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UNCOIL. NEBRASKA
PREVENT TUBERCULOSIS
Address delivered before the annual
convention of the Nebraska State Fed
eration of Labor, South Omaha, .Jan.
4, by Mrs. K. R. J. Eclholni, executive
secretary Nebraska Society for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis:
Charles Dickens, in His famous
novel, Nicholas Nickleby, says this:
"There is a dread disease which so
prepares its victims, as it were, for
death; which so refines it from its
grosser aspect and throws around
familiar looks unearthly indications
of the coming change a dread disease
in which the struggle between soul
and body is so gradual, quiet and sol
emn, and the result so sure, that day
by day and grain by grain the mortal
part wastes and withers away so that
the soil-it grows light and sanguine
with its lightening load, and, feeling
Immortality at hand, deems it but a
new term of mortal life a disease in
which death and life are so strangely
blended that death takes the glow and
hue of life, and life the gaunt grisly
form of death a disease' which medi
cine never cured, wealth warded off,
or poverty could boast exemption from
which sometimes moves in giant
strides and sometimes at a tardy pace,
but. slow or quick, is ever sure and
certain."
This is the disease, Tuberculosis,
and in the time when Dickens wrote
thus of It, in common acceptation it
was a hereditary disease, in so involv
ing end depreciating the health his
tory of a family, was held to be a
deep disgrace. That this feeling of
shame and the consequent effort to
hide the disgrace from the knowledge
of men was a most active factor in
propagating the disease is never to
be denied. Today, happily, we have
graduated from this erroneous posi
tion, and the Individual who has to be
told that he cannot directly inherit
consumption, is more or less rare. On
the other hand, we. perceive a great
underrating of the (danger from infect
ed surroundings, ill-ventilated apart
ments, poor food and overwork; all of
which are contributary causes, sup
posing one to have inherited from tu
bercular parents, not the germ of the
disease, but a lessened power of re
sistance, . which of itself opens the
door and invites infection.
Be it understood at the outset that
the purpose of this paper is neither
to create nor foster a foolish fear cf
this terrible slayer of life and hap
piness. All the world knows that
fear or other craven instinct ingrain
in nature tends to lower the resisting
force, though some of the world so
far forgets itself today as to claim
that fear mav actually give birth to a
specific disease germ. It is within
the experience of most of us that
those who talk the loudest about their
courage are the ones who most fear
their personal inability to remain fear
less; a case of whistling to keep one's
courage up, as it Were. The danger
is here and the danger is real, and
we are here, not to become hysterical
nd run from it, but to face it and
fight it. It is a responsibility, indi
vidual, fraternal, civic, national. No
man nor set of men nray back down
from it. It is as insistent as the con
stant drop of water and sooner or
later will be rec koned with. Ellen La
Motte, of Johns Hopkins, says: "If
tuberculosis were a little more sensa
tional in its development, then educa
tional preventive work would show
better results." But on the contrary
as already quoted, it is "a disease in
Which death and life are strangely
blended"; hence, if your child next
year develop it. have you accurate in
formation that the tuberculous school
teacher of last year infected her? No,
you have not. You only know, and
too late, perhaps, that politics, pig
headedness or prudery have blocked
medical inspection in your schools. Do
you also know that such inspection is
maintained in all Europe, extends to
South America, and even to what we
are pleased sometimes to designate as
semi-civilized Japan?
During the recent campaign of the
Red Cross Christmas stamp, sold for
tuberculosis prevention, one of the lo
cal papers in an editorial put the
question very neatly. In this matter
of the great white plague. It said, we
are all more or less directly interest
ed. As Blaine said of Andersonville,
some of us had relatives there, many
of us had friends there, all of us had
countrymen there, and where Ander
sonville or coal mines or Fourth of
July risasters have slain their thou
sands, consumption has slain its tens
of thousands. With a casualty list so
great, it could not fail to affect most
of us. If there is one point about the
white plague which may give us more
uneasiness than its past ravages, it. is
its future possibilities. We do not
know how it will deal with our de
scendants. We plant trees for them,
establish homesteads and libraries, but
what do we to safeguard the healtb of
those who if crippled in this wise; will
not rise up and call us blessed? It is
up to us in the parlance of the day
to deliver those to whom we are re
sponsible from the clutches of the
great White plague.
