South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-08-25
HEALTH DAY HERE
WILL BE OBSERVED
WITHOUT TALKS
Exhibits and Parade Will Con-
Stitute Local Celebration
Gov. RaISton ProclaimS Oct.
2 as Special Holiday in State

on Oct 2.
This statement was given out Tues
day morning by DIR. Charles Bosom
bury, secretary of the board of health
and chairman of the executive COM
mittee in charge of the arrangements
for the day. The committees in their
preparations have endeavored TO i'm
press disease prevention as a moral
and physical duty in a manner that
will be pleasurable we'll as bene-
fetal 70 the people who will attend.
1t was held that the parade and the
various exhibits which are being
planned will suggest disease proven
ton in a way that all will under
stand and appreciate.
A special meeting of the commit
tee on finance has been called by it's
chairman TO be held Wednesday at
the same time the other committees
assem- BILE. Various ways and means
Of raising funds TO finance all propo-
sitions Will be brought up and the
most feasible will be adopted. No
estimate of the amount required has
yet been offered by the committees,
and this matter will also be discussed
at the Wednesday meeting.
Governors Proclamation.
Pointing out that preventable dis
eases in state and nation cause great
er loss of life and money than war,
Gov. RalstOn today issued the fol-
lowing proclamation, calling upon the
people of Indiana 10 observe Friday
oct 2. as Disease Prevention day:
Society never stands still. 1t
either increases its activities. broad
ems it's views, and makes real prog
ress, or it deteriorates and becomes
Indifferent to the public welfare. The
principle that that government is
the best that governs the least is
8, .rIo-l hot &c
better for both the individual and So
ciety to achieve their goal uninter-
fered with and unasssted by govern
ment. one OF the great objects of
government IN this country has been.
therefore. TO promote the happiness
Of the people by protecting them in
their efforts to help themselves that
they might individually make their
proper contributions to the public
welfare.
and Just in the degree the indi-
vidual and society fail to do their
duty in these respects government is
forced TO have that service perform
ed by official mandate. Recognizing
this fact. this proclamation is issued
with the view of arOusing a greater
interest on the part of citizens in pub
lie affairs, and especially in the mat
ter of public health. Sanitary condi-
tions bear directly upon this prob
lem, and If citizens of their own
initiative do not deal wisely and eff
fectively with these conditions, they
must Of necessity be regulated and
controlled by law.
when il became known few
weeks ago that this proclamation as
contemplated the humane and public
spirited Nathan StrOuS of New York
wrote me thus:
"'You have done a splendid thing
in planning for the observance in
your state of a Disease Prevention
day and l want to congratulate you
on taking this important step. L con-
slider this one of the greatest ideas
ever originated in this country and
am sure it will be copied in other
states
Disease Kills More Than War.
when reference is had to the
facts, it is easy to understand why
these eminent thinkers are so solicit
Gus regarding this serious subject. In
a recent address made by that great
student of public affairs. Secy. Red
field of Pres. Wilson's cabinet, makes
this startling statement:
Now there have died in the
United States III the last six months
from preventable causes more peo-
pie than were slain in the civil war
and more. many times more, than all
that have died in the Mexican trou-
bles We know how to prevent these
people from dying, but still they die.
We know how TO prevent their deaths.
We do not prevent them
The tragedy of today is magnified,
when we consider that, according TO
the showing made by our own state
board of health, more than 5000 died
in 1913 in Indiana from preventable
diseases. When contemplating such
shocked that we hesitate to figure
in dollars the vast millions in loss it
entails upon our commonwealth. The
havoc appears still greater when we
consider the property loss through
fires occasioned by the insanitary ac-
foundations of rubbish.
Names October 2.
ITO poison men in factories and
mines, to pollute drinking water sup
with nostrums, to maintain conditions
causative OF preventable diseases is
criminal. Health is the greatest Of
blessings and the source Of efficiency
and power. The enjoyment OF life,
and the achievement of liberty and
happiness are impossible without it.
There is nothing strikingly glorious
in a civilization not founded upon in
tellectual and moral as we'll as ply
steal strength, for physical health is
the surest foundation Of mental and
moral health
Now, therefore, I Samuel NJ. Rails
ton, gOvernor OK indiana, in consider
alton of these truths, do hereby des-
ignate and proclaim Friday, Oct 2,
1914. as Disease Prevention Gay with
in the confines Of said state; and I
respectfully urge that such exercises
be given in the public schools. and
such action be taken by the various
municipalities and civic and other or
CARNATIONS in Indiana, as Will en-
phasize the Importance of public
health. the joint responsibility OF all
citizens therefor. in the light Of its
relation TO good society and good
citizenship. and will inspire in every
one a desire To meet that response
bility by an active cooperation in all
sane efforts for the prevention OF phy-