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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-12-12
How Pennies Become Mighty Power

which they are kept in touch with new
methods of work and new activities.
A department for the direction OF
the Modern Health Crusade and for
the promotion of other practical meth
DDS of aiding teachers to teach health
in the school rooms.
A publications department which
publishes The Crusader, a monthly
health publication, special literature
on tuberculosis, and also furnishes
health news and feature service to
the newspapers of the state.
A legislative department whose
function is creating sentiment for
needed legislation for the prevention
and control of tuberculosis and other
preventable diseases and acting as a
service bureau in furnishing legis-
lators with specific information nee
essary for their guidance in framing
and enacting new laws.
A department for promoting an in
| creased number of sanatOria and for
assisting interested counties in the
conducting of campaigns, in the selec-
ton of sites, and in the planning of
buildings, furnishing them with in
formation which will enable them to
take advantage of the experience of
other counties.
1t is the special province of this
sanatorium department, functioning
| with every other department in the
| association, to work toward a CO.
ordination of all the various units in
the fight against tuberculosis, the in
dividual sanatoria, the public health
nurses and health instructors. medical
men, dispensaries and sanatOrium out
patient departments; to assist them,
by cooperating with them, to build up
out of these individual units mighty
state machinery for the control and
prevention of tuberculosis; and to
make the work of each unit more eff
| fective by assisting it to greater in
dividual efficiency and by combina-
ton of its force with other forces at
work in its immediate neighborhood
and also in other parts of the state.
In furthering this purpose, the asso-
citation co-operates on the one hand
/ with national associations such as the
National tuberculosis association, the
National Child Hygiene association, the
| National Child Health organization,
and on the other with state and local
boards of health, medical societies
and other agencies or organizations
thus making available to each unit and
community the best experience in both
the national and the state movement
for the relief and prevention of dis
ease
The one great purpose of all these
activities is to wipe tuberculosis and
al needless preventable disease out Of
| Wisconsin.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-12-12
Has the Great Idea in Health Work

T7A7HILE the recent presentation of
MW the categorical photograph, "The
Conflict" to the Wisconsin Anti
tuberculosis association represents a
new tribute to the work of the asso-
citation and the first one ever made in
pictorial form, it is in a way typical
of the impression which the activities
of the organization make upon those
who come in close touch with them.
Outside commentator frequently
comes from other states, many of
them having come to look to Wiscon-
sin for leadership in health work.
Some years ago Samuel Hopkins
Adams, author of ''The Clarion "The
Great American Fraud" and other
books, writer and investigator recog-
nized from coast to coast as absolute
ly fearless, came to Wisconsin for the
special purpose of inquiring into the
association and it's methods. After
spending several days at the task, he
wrote a many-columned magazine arti-
Gle, filled with enthusiastic praise and
admiration from start to finish, in
which he said:
Selling health is the actual bust
ness of the Wisconsin Anti-Tuber-
culosis association. 1t has completely
commercialized splendid endeavor;
commercialized it not for private profit
but for public gain. 1t has found a
method of making money not only talk
but teach Before you can make
money work for you, you must first get
| the money. In other words: first catch
your dollar Or, to get down to the
Dearholt basis, your penny. For the
penny is the unit of efficiency in this
campaign.
"Now to a Wisconsinite, an organ
ization, dependent upon public sup
port, which does not beg and peg
mainly from the rich may not afford
occasion for wonder. But to me the
| principle was revolutionary. 1t re-
uuired a genuine wrench of the nina
to adjust itself to this radical tact
that one hundred dollars Unsolicited
by the way) is the largest contribution
| in money ever made to the Wisconsin
Anti-Tuberculosis association. Frac-
ticaIly the only source of revenue IS
the sale of the Red Cross seals
! Rural or urban every community 10
included in the campaign. There is no
city or village or crossroads nahiie'
hut comes within the scope or the sys-
tenn. Each has its local agent a Vol-
! unteer worker, handling the seals
under the direction of the central
Office. ,.uti,
scientifically, Wisconsin's dlstlnc-
tive achievement has been its lnvestl-
cation into and determination OF rural
s,staro,,1osis On the social side the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-12-12

