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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Friday, September 15, 1944

A New Year and a New Hope

the uprooting of the "white destructive work had seriously staff of chemists, has brought
plague," it has been hailed as undermined their health and un- international recognition a n d
a distinct contribution to the til they had spread infection awards to the Hospital. And be-
Ae we celebrate Rosh Hash- world in which problems and battle against tuberculosis, and among hundreds of healthy peo- cause, in man's eager search for
onah and enter the new Jewish differences are settled by reason the advancement of the public ple? How could it be controlled, panaceas, time after time new
drugs were publicized as sure
—not murder.
prevented and eradicated?
health.
year of 5705, the word "peace"
Each of us has a task to per-
trembles on our lips and we
It was to help find the answers cures, Dr. Corper found time to
Reports from England, France,
form in this new world. And not Holland, Russia, Belgium, China to these and many other tuber- investigate them too. For he
pray for a lasting one.
But let us give more than lip the least important mission in and other countries reveal that culosis problems puzzling science considered it his moral and
service to the cause of peace. the vast undertaking of repair- tuberculosis is the only wartime and medicine that the National scientific duty to explore the
The young citizens of the United ing the damages of war both po- disease on the increase abroad. Jewish Hospital established its value of these new drugs and,
Nations are giving more than litically and economically, ma- And in addition to the many, Research Department in 1919 as in the recent case of diasone,
reveal that a drug hailed as a
lip service to the cause r vic- terially and spirtivally, is the many thousands of known cases and appointed as the director cure was actually dangerous to
tory. They are giving of their expansion of an extensive public there are as many men, women Dr. H. J. Corper who had been
health program, the intensifica- and children who have suffered a Major in the Army during the humans.
blood, their youth, their lives.
A shadow hangs over this new cation of our fight against that great deprivations and do not last war and who had achieved
Now ever since 1890, when
year and the years to come—a other totaliarian enemy—disease. know that they have tubercu- fame in the field of tuberculosis Robert Koch discovered tuber-
For
all
the
ravages
of
war
are
shadow no one should dare to
losis. They may never learn research.
culin, many tests have been pro-
not incurred on the firing line. till they are very nearly beyond
brus h away .
Since then the original re-
duced using this substance to
It is the shadow of the frail And of all the pernicious diseases cure.
old men and women, the desper- which thrive on the soil of war
In this country too, despite the search into the hidden nature and determine the presence of tuber-
ate mothers and fathers, the and flourish in its wake, the most comparatively high standard of action of the tubercle bacilli,
See NEW HOPE—Page 14
starved, terror-stricken children, insidious is tuberculosis.
living we Americans have main- conducted by Dr. Corper and his
That is why the National Jew- tained even in wartime, tuber-
victims of Axis oppression and
vicious cruelty. If you listen you ish Hospital at Denver is deeply culosis has increased. This dis-
can hear their shuffling footsteps gratified that the laboratories of ease, which takes the lives of
its famous Research Department more men and women between
as
WE JOIN OUR JEWISH AGENTS
a they
a re herded down the
road to martyrdom—you can have this year given the world the ages of 18 and 35 than any
hear their helpless and innocent a new and improved method of other, is responsible for the dis-
Israel M. Malek
Herman J. Agins
detecting tuberculosis. A color- charge of 500 men from our
cries.
It is the shadow of the sol- less transparent liquid is applied army each month. These men
Abraham Schmidt
R. Blumer
diers, sailors and marines, of the to the skin to form a minute did not even know they were
technicians, doctors, nurses and film through which the skin's susceptible to tuberculosis. This
William Meisler
all other valiant souls who have reaction to the test may be report gains in significance when
died or been wounded on far- watched. It will reveal the pres- we remind ourselves that of the
IN WISHING YOU ALL A
flung battle fields so that we ence of or susceptibility to tuber- nearly 160,000 men deferred by
culosis more speedily than any the army for tuberculosis con-
may live and die free men.
A HAPPY, HEALTHY, PROSPEROUS AND
The memory of all this human other test currently in use. This ditions alone, 87 per cent of
PEACEFUL NEW YEAR
these were unreported cases—
suffering and bravery must never transdermal tuberculin test is unknown !
escape us. We must remember painless, accurate and easy to
When the National Jewish Hos-
C. H. CARPENTER
and, in remembering, toil for a perform and, as it will speed pital opened its doors 45 years
GENERAL AGENT
ago under the sponsorship of
Bnai Brith, its prime concern
was providing free medical and
surgical care for needy tuber-
culosis sufferers from all parts
Best Wishes For A Happy and Prosperous New Year!
of the country on a non-sectarian
basis. Since then hundreds of
such needy men, women and
children have been restored to
health each year. But as the
OF TRAVERSE CITY
hospital grew in size, its con-
ception of its service to human-
ity also grew.
CHerry 5605
314 Fox Theatre Bldg.
Because the hospital regarded
each patient not as a "case" but
as a total personality, it did not
confine itself solely to providing I
District Manager
the most advanced and tested
methods of treatment.
IN THE SPIRIT OF THE OCCASION
"What happens," we asked
Inc.
The Wadsworth Electric Mfg.
ourselves, "to the men and wo-
WE EXTEND TO THE JEWISH
men who leave us? Do they
COMMUNITY OF DETROIT BEST
know how to preserve their new
found health? Were there any
WISHES FOR A HAPPY AND
psychological factors involved in
JOYOUS ROSH HASHONAH
their physical breakdown? Worry
and anxiety can weaken a per-
NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS
son's resistance to tuberculosis
FOR A YEAR REPLETE WITH
as well as malnutrition and un-
HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT
healthy living conditions."
So in order to prepare each
To The Entire Jewish Community!
patient to return to his home
community vocationally and psy-
chologically able to lead a heal-
thy, normal life, to marry. have
LOWEST RATES
children, earn his living and
round out his life as a useful,
NO SERVICE CHARGE
purposeful citizen, the hospital
inaugurated a department of re-
Western and Southern Life Insurance Co.
habilitation and vocational re-
Mortgage Loan Department
training. So successful has this
program of preparing patients
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602 Stephenson Bldg.
for their return to normal life
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been, that we have been called
HOTEL STATLER (Second Floor)
in by the army to help in the
establishment of rehabilitation
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centers throughout the country
Manager of Detroit Office
for discharged soldiers. And the
National Committee of French
Liberation (Free France) has
Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu—A Happy New Year!
asked for details of the program
for its postwar planning.
This work, conducted under
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direction of Dr. Charles J. Kauf-
man, the Medical Director, and
Mrs. Esther Cohen Spencer, Su-
pervisor of Vocational Rehabili-
tation, is vital in the rehabilita-
INCORPORATED
tion of tuberculosis sufferers.
Critchfield
H.
F.
F. J. Critchfield
But the hospital believed it had
still another mission.
Extend New Year Greetings
Tuberculosis is not inherited.
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It is an infectious disease con-
And Good Wishes to All
tracted only by direct contact
with the tubercle bacilli. What
May Victory and Peace Be Ours
was he secret character of this
arch enemy whose presence most
people did not discover until its

By SAMUEL SCHAEFER, Executive Secretary,
National Jewish Hospital at Denver

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