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ORGAN OF THE STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR.
ENDORSED BY GREENSBORO TRADES COUNCIL
MOTTO: ORGANIZATION, EPILATION AND ELEVATION.
GBBBNSBOBO, K. C, Fill DAY, JULY 30. 1909.
VOL v
NUMBER 5.
I I - I ' r i I i ivy
AMERICAN FEDERATION OFFICERS.
President Samuel Compers. v
james Duncan First V. -President.
John Mitchell Second V.-Presldent.
James O'Connell Third V.-Presldent.
Max Morris Fourth V. -President.
Dennis A. HayesFifth V.-Presldent.
wm d. Hubor Seventh V.-Presldent.
jes. H. Valentine Eighth V..-President.
jehn B- Lennon Treasurer,
ytar.?- lorrlson Secretary.
OFFICERS 8TATE FEDERATION OF
LABOR.
President, EL S. Cheek, Raleigh, N.
C.
Secretary - Treasure
-Samuel Wal-
drop, Asheville
Second Vice-President C.M.Thomp -
son, Asheville.
Third Vice-President Beverly
Moore, Rocky Mount
Fourth Vice-President H. Q. Har
rington, Raleigh.
Fifth Vice-President K. R. Thomp
son, High Point.
Sixth Vice-President R. R. Wyrick,
Greensboro.
Seventh Vice-President J. D. Nash,
Asheville. 1
Eighth Vice-President W. S. Brad
ford, High Point.
Ninth Vice-President Samuel Pate
man, Granite Quarry.
Executive Board.
E. S. Cheek, Raleigh.
W. C. Frank, Asheville.
Jno. C. Benson, Greensboro.
M. C. Reaves, Winston-Salem.
W. H. Singleton. Raleigh.
LOCAL UNIONS.
Greensboro Trade Councll-Jno, C.
Benson, president; Vernon F. McRary,
secretary.
Iron Moulders R. R. Wyrick, pres
ident; C. L. Shaw, secretary. Meets
second and fourth Wednesday nights
in each month.
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners, No. 1432 J. W. Causey,
president.
Typographical Union, No. 397 J.
T. Perkins, president; J. S. Pender,'
secretary. Meets 1st Sunday in each
month at 3.30 p. m., in the Bevill
building.
Assovldt.n of Machinists A. J.
Crawford .president; John M. Glass,
secretary; R- M. Holt, recording sec
retary. Meets every 'ruesaay nigm
in hall over Hennessee's lunch room.
Tar Heel Lodge, Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen Meets every
Wednesday night in Odd Fellows Hall
on Fayetteville street. T. B. Hin
ton, Master; J. G. Whitehart, secre
tary; J. T. Lashley, financier.
WHY LOSE MONEY?
Why do you not, when you have a
hard-earned dollar to spend, go
where you can feel satisfied that you
get the full value of that coin? If we
were to use this whole page we
couldn't illustrate and describe the
real dfon gool bargains - which we
fh&v for you, and ppds that we can
Jsolutely-save? ydfi money on and
are saving our customers money on
every day. We don't run any skin
games (and right here we would like
to know if you haven't been skinned
more than once at these so-called
special sales, give you 9 cents worth
of nothing to skin you out of a dol
lar and a quarter on something else)
We have just opened one thousand
dollars' worth of sample shoes. These
we sell at 30 per cent discount
These are real bargains. We took
the entire lot of odds and ends in
children's clothing and men's cheap
pants from one factory. These are
real bargains, and It's all the way
through our entire stock the same
way. There's not a line that we
carry (and we carry almost every
thing) that we can't save you money
on. We have by far the greatest and
cheapest line of goods that we have
ver shown and you are standing In
your own light if you do not at once
decide to make our store headquar
ters for your buying this year. Its -only
a pleasure to us to show you,
so come and see.
Yours for business.
The Original Racket Store,
A. V. SAPP, Prop.
318 South Elm Street
T.H.BRIGGS&SONS
RALEIGH, N. C.
$T H E B I G
Hardware Store
Sons op Mechanics
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THE SALOON AND THE WORKERS.
By the Rev. Charles Stelzle.
