The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-19
Negro Attendance Is
Especially Desirable.

The Journal makes an appeal to the
better element Of the negroes of the
| city to induce their race generally to
give attention to the proceedings of
the campaign now in progress in
Pensacola for the cure and eIimina-
ton OF the worlds NEST dreaded
disease, tuberculosis.
Every facility will be offered by
the Representatives Of the national
association for the reception of col
ored people and an ample opportunity
will be afforded them to reap the full
benefit of the exhibit and lectures.
Statistics prove that members of
the negro race are especially subject
TO the ravages OF tubercular bacilIi,
particularly through an invasion of
the lung tissue which results in the
| Rbhorreat disease known as con-
sumption. In fact, it has been pre-
! dicted by men of science who have
studied the problem that the negro
would be finally exterminated by this
disease, And this has been based on
| careful observation-an observation
conducted by some of the best medi-
cal practitioners of the South, the
late DR.. Shirley Bragg, prison in
| spector of Alabama, having been, We
believe, among the number
/ 1t is then, against the opinion of
scientific men that the negroes must
! arm themselves and prove such pre-
| dictions false. There is a possibility
| for their emergence from the despair
| engendered by these evil prophecies;
\ but it rests with them to avail them
| selves OF the opportunity. 1t is i'm
possible to exaggerate the Importance
OF their doing thIs-it is question
OF life or death with them.
It Is for this reason that The Jour-
nal asks the leaders of the negroes in
Pensacola-the preachers, the heads
of societies, all of the colored peoples
population who have voice to call
| together their brethren, to act, and
act at once to aid them in a warfare
against their worst enemy.
In the past, during an epidemic
| which visited Pensacola, it was OBJ
served that the negroes, acting under
direct supervision, were more careful
than many of the white population to
obey the laws laid down by the board
OF health But The Journal believes
that this was due largely to fear of
arrest. It was not an expression of
their own yOlitiOn. To make them
understand their obligation is a vast
ly different proposition
Toward this end the efforts OF
those who are now conducting the
exhibits and lectures will, We hope.
considered that the negro eonsump-
tive is not only a menace to his own
race but to the whites as well, with
whom he freely mingles and thus
threatens with a danger extending
beyond his family sphere.
For these reasons, The Journal
ass The negroes OF Pensacola TO givs
the largest possible attendance at the
eXhibitional efforts of those who
have at heart the help Of their fellow
men. 1t is a great work whose full
nIlmeat viii add new glory TO Amer
lean science and Intensity the light OF
love in the heart toward those who
helped to make it possible.
Preparations are making for the
OTmOnd-Dayton or Daytona-Ormond
o. plain Daybona or simple Ormond
bubble" races, which are to come OF
in March. There has been considera-
bic hard feeling between the east
coast towns as to which should take
precedence as the promoter Of the
event. But "save the pieces" beth
before and after, is all we uitIanders
have 10 say.
Pensacola people are Sstting 10 be
such stieklers they won't even let
them dress the bill boards in pink
tights. '-Times-U Union.
Pensaeolians are too much alive TO
the eternal fitness of things 10 per
Iait such 3 dissertation. Bill boards,
indeed! No, not even Bill Taft OF