THE, OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 5, 1917.
TUBERCULOSIS AND
GREAT WORLD WAR
Association for Prevention" of
D. S. TAKES OVER
MERCHANT SHIPS
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Calls for All Vessels Over
2,500 Tons; Work is' -Speeded
Up.
tory, in an effort to take care of the
demand that is coming with this year's
crop, for efficient haulage and equip
ment. Mr. Owings will spend two or three
days studying this field with Mr.
Francis, besides will visit the Fre
mont show.
"Drys" Will Spend One
Million for Advertising
New York, Aug. 3. Inauguara
tion of a $1,000,000,000 advertising
campaign against the liquor traffic in
the "wet" states, was anounced here
today.
BATH HOUSE AT JEWISH OLD PEOPLE'S HOME
Women tireless in raising the funds.
-The home is to be dedicated today.
Dread Disease Flans for
Increased Activities at
Home During Strife.
By MRS. K. R. J. EDHOLM.
Chairman Anti-Tuberculosis Depart
ment Public Health General feder
ation Woman's Clubs.
At the annual meeting of the Na
tional Association for -the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis held in
Cincinnati in May of the present year,
the subject of tuberculosis war
measures received a large share of
attention by way of discussion, in
papers and through the adoption of
' a resolution outlining the policy of
the association at the request of the
National Council of Defense.
Briefly it is asked of tuberculosis
workers, both lay and professional,
that they remain at their posts and
not only continue, but add to their
activities in order that the tuber
culosis experience of the United
States may not lie parallel to that of
France and Belgium. It has been
said that if the war should cease to
day France would not only find it
self with 500.000 crippled, but with
a second 500,000 tuberculous; and it
should be remembered that the
1:nited States is now engaging in the
tame war with the same risks.
As women who have pledged to
give every service to our country we
cannot disregard this pressing call.
We are urged to persuade physicians,
expert in diagnosis, and special tu
berculosis nurses to refrain from en
listing for war service for the suffi
cient reason that they are not as much
reeded at thje front as here at home.
li other words tuberculosis being a
preventable disease, its spread in the
trenches must be prevented. Men'
with latent tuberculosis or a tendency
thereto must be kept from enlisting,
for the records of France 'and Bel
gium and the latest observation
among Canadian troops invalided
home leaves no room for doubt that
tuberculosis as a factor in war must
have immediate and untiring atten
tion. Teach Lay Women. ,
We can help by urging medical
students, graduate physicians, nurses
and social workers to specialize in
tuberculosis and, by creating a class
of intelligent lay women to supple
ment the work of graduate nurses
through educational labors among
the tuberculous and the pre-tuhercu-lous.
In effect, we must, as tubercu
losis fighters, cease to be mere sani
tary engineers and literally become
detectives hunting down with the
nose of a sleuth this disease which
with few exceptions is the worst se
creted disease we know. For tuber
culosis fighters this new responsibility
is no sinecure. With France and
Belgium actually in the toils, with
England only just realizing the need
pf prevention, with our best medical
help going to the front, with insuffi
cient sanatorium accommodations at
home to care for the tuberculous of
the civil population, the chances we
have of protecting our enlisted men
ire slim indeed. ,
Great Task Ahead.
For tis, the stay-at-homes, remains
the difficult task of creating public
sentiment sufficiently strong to urge
private individuals, recruits, rccruitr
ers, our government, and all educa
tional media to recognize this disease
is a definite menace and an actual fac
tor in war economy. The Kockefeller
Foundation is sending a commission
abroad to organize France education
illy against tuberculosis, It remains
for us to refrain from feeding into the
teneral hopper the material which will
nly serve to make more difficult this
repair work being done in France. It
is said that no man should be re
cruited who is not fit to Survive a
prison camp. The tuberculosis record
of prison camps is a sickening one.
Tf my son is not definitely cleared of
the suspicion of tuberculosis at enlist
ment, he must remain under observa
tion until he is cleared, not only for
his own sake and mine, but because
your son, who may be his trench
mate, has a right to aboslute protec-
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Dedication exercises for the Jew
ish 014 People's home, made possible
by the Daughters of Israel Aid so
ciety, will be held today at 2 o'clock
at the building, northwest corner of
Twenty-fifth and Charles streets.
Jewish women have worked tirelessly
for 'several years to raise the funds
necessary for purchasing the home.