The brewery worker and the men
employed in the distillery are work
ingmen. Most of the men are en
gaged in these Industries, not because
they want to be, but because they
must. It is not their fault but their
misfortune. But since they are work
ingmen, honestly trying to make a
living, and since they are now affili
ated with the American Federation of
Labor, it is our duty, as fellow work
ers, to see that they get a square deal
from their employers, just as we
must insist upon a square deal for all
other workers. This does not mean
that we must endorse their business,
any more than we would endorse the
rascality that is practiced in connec
tion with other enterprises, but with
which some of our fellow-members are
helplessly identified. However, it is
our right to stamp out the rascality
and if, in order to do this, we must
also stamp out the business, so much
the worse for business. If we must
accept with the saloon, all of its ac
companying evils, then it becomes a
question as to whether the benefits
which it brings to comparatively few
workers, is really worth while. Or
ganized labor cannot afford to stand
for any sort of enterprise, nor for any
institution, which results in the degra
dation of the workers or of the peo
ple as a whole. No man can success
fully deny that the saloon as an insti
tution, is one of the greatest curses of
modern times. There is scarcely
room for argument on this point. Ev
erybody knows of the suffering and
hardship which have come to many
lives on account of its influence
Scarcely one of us but what felt the
grip of its slimy claws, or seen the
agony of loved one3 who have been
helpless in its power. Can we, as
men and women, remain indifferent
to such an Institution? Dare we, who
are pledged to seek the welfare of ev
ery fellow trades unionist declare that
as the saloon does not hurt us, there
fore we shall make no effort to assist
him whom it does injure? I do not
argue here for prohibiton. That isn't
the question before us. It is a ques
tion as to whether we shall counte
nance and worse still, endorse a
certain' business in our midst which
is doing more to unfit men for their
life's work; which is doing more to
bring disgrace upon the labor move
ment than any other enterprise known
We are our brother's keepers. Not
only are we pledged to be such, but
we shall be held responsible for our
brothers.
But ?what is to become of the bar
tenders and the brewery workers and
the men who are now benefiting from
the brewing and the distillery inter
est!? In the first place, it must not
be imagined that the saloon and the
liquor interests are the only consum
ere of the materials manufactured by
the fclass bottle blowers, the harness
makers, the wagon makers, and all
the7 other industries more or less le
lated to a saloon. The money "now
spent in the saloon will be spent for
other goods, or in other places, which
will bring these workers at least as
much profit as they now receive for
their product As a matter of fact,
the! amount of money now spent in
the jsaloon will purchase or will cause
to b purchased more of the same ma
terial that these workers are produc
ing tfian is the case in the liquor bus
iness! It will require more bottles,
more iwagons, more harness, ana many
more men than is now required to sup-
Dly trie brewery and the saloon. So
far asthe bartenders are concerned,
it is a Well known fact that very few
men haVe been brought up in the bus
iness. TThey have had other trades
or occupations, but on account of their
personal! popularity or their natural
ability as salesmen, they eitner open
ed saloons of their own, or became
employes of those who did. In any
event, thgy.may either go back to their
trades Cor they may become sales
men In bither. enterprises. The class
for whom ltT may be more difficult to
provide,! alrel those who are directly
engaged im the manufacture of beer
and whiskey:) But after all the out
side craftsmen who are affiliated with
the breweiy! workers are elimiated,
the breweffy j workers are eliminated,
ters, horseVshoers, grainhandlers and
many others jwho really have nothing
to do with (the manufacture of beer, it
will be foufnd that there are compara-
tively few
wdrkers left. Like all otn:
U N I O NJLA BE L
er industr
ies the brewing industry is
depending less and less upon men, and
more and more upon machinery. The
old-fashioned brewer has gone out of
existence. The chemist is the big
man in the brewery today. Therefore,
the number of men who are directly
involved Is not as great as is gener
ally supposed. It should be remem
bered, also, that these very men , re-,
ceive a smaller percentage of the, prof
it than is paid the workingmen in any
other craft. Furthermore, if the brew
eries should ever be closed, this event
will probably not take place for some
time to come, and they will not all
be closed at once. The change will
no doubt come through a gradual pro
cess, which will permit those employ
ed in Jthe breweries and the distiller
ies to adjust themselves to the new
conditions, just as was the case, for
instance, with members of the Typo
graphical Union when the linotype ma
chine was introduced. The men, sim
ply were compelled to learn a new
trade, and those who learned it soon
est, were most greatly benefited. The
brewery and distillery workers must
face the fact that, for most of them,
at any rate, their business is doomed.
