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Show Money for Cattle, None for Babies. Theso college professois may not bo so vory far abend of futuro legislation. Wo spend through Washington now $7,000,000 a year In developing plant life, but not n dollar to discover a preventative pre-ventative of pneumonia. In ton yonrs tho department of agrlculttiro hns expended ex-pended nenrly $50,000,000 In developing develop-ing products of tho soil, but thoro Is no burenu with money for tho dovolop-ment dovolop-ment of tho moro than 1,009,000 Infants In-fants overy yenr, It Is truo thnt Drs. Wiloy, Atwnter nnd llcnedlct hnvo dono wonderful work, but within a limited sphere, In the preservation of infant llfo. Whllo thoy havo worried for n llttlo money to enrry on experiments, experi-ments, n million hns gotio In stamping out cholorn among swlno. Prof. Norton Nor-ton estimates that during tho noxt census period more than 6,000,000 of Infants under two yenra of ago must succumb, yet with proper knowlcdgo of proveutnblu discuses this number could bo cut In two. |