Nebraska stands at jwesent in
about the same position Illinois stood
twenty years ago. In its relation to ad
vancing civilization, and its allied
plagues and pleasures. Nebraska has
a superb climate, a high rate of health
and the lowest iercentage of illiteracy
of any state in the Union. Should it
mean a great deal of talking to make
Nebraska understand that if she does
not take hold she may twenty years
hence stand in the unenviable position
Illinois occupies today with respect to
the invasion of tuberculosis? Illinois
is making most strenuous efforts to
check the spread of consumption, yet
hardly keeps pace with its terrible on
coming! Must we say that Nebraska's
comparative freedom from this disease
shall lull us to inactivity along the
lines of preventive work? The key
note of the International Tuberculosis
Congress held in Washington in 1908
was Prevention and again Preven
tion. The great Pasteur said it is per
fectly possible to eradicate every con
tagious disease. Now it is perfectly
possible to eradicate tuberculosis in
Nebraska is every one helps, and the
Nebraska Association for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis has
pledged itself to accomplish this in
ten years. If every one today afflicted
with this disease were to die or re
cover without infecting any one else,
immunity from the scourge could be
achieved in much less than ten years,
but every one will not so contribute
to the welfare of his fellow men and
posterity, of course. We 1 have the
ever traveling consumptive who dies
in our railroad station after infecting
his surroundings en route; and we
have the unteachable consumptive who
wilfully neglects all the laws of man
and nature; he is doomed, desperate
and recks not of the disaster his un
cleanly habits spread wherever he
goes. For him laws must be enacted,
for in his way he is as great a crim
inal as the thief in the night who
steals our treasure: as great a menace
as the leper at large and infinitely
more numerous. For the traveling
consumptive who passes through our
gates spreading his trouble as he
passes, or who dies without funds on
our doorsteps, laws are now enacting,
exclusion rules are already passed.
The philanthropic resources of states
like Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona,
Texas and California, have been taxed
to their utmost to provide for con
sumptives sent west at their last gasp
and on their last dollar by unscrupu
lous and ignorant physicians willing
to shift the heavy responsibility to
other shoulders. If the disease be in
the curable stage, it can be cured at
home; if it cannot be cured, then
home is the best place to die. Rhode
Island, with its lamentable climate,
has proved to us what can be done in
cure, as well as preventive work. Its
outdoor schools for tuberculosis chil
dren are achieving results beyond ex
pectations, and this in a climate of
fog and mist, raw winds and little
sunshine. New York, which undoubt
edly has a greater problem than any
other city, reports a lessening of its
death rate from this cause in the last
year. New York is the richer for
this not only in lives, but in cold hard
dollars. New York has been con
vinced that the economic aspect of the
problem is of prime importance; it
knows that he deaths from tubercu
losis of a wase earning male averages
a loss, of $9,000 to his community, and
that last year it lost sivty-five millions
in dollars to this arch despoiler. Ne
braska does not know what it lost last
year, accurately, at least: its vital sta
tistics are not dependable for one rea
son and another. It knows in a gen
eral way that the death rate from
tuberculosis is increasing each year;
it knows that its monetary losses
therefrom run up into the hundreds
of thousands, but how soon will it be
lieve that all this is unnecessary, that
the life you hold dear, the property
you worked for may be saved or lost
to you according as you take precau
tion. One out of nine people dies
from consumption, and by the nature
of his lingering disease, unless wealth
is at hand, he dissipates his savings,
if he has any infects his surround
ings, mayhap his dear ones and final
ly goes down to his grave a failure. A
failure because he did not live his life
as nature intended him to. We are
one the edge of scientific inquiry only,
we have but the dimmest insight into
what our grandchildren will under
stand fully as a matter of course. iA
hundred years from now the world
will lauah because in this day of ours
lived some who looked for relief to a
religion patented in a church or a
medicine patented in a bottle.
We know now that one in three had
smallpox in Queen Elizabeth's time,
and we naturally say, something
wrong in their methods. Isn't there
something wrong in our methods when
one city can lose sixty-five million of
dollars in one year from one pre
ventable disease alone?
