Evening star., 1939-07-16
MAGAZINE
But AMERICA KEEPS CLIMBING
by Ida NJ. Taxbell
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THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
Drawing by Mslbovrns B.indIe


The childhood ambition of Ida NJ TarbeN Wds to be
biologist and microscopic through the Of ohch she
HOPED redscocer God Instead she became wrtter For
generations she has been rediscocerng mankind through
and warn-hearted Of OF the most remarkable
comen OF time Her books American industry out
standing their field N0W at eighyuo she looks back
world that she has make four starts toward Uobid
only to taAer each time it bated and unsuccessful
But she discouraged She beleres that tn spite OF many
defeats mankinds path not futile circle out SloV up
ward SPIRAL THIS WEEK MAGAZINE asked her to rereal
specifically Of the for her bee Here they are
a RY FAITH in an upward spiral uctuates with the time
NH length of my measuring rod.
AV8 When attempt to decide which way mankind is
moving by keeping fixed only on the exhibits OF the
week. the year. the generation confess to bewdemen
only whirlpool in which successive sets OF men and
gyrate mady for time then sink leaving the sense
less performance to fresh crop of dervishes.
But it another matter when longer rod sixty years
long for example, that being the period in which have con-
sciousy practiced my profession as Journalist What does
that show what regard essentials carrying out the
pledge to which, as citizens of United States
mitted - that the pledge to establish justice, insure
domestic tranquility promote the general welfare?
What the chief essentials in problem of promoting
the general welfare? To my way of thinking simmer
them down to four:
l. Health
2. Enough food. shelter and clothing on every man.
woman and child, with little fun thrown in
g. Freedom to 60 and find something to do and along
with it freedom to express opinions.
a. An End to Force at home and abroad in government
and industry method Of settling difficulties the
substitution of Cooperation Negotiation decent Consldera
ton for each others opinion Such program vltally
necessary continued and growth of aims
as citizens
How do out if we apply my sixty year long measr
ing tape these fundamentals? Take the matter of Health
can remember when the dread of my childhood that
should have smallpox and with ockmarked face
seldom hear of of smallpox these days If one lifts its
ugly head health services and the physicians of town and
country after it, segregatng it. preventing its spread
1t the only disease under control How terrible the
idea of dphthera my mother She feared than did
smallpox and it prevalent Last year wenyfour
large cities the United States reported that they had
had case of diphthera
Typhoid was another of the erros of our towns and cities
sixty years ago. There many American today that
have had deaths from typhoid for long five
But there still conclusive proofs of upward health
spiral There the lowering death the engthenng
of our life expectancy in this period.
How this about? For sixty have been seeing
and sometimes serving campaigns for pure water for
disposal for sum clearance for the inspection of food the
regulation of markets. the control of milk supplies all in the
name public health And have the effects of these
campaigns increasing steady prevention of disease
And in this have and give their lives
discovering the of deadly vers obscure diseases
As have learned have applied establishing schools of
public health laboratories for local tests and experiments and
public health boards for administration
We have conquered tuberculosis and you
True enough have medical knowledge and practice
quhed hundreds of other enemies of human health But
slider the mpassoned efforts conquer the unconQuered to
spread the knowledge of what do know about health
So much for health But how about Enough? Enough food
and shelter and clothing with some fun thrown in.