The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1919-12-11
FAMOUS AUTHOR DElIENES
IN NATIONAL CAAPAlCE

Alaskan stories. has written . story
telling Why be believes in the nation
al campaign which has been launched
70 fight tuberculosis. The campaign
N this state is being carried on by the
Colorado Public Health Association
which expects to raise $l5O!OOO in De-
cembef 70 promote public health in
~ state and to fight the white plague
Every cent raised by the sale OF Red
Cross Christmas Seals and Health
Bonds will be used to benefit Colorado
citizens. The funds will be used in
1890 to establish local tuberculosis
clinics, to equip two travelling dispen-
saFies to journey into remote sections
Of the state and to extend the Modern
Health Crusade for children into
every school in the state.
"Are you in favor of sunlight, fresh
air, good food and plenty Of it?" asks
Beach. "Of course you are"
Then you are also in favor of buy
ing as many Red Cross Christmas
Seals as you can afford, with possibly
Because Red Cross Christmas Seals
are sold to raise money for anti-tuber-
culosis work AS understand it,
when the explanation is stripped to its
bare, clean core, ti-tubereulosis
work means the distribution Of Gods
sunlight and fresh air to all the peo-
ple-not excluding the little children
Of the tenements whose word is now
shamefully lacking in these gorious
necessities of life. Anybody who buys
Red Cross Christmas Seals is helping
to cut down the death rate and ven.
ture to predict that every man. wo-
man and child who understands the
situation will wish to be among the
buyers and users of the seals.
at happens that my experiences n
we'll as in the tropics have proved
to my satisfaction that every word
which the medical men say in regard
to fresh air and sunlight as = pre-
ventive and cure for tuberculosis is
correct. In Alaska, where the winds
sweep down from the polar fields, !
have seen entire villages Of Eskimos
where it seemed that every inhabitant
was "lunger" The reason was that
these Eskimos and Aleut Indians who
mingle with them herd together in
their huts where there is no ventila-
tion and there they depend on the
heat of their bodies to warm the dark
reeking burrow. On the other hand
the white men who live in the open and
whose homes have windows and doors
which they are not afraid to open are
free from tuberculosis in that climate.
Indeed, l know of many white men
who were suffering with lung or stom-
ach trouble, who recovered their health
as result of living out-of- doors. The
native Eskimos and Indians have
managed to contract tuberculosis be-
cause they deliberately coop them
selves up in filthy kennels.
'It is far cry from the glaciers
of Alaska to the coral reefs of the
Caribbean and the geographical dis
tance is no greater than the difference
between the habits and health stand
ard; Of the NATIVES in til ctwo places
A ,,,ple of yea g ago ] visited the
Sa Bias Indians who live on the
coast at the boundary line between
Panama and Columbia. It is said
that they have not changed their hab-
its since long before Columbus sight
ed their strip of coast and they are
proud of their record of never having
permitted white man to sleep ashore.
"These Indians have their villages
on llttle Keys, oT lsidfiie, III Iie udyS
which indent the coast. They sleep
in hammocks in grass huts which are
as open to the soft salt breezes as is
the average sleeping porch of the
white man who is trying to ward off
tube rculosis. Their villages are kert
scrupulously clean. Not bit of Of
fal or rubbish is to be seen in them.
A TRIAL custom requires that they
must wash their garments once a
day As to their personal cleanli-
ness, they immerse themselves in the
water several times every day 1t is
not surprising that they rae appar-
emily entirely free from tuberculosis
and all other diseases.
1.-THE most direct way the average
citizen can help to bring this about is
to buy Red Cross Christmas Seals 20
the utmost. If this idea is generally
understood believe that every mailed
letter in the United States between
December 1st and New Years will bear
on its flap one ofthese seals with the
figure of husky, happy Santa
Claus upon it."