A bath house has also been erected
on the grounds. '
H. B. Zimman will make the dedi
catory address, other speakers includ
ing Isador Ziegler, Charles E. EI
gutter, II. A. Wolf and Henry Mon
sky. Rabbi II. Grodinsky and Rev.
Jacob Fleischer will offer prayers and
musical numbers will be given by
Miss Helen Sommer, Miss Anna Leaf,
Joseph Harding, Miss Helen Levin
son and the choral societies of the
Young Men and Young Women's He
brew associations.
Mrs. M. Tatle, the treasurer, will
present the keys of the institution to
the president, Mrs. S. Ravitz;
Other officers active in promoting
the establishment of the home are
Mrs. I. Kulakofsky, Mrs. Philip
Schlaifer, Mrs. II. Freidel, Miss Ida
Kubby, Mrs. A. Wolf, Mrs. A. Sil
verman and Mrs. J. Shane.
tion against this, a preventable dis
ease. We, you and I, mothers, sisters,
wives, sweethearts, cannot stay the
blinding flame and the bursting shot,
but we can stay this other senseless
infliction. We must not let them come
back safely through the rain of bul
lets only to die of a disease which in
telligence could have banished had in
telligence been awake.
While the record of all wars gives
more deaths from disease than from
wounds we are today proud conquer
ors of such diseases as typhus and
typhoid, plague and scurvy, smallpox
and yellow fever, all of which made
war more horrible than bullets. It
cannot be that we will fail to take
heed now, fail to lend ear to the teach
ing of scientific prevention, fail to put
shoulder to the wheel and with a
mighty tug pull this Juggernaut,
tuberculosis, out of the road our men
must travel. It must become our pa
triotic duty and the most efficient way
we can serve, 10 Keep tuDercuiosis
from entering-the tranches lest it add
to trench mortality, and returning
from there in a highly commifnicable
form, menace our c,ivil population.
Sandow Truck PlorVs Through
' Deep Mud Near Fort Crook
Carrying a load of nearly a ton over
the gumbo roads in the vicinity of
Rellevue Island, Fort Crook and La
Platte, and delivering the load, is the
record made by a Sandow truclcin a
test made Saturday morning.
The Sandow was used by the A. A.
Transfer company to see if it, was
capable of making long runs in the
country over wet roads. In the vi-
cmuy 01 t on L-rooK me irucK run
into mud axle deep, but plowed right
through, without any trouble. The
demonstration proved very satisfac
tory. ,
Standard Motor Car Co. Has
Full Line of Westcott Models
The Standard Motor Car company
has received a complete line of West
cott models, which are attracting
much attention for their novetdesign.
The cars here are four-passenger,
rive-passenger, seven-passenger and
the sedan type.
Tecumseh Company Ordered
To Mobilize at Once
Tecumseh, Neb., Aug. 3. (Special
Telegram.) Captain lames Morris
sey of Company M, Fifth regiment,
this city, today received orders from
the adjutant general to mobilize his
men here at once.
lie has notified non-residents to
report here without delay.
FARM TRACTOR SHOW
WILL OPEN MONDAY
Forty-Two Manufacturers Will
Exhibit Models at Fremont
Demonstration; wity
Hums With Activity.
Forty-two tractor manufacturers
will exhibit tractors at the Fremont
National Power Farming demonstra
tion which begins Monday morning
and lasts all week. v
Thirty-six other manufacturers will
exhibit accessories.
This gives some idea of the pro
portion to which this national power
fiVming demonstration has grown in
Nebraska. 'In 1913 at the first Ne
tional Power Farming Demonstration
there were fifteen tractor manufac
turers who e.ntered their machines
and the attendance at the show was
about 15,000. In 1914, twenty-two
manufacturers entered and the at
tendance was about 40,000.
'In 1915 there were twenty-eight
entrants and an attendance of 70,000.
In 1916, with seven other national
shows in the corn belt, thirty-two
manufacturers entered at Fremont
and 90,000 people came to see the
machines. This year there are forty
two manufacturers entered and we
look to see a great jump in attend
ance figures.
The number of entries does not give
an idea of the number of machyies
on the field, as few companies have
just one machines, some having seven
or eight different models. Besides
this, there are a number of accessory
companies, with implements, etc., who
will be there.
Already on Ground.
Fremont is humming with activity.
A tent 260 feet long houses the acces
sory men. Advertising agencies from
Detroit, Chicago, New York, Cleve
land and Philadelphfa have repre
senatives already on the ground, for
the eastern agencies have learned that
the Fremont 6how is the one great
tractor show of the country.
