The Washington times., 1909-05-15
ADVERTISING TO AID
TUBERCULOSIS WAR
This Means of Combating
White Plague Is Given
Endorsement.
ASSOCIATION HOLDS
IT'S FINAL SESSION

/ Advertising as a certain and effective
/ method Of combating the great white
/ plague was indorsed at the final ses-
sion OF the fifth annual meeting of the
/ National Association Tor the Study and
Prevention OF tuberculosis at the New
/ Willard today.
The subject was referred to the mem
/ berS for informal discussion, and each
| speaker threw interesting light on what
tle states and municipalities are doing
10 Keep the present propaganda of the
tuberculosis campaign before the public.
Eternal vigilance is the price of
safety" said John A Kingsbury, OF
New York, chairman Of the sociological
section. Keep alive public interest In
this great and important campaign by
keeping the minds of the people alive
through advertising to the dangers OF
the disease"
Tells of Campaign.
Mr. Kingsbury told BOW the national
! association had raised $1,OO0.O0O for the
relief Of cOnsumptive victims by the ex-
penditure of about $500 in advertising
and promoting the educational campaign
against the white plague.
The educational campaign on tubercu-
'osis in the public schools Of the District
of Columbia was told of by Miss Ed
genia NJ Bray, of this city.
I'VE are aided greatly" said Miss
Bray, by the fact that the Board of
Education is in sympathy with the
movement text book prepared by
two physicians and a layman is now
in use in the seventh and eighth grades
and, while its results are as yet ex-
] M fr,.a Al "a
Will De valuable IN teaching school
children how 10 avoid some Of those
pitfalls that serve to spread the in
lection
State Legislation.
IN referring to the need Of getting
State legislatures to appropriate money
To keep up the educational work against
tuberculosis. DR.. William H. Johnson,
Of Ann Arbor. declared that among thc
cities OF his State great seIfishness had
been manifested IN their refusal To in
terest themselves in the war on tu-
berculosis except locally.
He addad that this meant the wors.
~out IN the State was handicapped be-
cause of meager funds. The State Legis
latures, he declared, shcJld provide
amply for the educational work within
the States so as to relieve the present
embarrassment.
Homer Folks, Of New York, vice presi-
dent of the national association, told Of
the, work IN the large cities of his State
among the sIum dwclIers whose con-
dition of helplessness amid insanitary
and unwholesOme surroundings makes
them easy prey TO the disease.
He described Albany as "a particular
= nj HHuHHN Ia Nns
mat the money derived from the Rus
sell Sage Foundation Fund, from which
the organization gets its support. has
done much to relieve the sufferinEs Of
tuberculosis victims in the cities of New
York
Noted Speakers.
James Bryce. British ambassador to
the United States; Speaker Joseph Can
non Of the House of Representatives
DR. William Osler. formerly OF Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore. and DR..
William II. WEIGH. of Baltimore. were
the speakers at a public meeting of
the association in the ballroom Of the
New Willard late yesterday afternoon.
DR. Osler. I have reached the age OF
scventy-three years. and [ shake my fist
in your face"
The people have been aroused as
never before in this combat against
tuoerCuloSis-the most ieVSsting disease
OF mankind, said DR. VTelch in refer
ring to the methods being pursued to
stamp out the disease.