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forenoon and four hours in the after- 

 noon, just as the physicians deemed 

 advisable. The compensation would be 

 something like 15 cents an hour. Those 

 working only four hours a day could 

 earn enough to pay for their board, and 

 those who could do a fair day's work 

 would earn considerably more than their 

 board. The idea, of course, would be 

 not to overwork anybody and to give 

 all time and opportunity for rest and 

 recreation. 



In the cases of patients who have re- 

 covered from tuberculosis, for instance, 

 those discharged from the State tuber- 

 culosis sanitorium at Wales, as cured, 

 there is a necessity for a period of out- 

 door life. Many suffer a relapse if they 

 return at once to close work in office 

 or to labor in foundry or factory. 

 These relapses are very dangerous. 

 Then again those threatened with tuber- 

 culosis need outdoor life at once. 



The camps, Mr. Griffith suggested, 

 might be located among the pines, on 

 dry, sandy soil, near the shores of one 

 or two lakes that are not so densely 

 shaded as to shut out the sunlight or to 

 cause dampness. In this way the cures 

 of many could be completed and many 

 would be saved from incipient or threat- 

 ened tuberculosis. 



Another suggestion that Mr. Griffith 

 made was that those who, after spend- 

 ing the summer in the State forest re- 

 serve, found that it was so beneficial to 

 their health that they wished to stay 

 longer, could lease small tracts in the 

 State reserve and raise garden truck, 

 chickens, and the like, which would find 

 a ready market at the public resorts and 

 private homes round about. 



Physicians who have made a special 

 study of tuberculosis have expressed 

 themselves as strongly in favor of Mr. 

 Griffith's plan. It is not necessary, they 

 state, for persons afflicted or threatened 

 with tuberculosis to leave the State, but 

 they must live out of doors and any 

 opportunity for outdoor life in upper 

 Wisconsin, amid the sand and the 

 pines, would be a great help in curing 

 tubercular patients. Mr. Griffith's 

 plan to shelter them, feed them and give 

 them medical care, and at the same time 

 provide light work that will permit them 

 to be self-supporting, so that they will 

 not be subjected to any real expense 

 and at the same time will not be charity 

 patients, is regarded as a long step for- 

 ward in the State's fight against tuber- 

 culosis. 



COMING MEETINGS 



Officials of forestry, lumber, timberland 

 and fire protection associations are invited 

 to send to American Forestry notices of 

 their meetings to be published in this column. 



October 29 — Third quarterly meeting of 

 Directors of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, at the Railroad Club, New York City. 



November 5 — Georgia-Florida Saw Mill 

 Association, Tifton, Ga. 



November 13 — Lumber Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation of Southern New England, Hart- 

 ford, Conn. 



November 14 — Empire State Forest Prod- 

 ucts Association, Watertown, N. Y. 



November 19-21 — National Federation of 



Retail Merchants, Planters Hotel, St. Louis, 

 Mo. 



December 2-3— Western Forestry & Con- 

 servation Association, Seattle, Wash. 



December 4-6 — National Rivers & Harbors 

 Congress, New Willard Hotel, Washington, 

 D. C. 



December 7 — North Central Missouri Re- 

 tail Lumber Dealers' Association, Moberlv, 

 Mo. 



January 21-23 — Ohio Association of Retail 

 Lumber Dealers, Cleveland, Ohio. 



January 22-24 — Southwestern Lumbermen's 

 Association. Kansas City. Mo. 



