The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-05-20

good as who knew>him expected hir
to do, but the medical profession di
not fully awake to the Significance o
that situation. The veterinarian il
this case vas an exceptional man
but in the matter of tuberculosis. tn,
average veterinarian is superior tt
the average physician, and the inter
national congress may show this dis
tinction. This is believed to be
straight tip.
In proportion to their numbers, the
public health officials and the health
and sanatorium men will be on hand
in largest force. Only circumstances
of great urgency will keep these away
for the congress and exhibition will
enable them to learn at a small invest
ment of time and money every thing
that the world has to offer for the
prevention n cure of tuberculosis.
In the work of preliminary organiza
ton the committee has adopted a po-
Icy which seeks to make the charac-
teristfcs of our political structure
quite clear to the foreign visitors.
The committee is not sending its in
vitations directly to private indiyidu-
is, nor to institutions. nor to organiza-
tons, official Or unofficial. The com
mittee mas invited the governors of
all the states, requesting them in turn
to invite their municipalities and 9TH
er local agencies, either directly or
through some department of state gov
eminent. By this means the com
mittee hopes to have the states parti-
cipate as units and give an account
of all the forces engaged against tu-
berculosis within the limits of each
state. The restriction of tuberculosis
is a political problem, quite as mucn
as it is a social or medical problem,
and by extending it's organization
along official lines, the congress will
probably secur the largest and most
enduring benefits of the country, and
at b anne time represent the coun-
try in the most favorable way to for
eign visitors.
The international congress will cost
a great deal of money. The national
association will provide a fund of ST.
900 and this sum will come chiefly
from the private purses of a few veal
thy n enlightened men, who see in
this congress an opportunity to give |
a tremendous impetus to the move |
against tuberculosis. An under
which will bring all the e1er-
gies now engaged in the worlds COM
against tuberculosis to a focus in
Washington for nearly a month, will
press on the whole country, and will
yield large returns for the money in-I
vested. One hundred thousand doll
lars is quite a snug sum of money, |
Dut it is a very small part of the
value which the congress and the ex-
will bring into existence.
When the forty-fve states grow busy
n preparation; wnen state boards of
dairy commissions, t~uberculos-
s commissions, Live stock boards,
of agriculture, medical schools
'esearch laboratories, city health de-
n the numerous unofh-
,ial agencies dealing directly with the
tuberculosis problem begin to make
.eady for the International congress
n tuberculosis, substantial values
will accumulate at a great rate. The
initial enthusiasm is not waited for
. signal from the committee on organ
Public officials in more than
dozen states, and in eight or ten fed
bureaus, are already active in an
icipation of the congress, so that tie
ask of organization is found in a
state before the national as
ociation the chief sponsor for the
ongress lays a hand upon it. The
concer of the national associa-
forces, giving them accurate
ange and well defined objects, SO {
they may strike with life-saving !
in every corner of the country. F.,
he event of the current quarter cen-
ury-tnat is what the international
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h%ysicians and humanitarians; and +
Or the American people the choicest
ever offered for a massiW t
against the greatest of re- =
scourges. Such are the views 6
the national association about the !
congress on tuberculosis, :
nd it will not be allowed to come and |
o as an event of merely unusual in
crest. From now till the middle of +
1908, the labor of prepare
on will not cease, If ~singleness of
urpose and work without stint re .