcn was Intended as an offset off-set to the unpleasantness mess that Is connected con-nected with the Hessian hirelings I rho statue of Frederick tho Great stands In front of I the American war college In the city of Washington When the gift was made there was a Si cat deal of adverse criticism in America Congress was urged not 1 to receive the gift because citizens whose criticism was of lie extreme and per haps unthinking kind declared that wo wanted no statues of kings In this country Tho gift however was received re-ceived In tho spirit in which It was offered The statue had not been long In place before an attempt was made to destroy It At least It was supposed an attempt wns made to destroy It for a small slzed bomb wns exploded by some unknown person near the base of tho statue Tho bomb did no damage but it did create tremendous pxcltemont GFORGE CANTON I I |