anti-tuberculOSiS forces have taken
this cue, and there is no other state
where education on this topic is car
ried to the country dweller as it is in
Wisconsin.
"Once a year, for one month, the
association goes into the business OF
merchandising Red Cross seals. From
Thanksgiving Day to Christmas is the
selling season. There may be CONNER
cial organizations in the country which
have as complete and pervasive sys-
tenn, but / have yet to hear of it. 1t
is saturated solution of selling. How
any citizen of Wisconsin, unless he is
real badger and lives in burrow,
can escape getting his chance to pur-
chase a seal and thus contribute his
cent to the cause, is difficult to inn
agine.
Education, more education, and still
more education. Not penny comes
into headquarters that has not bought
some one a lesson of health in the
giving. Not penny goes out but bears
to some other it's message of life saw
ing. 1t is the only campaign in scores
that | have studied in which there Is
no waste.
1.-TWO qualities in the work of the
Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis associa'
ton have strongly impressed me. They
are experiences in method anu concen-
, tration of effort.
Each year the cry goes up from
widening area, Come over into Mace
donia and help u.s. Each year the
over-strained, undermined, courage
GUS and self-devoting band of workers
are harder put to it to meet the appeal
which means life and death to SO
many. They are fighting the fight or
the whole people, and they need ana
deserve the support of no less than
the whole people
eff there is tany other public work
| in this country returning equal dlvl-
dends of service. / do not know 1t"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-12-12

owns its own home, the Health Service
building at 558 Jefferson street, Mil
waukee, property which it bought at
a great bargain and which gives office,
class and lecture room for the rapidly
expanding work of the organization.
Instead of an $4,000 seal sale, the cam
paign this year is for $150,000. Of this
amount $4,000 will be used to pay off
the small debt on the building.
The entire program of the Wiscon-
sin Anti-Tuberculosis association rests
on business basis. That it has
grown to be "big business" is due to
the fact that it has succeeded in con-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-12-12

INTERPRETING in terms of art the
story of Wisconsin's organized
fight for health and happiness and
against needless suffering, sorrow and
death, remarkable photograph show
ing in allegory the work of the Wis
consin Anti-Tuberculosis association
has been produced by Wisconsin
photographer, William N. Van
Anan of Milwaukee, and framed
copy has been presented to the asso-
citation for the walls of it's recently
purchased home, the Health Service
Building.
This allegorical story is more than
a remarkable photograph, more than a
poetic Interpretation of humanity'S
struggle against the power OF disease
and death. 1t stands as a splendid ex-
ample of civic spirit and cooperative
effort, for in the making of the picture,
Mr.. Van Aman had the enthusiastic as
sistance of the Wisconsin Players, the
Milwaukee Art Institute, and num-
Der of Milwaukeeans who posed as the
various figures.
T..
''The Conflict" and says of it:
in this picture l have endeavored
to show, in allegory, the efforts OF
organized institutions such as the Wis
consin Anti-Tuberculosis association
in combating the worlds greatest
scourge. | have consciously avoided
trying to indicate the vast toll OF the
dread disease or the great number
saved through the Associations eff
forts.
ION the extreme left have pictured
Death as dignified, calm and waiting;
tuberculosis with outstretched arms
clutching for her victim who is being
lifted up by the figure representing
the medical profession, the associa-
ton. Behind are the forces support
ing the association, the doctor the Red
Cross nurse and the public health
nurse, Philanthropy and the Press. In
front of this group is the grateful re-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-12-12
UNIQUE VICTORY ROLL.

A unique Victory Honor Roll is to De
placed in the main corridor of Muir
dale On it there will be a bronze star
for every man, woman, and child VINO
has taken treatment at Muirdale and
remained until discharged as an ar
rested case.
The roll is a long one, there being
265 names on it December 1, four
wears after the opening of the sana-
forum. Full names will not be used
on the honor roll, each honor winner
being designated by initials and case
number. The length of treatment will
also be given and it is expected that
the erection of the roll will be great
announcement to patients.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-12-12
Health for ALI Wisconsin;
Wisconsin All for Health

attack against the disease along other
lines began.
Education became the watchword of
this campaign-not dull, uninteresting
text book, dry-as-dust lecture stuff, but
graphic and to some degree sensa-
tional presentation of the subject. The
health exhibit came into being, illus
trated lectures were given. A second
state commission was appointed, re-
sulting in the organization of the Wis
consin Anti-Tuberculosis association
in fulfillment of pledge made to the
group of Wisconsin cities who volun-
tarily taxed themselves to send Wis
consin's first tuberculosis exhibit to
| Washington during the international
| Congress on tuberculosis. Support TO
this project was given with the ex-
press understanding that in return
Wisconsin forces against tuberculosis
should be organized on a state basis.
Entire State Enlisted.
Thus from the first the Wisconsin
Anti-Tuberculosis association has been
statewide movement, meeting a
statewide need, and deriving its au-
/ thority directly from the people whose
! interests it serves. Even in it's method
of financing the work it ties itself up
in the closest possible way with the
people of the state and asks them
I each year for their continued endorse
ment of the work that is being carried
on for them and in their name. With
/ the Red Cross Christmas seal, the assO-
citation raises practically every cent
that it spends, carries the message of
health to every person who buys OF
sells a seal, and places in their hands
ballot for the continuance of the
associations organized fight against
tuberculosis and other preventable dis
eases.
The first Red Cross Christmas seal
sale was held in December, 1908, to
raise funds for financing the month
old organization which then had it's
headquarters in the private Office of
DIR. Hoyt E. Dearholt, then chairman
! of the publicity committee and for the
last ten years executive secretary of
the association The sale brought in
a little over $4,000 and with part
of it the publicity department hired
the associations first paid worker,
Harvey Dee Brown, lecturer and or
ganizer who is now in the east with
the tuberculosis committee of the New
York State Charities Aid society.
The first annual meeting of the Wis
consin Anti-Tuberculosis association
4 was held in a Hotel Pfster bed
room - and the room, small though
it was, was not crowded. At the
dinner session of the annual meeting
this year over 400 people from all
parts of the state, including delegates
sent by mayors and county boards OF
supervisors, health officers, county
and city superintendent of schools
public health nurses, sanatorium
superintendent and trustees, and
state officials, gathered around the
long tables and listened to speakers
of nationwide reputation from New
, York and Chicago.
Instead of a corner in physician
, private Office, the association now
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-12-12

