The Washington times., 1919-07-13

In the beginning reared Dig animals on
The bigger they the more he feared them
The mammoth huge ancestor Of the modern elephant,
with his long hair his tuss curling upward the terror
Of primitive When he came crashing over the earth
everything fed before him.
Fer centuries thousands Of them fought feared
and thought only about the big lions bears
wolves-or the smaller enemies that happened to be poi
s0nous, like the reptiles.
But br animal enemies are no longer important they
are Gagged in the zoo or driven into the distant forests and
iun0es Yet man fights animal e the life Of the disease
germ invisible and he fights more earnestly, more sclen
cay and desperately than his ancestors Of the the
Gill; and the lake dwelling fought against the big
animals.
The idea of this picture and editorial is to make you
realize that the disease germ is real thing that Affects
YOU and your children.
Of consumption in the United States They could have been
saved millions of lives could be saved on this planet every
year, it possible to get nd OF one Gny invisible
enemy the germ Of tuberculosis
The germ of consumption dwes in the neglected under
fed body it can be stamped out by prosperity feeding wise
living, fresh air.
We can get yellow fever in no way except through the
bite certain kind of mosquito The mosquito bites
yellow fever sufferer, carries away the germs, bites
healthy man. infects and kills him
But men can do away with mosquitoes by destroying
exposed pools Of stagnant water In which they breed I'll
has been done by the officials Of our army In Cuba New
Orleans at Panama And the Of yellow fever that
once made every human being treble is thing to be
feared no more.
So it is with malaria Only the mosquito give it
to you and only kind Of mosquito Eliminate the mos
quito breeding grounds and there will be no more Of the
malaria that in the United States reduces the efficiency
Of the population by at least twenty per cent which means
taking away from the country the work Of oneth OF the
population, say twenty millions Of human beings
These germs or bacteria, fight mans WEALTH as
well as his HEALTH In France the magnificent vineyards
were diving of disease called Phlloxera At about the
same time the silk industry Of France literally ruined
tens Of thousands impoverished by disease that attacked
the silk These two diseases combined meant ruin
for great populations.
In the brain of one man. great Pasteur the diseases
were studied understood localized, and vanquished
Above ALL in the fighting of disease, stands out the
control and the uasteurizaon of the milk supply lesson
that national and city governments have slowly learned
from one manhattan Straus, Of New York-who has
used his energy and fortune to give to mothers and children
the benefit Of Pasteurs great d1scoverythat disease
carried food and that certain degree Of heat not harm
full to food or milk will destroy the disease germs.
The city of Chicago, the chief Of the health depart
ent tees enforced pssteurzaon after reading Nathan
Saus' statements to pasteurized milk and infante
paralysis And that simple precautiOn practically saved
Chicago from the infantile paralysis visitation.
There are other germs that still battle science for in
stance the enemy that carries cancer the most dreadful
death That may be included among the germs that
small as to invisible even under the powerful micro
scope The infante paralysis germ belongs to the micro
scopcay invisible enemies The fighting of that tribe may
be longer and more difficult than the battle against such
enemies cholera yellow fever smallpox etc., but man
viii beat them.
In smallpox vaccination by the way you have reply
to ignorance that denies the existence Of germs and declares
that it is useless to fight scientifically against them
You will hear men, self satisfied and ignorant say that
vaccination is stupid that is shame to plant the poison
Of disease in the body of young child So it Is but what
about FACTS? In 1870 when she went to fight France
Germany had every soldier vaecnated The French army
was vaccnsted Not German soldier died of smallpox
during the and thousands of French soldiers DID die
Of smallpox
During that war, while Germany vaccinated her
sodiers she did the
population. And while there smallpox in the Ger
ARMY, there epidemic Of smallpox in Germany
among the civilians After that ALL Germans were com
PEELED by law to be vaccnated and Germany has not suf
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