Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-22
2eting OF the Maine Federation OF Won1en,s Oh

showed how to kindergarten is the
first logical step in this process Of
development. She appealed to the
women of the Federation to aid in Sc
curing legislation that would provide
for a kindergarten in every public
school in the State. The kindergarten,
she said, contains the germs of COM
plete education.
At this point in the business the
president announced the appointment
of committee on resolutions. COM
posed of Miss Jennie McAndrews of
Calais. Mrs. Lyman Nelson of Port
land and Mrs. w. B. Porter Of Old
Town.
Miss Elizabeth Marco.
Miss Elizabeth Marco of Augusta
held the attention of her audience with
a paper on "Some Things We Can Do
to Aid in the Fight Against Tubercu-
losis." She said, in part:
The fight against the great white
plague is now being waged through all
the civilized world. It matters not
whether the unfortunate victim lives
in the sunny South, the temperate
zone, or the icy North,-he is suscep-
tible to this dread disease, which, as
it respects not the climates, respects
not the individual.
tuberculosis is contagious disease
not in the sense that small pox and
scarlet fever are eommunicab le--that
is, by direct contact with the person
afflicted, but in that it is conveyed
from one person to another through
the dried sputum containing the tu-
bercule bacillus. This germ MUST
be inhaled or swallowed, for the dis
ease is not inherited. Children of con.
sumptive parents become tuberculous
because they have lived for years In
infected houses, and have repeatedly
swallowed disease germs.
Let us understand that the disease
is not intensely contagious-one does
not contract it merely by living in the
house with the sufferer-one does not
contract it il the person suffering from
it is careful. Only the careless patient
is dangerous. The greatest danger OF
contagion comes from using the same
dishes and towels as the patient, sleep
ing with or in the same room with him
and allowing him to be careless when
he coughs or expectorates. There is
slogan, NO Spit-No Consumption.
We ought to do all in our power to
prevent promiscuous splitting.
When we realize that tuberculosis
is preventable as we'll as contagious
it ought to stir us up to do our mite
in the great fight. Louis Pasteur said
1t is in the power of man to cause
all parasitic germ diseases to disap-
pear from the world To control any
plague takes time, interest, and pa
tience-and each of us in our small
way can do our little to help the cause
Fight against the common drinking
cup, the public towel, and the pro.
miscuous splitter Refuse to buy Of
dealers who expose their foods to the
germ-laden dust of the streets. Wage
war against the fly: He aids in the
advance of the disease.
If YOU have no association in youl
home district for the relief and con.
troll of this dread disease. assist in the
formation of one. These associations
have dispensaries and hold clinics
where those who for financial reasons
or on account of the advanced stag,
| of the disease, cannot enter the sana
toria, may receive advice and help.
The meeting then adjourned for the
noon recess and lunch