S7ERHAT does the penny spent for
MW Red Cross Christmas seal buy?
1t buys share in the work OF
the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis asso-
citation and in the many activities by
which this association is striving to
aid every community in the state to
meet it's health needs. 1t buys share
I'm every sanatorium that is built,
every county or community health
worker that is employed, every dis
pensary or health center that is es-
tablished and maintained, every in
creased appropriation that is secured
for health work as a result, direct
or Indirect, of the associations cam
paigning,
Among the activities, financed by
the purchase of Red Cross Christmas
seals, by which the association carries
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-12-12
T7nTHY shouldn't Wisconsin be the
M healthiest state in the union to
live in2

TnTHY shouldn't Wisconsin be the
W healthiest state in the union to
live in?
Nature has given 1t a great start
Climate, wholesome country air, fer.
tile plains and valleys, lakes and
wooded hills make it splendid place
both to work and play in. Add to
these it's wealth of dairy products
bodybuilding grains, and other food
can hope to compete with it for health
honOrs? That is, of course, providing
the indomitable Wisconsin spirit gets
onto the job with real earnestness and
enthusiasm and really makes up its
mind that disease must go. And the
rapid strides which health work is
making in Wisconsin give every evil
dence that the people are awake to
the great possibilities that lie within
| reach.
1t was with the vision of making
| Wisconsin. the safest place of all the
world to live in, Of arousing the people
| of Wisconsin to the value of utilizing
the great natural resources in which
| the state abounds and to the costli-
ness of allowing them to go to waste,
that the organized campaign against
! tuberculosis was launched about a de-
cade and a half ago. The growth of
the movement reads like a romance.
1t is to large degree the history of
| the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis asso-
| citation, for the state association was
organized in November, 1908, as the
disqualification of the effort which had
been made for several years preced-
| ing, in Milwaukee, in Madison, and
here and there to a less extent in sew
| eral other cities of the state, to arouse
a public interest in the subject OF
i tuberculosis.
In Pioneer Days.
When the little handful of public
spirited, far-visioned medical men, uni
| versity men, and interested laymen
| (the number in each group was very
| small) took up their self-imposed task
of waging war on tuberculosis in Wis
consin, the subject was surrounded
/
| thought to be sure death, to be hered
itary, and to be sort of divine vista
ton which could not be avoided. The
little group of interested men knew
differently. Medical science had dis
covered that tuberculosis was both
durable and preventable. 1t knew thai
the reason the disease so often iran
in families" lay in it's contagious ma
ture and in the fact that people who
had the disease did not take the
proper precautions to prevent its
spread, largely because they did moi
know anything about these precau
tions. The big task was to pass the
information in the possession of med
ical men on to the men, women ant
children all over the state who We're
or might be in need of it.
The first big step in the prelim
mary campaign before the forces tool
organized form was the governors ap
pointment of the state commission OF
tuberculosis which resulted in thu
building of the state sanatorium
Co-incident with this forward step, thu
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-12-12

cipient of the Associations benefits,
the mother and the child typifying
humanity rescued from death.
"In my opinion, the greatest good
has been accomplished by propaganda
of the association concerning right
living and the value of fresh air, sun
shine, and the great outdoors. Ac-
cordingly, large portion of the pic
ture is devoted to conveying that idea
by the representation of outdoor
sports, games, work, and army life.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-12-12

vincing the people of Wisconsin that
it represents their health interests
and that support of its activities is
a most effective means of self and
community protection. No organiza-
ton is more truly peoples organiza-
tion It's watchword is now, as it has
been from the first, education, and
all it's energies are devoted to the
single purpose, though by different
ways, of making Wisconsin the safest
place in all the world to live in and
of placing every known means OF
health protection within the reach of
all the people
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-16
GEORGE WASHINGTON ON
AD0PTl0a OF CONSTITUTION

