Show HEALTH RON ly UM bill soon to be introduced Is backed by associations and physicians WOULD SAVE NATION bam vt air A president taft and senator aldrith I 1 busy with financial legislation plans Adminis administration tati 0 n favors cavort central bank sc scheme herne washington wash netom congress Is to lie asked before long to pass a bill erg cr acing what shall be called a national bureau of public health it is urged that great associations and thousand of individual physicians are anxious anxious the government shall title talie of the necessity tar for a more adequate system of guarding the health of tha american people time and again suggestion has been made that th there ere should bo be a department of health willi a chief who would have a place ln the presidents a cabinet it Is not likely that congress for years to come a at t any rate will sanction the creation of such a department of government but t Is likely that a health bureau of nt ome tie kind hind before long will be essav it must not be taken for granted that uncle sam does not do anything to look after the health of his nephews and nieces the marine hospital ice fee Is effi efficient clent and it Is aided in its work by the ined medical leal corps of the arm army and navy the american health league Is congress to establish a national bureau of health rui 1 iq q the people to backup back up its request plea of health officers in a communication recently put out gilt from its new york headd headquarters u arters officials of the bureau of health say may responding to general demands for such a scientific check to the prevent able diseases and deaths deatha that are now known to cost the tha nation in life and labor each year officers of this organization are making every effort to have a law speedily made of their recommendation which was contained in the platform of the three leading parties in the last presidential ident ial campaign and which has been advocated by leaders of every political kal falth faith since that time president tatt has just assured representatives of the american Al medical edical association and american health league they declare that he Is heartily in dav favor or ot of this if the people of 0 eye every ry section of the land will declare them themselves selves on this vital question in the next few weeks it Is asserted uncle sam soon way be persuaded to gla the same attention n to the physical welfare of h hu U man beings that he now does docs to that of sheep bittle hens and hogs the friends of the plan for a health bureau under government control say that the bureau Is particularly feces sary to warn the people of this country of the dangers that menace their vitality in the most common walks of everyday life then the american health league says that IL 11 Is 19 calling attention to drugs as well as diseases declaration Is made that numerous forms of drug habits are becoming more prevalent everywhere in the united states than people realize tito dangers of cocaine morphine and opt um are pointed out and it Is said that vigorous efforts which are being made to cont control iol and minimize their sale ought to have the sanction the backing and the aid of a government bureau while physicians are trying to get government recognition of the need of federal safeguards for the health G of atile alie nation sociologists are trying to get uncle sam to establish what for lack or of a better name they call a laboratory of criminology the subcommittee of the committee on hii judiciary pas has just reported favorably a bill which appropriated a sum of money for tile rm establishment of such a laboratory or bureau it Is not the Intent intention lon of tho the lawmakers it they nass a bill of this kind to lo make the bureau a large affair what the friends of the measure want Is to have appointed appoint pd or four specialists in criminology who will make a deep study of tile the causes of crime with a view of finding out it if it Is 18 not in some way to bring to bear he preventive tivi measures which are so nuch better than cure measures crime i disease some people gr so far as to say that thai crime in many of its forms la Is a disease A great nany people admit that crime crim Is frequently committed by persons persona who art arc the victims of circum stances find and who are not lin impelled polled to crime by what may be callad real criminal motives if cong congress con ress shall establish a bureau or of criminology the experts will study living conditions of nt the people the effect of at poverty and liquor drinking on erline crime and many other subjects which chmay may shed liget upon the main question the same argument that la Is used by physicians for the establishment of such a burran bureau as they want lit Is used by the friends of the other project they say nay that if uncle sam la is willing to spend millions every year through the agricultural department to check the rava ravages of insect pests that lil hi ought to be w willing filing to alp spend nd a few thousands thou sanda to check the ravages of crime in recent years congress has paid more attention to what may be filled sociological matte tes s than it ever aver did before tho the study of sociological subjects ilas aaa spread all a 11 through the land anacon gross gress has felt the off affect ct preparing financial F inane a measure now ow that president taft has haa fent bent to lo congress all of his important