THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
A TWO BILLION DOLLAR
LEAK.
(By Philip P. Jacobs. Ph.D.,)
Director of Publications and Ex
tension National Tuberculosis
Association.
Tuberculosis is a costly disease,
costly to the individual, costly to
his family, costly to industry,
costly to the community. All of
us, taxpayers and rent-payers,
must pay for sickness, whether
we are 11 or well. For the tuber
culosis patient there are such tan
gible expenditures as loss of wag
es and income, doctor and hospi
tal bills, besides the cost that
comes from the danger of spread
ing this disease to his friends and
family.
At this very moment there are
no less than 500.000 active cases
of tuberculosis in the United Sta
tes. This year, 1937, about 70.000
persons have died of tuberculosis,
most of them young adults, for
this is a young person's diesease.
If you will multiply 500,000 living
cases by $4,000, which is the care
fully computed cost of a tuber
culosis case to home, industry and
community, you will get the stu
pendous total of two billion dol
lars. That’s what these 500,000'
cases of tuberculosis will cost you
and everyone else who lives in
the United States.
But most of that cost is unnec
essary, since tuberculosis is a dis-,
ease that can be prevented. In
fact, it can be eradicated. That
two billion dollars is like a leak
in a great dam or dike where the
water that should be saved for
productive uses, runs away need
lessly.
Why not stop this leak? We
know how to do it; we have been
able to reduce the havoc of tuber
culosis from 150,000 deaths some
thiry years ago to about 70,000
at the present time. Three de
cades ago 175 persons out of ev
ery 100.000 then living died an
nually from tuberculosis while
today the corresponding rate is
about 55.
We have learned from experi
ence how to control tuberculosis.
We know that hospitals for treat
ment of the disease and for health
protection are our main line of
defense against the disease. We
have proved that clinics, doctors,
tuberculin testing and X-raying
of high schoo-l and college child
ren and young adults, together
with competent public health
nursing, are essential to find tub
erculosis in its early curable form
and to prevent its spread in home
school and industry. We know
that health education in the
school and in the population at
large will teach people how to
avoid tuberculosis, and, above all,
we know that organization of
community resources and of fo
cused public opinion on the pro-1
blem of tuberculosis are mighty
aids in getting rid of this White
Plague.
Why then, should we allow a
leak of two billion dollars to con
tinue? It is simply because of
indfTerence on the part of the
public. Some people know how
to prevent tuberculosis but every
body should know how to prevent
it. The tuberculosis associations
of the United States, local, state,
and National have been the lead
ers in the fight against tubercu
losis. Their biggest task is now
before them. With the distinct
gains that have been made in the
last thirty years many people
think that tuberculosis is onquer
ed but this is far from being the
ase. Tuberulosis still is Public
Enemy No. 1 among the young
people of this nation. The job
of conquering tuberculosis can be
completed but it needs the sup
port of every man, woman and
child in the country.
The appeal of the Christmas
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body- can help to ftght tubercu
lous. But it is only one way.
Your money is great y ne, d,vl to
provide the sinews of war to the
fighters who are leading the at
tack on this disease. But more
than your finar-c-al support is
necessary, your moral support &
your enthusiastic cooperation are
also needed. Enlist today in this
life-saving campaign.
“THE TINKER”
Christmas rush of wrapping
presents and sending cards. Mar
jorie. the daughter, home from
college for vacation and an unex
pected guest, Jane Seymour, with
her. Jack's question of money
for a present for the coach. The
arrival of a most important letter
from a lawyer in Seattle concern
ing the will of their eccentric old
Uncle Toby. The visit of a de
grading member of the family—
Uncle Jeremy. Isn’t it all enough
to upset any plans of a house
hold?
Davd Whitney and his family
have an exciting and upsetting
Christmas. And when the Tinker
begins to interrupt, it is almost
too much for Ethel Whitney.
"Has the mail come yet?” is a
constant question in the Whitney
family until they realize the will
HAS arrived but they cannot find
it. What a situation,: They might
be millionaires or they might be
—anything! Where IS the will?
And w-hat dors it hold for them?
See “The Tinker” presented by
the Drama Cluib at the Federated,
Church. Monday, December 13.
Tickets on sale at 50 cents for
adults and 35 cents for children.
Be sure to see this comedy-drama
and learn how the will holds
within itself the future destiny
of the Whitney family.
Weather Today
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(U S. Weather Bureau)
An intense Low dominates the
region of the Aleutian Islands;
one center of which is located ov- j
er the Bering Sea near St. Paul
Island and the other in the North
Pacific south of the Aleutians;
causing cloudy weather with rain
and snow over southern and west
ern parts of Alaska. High pres
sure overlies all of Northwestern
Canada near the Arctic Ocean j
with a ridge extending south 'to
another High centered over Van
couver Island; causing generally
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fair and old weather to continue [
in the interior.
The highest Nome temperature
yesterday was 19 and the lowest
last night was 12 above. The 24
hour precipitation at noon today
was 0.05 in.
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Notice of Hearing and Settlement
of Final Account and Petition
For Distribution. No. 405.
In The Probate Court For The
Cape Nome Precinct, Territory
of Alaska, Second Division.
In the Matter of the Estate of
JACOB S. WATTE, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to whom
it may concern:
That the undersigned, admini
strator of the estate of JACOB S.
WATTE, deceased, has filed in
the said Court his final account
and report and petition for the
distribution of said estate and
that the 17th day of January,
1938, at the hour of 11 o’clock A.
M., of said date in the courtroom
of said Court at Nome, Alaska,
has been fixed by the order of
said Court as the time and place
for the hearing of the same and
objections thereto and the settle
ment thereof and that at said
time and place the Court will ad
judicate and determine who are
the heirs and distributees of said
deceased.
Dated this, the 15th day of
November, 1937.
A. P O L E T,
Administrator of the Estate
of Jacob S. Watte, deceased.
Publish Nov. 15, 22, 29, Dec. 6. ’37
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