The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-03
THE WHITE PLAGUE.

Beginning this week Iowa will
have a statewide voluntary organiza-
ton for waging war against the
white plague, according to announce
ment made today by the organtza-
ton committee for the Iowa Associa-
ton for the Prevention Of Tuberculo-
sis. Monday, October A, is set as raj
ly day for those who wish to enlist
in the campaign and the meeting for
organizing and the election of dicec-
tors and officers will be held then in
the auditorium Of the Des Moines
public library at $50.
The organization committee, in
Guiding the committee of the state
Medical society on a state anti-tuber-
culosis association, and others who
for the past year have been laying
plans, consists of: DR.. Murdoch Ban
mister, Ottumwa; Miss Caroline L..
Dodge, Council Bluffs: DR.. Frank NJ.
Fuller, Keokuk; Robert Fullerton,
Des Moines; H S. Hollingsworth. Des
Moines: H l.. Houghton. Sioux City;
DR.. ]. C. Luckey, Vinton; President
Thomas H. Macbride, Iowa City: A.
e. Matless, Keokuk; Mrs. Homer A..
Miller. Des MoineB; Judge Clarence
Nichols, Vinton; Rev. Joseph F.
Newton, Cedar Rapids; President
Raymond A. Pearson, Ames; DR.. Jno.
H. Peck, Des Moines; Mrs. Chas. G..
Saunders, Council Bluffs, and DR.. Fl.
v. Scarborough, Oakdale.
Charles NJ. DeForest, field secre-
tary of the National Association for
the Prevention of tuberculosis, has
come here from New York at the in
vitation of members of the commit
tee, to assist in the organization. He
is a son of the late Rev. Henry Swift
DeForest, formerly pastor of the Con-
gregational churches in Des Moines,
Council Bluffs and Waterloo. He
will speak at the meeting Monday.
81 am very happy" said Mr.. De
Forest, "to be in my native state in
connection with this movement for
public health betterment. The dis
tribution of those who have already
enrolled as members over all parts OF
the state and the number of promi-
nent men and women who have ex-
pressed their willingness to serve as
directors, indicate strong associa-
ton.
"Thirty-six other states have anti
tuberculosis associations and I think
it is time for our state to fall in the
line of march and become leader in
this great crusade for health and for
prosperity-for economists like Irv-
ing Fisher of Yale have pronounced
tuberculosis chief among the causes
CT poverty.
Iowa is the first state in the union
in the least illiteracy, but 1t has by
no means the least tuberculosis. Iowa
is second in wealth per capita, but
in the sales of Red Cross Christmas
seals to combat tuberculosis, Iowa
last year was down to the twenty-fifth
place on a per capita basis.
"The sale of Christmas seals Is
fully as important as a popular edu-
cational campaign for the prevention
of tuberculosis as a way of raising
money. The National Association,
as national agent for the American
Red Cross, anticipates that under the
Iowa association as state agent for
the seals, Iowa will have high place
in this Christmas campaign.
1.-THE chief and perennial task OF a
state antit-uberculosfs association Is
education. It IS nine-tenths - OF the
battle for prevention. The officers
of the state board of health and the
board OF control are showing their In
terest in the Iowa association and |
am convinced that, just as In Iowa
and Minnesota, close cooperation
between the state bodies and the vol
untary association will result in the
saving of many lives. The work OF
former State Lecturer Kepford
makes a fine foundation for the new
campaign"