The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-09
is WORST OF ALL.
Mrs. C. C. Goddard Writes of
Great White Plague.
Destroys More People Than Are
Killed in Disasters.
AROUSE THE WOMEN.
Task That LIS Before the WO-
mems Clubs.
Infantile Paralysis Declared to
Be on the Wane.
AROUSE THE WOMEN.

1.-The Great White Plague is destroy
ing more people than all the railroad
and steamboat disasters. tornadoes, and
earthquakes; all the known wars of the
civilized world have not claimed one
tenth of the lives that have fallen vic
tins to tuberculosis"
This startling declaration is made
by Mrs. c. c. Goddard of Leavenworth.
president of the Kansas Federation of
Wor-en's Clubs, in a splendid address
sent here to be read before the Kansas
Association for the Study and Proven
ton Of tuberculosis.
Science" said she in the address,
'has demonstrated that this disease
can be stamped out, but the rapidity
and completeness with which this can
be accomplished depends upon the
pron1ptness with which the new doc
trine abou+ tuberculosis can be incul-
Gated into the minds of the people and
engrafted upon our customs. habits and
laws"
Mrs. Goddard's subject was, "Wo-
mans Part in the Tuberculosis
Crusade" Much of her inspiration
doubtless she had obtained by her at
tendance upon the great international
tuberculosis congress held in Washing
ton recently.
DIR. Flack. president Of that con-
gress,'' writes Mrs. Goddard, has sent
to us this message:
IF all the women Of the country
can be aroused in the interest of this
cause, the fight for the stamping out of
this dreaded disease will be a short
one.'
AT this congress were gathered II, 900
picked men from our medical profess
sion from all over the world. After
much thought and due consideration by
these noted men, the glad tfdings of
hope were waited over the country, and
an assurance that under certain cOndi-
tons the prevention, spread and cure
Of tuberculosis could be accomplished.
LAT this convention we also learned
that The worlds greatest problem is the
suppression of the Great White Plague.
From all sources we gather the simple
facts that fresh air. sunlight. pure food,
rest. and moderate exercise form the
basis Of the treatment.
Crusade Is Important.
1.-The task then before the women's
clubs is to arouse the sleeping public,
and create in it popular sentiment in
regard to bringing before the people
this cam paign of education through the
proper channels.
1.-The importance of this crusade
against tuberculosis can not be over
estimated when we realize that this
disease costs our country two hundred
thousand lives a. year and the entire
world a million: to say nothing of the
number it costs our state-flve thous-
and souls year besides handicapping
our progress, prosperity and happiness
and being an enormous expense to our
community. and most often in the
walks of life where the burden is least
bearable."
Mrs. Goddard told of the organiza-
ton already perfected in Kansas by
the women in this great work and
emphasized the desire that Kansas
lead in this, as it does in many other
big undertakings.
s'When the civic conditions of our
nation were made known to us through
the convention of the General Fedora
ton of Women's clubs held at Boston
last summer, and the tuberculosis con-
gress,' said she, eve recognized the
object for which the club women of
our state might be most helpful.
''The plan of organizing ourselves
into self constituted physicians, de-
voting our efforts to a careful diagnosis
of our civil possibilities; finding reme-
dies for existing ills and for making
our civic life healthier and more COM
Portable appeared to be the pressing
need.
Acting upon the suggestion of the
chairman Of the civic committee of
the general federation, we have di-
vided the department of civics into
two divisions, namely. the Civic de-
partment' and Health department.
The first relates to the conditions of
the cleanliness and beauty of COM
munities, the second deals exclusively
with the subject of tuberculosis
Mrs. Goddard wrote of the selection
of Mrs. w. r. Childs of Kansas City,
Kan. for the head of the civic de-
partm emit and Mrs. Catherine Hoffman
of Enterprise for the head of the