The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-10-11
T. B. LEAGUE TO
CARRY ON FIGHT
THRUOUT YEAR
Cure for ScOurge, Once Con-
sidered Impossible, DiscOv-
cred by Accident; Seal Sale
to Follow Red Cross Drive

With this years Christmas seal
commemorating the 18th annivers-
airy of one of the most significant
events in American history, board
members Of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
League of Benton County met Oct.
2 at the Kennewick hotel to dis
cuss plans for their year round
campaign against tuberculosis.
Funds for the program Of health
protection Of children will be rails
ed by means OF a seal which shows
a picture of a little one-room cot
tage at Saranac Lake, New York.
This little cottage, built by DR.. Ed
ward Livingston Trudeau, in 1885
to accommodate his first two pa
tients, is known as Little Red"
because of its color.
October 1-15 is known as Cele-
bration Week. DR.. Trudeau was
born October 5, l848. When he was
a young man living in New York
City and just beginning his medi-
cal career he became i'll and his all
ment was diagnosed as tubercu-
losis. In those days this was the
equivalent Of a sentence of death
for few indeed were those who ever
lived to overcome this scourge. DR..
Trudeau did not think he could go
counter 10 the best opinion Of the
day when he went to the Adiron-
dack mountains to live in the open;
in fact he did so without any thot
of finding cure. He merely wish
ed to end his days in the pursuits
most pleasant to him; hunting and
fishing.
But he got better. He noticed
that often after exercise he became
worse and that after resting he
improved. He lived, in his own
life, a demonstration, and not al
together an accidental demonstra-
ton, of the way to fight tubercu-
losis. Had he not been trained
observer, competent to interpret
his own symptoms and entitled to
hearing by his fellow doctors and
the public because of his profess
ional training, his experience might
never have been recognized by HIM
self or accorded acceptance by the
world.
This acceptance was slow to
come, but it came at last. Trudeau
raised money among his acquaint-
ances as well as strangers to build
an institution for the care OF In
digent cases. Usually this money
was given by people who had little
faith in cure for the disease, but
who could not resist the request
of a man who asked nothing for
himself.
Finally the point was proved and
the medical profession was agree
ably surprised. Other sanatoria be-
gan to spring up turnout the
country. We now have in this u.
S. over six hundred sanatoria with
capacity of $1,000 beds involv-
ing a capital expenditure Of $780,
O00,0 and an annual maintenance
budget of nearly S75,OO0,0O0.
The Christmas seal sale was in
stituted to carry on the education
al campaign against what was
now known to be a durable and q
preventable disease.
The seals will go on sale thru
out the United States on Novem-
Der 3, the day after Thanksgiving
and just following the close of the
Red Cross Roll Call. Neither the
seals nor the sale are in any way
connected with the Red Cross and
have not been since 1919. They are
not Red Cross seals, but are known
as christmas Seals" or "Tubercu-
losis Seals.
With Mrs. Ayers serving as the
county seal sale chairman the lea
que hopes to raise sufficient funds
to carry on an extensive program
of tuberculin testing in city and
country schools. Modern medical
knowledge stresses the Importance
of including the tuberculin X-ray
program as a permanent feature
of school health protection. By the
use Of these measures we can fore
stall tuberculosis before it has done