The San Francisco call., 1909-06-27

1000 of the 10000 each year could be prevented
from developing by sending the third stage
camp where they could be given their only for
life, and made far comfortable than they be
kept at home conservative estimate the cost of
tuberculosis New York City is S10O0OOOO year
This would be sufficient establish camps for the
reception of every consumptive within gates, and
the annual expenditure of half that would practi-
caly stamp out the disease inside of years But, of
course we can not afford the money!
The wisest way the open air cure is to take it
before you become consumptive. Like all rational and
permanent methods of cure, what will make sick man
well will make healthy betteri If you find that
your children growing up with fog than sun
shine and filthy cobbletones instead of soft green
play on, get back Mother Earth-go to the coun-
try! is the dreadful place that used for
mud and lonesomeness and overwork and nlonotony.
Even the farm has become civilized in this twentieth
century Men have learned to farm with their brains
instead of with their fists and their feet and TO apply
science agriculture. Particularly this true of the
great irrigated regions of the southwest where
you have the fresh pure air of the desert with neither
the swetering heat OF eastern the arctic
cold of our winter. There not merely good income
but comfortable fortune be made by intelligence
and industry, without the awful sxteen-hour day. the
food the back breaking toll of the old
fashioned farm.
The intelligent farmer has become we'll paid special
st nowadays instead of poorly paid overworked badly
fed Jack of all trades whose absorbing crop was
a mortgage. By modern methods and selected crops
more cash can be raised nowadays than
100 under the old snake fence method But in
these days OF rapid transit you don't to cease to be
city dweler in order TO live in the country Move out
suburb, especially laid out colony little farm
two lot pan and there you get nearly all the ad-
vanages of the country. Fresh pure air and sunshine
in quiet nights freedom from dust infec-
ton, and overcrowding combined with the larger and
steader city cash income with its corresponding advan-
tages abundance and variety of food The country
will have look laures in the heathfu-
for already of the lowest disease rates and
death those, of country districts of the
residents and suburbs of cities and large towns
deed the death rate of the entire of of our
ntegently planned and loosely built modern cities of
considerable sze counting their population by hundreds
of thousands is already below that of most European
and country districts City life no necessary
to the health of the future of the race providing
that our brains about it. and occasional club
for those whose greed bigger than their intelligence
their conscience One of the most hopeful and prac
teal results of tuberculosis exhibit in New
York has been that and hundreds of families
ready have moved from the side and the downtown
overcrowded districts out to Westchester the Bronx
Long island and Richmond where they get breath
ing and elbow Not only will your children
grow up healthier roster taller heavier and happier
the half open but they will also regain their birhrght
of which they have been wrongedl
Here they again at large, romp and play with
danger of collision with the policeman the beat
They shout sing and hammer without damage to
the neghboring drums they pick flowers and
gather fruit without having attack stands and run the
risk of arrest they seeds and chickens and
keep rabbits and pigeons and stock they burrow
in the earth, paddle and swim in the stream can
climb and chop and hammer and build houses
and traps boats and railroads In short, give them
selves that better form of the education gained by doing
things instead of reading about them by living instead
OF residing which totally omitted from the curriculum
of city schools.