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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-12-10
Temg i'm Aegory the Story of Mans Ft AGAINST Disease

INTERPRETING in terms of art the
story of Wisconsin's organized
fight for health and happiness and
against needless suffering, sorrow and
death, a remarkable photograph show
ing in allegory the work of the Wis
consin Anti-Tuberculosis association
has been produced by Wisconsin
st-photographer, William n. Van
Aman of Milwaukee, and framed
copy has been presented to the asso-
citation for the walls of its 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 II stands as a splendid ex'
ample 81 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 a num-
Der of Milwaukeeans who posed as the
various figures.
Mr.. Van Aman calls this photograph
"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 AntiTuberculosis 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-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-12-10
Has the Great Idea in Health Work

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-
TEN, but have yet to hear of it. IL
is a saturated solution of selling. How
any citizen of Wisconsin, unless he iS
a real badger and lives in a 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 a penny comes
into headquarters that has not bought
some one lesson of health in the
giving. Not penny goes out but bears
to some other its 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 a
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 OF
the whole people, and they need and
deserve the support of no less than
the whole people.
eff there is any other public work
in this country returning equal divk
dends of service, do not know it."
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-12-10

S7A7HILE the recent presentation of
W the allegorical 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 1.-THE Clarion" 1.-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 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
eommercialized 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 beg
mainly from the rich may not afford
occasion for wonder. But to me the
principle was revolutionary. 1t re-
uuired genuine wrench of the mind
to adjust itself to this radical fact
that one hundred dollars unsolicited,
by the way) is the largest contribution
in money ever made to the Wisconsin
| Anti-Tuberculosis association. Prac-
| tically the only source of revenue is
the sale of the Red Cross seals.
Rural Or urban every community is
included in the campaign. There is no
city or village or crossroads hamlet
but comes within the scope of the sys'
tenn Each has its local agent, vol
unteer worker, handling the seals
under the direction of the central
Office.
Scientifically, Wisconsin's distinc-
tive achievement has been its investi,
CATION into and determination of rural
tuberculosis. On the social side the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-12-10

S7A7HAT does the penny spent for a
NAV Red Cross Christmas seal buy?
w II buys a 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 its health needs. It buys a share
In 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
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-12-10
UNIQUE VICTORY ROLL.

A unique Victory Honor Roll is to be
placed in the main corridor of Muir
dale On it there will be bronze star
for every man, woman, and child who
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
years 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.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-12-10

attack against the disease along other
lines began.
Education became the watchword of
this campaign-not dull, uninteresting
textbook. 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
Entire State Enlisted.
Thus from the first the Wisconsin
Anti-Tuberculosis association has been
statewide movement, meeting a
statewide need, and deriving it's 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
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 seal, and places in their hands
ballot for the continuance of the
associations organized fight against
tuberculosis and other preyentable dis
eases.
Tire first Red Cross Christmas seal
sale was held in December, 1908, tC
raise funds for financing the month
Old organization which then had its
headquarters in the private Office OF
Dr. Hoyt E. Dearholt, then chairman
of the publicity committee and for Inc
last ten years executive secretary OF
the association The sale brought in
/ 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
was held in a Hotel Pfster bed
room and the room. small though
| il 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's
private office, the association now
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-12-10

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"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-12-10

owns its own home, the Heath Service
building at 558 Jefferson street, Mil
waukee, property which it bought at
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 OF
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-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-12-10

vincing the people of Wisconsin that
it represents their health interests
and that support of its activities is
most effective means of self and
community protection. No organiza-
ton is more truly peoples organize
ton. Its watchword is now, as it has
been from the first, education, and
all its 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.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-12-10
Health for All Wisconsin;
Wisconsin All for Health

TA7HY shouldn't Wisconsin be the
WV healthiest state in the union to
live in?
Nature has given it a great start.
Climate. wholesome country air, fer
tile plains and valleys, lakes and
wooded hills make it a splendid place
both TO work and play in. Add to
these its wealth of dairy products
bodybuilding grains, and other food
resources, and what state in the union
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 evi.
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 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, 'rrr milwaukee,, in Madison, and
eral other cities of the state, to, arouse
public interest in the subject OF
tuberculosis.
In Pioneer Days.
When the little handful of public
spirited, far-visioned medical men, uni
versity men, and interested iSymen
(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
WIFI SuptISlltlOH. luUSICulOSlS Wds
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 that
the reason the disease so often ran
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
icai men on to the men, women anC
children all over the state who were
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 or
tuberculosis which resulted in th'
building of the state sanatorium
Co-incident with this forward step, tht
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-20
sIaANDNRgNG THE SEX

F TSr why tho bird expert of distinguished contemporary az who could not crr in such matter except by calm delberatun should e homo loving, nmec birds Of America of getting themselves up decorative reahcrs tract the males after their kinds something be determined
 Tho rooster a the peacock and all the lazy males of bird land notorious rs who aronzc only he best bird a They buy their wives eny thing but the simplest dresses just barely sufficient to enable them to perform their household duties in decent soclusion
 And then accuse women the semo habits attributed with infamous naccuracy jo hens that sUrely ing instance of malice. Man like the ants himself before tho Wprld growing often occasion may permit Women does her work quietly n retircmon and if in the afternoon sl goes forth to do tho family hoppng the beau t pmage that ho Is not to scducc tho eyes of men, but to prec from the assaults of other the credit of her husband
 Did gown herself modesly the ladies of the birds evned her husband would b6 suspected by each other of being grinding mean, sngy and penuri her
 Women simply havc o ross up bit everybody would know that they also had boon sinlcd by tho temporary esiy of the persons who spent money iavishy before riagc upon houn and after marriage upon themselves,
 It is just like to mad at the whole female half of creation, because his wife sursts that he dress for thrco four is really shabby any thing,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-20
COMMISSION IS TRYING ID MEET
 COAL SHORTAGE
Czecho Slovaks Failed to Complete Con
 tracts.

