H. W. Wiley

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H. W. WILEY
Redpath



Dr. Harvey W. Wiley
NO announcement in the daily press was more eagerly read than that Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture, had resigned his government position and that he would henceforth give to the people information about adulterated foods, unhampered in any way.  Within six hours of the time that Dr. Wiley tendered his resignation, Harry P. Harrison of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau called upon Dr. Wiley in Washington and made him a proposition to make a trans-continental lecture tour.


Will Be Free and Unhampered
It had already been reported that Dr. Wiley would do some lecturing the coming season, but wide interest did not center in the announcement until it became known that he would be able to make a trans-continental tour, and that he would be free and unhampered in all he should say.

Dr. Wiley will lecture all the way from New York to San Francisco.  He has chosen the lyceum and chautauqua platform from which to deliver the great message which he has prepared for the American people.  He rightly belongs under the management which once booked Henry Ward Beecher, John B. Gough and Wendell Phillips.



A Message For Every Fireside
The lecture of Dr. Wiley will carry a message vital to every fireside.  North and South Pole explorations and what the people of the Arctic regions eat is of interest, but what the American people are eating is of infinitely more importance.  The labor problem is of interest but there can be no high standard of labor without pure food.




Reporters Gather at Redpath Headquarters
As soon as it became known that the Redpath Bureau had closed a contract with Dr. Harvey W. Wiley for a trans-continental lyceum tour, three representatives from the Chicago newspapers called at the Redpath offices for particulars.  The Chicago Journal published a first page article about this notable lyceum tour, the Chicago Post printed nearly a half column under big headlines, and the Chicago American also gave prominent place to an article.  All three papers mentioned the Redpath Bureau also.  Some of the press associations took up the story and it appeared almost simultaneously in other cities.  It was considered a big news story of the day.  On all sides the Redpath Bureau is being congratulated on its achievement.



Statement of the Chicago Post
The Post begins its half column article with the words: Dr. Harvey W. Wiley will fight the enemies of pure food from the lecture platform.  Freed from the entanglements of the departmental red tape and etiquette, the veteran fighter is planning to carry the fight to the people and his program includes cities from coast to coast.



What the Chicago Journal Says:
The Chicago Journal, among other things in its article, says: Dr. Wiley, who recently resigned as head of the pure food bureau of the national government, plans to carry out his work in the interests of unadulterated foods by invading the chautauqua and lyceum platform.





Dr. Wiley's Lecture Subject
The Public Health Our Greatest National Asset

[Note—Mr. Wiley has other lecture subjects but this one is especially recommended for the lyceum and chautauqua.]


Some Facts about Dr. Wiley from Who's Who in America
According to Who's Who in America; Harvey Washington Wiley was born in Kent, Ind., in 1844.  He received the degree of A. B. at Hanover College and A. M. in 1870.  He received the degree of M. D. from the Indiana Medical College in 1871 and the degree of B. S. from Harvard in 1873, P. H. D. from Hanover in 1876 and L. L. D. in 1898.

Dr. Wiley was professor of Latin and Greek in Butler College, Indianapolis, was also teacher of science in the high schools, professor of chemistry in the Butler University, professor of chemistry in Purdue University and state chemist in Indiana.  He became chief chemist in the U. S. Department of Agriculture in 1883.

He was a member of the Jury of Awards of the Paris Fxposition of 1900, United States delegate to the third International Congress of Applied Chemistry at Vienna, 1898, fourth at Paris in 1900, fifth at Berlin, sixth in Rome, seventh in London, and Hon.  President of the First International Congress Repression of Adulteration of Alimentary and Pharm.  Products, Geneva, 1908.  He has received other foreign honors too numerous to mention in this article, and is the author of many scientific papers and books.



RLB

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