Show I t t A Washington Daybook I J j By RODNEY RODNE DUTCHER WASHINGTON July Joseph 16 16 Joseph E. E Ransdell of Louisiana who lost his senate scat last lut year to young Huey Long after olter more than 30 years in congress congress con can gress slid out of politics OliU into what seems like a a. happy ending for a n life Ufe now low in its us third seventy year This old gentleman with the little white whiskbroom of a beard did not retire to his plantation to spend his days in bitterness obscurity and possibly pos poSt sibly poverty He stayed on in Washington Wash Wash- Ington but he is neither a lame duck appointee nor a n. corporation lobbyist as so o many of his old colleagues have become at after r being voted out of ot of lice fice He really is a lobbyist but a lobby it for a no cause for which everyone is willing to cheer In fact when this work which old Joe Ransdell began and to is still furthering stands completed completed com com- he is likely to have a a. monument ment which will outshine anything associated d with the names of other men with whom he served In the house or senate HIS illS JOB Ransdell Is now executive director drector of the conference board of the National National Na Na- Institute of Health The boards purpose purpose and and Ransdell's job job job-Is Is to promote the institute to get people so interested in it that philanthropists and congress will give it enough money to make it an enormous eff effective ec tive and anti complete laboratory which will study the cause prevention and cure of every disease of man The board is privately endowed The Institute In In- Is the old H Hygienic Laboratory of the U. U S public health service with witha a a. present research staff stat of 50 p persons per r. r sons financed both federally and vatel Ransdell talks about the Institute with the enthusiasm of ot an excited boy Politics requires a diversification tion of Interest and effort but the Institute in In- is his life work now It was Ransdell who Introduced five live years ago the bill passed last year by which congress changed the Hygienic Laboratory Laboratory Lab Lab- oratory Into the National Institute of Health gave for new buildings build build- ings Engs and authorized the secretary of he the treasury to accept accept ashe as he lie may for the Smithsonian Institution and Library Li Lt of Congress gifts Congress gifts for extension of the institute and Its work In his last senate speech Ransdell urged congress t to be generous to tho the Institute describing it as the greatest great great- greatest est eat altruistic Institution the world has fias ever known Now he says ho hopes to live to see tho day when It will be endowed to the extent of ot 50 No solicitations are being made but Ransdell undertakes to get gat the word out in every possible way that here Is the worthiest imaginable cause More than has been contributed Pile Hygienic Laboratory scientists were charged with investigating infectious infectious infectious in in- and contagious diseases and public health matters They mado many valuable discoveries often discoveries often at great personal risk suffering even cven loss of life about life about such diseases sia as 3 malaria pellagra hookworm tularaemia tula tula- undulant fever parrot fever and Rocky Mountain spotted fever as well as S about fundamental chemical chemical chemical chemi chemi- cal problems TACKLE EVERY DISEASE Now as the staff of ot the institute they explore tho the whole field of human human hu hu- man dL disease ase They will tackle every thing from cancer and heart disease to common very every problem of ot human health As money becomes available Ransdell explains Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington will become the worlds world greatest great est health and medical research center center center cen cen- ter and under command of the surgeon stir sur geon general a a. great army of ot experts In medicine surgery psychiatry dentistry dentistry dentistry den den- chemistry physics biology bacteriology pharmacy anti and all allied sciences will wUl labor for human happiness happiness happi happi- ness longevity and comfort Ransdell says his first public health measure in congress was the one 25 years ago which resulted in virtual eradication of at cattle ticks which were costing cow owners a ye year ir Another Ransdell bill blU in 1917 led to establishment of the National Lepro Lepro- at Carvill La where Ransdell Ransdell Rans Rans- dell deli proudly observes lepers are now being completely cured |