The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-20
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Cards are out 10 the folks who
bring things to pass" in Pensacola
inviting their presence tonight to in
spect the exhibits and to learn their
purpose and TO consider how best TO
utilize this exhibition for the sake
OF the city of their choice.
= Yesterdays activities included dis
cussions OF tuberculosis at public
school number 20, the School I'm
proVement Association, the Syna-
gogue, and StoddaTd Avenue Mission,
where Secretary John Bradford, of
the Y. NJ. G. A. Boys Department
presented the subject
The colored peoples cooperative
committee met at o'clock in one or
the churches and planned an extern
Kive program or church, school and
lodge meetings preparatory to the
days at the exhibition which viii be
devoted particularly to the discus
sion of their interest in fighting the
great captain of death"
Tomorrow thousands will hear ad-
dresses and announcements con-
corning the exhibition. The church
services, the Sunday schools and the
young peoples meetings VIII express
practically the church's mission to
the human body. Then Monday in
the very midst OF the jolllties OF
carnival time the exhibition will
make its appeal for better health and
slonger life for the sake of its joys
and privileges.
The most difficult problem before
the committee is TO secure seats for
the audience room Whoever can
help in this matter will confer q
great favor by reporting at an early
hour this morning.
Secretary Waterman Talks.
Countless millions upon millions of
minute objects utterly invisible TO the
unaided eye, make necessary the tn
berculosis exhibition for which such
extensive preparations have been
made. One does not need to be a
physician to know that hundreds of
these little objects" said Secretary
G.. A. Waterman, of the Chamber of
Commerce, Gould be gathered on
a pencil point, and we would not
know they were there. We would
be unable to find them at all.
These tiny objects, bacteria or
microbes or germs, as they are va
riously styled, develop so numerously
in the human body under favorable
conditions that they produce what We
know as tuberculosis or consumption.
To combat these uncountaDle and in
visible foes of the body an interna-
tional warfare is being waged. The
international Anti@TubeTculosis asso-
ciation~ with headquarters in Berlin,
is supplemented by national organiza-
tiOns in Great Britain. Germany, ia
pan, Argentina, Brazil and other coun-
tries, including the association in
this country, OF which President
Roosevelt is a vice president, with
former President Cleveland serving
IN the same offic~ till the time of his
death. This American astlonal asso-
cia4on conducts as one Of its activ-
tiles the American tuberculosis TX
hibition which is this winter being
sent to the chief cities OF Florida be
fore going TO Georgia.
some of the exhibits now to be
seen in Pensacola set forth methods
already proven successful in the edu-
cation Of the community concerning
predisposing conditions; TIE real ma
ture of consumption and rules every
consumptive person ought TO follow
IN order that he may avoid spreading
the cOntagiOn. The most vital feat
IRE OF the exhibition is the emphasis
placed upon the means Of prevention.
Personal prevention by right living
and working under right conditions
will receive first considerable. Then
the possibility of those who already
have consumption being 50 taken care
Os that they viii no longer be a men
ace to the community viii be Siven
considerable attention. You see il is
all eminently practical and related TO
actual conditions and real needs.
Hence it IS that the business men are