El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-11
ROSS BREAKS INTO
PRINT IN GOLFERS
After Vain Assaults on the
Journalistic Temple, He
Breaks Through.

Fame, like the measles, Is liable to
break out in the most unexpected
places. During the fall and winter OF
1908 and 1903 the receipts of the Ell Paso
postoffice were increased materially by
the frequent mailing Of sundry large
and bulky envelopes addressed to the
publishers of Sunday magazines. month
" publications and metropolitan dailies.
For some reason which was unexplain-
able to the person mailing the same
bulky packages, these corpule1t enVe-
ZONES had a habit of returning to the
sender with the enclosed stamps on the
outside.
The contents consisted Of the brain
children Of one Viii! NJ Ross, police re-
porter and amateur Billie Smith OF me
Herald staff. AS an amateur sherlock
Holmes Ross seemed to be more sue
cessful than as an amateur author.
After leaving Ell Paso, where ne hao
been in quest of the phantom goloen
fleece of health, Ross went to Stevens
Point Wis where he entered sana-
toTium.
There was where the lightning OF
fame struck. Having the literary pee as
strong in his brain as when he was IN
FL Paso. the young newspaper man
wrote a book of his experiences IN an
effort to regain his health, 1t was
modest little effort, paper bound ana
about as big as one of Ebert Hup-
bard's meat paper publications. But n
was crammed full of useful lnforma-
ton TO the health seeker and was an
interesting diary of young man VINO
had CONQUERED a disease by first con-
quering himself
The booklet received favorable men
tion from physicians and by the press
of the middle west Then came the
browning climax. Golfers, the weekly
that is as exclusive as a back bay Bos-
fonian. broke out editorially with
paragraph of comment on the FORMER
El Paso boys book. Having regalneo
his health, published book and broken
into the sacred confines Of Golfers Is
fame sufficient for one person and MI
Ross will now stand hitched long
enough to allow Underwood & Under
woods Photographer to snap his picture
for the hall af fame
What mister Collier said about Rosss
little publication reads:
Every case Of tuberculosis was once
in the incipient stage" we are remind
ed in a little book by VIII N Ross OF
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, in which he
details his personal experience with
tuberculosis. Ninety out of one hun
dred become advanced cases because OF
mistakes made by the patient You Will
believe if you have tuberculosis that you
are one Of the chosen ten. The chances
are nine out of ten that you are one OF
the ninety" Too much of the kind OF
sensible talk used IN Mr.. Ross book
can not be spread among the public
with GaIbraith's Chasing the Cure In
Colorado" Mr.. Ross's personal expert
ence agrees so far as the relative unim-
portance of climate on the cure is con-
cerned. The point emphasized in these
books and in much Of the free litera-
ture distributed by various local and ma
tional bodies organized to fight tuber-
cuIosis is that sane living, proper food'
and reasonable medical attention are
the important factors. Mr.. Ross goes
step beyond the average writer when ne
makes clear the danger to the tubercu-
lous patient during the period Of con-
yalescence. Anybody can be sick, but
1t takes a wise, patient, and careful per-
son to get well successfully. His book
is the sort of brief, clearly written,
sane document that should be OF
practical use to anybody threatened
with consumption.