Show l V ALA r War Over National Health Department d off off- P S 4 Q o oC C t o ou u o One One of tho the most WASHINGTON one TV bitter fights in the history of the national capital for tor many years back has bas lately been going on and doctors ill all over tho the United States are falling Into line Une for or against the proposal that we shall shaU have a national bureau of health Mass meetings are being c called and mlle mile mile long long petitions are being being be be- ing dumped upon the national legisla legisla- tors Tons of mall mail and thousands of telegrams keep coming urging them to vote for the conservation of human life Ute Other tons of letters and innumerable Innumerable innumerable merable messages plead demand and entreat them to vote down n what is T characterized as a a doctors trust Hardly a town of any consequence In the country has failed to h have ve mass j meetings councils and semi semi public public gatherings of both factions The medi medical med med- 1 i ical teal men of the country have fallenI alienI fallen alien I out DUt over the proposition of having Ing I t come Borne general governing body to oversee overt over- over Bee see things medical In the United States Washington Is filled up with fighting cohorts The Tho cry of of no Quarter is the popular one and the fighters are lashing o out at each other bitterly in the committee rooms in the press and from rom the lecture platforms All the fighting came about in this way About a year jear car ago 12 bills were Introduced In congress all seeking to legalize the he establishment of a na no national nay bureau of health Eleven of these bills were strangled In the committees com com- and but two remained These two were the subject of bitter acri- acri manious debate on numerous occasions but congress finally adjourned without doing anything The fight was merely mere mere- Iy ly postponed until the present ses ses- sion The fight for a national health bureau bureau bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau is a part of the general conservation conservation conserva- conserva tion movement that is going on all al allover allover over the country The Con commisso in has bas taken note of human life Itro as being one of the tho resources of the nation that is worth north saving Originally this commission was formed to conserve conservo lands waters mill sites forests minerals and wild game but it speedily came to the conclusion conclusion conclusion con con- that human life was worth more than all the rest of our resources put together We Ye need men said Bald the conservationists conserva conserva- to plow these lands land dig in these mines and cut down these forest forest forest for for- est trees Therefore let us conserve human lumon life ilfe stamp out disease and give the doomed babies a chance Let us establish a national bureau of health that can at least do as mu much h for the farmers farmers' babies as ns it is now doing for foi his horses and cattle In support of the establishment of ol the new department are ranged thousand thousand thou thou- sand of life insurance companies labor labor la la- bor bar organizations farmers' farmers associations and other civic and social bodies |