During the years 1887 and 1888,
George Washington in over so differ
ent letters expressed his hope that
the Constitution for League of thir-
teen states might be ratified; MANY
of his remarks are extraordinarily ap-
plicable in the present discussion OF
our ratification of the Covenant for
the League of Nations. THE Consti-
tuition that is submitted, is not free
from imperfection, but there are as
few radical defects in it as could well
be expected, considering the hetero-
geneous mass of which the Conven-
ton was composed and the diversity
of interests that are to be attended
to- AS Constitutional door is
opened for future amendments and
alterations. | think it would be wise
in the People to accept what is offered
to them"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-16

any single factor. The buyers on the
markets are always on theelookout for
quality, and when you combine quality
and weight the margins of profit are
certain to be more nearly satisfactory.
But as purebred cattle have become
more numerous they are more fire.
quently in comparison with grades and
inferior standards at the markets, and
the purebred invariably has the adj
vantage, or in such cases where he
fails it is due to some other cause.
There have been many arguments
offered to encourage farmers to grow
purebred cattle, but these arguments
have not been necessary since the cost
of maintenance has reached it's present
level, nor with the numerous object
lessons with which they have become
familiar.
In England, where live stock i'm
provement has been carried on more
successfully and for a longer period
than in any country, the great majority
OF the cattle stocks are purebred, or
practically SO. The shorthorn greatly
outnumbers other breeds. This is due
to its responsiveness to farm condi-
tons and its dual purpose character.
On every farm where beef making is
conducted a reasonable quantity pro-
duction of milk is essential and this
the shorthorn provides along with it's
beef yields.
1t will be long time in this coun-
try before we reach anywhere near a
90 per cent proportion of purebred cat
tie of all breeds, but there is abundant
evidence that we are steadily and GER
tainly moving in that direction. The
time will come when we will have
passed the 80 per cent mark and will
approach rs per cent total, but that
will be long while in the future. The
available supply of purebred cattle for
breeding purposes is insufficient to per-
nit of attaining these percentages in
the near future. Certain 1t is, how
ever, that once the farmer has given
purebred cattle reasonable trial
he will not be satisfied TO put in his
time with less responsive and less
profitable standards: Z
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-16
National League.
VICTORY FOR BEER MEN.
Boston Judge Decides They Can Sell
Anything Intoxicating

BOSTON, July l6.-Judge Anderson, in
the United States district court, yester-
day ruled III the so-called "tcst case" of
the Petts-N ogel company of 3l3 Wash
nton street, that the sale of non-intoxi-
eating beer of more than one-half of one
per cent alcoholic content is not illegal.
The defendants were charged with sell
ing beer containing not less than one
hail OF one per cent of alcohol, but there
was no specific mention of Intoxicating
liquor III the information filed against
the company. The demurrer, which was
sustained yesterday by Judge Anderson
contended that the wartime prohibition
law, operative throughout the country
since July |, referred specifically to the
sale of beer, wine or other Intoxicating
% vinous liquors and that. in the alb
scnce OF allegation in the information.
beer of onc-haIf of one per cent is not
intoxicating
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-16
(By FRANK d. TOMsoN.)

(By FRANK D. TOMSON)
There has come very decided change
in the affairs on the average stock
very much upward, just as the cost of
living has made itself felt in the city.
Farm land has been gradually taking
on higher valuation. Corn and hay
and the various grains have a more
attractive value. Farm labor has been
costing steadily more from year to
year. The cost of making q pound of
beef or q quart of milk is no longer
on the plane where it used to be.
True, beef has advanced in selling
value, yet this advance has not been
sufficient to warrant the cattle grower
on the farm to continue with the or
binary standards if he desired to make
a profit This situation has led to q
more general study of trade values and
comparative results than has ever been
so it is that many q carload of grade
cattle has gone to market. They sold
for more money than they ever COM
handed before, but even this return
did not justify in most cases the farm
er continuing with his grades when
purebreds were available at current
prices. In many cases purebreds have
been purchased and placed on the farm
where formerly the grades had been
proftably grown. The initial cost was
greater per head than that of the
grades, but the decrease in numbers to
be maintained In order to get the same
gross profits assured at once very
considerable saving in high-priced
feed. The advantage of the purebred
is that it's quality when finished will
command higher price per pound at
the market. Not only this, but except
in comparatively rare instances, they
attain more weight at a given age. so
that the producer has the advantaTe of
a greater number of pounds aid a
higher price for every pound.
Advantage of Purebred Sire.
Anyone familiar with the beef mar
kets has long since recognized that the
purebred sire has had more to do with
making profits to the growers than