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Newspaper  bulletins  are  not  the  place  for  the  discussion  of  theories 
or  for  the  exhibition  of  hobbies. 
Longer  articles  of  an  educational  nature  may  be  offered  to  some 
of  the  larger  newspapers  or  to  the  magazines.  Short,  special  articles 
in  the  form  of  pamphlets  are  often  useful,  but  are,  comparatively 
speaking,  expensive,  both  for  preparation  and  distribution.  For  the 
present,  it  would  probably  be  better  for  the  majority  of  the  State 
associations  to  rely  on  the  Bureau  of  Literature  of  the  Council  of 
the  American  Medical  Association  for  such  pamphlets  rather  than 
to  attempt  to  prepare  them  themselves.  The  material  which  we  have 
on  hand  for  distribution  is  already  large  and  is  rapidly  growing.  Lists 
and  samples  of  pamphlets  on  hand  can  be  secured  on  application. 
Women's  clubs  offer  a  most  promising  field  for  educational 
cooperation.  Composed  of  the  leading  and  most  influential  women 
in  each  community,  they  are  in  many  cases  really  desirous  of  taking 
up  some  definite  and  practical  line  of  activity.  The  last  directory  of 
women's  clubs  for  the  United  States  shows  that  there  are  forty 
women's  clubs  in  Utah,  located  in  sixteen  towns,  with  a  total  mem- 
bership of  1400.  Each  State  federation  has  a  committee  on  educa- 
tion, a  committee  on  health  and  a  committee  on  legislation  and  the 
interest  arid  cooperation  of  these  organizations  can  be  readily  secured 
on  such  topics  as  registration  of  births  and  deaths,  increase  of 
functions  of  the  State  board  of  health,  establishment  of  county  and 
municipal  departments  of  health,  medical  inspection  of  schools  and 
rural  school  hygiene,  conservation  of  vision,  especially  among  chil- 
dren, and  similar  topics. 
Labor  unions  are  of  great  value  in  public  health  work,  provided 
the  matter  is  placed  before  them  in  the  proper  light.  The  average 
labor  organization,  for  instance,  is  not  especially  interested  in  birth 
registration,  because  the  members  do  not  understand  its  importance. 
When  they  realize  that  no  child  labor  law  is  of  the  slightest  value 
unless  it  is  accompanied  by  provisions  for  birth  registration,  that 
proper  registration  of  deaths  would  make  it  possible  to  determine 
the  number  of  fatalities  from  industrial  diseases,  mine  accidents,  etc., 
and  that  a  laboring  man's  health  is  his  only  capital,  he  at  once  be- 
comes interested.  The  churches  and  their  pastors  are,  in  all  cases 
where  health  matters  are  properly  presented,  among  our  strongest 
allies.  The  success  of  our  plans  at  St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis  last 
year,  and  at  Philadelphia  this  year  in  placing  speakers  on  public 
health  in  the  pulpits,  shows  conclusively  that  our  churches  to-day 