recent ions that he ha has ham a hope will lo bu 10 enacted into law this winter he lc Is turning life hla attention to the question of financial legislation which must occupy the line lime aim I 1 of the national legislators senator aldrich who la Is the chairman of the national monetary commission Is lit in constant conference with tho the president over the form the groat great financial measure la Is to take the president be loves that senator aldrich tn in this matter of reform of the 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 te be sald said that the chances are arc 83 90 in fit that it Is the intention of the ha administration on the he advice of the majority of the monetary commission InIs sion to recommend to congress next year some plan for a n bank of 91 issue in till the speeches which senator aldrich matte made in the west and lit in nil the interviews to which he has submitted since congress assembled lie he has haa made no direct statement that he Is in favor or of a central bank but it Is known that hla his mind and attention lon rest upon such an institution ng its one of the best means ns its he views it to make stable the count rys financial system details not worked out the president has had presented to jim a number of different plans tor for a cen central trill bank but to none of them has he be given a final dual preference and it can be said without fear of alon ilon that mr aldrich himself has baa not stated definitely lust 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 tatt taft has let it be known that it IH his earnest desire that logis lela intended to rive give stability to count rys currency ishall have attached to it no taint of suspicion of what Is generally called wall street influence influence the president I 1 Is 3 tell lg hta his ends that he Is confident from wh what at senator aldrich tells him that tho the rhode islander la Is no less anxious than he ha to see gee to it that wall street shall in no me way be given an entering wedge ot of in influence fluence by means of the legislation when it la Is finally enacted gift for the kaler kaiser the house of represent at atves has haa just passed a bill appropriating for a replica of the statue ot of ve te daron von steuben which Is to be a erected soon in lafayette square washington the replica 0 of the statue if the senate sanctions the house and the president signs the bill will be sent to kaiser welhelm Wll Wilfie helm lm and the german people in the namo of the people of america as a grateful recognition of tho the servi services cei of von steuben to the american colonies wien they were trying to wro throw W off the yoke of great brit britann aln the movement to present the von steuben memorial to germany was initiated vitiated by representative richard dar tholet of st louis mr air dart bartholdt h holdt was waa born in germany but he has lived in this country a great many years it la Is perhaps possible that the st louis representative had the german people in mind more than the german emperor when he be first thought of 0 a plan to present the von steuben memorial to the fatherland once on a time 1 if f the records are not wrong mr air bartholdt was faai in berlin and tie de wiring string to 16 pay his respects to the emperor he requested an audience and described himself as a german amer icon ican it la is said bald that emperor wll wil haiti remarked germans I 1 know and americans americana I 1 know but german amari car CM I 1 ido do not know this was the tha emperors way of intimating that a man must mast be one thing or the other and that he be did not like hyphenated na nationalities meant at as return compliment line gift to germany will be a sort of return compliment for the gift which wilhelm Wll helni made to tile the united states eight years ago of the statue of FA frederick derick the great it was with frederick the greats permission that baron von steuben or gen steuben as hd bei came to be known in america was allowed to come to this country to net act as a sort of a drill master ln in chief to the continental armies ger ninny many it to Is raid maid bits always felt more or less leas keenly a regret that americans should have thought principally about germanys germanas Germ anys attitude in the revolutionary war as one made manifest by the dispatch of the Iles hire II line L aronim to this country to help the cause of the Hiltl tish sh eliy girt of the statue of frederick the amat with marked reference to ili iha relation between frederick and jen gen steuben cuben St was intended as an offset to the unpleasantness that Is is con n necter with tho the hessian i g tile statue of frederick the great stands in front of the american war colledo ili n the city of washington when Vh erthe tho gift was made there was a great deal of adverse critic criticism lim in america congress was urged not to receive the gift because citizens whose criticism was of the extreme and perhaps unthinking kind declared decla rei that wo hinted no statues of kuriga la in this country the gift however was received in the spirit in fit which it was the statue had not been long in place before an attempt was waa made to destroy it at least it was supposed an attempt was waa made to destroy it tor for a small sized bomb was exploded by come unknown person near the base of the statue the bomb did no damage but it did cleats tremendous paci umen t A GRORGE 0 ORGE CLINTON sr |