Show FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS Of all aU the congresses for the promo promotion promotion promotion tion of human happiness none nee is quite so important as the International Con Congress Congress gress green on Tuberculosis which holds its it session this year ear in Washington Its primary purpose Is the discussion of ot I the disease and methods for its Irs prevention prevention prevention tion and cure Besides affording opportunity opportunity for the interchange of ot opinion among the experts of or the world the I congress has a great educational value alue j in j the publicity attaching to its ses sessions sessions Ions In Tuesdays proceedings pr Professor Irving Fisher of Yale said that people now living in this country must die of or tuberculosis unless something Is done to t prevent it Every Ever year ear people die of this disease at a t a cost to I Ithe the nation of over a billion dollars an annually annually These are not theories they I are demonstrable acts and yet most of ot the states have not yet roused to the necessity and the cash value of oC pre pr tifis awful waste of or human life and energy cle If some Bomi epidemic nic threatened to ex ox exterminate 1 1 terminate the sheep or of the state there J 4 i would be an immediate demand for a state organization and the expenditures of or large sums of money to prevent the calamity The United States govern government government overn ment annually ann ally spends great reat sums in inthe inthe inthe the study of or plant diseases and consid cOnid considers I ers such undertakings as good Invest Inest Investments investments ments Yet there Is no government ef of effort effort fort to stamp out tuberculosis and a proposal to appropriate money for such sucha I a purpose would be opposed by con congressmen congressmen gressmen who do not hesitate he to vote for bills to exterminate the boll boU weevil or stamp out Texas fever feer in cattle at ata a heavy cost to the government Utah Is comparatively free from tu tuberculosis but It could be protected from extension of the disease lives lIes could be saved s ved and economic l loss ss to the State prevented by b the Intelligent use of or an annual appropriation for the pur purpose purpose purpose pose Is it probable that a Utah leg legislature legIslature legislature could be persuaded to make such an appropriation It more likely that the human suffering and death due to the disease will be per permitted permitted permitted I to continue Indefinitely I Discussions in the congress so far have elicited a common agreement that the thew tendency toward the disease or susceptibility to it Is hered hereditary heredItary heredItary that the surest way of fighting It successfully in the individual is to strengthen the individual organism by hygienic hy and dietetic means The state statement statement statement ment was that autopsies show nearly every man of 30 years or over has old remains of tubercular Infection showing the disease has been overcome ov Those who fall faU victim to it are usually those thoe whose vitality Is low or who can cannot cannot cannot not maintain the proper conditions for its cure It Is agreed that life In the open air a proper diet and surround surroundings surroundIngs surroundIngs ings will enable the patient to recover recover if the disease is detected in its early earl stages The whole trend of ot the discus discussion discussion sion slon is hopeful in tone and the most sanguine note in the congress is the report from Germany Gennan showing a heavy reduction In the death rate and a I wholesale diminution of ot the disease all accomplished by rigorous isolation of known cases eases and proper treatment of the diseased The Germans have taken for their war cry No o tuberculosis after 1930 and they are making progress at ata ata ata a rate that promises to achieve their end before the time Ume limit they the have fixed for themselves With such an object lesson before us surely we Americans we people of Utah ought to do something if only on the most modest scale toward the universal defeat of this enemy en em of f the therace therace therace race A few thousand thou n dollars appropriated appropriated appropriated by the legislature and applied under the direction of intelligent nt au authorities authorities authorities would save life circumscribe a dread disease diminish its terror for forman many man and repay the state a hundred hundredfold fold in cash saving |