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Page 2 ' " - . 1 1 . Subscribe to The State Port Pilot Today. r " ^ - I ? Uncle Sam Still Needs The Use of Your Money Don't Cash Your War Bonds! ?But there is no need to deny yourself a new car or any of the home appliances that you are planning to buy. | Hold on to your bonds ! and borrow from our bank! i i i.oans quu.i\i.> iinitiigcu jkJ)* with repayment to suit your HBW income. j WACCAMAW BANK AND TRUST COMPANY | Callin? Ail Cars and D Look At Your Tires-Do They Need T>ATTtP!tC J Have y0"1 work /? ^Bgars: *' -. l/tlf I tA'-? fl done by experts? Bjl nr/iiiAn/ii/i with pennsyl- jsj PENNS^VAWAJBATTERIE# WK HAVF ^SESji \ nr You buy guaranteed performance when rrl?"a ** ~ you buy a PENNSYLVANIA Battery. H^UjjPfVH TR A IN You can pay more but you can't buy H^^BP* ?Y/"?lll, better batterfea. JQ QJye y0) BLACK'S SERVICE STAT PHONE 110-J W. C. BLACK WHI - - ? j ? ' THE STATE PORT P Tuberculosis b As Problem F ? ?; Herbert L. .Matthews, Chief, - London Bureau, New York Times Those of us who have seen what tuberculosis can do in war ami after war mc more frightened about it and more likely to take it seriously than those who have had to stay at homo. That is the only reason why a layman like myself, who knows nothing about medicine but who has seen much suffering, can dare to write about disease. I have been a war ccn espondent for ten years now from 'Abyssinia to Spain to the World War?and TB is as much a pait of war as shells and bombs. Sometimes you sort of take it for granted, as in Ethiopia or India who. e misery seems so natural that you have to force yourself to remember that much of it is man-made and preventable. Sometimes you see why it happens, as I did in Rome, for instance. I lived there front 1939 to 1942 and I knew, vaguely, that the Italian capital was notorious for having a high TB rate. But it was not startling and the average person never thought about it. Then came the war, and wc conquered Rome on June 4. 1944. Allied Military Government, our [ civil affairs branch of the Allied Armies, went in the same day with its health authorities who immediately began a survey. A few weeks later the chief health officer told me that, incredible though it sounded, they were finding that one person in every five had tuberculosis. When we invaded Southern Fiance in August and fought all over the streets of Marseilles, I remember being told over the luncheon table that "so many people have TB now!" Later, a French authority estimated that in 1943 tuberculosis had increased 48 per cent in Paris over 193B. In the past, TB killed more people than wars' did. In the places I have mentioned and been in during recent years, the high TB death late was due to war conditions, or poverty which the wars aggravted. At home in the United States we have not got that excuse?at least not yet, but TB develops slowly and it is too soon to tell what may happen after the war. That is when the real test comes, a test we are beginning to face. And it is in its way a test of democracy. In Italy, under Fascism, I saw the State interesting itself to some extent in the prevention and relief of tuberculosis. Fascism, along v'Kh its multiple evils, found it useful to do some good things for the masses. In every field of human progress there is a challenge to democracy ? to show that the will of the peoTrucks Recapping 3 MMi'MiHiliUliM "PettKMflvasticL i ARE FAMOUS JP LONG WEAR ijf jW/jt 7jj cass, dual purpose 1 9 pressure curing give U1VXS| you more carefree ^ We are set up you to give you fast servkwonth the ////Jfiryl//. ^ very rcry PENN8YL- [ ? MZtf VAN IA sepair j| j? I ON HANI) Material 1 Good en uci d LilS ULLI Li Good Service ? ION TEVILLE mmrnmmmmtm mmm ' V'.. ..v-" > ... b . / 1 I . you for fror and besl : r ( L ^D V . ON : ... C. , . after chest X-ray examinations which showed they were free of tuberculosis. But war has its casualties beyond those tragic lists of killed, wouncjpd and missing which you sec every day. You get no Purple Hearts for dysentory, jaundice, malaria or tuberculosis, but the victim is as much a casualty of war as the others. So many veterans of the first World War broke down with tuberculosis that it cost about one billion dollais to care for them. This is already a much longer war, with many more men involved. Now that V-E day is past one wonders how many of those who escaped both bullet and germ should now be going home to face that same old enemy of mankind. the "mycobacterium tuberculosis?" It is to reduce that number, and those victims who are the relatives or sweethearts of the returning soldiers, that the campaign to sell Christmas Seals this year takes on added meaning. The battles that are fought with fire and steel are won or lost, and that is the end of them, j but the other battles, the ones ' that man and women fight against disease never end and the arms can never be laid down. It is to provide the arms that all of us have been asked to buy Christmas Seals. The General Court of Massachusetts named Fairbanks Tavern in Beaton as the first p6st office in the new world Nov. 5, 1639. Art old tiger may develop a taste for human blood, being disabled from overtaking his usual nrev. Jam Dean Palmist?I-ife Reader?Advisor SIES)_ Licensed by State of N. doubtful, discontented and unisult this medium. She advises affairs of life. If worried over lome unhappy, love or some inre holding you down and pre>u from obtaining your object in it this gifted lady, o dreary that she cannot Dtrng he lifts you out of your sorrows the road to success and happilaily and Sun., 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. r on Clarkton Highway at? or Hand Sign. Wliitevllle, N. C. T jr v v -r* i 1 .... . ... ; 'W'W""'-' mm g&Sjt < ' ' ! - . Hi ^gain we unloaded ng mules this morns work. They're 4 U n 1,050 to 1,200 poi personally selecte : selection yet. ALSO SEVERAi A Large Stock 01 Hames am 'The Customer Makes -CASH or 3. L Fuller WHITE i 1LOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C. , _ ^ 'lust Be Faced i 'ostwar World pie can provide as well as the' fiat of a dictator! A victory that left a legacy of disease would be a hollow one. World War I, it will be recalled, was accompanied a'nd followed by an influenza epidemic which took many more lives than all those killed in the conflict. It is as if Nature sets out to show us that if we must have destruction she can go us one better. Yet the conquest of that aspect of Nature is at the basis of civilization and progress. What we see in the war-devastated countries is an abnormal condition where malnutrition, poor housing or no houses at all, lack of sanitation, lack of clothing and the like weaken the individual's resistance to disease germs. That has been unavoidable during the war, and doubtless will continue to be for another year or so, but Allied Military Government, or its equivalent, is fighting disease in every country of Europe. In the United States there is no convenient A. M. G? but neither is there destruction, famine, homelessness. The excuse is infinitely less. In America, education and popular contributions could be enough to reduce the 57,000 annual deaths from TB to a minimum. We Americans are apt to take our blessings for granted, although the soldiers who have been fighting far from home will not do so when they return. They have 3'Jffeied their share cf TB. too, which is an extra pity, because they went into the Army No neart so sad, no home s eunshire and happiness to it. 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