The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-04

Chairman Lawrence Vcillcr of the New York Committee for the pre- yention of tuberculosis thinks that the tide is coming fact when tuber- culosis will be thing of the past
 Said he Tt is question of edu- cation of expelling ignorant and vlc- ious customs, of teaching wholesome living. The work done among in fants especially has been encourag- ing, and finer, stronger stock is on the way with each new genera uon. The immense progress whicf, has been made against tuberculosis forecasts the day when the race will be free from the white plague.
 When committeeman praise their own work you cannot blame them. And when social workers dealing with effects, expound exaggerating- ly' the results of their effort, it is to be considered natural.
 Now the fight against tubercu- Iosis has been accompanied by cer- tain definite results. It is not un. accompanied by progress. But it is at the same time all done withia certain circumscribed limits, beyond which strive as they may, they can not go.
 Medical authorities toll us that under ordinary conditions there are tuberculosis germs in the major ity of people, but these gre con trolled or destroyed by other germs which function thus usefully in the individual body.
 Under ordinary conditions human beings having access to sunlight, fresh air and reasonable exercise maintain, their healthy body in such a condition that the germs of tu- berculosis can make no headway.
 The ideal therefore is to provide all human beings with this condi- tion so that their bodies may be in position to resist the inroads Of the consumption germs all the time
 A decline in the nervous condition of the human being, mal-nutrition. the inhalation of impure air laden with more or less minute solid par ticles, lack of healthy exercise ana existence in dark and unwholesome places, predispose to tuberculosis by weakening the resisting power of the body in that the germs or cor puscles which would otherwise over come the noxious germs are enfeeb- led and inpotent to do their worl'.
 Now any committee can teach these facts, and thoy gre generally known by the public. But to teach men and women the facts of healthy and wholesome living and to en- able them to secure that wholesome and healthy living, are two entirely different things.
 By what means for example can the rules of health enter into the daily labor of an employee in tex tile works? The employee is tend ing a machine whose vibrations even affect the body in an evil de gree. If women they cause them to become in state of hyper-sex ex- ceedingly lowering to the system. They breathe air that is rendered impure and is often choked with lint, contains exceedingly minute dust, atomised oil, other foreign particles and is unfit for breathing no matter how perfect is tho venti- lating system. To avoid any such evil effects as these which distinctly drive towards tuberculosis, exceed ingly short hours should be worked there, and the employees should have reached all of them an adult stage of perfect health even at that.
 Or in a chemical works, the pol sonous fumes exercise a deadly ant dangerous effect upon the system. Apart altogether from the ability of the worker to resist metallic or che mical poisoning, ofton incidental to the industry, the stamina becomes dcteriorated and the employee pre- disposed to consumption.
 In almost all industries the same can be said; modern speeding ua and efficiency, extracting as such systems do such tremendous amount of vital energy and result ing in such a deterioration in the health or nervous system of the em' ployee. they drive towards tubercu' aosis.