There ace too many agencies at work
against them. The railroads and oth
er corporations are sounding the note
of warning.- Their men must not drink
intoxicants. The doctors throughout
their studies of hygienics are deliver
ing sledge hammer blows. The legis
latures, regardless of the pleading of
"cranks," are rapidly closing up tne
saloons the "cranks" have little to
do with it The people their constit
uents demand it and they dare not
disobey.
As to their right to do this, we shall
leave that for further discussion.
CHINESE AND MISSION WORK
ERS. The shocking murder of Miss Elsie
Sigel by a Chinaman seems to recall
the statements frequently made rela
tive to the immorality of the Chinese.
On Saturday, February 15th, 1902, be
fore a sub-committee of the United
States Senate hearing testimony upon
Chinese Exclusion, Mrs. Charlotte
Smith, representing the Woman's Na
tional Industrial League of America,
being given the privilege of address
ing the committee, said in part
"In my work among fallen women,
I have had frequent occasion to see
the shocking results of the immorality
of the Chinamen who come to this
country. The Chinese are like a
sponge, they absorb and give noth
ing in return but bad odors and worse
morals. They are a stc-nding menace
to the women of this country. Their
very presence is contaminating. They
have sown the seed of vice In every
city, town and hamlet in the United
States. In my investigations as presi
dent of the Woman's Rescue League
which is a branch of the Woman's Na
tional Industrial League, I found 17
women who had been baptized in the
Christian faith living with Chinamen
in New York in 1892. These women
bring young pagans into the world,
and with their so-called husbands, wor
ship in joss houses and become disci
ples of Confucius, as well as opium
fiends. Out of every 100 Chinese 99
are gamblers, and this undesirable
class come into direct competition
with women who are breadwinners.
The beastly and immoral lives these
Mongolians lead is only too well
known in police courts of our large
cities, where patrol wagons filled with
Chinese gamblers and Sunday school
scholars every Monday morning
goes to prove as an object lesson that
they are never to be Christianized.
"During the year 1889, in Washing
ton, D. C, 564 Chinese were arrested,
the majority of whom were members
of the Metropolitan church Sunday
school. Men and women, pipes and
opium-joint paraphernalia were
brought into the police court The
very worst of gamblers and most im
moral opium joint keepers were so
called. Sunday school pupils. I was
interested in having these Chinese
"Christians" raided because of their
contaminating young children, and the
result was published in the newspa
pers at that time.
"In Boston, June 23, 1894, 15,000 un
fortunate girls were turned loose to
forage upon the community because
of a moral crusade Inaugurated
against vice. What was the result?
American born, educated girls be
came the mistresses of the Chinese of
Boston. The tenderloin floating pop
ulation- was soon after transferred to
Chinatown, and the Chinese were per
mitted to go into the business of keep
ing houses of ill-repute, and engaged
entensively in this illicit traffic.
Mrs. Smith then went on to say tnat
if some decided steps were not taken
by the government to exclude and keep
out this undesirable class it would not
be long until legislatures would be
asking that there be leper hospitals
established in every township in this
country.
A. E. YOELL, Secy.
Asiatic Exclusion League,
CORRESPONDENCE.
To Whom it May Concern: The
Douglas Shoe Co., Brockton, Mass.,
is sending out a misleading circular
dated July 2, 1909, together with ex
tracts from a Brockton committee re
port which they represent to .be a re
port which was rendered and accepted
by the Board of Aldermen and Com
mon Council of the Brockton City Gov
ernment The facts are that this is the report
of a sub-committee made to a larger
committee, and the conclusions of this
reoort have been adopted by either
the Board of Aldermen or City Coun
cil of Brockton, Mass.
The renort is biased in the extreme
and is looked upon in Brockton as full
of inaccuracies.
The report of the committee jmakes
one I statement which is true beyond
question wnen it says: "But a; small A few days ago the writer of this
part of its (the Douglas Company) reminiscent lore was importuned by
manufacturing is done here."! The one of . our local number to say some
Douglas shoes are now being mkde in thing about people who lurked around
Sprlngvale, Maine, Nashua, N. H., and this "neck o' woods" in bygone days.
