Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-12-18
Tuberculosis Turks
Every where; All
Must Help Fight 1t
BY ROYAL 8. COPELAND

Commissioner OF Health. New YORK Ctfs
Copyright. 1871 BY Newspaper Feature Service
This is the season for the national
Christmas Seal sale, the annuM APP
peal for funds to fight tuberculosis.
You may say:
Il am not interested in tuberc,llo-
sis. | live in a clean house. All my
family have good lungs"
| don't care how Clearly are your
immediate surroundings. nor how
strong may be your body, you aren't
safe so long ais there is an "open case
of tuberculosis in your community.
Your household may be free from
tuberculosis, but one Of the maids may
come from a diseased home. The clerk
in the store, or the steEogfapher IN
the office. or the teacher in the school,
or the worker in the sweat shop. slav-
ing at some article you may buy some
day, may have tuberculosis. You can
not escape its menace.
May Come From Abroad
We have had remarkably low death
rate from tuberculosis in this country
for the last two or three years. But
let US not be lulled to sleep on this
account The disease is raging in
Europe and it win be remarkable, in,
deed, if our country is not reinfected
from abroad.
One night last spring spoke to,
great audience in the midst of the
EAST Side" of New York City. As
I looked into the faces of this mass
of persons. it seemed to ME half OF
them had just reached our shores l
wondered about the immigrant chill
dren. so the next day l sent the doc
tors and nurses of the health depart
| ment to examine the pupils in the
nearest school house.
! In one room they found II, children
with tuberculosis and 8 of them had
+, lust landed in the United States'
There must be the most watehful
care. or our own children will take
!; the disease from the new arrivals, il
! not from some native sufferer.
/ Must Think internationally
| We live in a world now which views
| things. not locally or even nationally,
but internationally. We cannot live
all mankind.
| In this connection / want to tell
you a sad story:
There are sections of Italy, In the
mountains. where, few years ago.
tuberculosis was never known. From
| these regions venturesome young peo-
pie have emigrated to the United
! States. Prospecting here, many have
RETURNED to their native homes and
some have carried tuberculosis into
those sections. The dread disease. &C.
i CURED in the United States, is now
wrapping its deadly mantle over those
far-off and innocent communities.
| The war against tuberculosis must
be a far-flung battle line. Every
country, every state, every county,
every township and hamlet should join
! in the movement.
| For your own sake, for the sake Of
your children, for the sake of gener-
atoms yet unborn. this fight against
! tuberculosis should never stop Tu-
berculosis can be wiped out. but it win
never be successfully accomplished till
the last case is found and the last
bit of seed is destroyed.
A Drive for You and Yours
/ The Christmas Seal campaigns have
raised large sums of money. These
have been SO we'll spent that every
community where the plan has operat-
ed is enthusiastically backing the sale
of Christmas Seals.
+, This is not a drive for charity. IN
is a drive to save you and yours.
At present every seventh funeral b
the funeral of Il consumptive. Let us
make this dreadful thing impossible
Let us wine out tuberculosis and free
the world from the White Plague.
4 We can defeat this form Of death
il money is given to carry on the bat
tle-buy Christmas Seals today.