You men of labor are organized as
perhaps no other forces of society are
organized. In demanding, demand the
essentials. Do not waste your forces,
your money and your genius fighting
non-essentials. Move for the great
things in life which shall prove an in
heritance worth while to those who
come after you. They say the path
of the reformer is hard and his task a
thankless one; it may be, though cer
tainly the satisfaction of doing what
seems to better the lot of his brothers
who are in his keeping, is enough to
make one forget the rough road and
the thankless task. As unionists you
are handed together to resist imposi
tion and injustice; step out as union
ists, and ally yourselves with those or
ganizations working toward the com
mon goood. Pull with the consumers'
league, demand inspection of food and
boycott dirty shops. Push inspection
of dairy cows lest tuberculous milk
infect your child. In legislating for
the enlargement of the employers lia
bility law, convince the employer that
a well ventilated shop has a cash value
to him. It has, as the older communi
ties have proved statistically. Fight
the, dust peril. The greatest loss of
life from tuberculosis is among the
dusty trades where sedentary habits
prevail. Some of the railroads are
overcoming the unhealthy effect of
dusty travel by allowing farmers to
sow alfalfa along the right of way,
even to the edge of the track; but
this Is only one detail of the great
reclamation plan to be worked out!
Demand factory inspection, and refuse
to work in unlighted. ill-ventilated and
unsanitary shops. Enforce the child
labor law. Promote play grounds.
Surely you need not be told that we
are coming to organized, supervised
play in municipal playgrounds as the
very best means of conserving and
protecting the health of our youth, and
hence raising the standard of our na
tional health. Demand medical inspec
tion in schools and demand that it
shall be properly frequently per
formed. Establish sanitary drinking
fountains and sanitary methods of
heating and cleaning in public places.
Denvand atfd support local dispensaries
for the treatment of incipient tuber
culosis (the cost of maintenance is
small), as well as state and municinal
hospitals for indigent and incurable
cases, for it is in these that the great
est menace lies. Demand that politics
shall in no wise affect these demands
you make; politics and red tape have
no place in tuberculosis prevention.
Remember that the same precautions
which prevent this disease also pre
vent a score of others, snd help as
well to make for right living. And
remember also that unless you help to
; prevent preventable diseases you will
soon be listed as a DacKnumner. ior
all the world is now going hand in
hand on this new mission.
Move for civic cleanliness, embrac
ing a pure water supply,, exemption
from weed, mud and garbage nuisance,
as well as the establishment of parks
and playgrounds ; your city can be
made as clean and inviting as your
home, and by so doing you elevate Its
health standard and boom it in the
best i way. Let your supervision ex
tend to your printshops, and cigar fac
tories, for it is in these two trades
that the greatest mortality from tu
berculosis conies. See that these
quiet workers have sanitary surround
ings, protection from cold, and at the
same time unlimited fresh air to
breathe and light to work by. Tuber
culosis is an occupational diseas'i and
goes where it is bidden by those neg
lecting naure's simple laws. Labor
has its great part to play in preven
tion', for labor pays a heavy toll in
lives sacrificed. The fact that rest,
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air and the best of food are the only
cures, makes labor's tuberculosis prob
lem a vast one, and it is to no pur
pose that we fight the effect unless we
also eradicate the cause.
Dr. Lawrence Flick, of the Phipps
Institute, i in Philadelphia, says: "Tu
berculosis is peculiarly a disease of
the wageworkers and this is so for the
very good reason that one of the
causes of the disease is overwork,"
Addressing the Internationa! Congress
a year ago, Mr. Mitchell said:
"Tuberculosis finds its most fertile
harvest in unsanitary sweat shops,
factories and mines. We men of labor
who carry more than our full share of
the burdens and make our full share
of the sacrifices, cry aloud for assist
ance and direction in 1 our struggle
against this terrible plague whic.h un
aided we cannot successfully combat.
We are keenly alive to the importance
of cure, but we are even more alert
regarding measures to prevent the
spread of this disease."