Haverhill, Mass. The committee re- Everyone who' 'Had worked around
port makes no mention of the substan- Omaha twenty years ago remember
tial reduction in wages secured by he Lou G. Moultom then foreman of the
Douglas Company by the pretense of old Daily Republican, located at che
a transfer of shoes from No. 1 factory southwest corner of Tenth and Douglas
to-No. 2, and their, transfer .bck to las streets. Lou was a fellow possess
hel original location, together; with ed of a cool, deliberate, far-away Mos
the jehanging of the numbers on the es look; a being whom none could "rat
factory, in an attempt to justify the tie" or excite, and one who could dts,
trarisfer, and their expressed willing- pose of as much or more work in a
nessoto accept Inferior work to Justify short space of time as any man who
the Jower wage scale. i ever "bowed his back" over a "make-
Tie circular of the Douglas Co., is up" stone, or "pegged" solid "hoss"
misleading when it says that counsel type at the cases,
for-the company proposed to the Ex- j On a certain occasion while Lou
ecutjve Council of the American Fed-1 was foreman, of the "Rep." and while
eratjon of Labor In session in fWash- the late Mme. Modjeska was playing
ingtn, January 15, 1909, that f Presi-1 at the old Farnam street theater, it
dent Gompers appoint a- committee of happened that one of our rural
three members of the Council . to in-"comps", who was just "breaking in"
vestigate nd decide this matte?. The ' on morning newspaper work, picked
proposition was tnat tne executive
- J1 1 A A i 1 a mm
iuujcu investigate tne aispute, DUt no
propbsal was made which would bind
the 'company to accept any decision
and we challenge the production of
any , documentary evidence in support
of their statement
There was absolutely no ground for
us to expect that the Douglas Com
pant would accept any decision that
would oblige them to return their cn
tirebusiness to Brockton, whici they
had removed, and to advance the
wages rrom 2b to 35 per cent ;restor
Iner the reduction which thev have im.
posd by moving their business to
country factories to escape the de
cisjons on wages rendered by the
Massachusetts State Board o; Arbi
tratlon. t
The alleged extract from a letter
of the Executive Council, printed at
the bottom of the Douglas circular
is an extract from what is known as
the Duncan letter. President Gom
pers, of the American Federation of
Labor, in a letter to us under jjdate of
February 4, 1909, states as follows
"I am authorized by the Executive
Council to say to you that the letter
of Vice-President Duncan, addressed
to the W. L. Douglas Shoe Company
wasj In no sense a decision of ?the Ex
ecutive Council." i
The Company has persistently en
deavored to make it appear that oar
unions in Brockton were against the
general organization and supporting
the Douglas Company in their con
troversy with the union.
OnWednesday June v 23d, S09r afe
Syracuse, N. Y., the convention of the
Boot and Shoe Workers' Urjion en
dorsed the action of the General Of
ficers in refusing to allow th W. L
Douglas Shoe Company to ! reduce
wages by trickery and deception. The
vote was 237 affirmative to S in the
negative, and there were 70 delegates
in the convention from Brockton
This decision by our corfvention,
which is the only tribunal that has
any right to decide questions of this
kind for our organization, we. believe
will be accepted! and will be fully jus
tified by all rightthinking people in do
fending our wages, not alon in the
Douglas factories, but above all in
their preservation in other factories
that would certainly have a Hght to
follow the lead of the Douglas Com
pany if they succeeded in fastening
their reduction in wages, upon; our un
ion and in causing us,by any plan
which they might devise, into-making
a new contract which they allege
would advance the cause of unionism.
We believe that we, and not an em
ployer or a committee of citizens not
connected with organized labor, are
the proper custodians of the? union s
welfare and we will not surrender this
function to any person or persons not
clothed with the proper authority to
speak for organized labor in oUr crait
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN F. TOBIN.f Pres.
B. &. S. Wi I. U.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
A Baltimore man who has a large
number of employes under him has
posted in the various departments of
his establishment cards which bear
the above caption and the following
terse rules: '
Rule 1. Don't lie; it wastes my
time and yours. I am sure to catch
you in the end, and that's the wrong
end. r
Rule 2. -Watch your work, not the
clock. A lbng day's work makes a
long day short and a day's short work
makes my face long.
Rule 3. Give me more than I ex
pect, and I'll pay you more than you
expect I can afford to increase your
pay if you increase my profits.
Rule 4. You owe so much to your
self that you can't afford to owe any
body else. Keep out of debt or keep
out of my shops.
Rule 5. Dishonesty is never an ac
cident Good men, like good women,
can't see temptation when they meet
it.
Rule 6. Mind your own business
and in time you will have a business
of your own to mind.
Rule 7. Don't do anything ' here
which hurts your self-respect The
employe who is willing to steal for
for me is capable of stealing ftom me.
Rule 8. It's none of my business
what you do at night But if dissipa
tion affects what you do next day and
you do half as much as I demand, you
will last half as long as yotf hoped.