Vienna, Friday, Sept. 19-Cby A. P.) The Interallied Coal Commission is trying to meet a coal crisis threatening Vienna. due to the failure of the Cezho-Slovaks to deliver coal foF which contracts have been made. Dur ing the first ten days of September less than one-third the amount agreed upon for the electric plants of the city was delivered, and only about one fourth the coal necessary for domes- tic use had reached here.
 The city, unable to accumulate a re- serve, found itself facing a critical situation yesterday. A notice was is sued stating that, beginning Sunday all tramways would cease running, all cafes. restaurants and houses would be closed at o'clock in the evening, and street lighting would be reduced Fear was expressed that industrial plants would be forced to close down.
 Allied railway and coal authorities took steps to ameliorate conditions and communicated with the Prague government, insisting upon immediate shipments. It is hoped that it will be possible to keep a limited tram ser vice in operation and extend the clos ing hour to g. as well as to keep in dustries going. This would prevent the throwing into the streets of be- tween 5O,OOO and 100, ,OO0 persons who are out of work.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-20

m Is expected that the Right Rev. John Williams L. L. D. Bishop o this diocese will ordan to the ministry Mr. John S. beeFs at Christ church, tomorrow morning.
 Our friend E. Curtis Bridgeport whose skill as u man and mechanic alluded 10 a short time ago. and
 hoSe ae as such has gone abroad in all that region is also becoming equally famous for growing grapes our office this morning pail of the finest lucous DeIaWares Tt for prnceay better than that-f
 enocTa and even Democratic editor would be all that Mr. Curtis would have 0 other.
 u , We saw today in the Dry Goods Emporium of Messrs
 Hall & Head on Main street. in the department presided over Dy Mrs. Wallace, complete wedding for a lady in CharIGsoW S. C. which for taste and elegance passed The bridal dress white grained satin trimmed W white satin ribbon and point lace, low corsage
 als we should fully two yards and haf the other crosses five in number of corresponding elegance
 fleet much credit on Mrs Wallace by whom they design ed and Messrs Hall Read who furnished materials and in whose employ Mrs Wallace s We that this firm Go quite business ln filling orders for wedding outfits week in which Michael Levery appeared plaintiff and Geo L. Ellis defendant decided this oren0on the Justice awarding the plaintiff ferocious dogs will learn from this that man>nd not to be community with impun not if the court knows itself"
 Arrangements have been made by Treasury depart men by which after the s of October $3OOOOO can be furnished in and dollar increased soon after to $5O0OOO a day.
 The Active B. B. Club of this city over to Sratford this morning to play wi tn club We have not heard which was victorious.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-20
FOR A SCALD.

One of the very commonest injuries in the home is the scald. Upon the promptness with which you treat if depends whether or not you will have blisters and sore places to show for it.
 Since you are just a9 liable to scalds as any one else, and since promptness of treatment is so valua- ble, why not use a bit of prepared ness along this line? Obtain some carbonate of soda and keep it some where in your kitchen.
 When the scald occurs plunge the part immediately into one pint of lukewarm water in which has been added one teaspoonfuI of salt and one teasoonful of carbonate of soda, Leave it there until the pain ceases.
 When some other member of the Is scalded, wrap the part with a cloth saturated with the solution. Re- new frequently until all the stinging sensation is gone. Then apply a little carbolated vaseline. Keep the air away for a few hours by means of a handage over the vaseline.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-20
HOAfUNCULUS

ON TIRPTTZ grand admiral the German navy, tells, in his book association with the Kaiser, of whom amusing recollecons The Kaiser what call ghty and he made his advisers great ueaI of trouble designed ships, and expected his his designs in steel Won Trpitz had to ingenuity reconcile the All Highest to the true designs. Once the All Highest designed torpedo boat heavily armored and very fast torpedo tubes under the water line He order ed the admiralty to build it. But and speed ncom pabes torpedo tubes occupied the space that the boilers and engines the admiraty named Homunculus meaning impossible and afterward in duced All Highest to give up the idea
 The Kaiser wasn't exactly crazy. But he shallow nippan impetuOus and heavy burden for his country to carry.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-20
NATI-RE IN ANGER

N HE DEAD at Corpus Christi a larger number The A ioial has to 100 Nature angry something fear But nature mostly Is kind Her moods and far between Sometimes tidal earthquake, peslenCe sweeps premaurey and numeruusy hereafter Bui the of nature within historic leasi have been fearful than the of Nature kills her thousands but seven millions
 Catastrophes larger scale than history closes It is not improbable ibat planet may ide with planet Continents sink and others be up The chemical consultation of the might conceivaby change by proximity o comet by something of that But such accidents of If self pemaure exicrmnaed he rely rather upon him se and must eadfastly avoid cOntrivaDces like League Nations which intended 10 make toward himself nature is toward him.