The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-10
GOVERNORS MEET
AT CHATTANOOGA
Roberts Arranges Confer
ence To Discuss Health At
Manufacturing City.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Now ia
health conference of the governors Of
10 Southern states is to be held in
Chattanooga on Nov. %. according to
ne plans o. Gov. a; H. Roberts, Of
tennessee. who is the sponsor OF a
health committee Of Dixie governors
which he formed recently. This COM
mittee has Endorsed the nation wide
campaign to sell Red Cross Christmas
seals which opens Dec. 1 and among
the many subjects slated for discussion
at the Chattanooga meeting is the close
cooperation between state and local
health departments with the state and
local anituberculosis associations.
Gov, Roberts recently accepted the
Craftsmanship : of the state conn
mittee formed by the Tennessee Anti
tuberculosis association to push the
Sale of the seals and in indorsing the
work of the state society he stated
that the state boards OF health, educa-
tion and charities had been working
with the association for years with
wonderful results.
Tennessee and her sister state, Ken
lucky, have higher native death rates
from tuberculosis than any other two
states in the union, according to fig
ures compiled by the National Tuber-
culosis association. and millions Of the
little penny Red Cross Christmas seals
must be sold during the holidays IL
this death rate is to be lowered. The
rest Of the Southern states also have
high death rates from 'the great white
plague which is called the greatest
single menace to the national health
today.
"There is a great need for a broad
public health plan which will result in
better living conditions and in the bet
ter health Of the South" said Gov.
Roberts. 1.-THE splendid record of the
public health service or the Tennessee
Anti tuberculosis association and the
other societies which are fighting tuber-
culosis in the South shows lis that
these organizations should be Endorsed
and supported by all Southern people.
II have been infoAned by community
health experts of the National Tubercu-
lesis association that more than 150, 900
people died from this scOurge in this
country last year and that every death
from this disease leaves eight people
infected. Experts of this association
have found that tuberculosis is durable,
p~Feventable and comfortable and that
it can be stamped out by a campaign
of prevention and education.
1.-THE little Red Cross Christmas seals
which have been sold in past years
have resulted in many institutions be-
ing erected TO car for those infected.
They have caused the cure Of thou
sands and have educated hundreds OF
thousands in the principles of clean and
healthful living. This work must go on.
II have called this conference in
order that we may plan for a still
closer cooperation between city and
state health departments and the Anti
tuberculosis associations OF the South.
The governors who have been invited
to attend the conference are: Thomas
e. Kilby, Alabama; Charles H. Brongh,
Arkansas; Sidney J. Cats, Florida;
Hugh M. Dorsey, Georgia; Ruffln g.
Pleasant, Louisiana; Theodore G. Bill
ho, Mississippi; Thomas W. Beckett,
North Carolina: James d. Black, Ken
lucky. and Robert A. Cooper, South
Carolina.