Rule 9. Don't tell me what "I'd like
to hear but what I ought to hear. I
don't need a valet to my vanity, but
I need one for my dollars. f
Rule 10. Don't kick If I kick. If
you're worth while correcting, you
worth while keeping. HI don't
waste time cutting specks out of rot-
ten apples. Exchange. f
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BACK NUMBERS.
. up a handful of "dead" solid type for
1 . "V
distribution, which "dead" matter was
a criticism of Mme. Modjeska's In
terpretation of the character of Lady
Macbeth. It was the "style" of the
paper at that time to use italic type
for; names of all characters In theat
rical stories, etc.
Discovering the italic sprinkled
through this handful of type, our am
bitious aspirant to metropolitan news
paper printing was at a loss to know
what to do with the italic. As he
proceeded with his distribution Ixju
happened to observe him occasionally
"firing" a word of the type off to one
side amidst the "floor pi" and other
junk. Approaching him, Lou accosted
him thus: "Partner, what are you
trying to do?" to which the "country
rabbit?' replied: "Oh,, nothing, Mr.
Foreman; I was just throwing away
these d d horned letters."
At another time during Lou's re
gime a "galley" was passed to a cer
tain individual for correction and a
capital "W" was marked out of the
proof. : It was a big, fat type, but that
cut no ice with the iron-jawed man
who made the correction and rather
than space out the line he drew it
from the matter and with his adamant
like teeth he bit it off and reinserted
it. Lou's keen eyes discovered the
bright and shining broken end and
drawing it out of the line calmly
walked over to the "tired" man and
informed him that it was customary
in this office when a man bit off a cap
W"-to' avoia""Spihgottt,
turn the bright side down to keep the
foreman from getting on to it.
One night a sermon from some cel
ebrated local divine was being "ran
off the hook", and while it was in hand
the "phat" market "pick-ups" were
put on the hook. Jake Reith, one of
the "old-timers" was "pegging away"
on a take of the sermon and was just
about to finish up when one of the
"cubs" in the office,' says, "slow up,
Jake; wait for one 'take' to get off,
and you'll strike a 'fat pick-up.' " In
order to wait for the next man to
go out, Jake just whiled away his
time and set up a dead line which
read, "I'll have that take or bust a
gut," intending to side-track tne
"deadTline to his "phat" galley. It
seemed that two men started for the
"hook'V about- the same time, and Jake
had to hurrx-to sandwich himself be
tween the two to secure the coveted
prize. In his excitement to secure
his booty he forgot to lift the bogus
line into the "phat" galley, and imag
ine the proof reader's dismay when
he read this in Jake's sermon take:
"And Moses commanded his follow
ers to proceed with him up Mount
Sinai, exclaiming, 'I'll have that take
or bust a gut' '
It cost Jake a $2 fine and confiaca?-
tion of the "take." Uncle Al. in the
Omaha Western Laborer.
LABEL'S VICTORY.
Another practical demonstration of
the efficacy of the union label has
been held up to the public vision
since the inception of the Hatter's
lockout. When the association manu
facturers decided to disrupt and anni
hilate the Hatters' organization, they
bound themselves by rules of law, gen
tlemen's agreements, and put each
member under a twenty-five thousand
dollar bond that he would uphold the
union" scale of their making.
For several months -past the locked-
out workmen and women have fought
and starved for the principles of their
association and organization. Heroic
ally and manfully have they withstood
the pangs of want and hunger. Just
as heroically and manfully have the
workers come to their assistance.
While the relief may not have been all
that one could have desired, still it
proved of immense assistance in re-
ieving cases of pressing needs. And,
above all, it demonstrated to the hat
ters that organized labor was with
them, both in heart and pocket Thou
ands of dollars poured into the exec
utive hands of those who had charge
of that life and death struggle.
This battle was being waged for the
very existence of one of the oldest
abor organizations of the country. The
fight was being forced by the tremen
dous interest of the allied hat manu-
acturers. with the moral and financial
support of men controlling millions of
dollars.
. It is not our Intention to go into
an elaborate detail of this straggle.
What we have In mind is the power
ful weapon' the union label can be
made when it is consistentnly applied.
