The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-11-21
MOSCOW TO COMBAT
THE White PLAGUE
CHAMBER COMMERCE TO AID
WORK In CHARGE OF PROFESS
SIONAL WOMEN

SIONAL WOMEN
The feature of the Wednesday
luncheon of the Moscow chamber of
commerce was several short talks on
tuberculosis and the work of the Anti
tuberculosis association, the program
being under the direction Of the Mos
COW Business and Professional Wo-
mems club, which organization will
have charge Of the sale Of Christmas
seals this year. The campaign for
the sale of the seals was opened at
the chamber of commerce meeting.
Miss Carrie Jones explained the
purpose Of the work and called upon
DR.. j. w. Stevenson, county health
officer, to make a short talk on tu-
berculosis and the work of the Anti
tuberculosis association, from the
standpoint of the physician. Dr.
Stevenson explained that the disease
is both preventab1e and durable,
which fact make the work of the
association most valuable. He ex-
planned some of the causes and some
of the methods of arresting the prog
ress of the disease,
Mrs. F0rney Talks =.
Mrs. J. H. Forney, chairman Of the
Latah county branch of the Idaho
state Anti-Tuberculosis league, made
a short talk, explaining the work of
the association and telling of the
marked decrease in the number of
deaths from tuberculosis, in the years
since the association has been func-
tiOning. She explained that the work
is financed entirely from the sale of
seals and outlined the work which
has been carried on in Latah county
schools, to promote better health
among the pupils. She said that Ida
no and Nevada are the only states in
the Union which do not have either
public or private sanitariums, where
cases of tuberculosis may be treated.
Miss Jones asked that the business
Christmas seals on their envelopes in
sending out their November bills, at
the end Of the month, and on their
December correspondence. All pres
ent agreed to do this.
Deal M. F. Angel introduced DR.. H. |
T. Plumb, chief engineer for the Gen
eral Electric company, with head
quarters in Salt Lake, and a former
schoolmate of Dean Angel. DR.. Plumb
is vice president of the American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers and
was in Moscow to address the stu
dent body of the University of Idaho |
at Wednesday assembly.
He spoke very briefly, endorsing
the Boy Scout movement and the
work of the Anti-Tubercu1osis asso-
citation, stating that the way to pre-
vent both crime and sickness is to be-
gin young. He said that it was un-
fortunate that we had become city
dwellers to so great an extent, thus
both crime and disease,
but said that science and engineering
were rapidly remedying this by MAX
ing 1t possible, through the service of
fast trains, the automombile, the tele-
phone, radio and quick mail delivery,
for people to live in the less con-
gested districts and at the same time
enjoy all the advantages of city life.
Mr.. Plumb is making tour of
the northwest, visiting leading en-
gineers and addressing student
bodies, calling their attention to the
possibility Of broader fields of work
E. r. Hannibal Of Spokane, superin-
tendent of the Interstate Utilities ,
and president Of the Spo-
kane branch Of the American Insti-
tute Of Electrical Engineers, was also
pTSS0uI dIu uduG SHUT Idlh,
dwelling especially on the need for
between Inland Empire
cities.
Oppose Transient Dealers
Secretary B. C. Rowe read a letter
from the Pullman chamber of COM
calling attention to the activ-
ty of outside dealers, who come into
he Palouse country towns, opening a
sales room at a hotel or elsewhere I
and remaining but few days. and I
Urged that the towns stand together c
n opposing this practice. President s
lamphere appointed committee, {
of Howard David, A. L. l
Fitch, J. D. Davis, F. A. Belts and v
Ray Carter, to take the matter up I
With Pullman and other communities f
J. D. Davis, Moscow chairman of t
he Boy Scouts of America, announc- +
I'd a meeting of scout officials for b
Wednesday evening, in the directors c
'oom of the First National bank to
lecide on Moscow's attitude with re- il
,ard to continuing in the Palouse [
Council He stated that the COM {
nunity's unpaid pledge must be met [
,efore the adjourned meeting of the tt
Council officials December O
!, and that after that the matter of e
continuing in the two-county organ N
zation could be decided. a