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s Class matter under act of Congress nf March 3, 1378
THE ISLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY
Sig J. Digree, Editor and Publisher
Betha Digree, Executive Se^ctary
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
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tK>n of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in
t iis paper and also the local news published herein.
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Christmas Seals Help Combat TB
In 1904 a handful of doctors
gathered to organize themselves
? to a national association to fight
t iberculosis. By unanimous vote,
Edward L. Trudeau, the man who
ad by this time given up his sad
i tei of dying from TB quietly in
4'ie Adirondack hills he loved so
* ell and was now gallantly demon
rating that TB was curable, was
•f osen,president. Many believe the
..^owning achievement of his life
^ as the role he played in organiz
ing the National Tuberculosis As
r> Nation.
It the first annual meeting of
t • association held in Washing
t n, D. C. in 1905, all eyes were
turned on the president, expecting
him to sound the crusading trum
pet and outline the strategy. That
he did. For 50 years the crusading
trumpet call has inspired the great
work of the Association.
The- essence( of Trudeau’s key
note speech was his faith in the
l>eople themselves — not science
■alone, but belief in the ability of
the common man to fight the bat
tle if p’rdperly led &nd equipped.
^Given the facts about TB, he said,
the people would demand the pro
tective measures necessary to Curb
.the disease and would furnish the
funds needed to do so. “The first
and greatest need,” he said, “is
education.”
Today, 50 years later, over 5000
doctors belong to the American
Trudeau Society, the medical
branch of the National Tuberculo
sis Association. Hundreds of train
ed workers are supplying the lead
ership necessary and literg^Jv
thousands of volunteer workers
are carrying out Trudeau’s basic
plan for combating this disease,
once called “the white plague.”
The death rate has declined to
about one-tenth of what it was
when Trudeau threw out the dar
ing challege to move mountains.
The big problem now is to keep
public interest alive until the goal
of eradicating the disease entirely
is reached.
Educating the public has been
accomplished. Very few there are
that do not recognize TB for what
it is, a disease that can lay low
even the strongest man. Hospitals
and clinics there are to combat it.
But funds are needed to wage a
ceaseless war on its eradication.
Buying Christmas Seals is a pain
less way to help in this greatwork.
Using them is a good way to keep
the dangers of TB before your
fellowmen.
The Old Stand
i We are assured that there is no
truth to the rumor that the Con
gress on its return to duty afer
■New Year’s Day will convene in a
xircus tent at Camp David in Mary
land’s Catoctin Mountains, nor at
the Fair Grounds in Gettysburg.
This gives substance to the hope
that duly constituted government
and the national capital may be
re-established in Washington in a
matter of weeks.
THE AMERICAN WAY
PROSPERITY
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ion still r.err ;ns unan
v ed ’ President Eisenhower
as to whether he will run again in
! 95G. Conjecture is ram u nt among
Republicans and Democrats alike.
The 48 Republican state chair
men, the two Republican territori
al chairmen and the chairmen of
the GOP in Puerto Rico, the Vir
gin Islands and the District of Co
lumbia were asked two questions
by Newsweek. The questions were:
1, Do you think the President will
run for re-election? 2, If President
Eiesenhower doesn’t run, which
Republican do you prefer as his
successor?
All but eleven of the 53 ques
tionaires were answered. To the
first question, the overwhelming
majority said: Yes, President Eis
enhower will run. To the second,
a substantial majority said that, if
Mr. Eisenhower doesn’t run, the
GOP candidate should be Vice
President Richard Nixon.
According to Newsweek, only
four of the chairmen said they
doubted that Mr. Eisenhower
would run for re-election. Nearly
all the rest stated with varying
degrees of intensity that he would
run. Some did so flatly, but some
had reservations.
The article goes on to state that
although the public-opinion polls
have shown that Chief Justice Earl
Warren is more pppular with the
Republican rank and file than any
one except Mr. Eisenhower him
self, the GOP _ chairmen clearly
preferred Nixon as the GOP candi
date for President, in the event Mr.
Ejenhower decided not to run.
Some of the Republican chair
men were so convinced that Mr.
Eisenhower would run, they refus
ed to speculate on a possible alter
native candidate. A small group
favored Warren. Others named
were Sen. William Knowland of
California, Gov. Christian A. Her
ter of Massachusetts, Harold E.
Stassen, the President’s advisor on
disarmament, and the President’s
brother, Milton, president of Penn
sylvania State University.
The Newsweek article continues:
“There perhaps was some wishful
thinking in the belief that Mr.
Eisenhower would run for re-elec
tion, but the Republican chairmen
also had some solid reasons for
their optomism. The plain fact is
their optimism. The plain fact is
that Mr. Eisenhower still hasn’t
run or not.
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