Machinery worth in the aggregate
of $1,000,000 will be exhibited at the
demonstration this year. A field of
3,000 acres has been leased, upon
which the demonstrations will be
made.
A watermelon day is again planned
by Fremont people. Carloads of wa
termelons, luscious red melons from
Florida, will be sliced and given to
me visitors tree ot charge.
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Sedan, $1095
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fifteen miles for the cost of a &ood car.
TKotuands of owners are proving it by actual
evcrj-day-in-terrice experience and will tell
you to.
TKey will also tell yon that our methods
before and after the sale cements satisfaction
in Dort ownership.
Join the Dort Thrift Le&ion. Start by
fcettinfc acquainted with us today.
TOOZER-GERSPACHER MOTOR CO.
221 M3 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb.
A cha .tauqua will be in progress
in Fremont o entertain the visitors
evenings. A battle royal netween nve
negro, is to be staged and a wres
tling match is booked for one even
ing. Ex-President William Howard
Taft is Jo speak one day..
Washington, Aug. 4. The Emer
gency Fleet corporation today re
quisitioned all merchant vessels of
more than 2,500 tons now building in
American shipyards. Double and tri
ple labor shifts will be put in the
yards to" speed construction.
No announcement has been made as
to the amount of tonnage taken over,
but the shipping board's records sho
that about 700 vessel- of nearly 2,
000,000 tons of all classes are build
ing. As fast as the yards jare cleared of
their present construction they will
be put to work on the great fleet the
government will build. Compensa
tion for the construction seized will
be determined later.
Much of the tonnage building is
for British and Norwegian account.
Its final disposition will be left to
negotiations with the governments
concerned, although the president has
power to retail, it if the tonnage is
needed by the United States.
Head of Phenix Truck Co.
To Be in Omaha Tuesday
C. W. Francis of the C. Fran
cis Truck Co., announced tlfat M.
R. D. Owings, president of the
Phenix Truck Makers, Inc., would ar
rive in Omaha Tuesday morning.
Mr. Owing's trip to Omaha carries
back of it a real message to Ne
braska. It means a centering of sales
and productive effort in this terri
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The Best "Truck Buv" in
and We Can Prove It
We want everyone in Omaha and the surrounding territory who is at all interested
in motor trucks to visit our show rooms this week and see the Denby. Let us put it to the
hardest tests you.can think of judge. for yourself what wonderful efficiency and econ
omy, what remarkable value it offers you.
Why We Chose
the DENBY .
We realized that the motor truck was entering on an era of won
derful development, both for city delivery and in interurban service to
supplement the railroads.
So we spent months of investigation in the effort to find the truck
best suited to haulage conditions in our territory. We visited factory
N - after factory, made test after test. '
And we found, finally, in the Denby plant, the Denby organiza
tion and the Denby truck a combination that we knew would fit your
needs as no other could do.
We know you'll say we were right.
Three Denby Models
Each Dominant In Its Field
Denby trucks have achieved country-wide success because Denby
engineers have led the march of truck development, not followed it.
In no other truck, for example, can you find such plentiful power
on so small an expenditure of fuel. You won't believe, until you've ac
tually tried it out, how far'a(Denby Truck will haul its full rated load
and more on a gallon of gas. i
Denby Trucks are noted, too, for an . extra strength that means
k maximum service and minimum upkeep. And because of this fact the
addition of a pound of excess weight. And because of this fact the
Denby does your work with less than normal tire wear for the tires
are not used up by the weight of the truck itself.
: And the internal-gear drive as used in the Denby is, we believe,
the most efficient form of final drive ever produced.
Let Us Show How a Denby
Will Fit Your Business
Bulk loads or heavy loads, city streets or country road;?, trailer
work every branch of haulage, body and chassis modifications enable
the Denby to do your work better and at less cost.
Call and see the truck. Whether you are in the market at this time or not, you'll be interested in viewing the
remarkable efficiency achieved by Denby in this latest product.
Capacities:
1 Ton
to
3 Tons
Pioneers of the
internal-gear Drive.
JONES-OPPER CO.
2043-45 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb.
Distributors Eastern and Northern Nebraska
Western Iowa.
and Distributor
A. H. JONES
Hastings, Neb.
Southern and Western
- Northern Kansas.
Nebraska and
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