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Show - ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR EXPERIMENT Corporation Itocognlze tho Vi.Iuo of Iloaltli Protection. (FltANK W. LECI.EKE.) (Utah Public Health Association.) A year ago it was announcod that tho Metropolitan Life Insurance company com-pany had made a gift of ono hundred thousand dollars to tho National Association As-sociation for tho Study and Trovcn- Hon of Tuberculosis for tho purpose of demonstrating what can bo done toward stamping out tuberculosis and other provontablo diseases In a community. com-munity. Tho city of Framlngham, Mass., a city of about 16,000 Inhabitants Inhabi-tants was chosen. Tho demonstration, demonstra-tion, which Is to contlnuo for three years, was put Into tho hands of a group of well qualified men. About thorn have hailed tho various forces of tho city the city government, tho doctors, hospitals, churchos, schools, club women, commercial organizations, organiza-tions, benevolent societies, labor unions, etc. It Is, to uso a war phrase, a "big drive" against man's most rolontless and destructive foo, disease. The intelligent people of Framing-ham Framing-ham recognize tho valuo of tho opportunity op-portunity to free their clty'from prc-ventablo prc-ventablo diseases which are responsible responsi-ble for probably two-thirds of tho sickness and death of past yoars. They aro calling it "Framlngham's Opportunity" and they havo adopted the slogan, "Health First; All Else Will Follow." Insuranco companies are organized for profits, not for philanthropy, and stockholders nnd directors kept their eyes upon tho expense and profit ahoets. They demand that every unusual un-usual expenditure be Justified on tho profit side of tho ledger. Therefore, when a great life Insurance company expends many thousands of dollars for tho protection of tho health and lives of Us policy holders and In addition ad-dition makes a single gift and one hundred thousand dollars for an experiment ex-periment In public health protection, it may bo accepted as proof that tho careful and successful business men who head this company and control Its policy aro convinced that It pays them richly In dollars and cents, as well as In tho satisfaction which comes to them from having done something to mako tho world happier and nioro wholesome for their follow human bolngs. |