The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-01-26


forcefully before every man, wo-
man and child in the vast crowds
who are expected to visit the Ma
tional Health Exposition in Louis
vile February ! to O.
There will be the live exhibits,
the clinics, the free examinations;
all so attractive to the public that
none can pass without learning
some little part Of health conser-
vatiou or sanitation that will prove
so useful long after the blazing
lights Of the exposition have been
doused and the busy hammers of
the workmep have obliterated all
signs Of this wonderful array Of ex-
hibits.
1t is the purpose Of these great
health organizations, headed by the
United States Public Health Ser
vice and the State Board of Health
who are conducting the exposition,
to promote better health in every
home, to eliminate the tremendous
yearly. toll from preventable dis
eases and to instilI into the minds
and hearts Of the laymen the need
for right living, right eating and
right exercise
The move is unselfsh and to
which the medica profession has
given unstinted service. None can
say the present generation will re-
ceive but little reward for the care
of the mind, the body and the gem
eral health All win benefit, and es-
Inmates, as only estimates can be
given, place the benefit in cold cal
cuIating figures at one added year
to the average life of each Of those
who attend the exposition.
The medical profession, surgery,
chemistry and all the allied sell
ences, have made such wonderful
striles in the past decade that the
time now is ripe that this progress
should be visualized to the. public
in such a manner as to be readily
understood by the most unlearned
layman as, well as the most skillfui
surgeon or physician.
More than 5000 persons win
participate in the program, dis
plays and ADMINISTRATIONS which
viii be carried out as the result Of
elaborate planning.
Displays at the exposition will
include scientific and commercial
exhibits showing the work of the
medical, dental, pharmaceutical,
hospita and nursing professions.
Novelties, scientific wonders and
mechanical displays win play a big
part in attracting the laymen to the
exposition.
Speakers of national authority
in medical and allied professional
lines viii address the United States
Public Health Institute which viii
be held in Louisville in conjunction
with the exposition, among them
being DR.. M. j. Rosenau, dean of
the Harvard School of Public
Health; DIR. George 7. Palmer
president of the Illinois Tuberculo-
sis Association; Dr. John H. Stokes,
of the Mayo Clinic; Miss Frances
Brink, director of the National Orr
ganization for Public Health Nurs
ing, and Reginald c. Augustine,
president emeritus of the American
Optometric Association.
The Importance and wide scope
of the interest aroused throughout
the United States by the exposition
is evidenced by the granting of re-
duced railroad fares on all rail
roads entering Louisville for the
period of the exposition.
This exposition already has
drawn commercial and educational
exhibitors from all parts OF Amer
lea. with the possibility that nearly
half of the 100000 visitors expect
ed win come from other states than
Kentucky.
Many Of these visitors win be
members Of the medical profession,
but, the majority will be laymen to
whom the message Of health is Of
first moment and upon whose
shoulders rests the responsibility
Of building up future generations
free from the diseases that have
fettered this and past generations
since the beginning of human life
It is the experience of the medi-
cal profession that such an object
lesson as the National Health Ex-
position win live in the minds of
the people for months. even wears,
and that such permanent good will