Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-02-15
"JOD.O" KNOCKED
vIRG|NIAOARE HITSOUT
Capitals Correspondent Wants to
Know If Everything Isn't
Germ-Laden.
GENERAL STIRRING UP OF THINGS
Use Care 81 Home-Cast The Beam
Out Of Our Own Eye Before At
tempting to Pull Mote 0ut Of
Other Ewes.

A letter in a recent issue of your
paper calm attention to condition
existing in a portion of our city was
an excellent and timely statement
a fact that should be we'll known to
all of US, and "Job' rendered a pub
lie service in calling attention to a
long neglected evil and menace to
the public health.
In your paper Of yesterday another
writer "Job-O." feeling that dob"
had covered the whole matter in one
short letter. turned his attention 10
the tuberculosis Car, otherwise
known as the white Car, now lying
in the yard at the Short Line Station.
We dio expect to hear words of COM
lnendation and not cold water thrown
on the efforts of those who only con
slider the public good and give their
time and spend their money in that
direction. Members of the medical
proft ssion and laymsn alike now that
it is impossible under all circum-
stances to maintain absolute sterile
conditions. We may never get to that
It is not possible to wipe out dis
ease completely, but we can do much
to prevent and retard the progress of
the same by proper care. Surely
no one expected to find the TubeTcu-
losis Car dispeasary on wheels, deal
ing out tuberculosis antitoxin. What
we did expect and many of as do not
feel disappointed in W as an effort to
enlighten those who had no oppor-
tunity otherwise to learn a lesson in
the dangers, and the proper care to
prevent the increase of the dread dis
ease, and we are confident that much
good is being done in that direction.
Whatever may be said of condi-
tions in the car, ii is doing a good
service which is freely admitted by
those who went to look the car over,
many for the first time learned some
thing of the nature of tuberculosis
and many recruits are thus added to
the list Of those who are determined
to fight the spread of the disease.
If we follow the line of reasoning
set forth in the letter OF yesterday,
we may as well decide 10 stop all
travel, for if we enter a railway
train il is liable to become crowded
and thus we become contaminated, or
why not keep our children from
school, for surely there is every OPP
portunity to contract the disease in
a crowded school room or when the
letter carrier, who must certainly be
germ inoculated approaches us,
bringing germ-laden letters from
every part of the globe. throw up our
hands in horror or else flee for safety.
We are not living under ideal con-
ditions. Later it may be more time
ly for "Job-0" to offer the same OBJ
jections. We are compelled to go IN
public places where conditions may
not be of the best, whether it be in
travel or crowded public places, or
perhaps in the ''White Car. What
we need most OF all is to use reason
able care in our home surroundings
and in neighborhood sanitary condi-
tions and encourage those who work
for better conditions in our city.
Cffer helping hand to those who
earnestly desire to improve our con-
ditions and if perchance we think
them wrong, go in person and talk
over the matter in private, being
careful to consider that they are quite
as earnest and sincere as ourselves.
VIRGINIA DARE.