That labor is making its effort, is
proved by the fact that strikes, poli
tics and boycotts are being side
tracked to make way for the fight
which is to save thousands of lives.
Notably the printers and cigarmakers
are making strides, the printers hav
ing now a model sanitarium at Colo
rado Springs. In Albany, New York,
by the payment of five cents a month
by each of 6,000 members of the Cen
tral Federated Union, a tuberculosis
pavilion is maintained for their sick
members. Directly in line with this,
a labor department was organized in
the State Charities Aid Association
providing for a special lecturer to
visit unions over the state and pro
mote tuberculosis prevention. The
American Federation of Labor at Den
ver endorsed this and since, Seven of
the state federations have urged; ac
tion. The international exhibit so
stirred Brooklyn and New York that
their unions took definite action. This
is an easy, cheap and most effective
method of disseminating information
which is the first step in the first.
Every union in this state could estab
lish a small exhibit at its headquar
ters, and thereby materially aid in
preventive' work. The Nebraska Asso
ciation for the Study and Prevention
of Tuberculosis is ready to co-operate
to the limit of Its powers in assem
bling these exhibits as well as in all
other methods and measures to re
deem that pledge, "No Tuberculosis
in Nebraska in 1920." Under an ef
ficient organizer-in-chief the state has
been divided according to congres
sional districts with a representative
physician or surgeon at the head, who
in turn has appointed for each county
in his district a leading physician. In
addition the state Is divided according
to" social forces into departments with
a superintendent at the head; these
include Woman's Clubs,. School, State
Institutions and Labor, I with others
in contemplation. If each of these
divisions will. do its part by only keep
ing posted on the world progress of
the great fight, much will be assured;
and not only that, but when the time
cornea to bring pressure to bear on a
needed measure-, these will constitute
a standing army of fighters ready to
push. The movement in Nebraska is
young, but the workers are willing
and whole-hearted. The work is sup
ported by memberships' and the sale
of the Christmas stamp and all serv
ices are voluntarily rendered
One point more: ; Apathy, indiffer
ence on this subject is costly; it will
get its price, possibly , so slowly, so
insidiously that you may not be aware
you are paying; but you will pay in
precious human lives, miserably ud
needlessly given up. . I pray you do
net let this be. , .
., K. R. J. EDHOLM, -Executive
Secretary ". Nebraska , Asso
: elation for Study and Prevention
of Tuberculosis.4 .! , ,
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION BALL.
The twenty-seventh annual ball of
Lincoln Typographical' Union No. 209,
will be held at Fraternity hall on Feb
ruray 23. Committees from the union
and Capital Auxiliary are now work
ing together to make it th.e most suc
cessful social event in the history of
the union. The net proceeds of the
ball will be invested in stock of the
Labor Temple Association, and 'this
fact is calculated to make the attend
ance larger than usual. " , v ,
Nothing will be left undone ; that
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annual event, and the reputation' the
printers have achieved for success
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-:- BEGINNING MONDAY, JANUARY 24 -;
We will place on sale all Short Lines, Odds and Ends and Remnants of seasonable merchandise. Our Great
January Clearing Sale, the most successful in the history of our business, naturally left on our hands a larger lot of
broken lines and Remnants. In order to clean up and make room for our extensive spring purchases, which are
beginning to arrive, we purpose to close out these short lines now at discount from v f
25 to 50 Per Cent
and in some cases even more. These are remnants of Dress Goods, Silks, White Goods, Shirtings, Tickings,
Ginghams, Table Linens, Outing Flannel, Silkohnes, Ribbons, Laces and Embroideries,
Short lines of Gloves, Corsets, Underwear Hosiery, Belts
Men's Furnishing Goods, Ladies' Mis$es, Children's,
Men' s and Boys' Shoes, also warmlined shoes and Slippers.
Ready-To-Wear Department
At One-Half Price--All Children's Coats
One Lot of Ladies' Coats, (Assorted Colors)
One Lot of Ladies' Silk and Lace Waists
One Lot Ladies' Dressing
One Lot of Ladies' Poplin and Serge Waists
One Lot of Ladies' Skirts, (Assorted Colors)
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Drnlnn I inn nf Pnntn $9.95 to $17.50 Values
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