Show ap war over national health ment 0 t L 0 0 0 0 04 D 6 pa 4 s L 00 16 Q L washington IT ASHINGTON one of tho the most bitter fights in the history of the national capital for many years back has bas lately boon been going 0 on n and doctors all over the united states are falling into line for or against the proposal that we shall have a national bureau of health mass meetings are being called and mile long petitions are being dumped upon the national legislators tons of mail and thousands of telegrams keep coming urging them to vote for the conservation of h human u man life other tons of letters and innumerable messages plead demand and entreat them to vote down what is characterized as a doctors doctor s trust hardly a town of any consequence in the country has failed to have mass meetings councils and semipublic semi public gatherings of both factions the medical men of the country have fallen out over the proposition of having some general genera governing body to over seo see things medical in tho the united stated washington is filled up with g cohorts the cry qt of no quarter is the popular one and the fighters are lashing out at each other bitterly in the committee rooms in the press and from the lecture platforms all the came about in this way about a year ago 12 bills were introduced in congress all seeking to legalize the establishment of a national bureau of health eleven ot of these bills were strangled in the committees mit tees and but two remained these two were the subject of bitter acri mailous debate on numerous occasions but congress finally adjourned without doing anything the fight for a national health bureau is a part of the general conservation movement that is going on all over the country the nal conservation commis has taken note of human life as being one of the resources of the nation that Is worth saving originally this commission was formed to conserve lands waters mill sites forests minerals and wild game but it speedily came to the conclusion that human lifo life was worth more than all the rest of our resources put together |