Tle spectacle which confronted the
great army of organized workers was
that they would Deep mpeled to wear
their old hats with the union label, or
buy new ones without it
. . r ' ' -1
Their answer to this condition of
affairs can , be read . In the recent set
tlement. of this great, labor-union
wrecking campaign." The-thousands of
union men, who were true . to thir
princpiles and convictions, are to be
congratulated." The insistence for the
label was manfully and consistently
pushed. They have saved the day
for themselves -and 'their fellows for
some time to come. It is not presump
tuous to suppose that other associa
tions engaged in like intent as the
associated hat manufacturers to dis
rapt any particular branch of organ
ized labor will think long and hard be
fore throwing down the gage of battle.
The lesson in our opinion will prove a
salutary one. r
There is another phase to this prin
ciple of organizing- for mutual bene-
fit and profit Those workers were
banded together to better enable
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mem jaj niCBL J-iVlJ. WUr JaJ.il g conQiuons ,
to protect the . female workers from
lech emus nnrl Insnltinap fAram-in n4
.V1 ViUVU, . CU-U
to insist upon a wage commensurate
with right living. Such, in part, were
the demands of those who fought for
the retention of their label and organ
ization. ,
On the other hand we have some
twenty-six men bound Into an Iron
clad COmnact backed hv mil Hon a nf
capital, in an unholy attempt o for
ever stamp the life out of the union
label upon their product As time
passed, it? recorded a break in their
ranks, and with some factories work
ing night and day In an attempt to
supply union-made hats, it was t&ll
and wormwood for the iron bound as
sociation to notice their trade slipping
away to other firms.
The straw that finally broke the
camel's back came, when injunction
after injunction was called and prayed
for. If there was a single case of
stomach ache, or heartache that did
not receive an injunction application,
then it was no fault of those men who
were endeavoring to crush, their ex
employes. Finally they got to quarrel
ing and fighting among themselves.
Sixteen of them broke away singly
and collectively. The courts were ap
pealed to in an endeavor to take away
their cards ($25,000 bonds put up for
good behavior), and this phase is now
in the hands of the courts.
To the observer It would seem that
there would be good grounds upon the
part of some to go after the manufac
turers on "a charge of an illegal, com
bination to destroy the Hatters' union.
When twenty-six men will put up per
sonal bonds to the extent of $650,000
anTnn1.cTi -V . fll. 1a.mi t 4tt
into court with any too cleanly hands.
Most emphatically in this contro
versy has the solidarity of the organ
ized labor movement been shown. It
has gone forth to the uttermost ends
of the w rid that the battle of one
branch of industry - is the concern of
all. And the way to reap still richer
rewards is to everlastingly insist on
and demand the union label, the em
blem of fair dealing and justice to
all. Cincinnati Chronicle.
CHILDREN LEARN HOW TO PRE
VENT CONSUMPTION.
Over 2,500,000 of the 17,000,000 school
children enrolled in the United States
have during the school year just clos
ed, been systematically instructed con
cerning the dangers of consumption
and the methods for its cure and nre-
vention, according to a statement is
sued recently by the National Associa
tion for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis.
Besides the 2,500,000 children thus
j regularly instructed in their schools,
the National Association estimates
that fully 1,000,000 more have received
linstruction at the various ctubercu
culosls exhibits held in all pirts of
the country or in separate classes and
organization, s
A number of investigations conduct
ed in various parts of the world show
that a large per cent of the children
in the public schools have tuberculo
sis before they are eighteen. That a
larger number of them do not die, is
due to the fact that healthy children
are able to resist the attack of the
consumption germ. On account of
the prevalence of the disease amcng
children, the Nationa1 Association con
siders their education to be of prime
importance.
In Boston a special commission
which recently investigated the sub
ject found that over 5,000 school chil
dren in that city alone had positive
cases of tuberculosis. In New York
a recent study showed over 25,000 tu
berculosis children in the schools. On
the basis of thesea nd other investi
gations it is estimated by certain au
thorities tnat there are nearly 1,000,
000 school children in the United
States today, who will probably die of
tuberculosis before they have reach
ed the age of eighteen. This would
mean that the public schools of the
country are paying annually $7,500,000
for the education of children who will
die before they reach the age of eigh
teen. At. least one-half of this sick
ness,' and possibly three-fourths of it.
could be prevented, if the municipal
and state governments would adopt
better and more, hygienic methods of
controlling and teaching the children,
and if the public in general were alive
to the need for tuberculosis preven
tion.- '
The National Association declares
that the best way to wipe but con
sumption among the children is to
educate' both' them and their parents
so that they will know that tubercu
losis is a communicable disease, that
it can be cured and that it must be
prevented. -r