Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-25

cot and porch over the valleys of Carolina,
of Tennessee and of Georgia another little
sufferer has been added.
The one bit of radiant sky over this trag-
edy is 'that science has found for some of
these people way back to health; for some
do recover fully; and many live OH with the
disease. The cure, all other things being
equal, seems to depend temperament,
Where patient retains hopefulness and con-
fidence; where the mind is resilient and the
habit is to look upward and forward and
where interest in life continues keen anu
absorbing, perfect rest, mind and body, will
bring the cure Mental worry homesickness,
loneliness and the absence of things to i'm
terest delay the cure and often defeat it en-
tirely. In most sanitariums the supply of
books and magazines seems ample, but these
fall far short of supplying the mental stimu-
ation so needed. The best aid to cheerful
ness has been found to be music, and in the
sanftariums in and about New York hand
concerts regularly provided for the pa
tents, the work done under the supervision
of a tuberculosis association. This has
proved highly satisfactory as far as it goes.
but even weekly or somi-Weekly concerts
leave long intervals of Darkness Victrolas
help greatly, for a while; but the votrola
itself becomes, in some cases, another source
Of unhappness
It is just here that modern science is re-
ceiving unexpected application The radio
is solving a problem which is really more
psychological than physical. One of the
hardest things to combat in the life of a tu-
bercular patient under treatment in a sani-
tarium, is the feeling of detachment, of isola-
ton. To him or her the world seems to have
gone away and forgotten 1t is the radio that
brings back the world. To lie upon the porch
cot at night and hear the voices of great sing
ers the music of the organ and the orches-
tra the bedtime story; the sermons of elo-
10 0f p al
is like coming back home again. Some sani-
tariums are meeting the new conditions set
up by demand for music and entertainment,
with portable radio sets which include the
loud speaker and portable loop aerial. These
are mounted on wheels after the fashion of
hospital stretchers, to be moved from room
to room and are immensely popular wherever
used
The campaign for defense against our
dread enemy, the White Plague, should be
waged in every household, for the enemy
threatens every household. Let no one de-
ceive himself on this point. The washwom-
an, the cook the grocer's boy, the mail
carrier, gardener. laundryman, butchers ,
messenger touch the home from the outside
world. Innocently, they may be bearers of
the fatal germ. In the homes of some of ,
these, in the homes they visit, the insidious
enemy may lay in wait. And a germ is not
hard to carry. The hands, hair, clothing;
shoes that have trod the unclean streets
the very fruit, vegetables, meat or clothing
delivered Amy of these can bring it. And
the state has 10000 places to bring it from.
Defend the home. Your legislator is your
servant; tell him that if he wants your vote
he must protect your family by providing
places for the victims of tuberculosis and
protection for public health IN general
1t will do no good merely to bring up the
question of psychology and the radio. Get
your neighbors together and start fund for
the radio az help to happiness and health
will ko1
happiness 1t may help some of your own
people later. Who knows?