Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1937 — Page 38

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By John Martin

nes Staff Writer TERSAILLES, Nov. 19. Deep in the Indiana hill country near here stands a log cabin that is a monument to a woman's courage. Here Beatrice Green waged a long, but victoribattle against tuberculosis, only to begin a new fight. She is dedicating her life to help other sufferers save theirs.

She was 18 and a Sophomore in

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high school when she became ill with the measles. That was 13 years ago. Pneumonia developed. She came through that. Then other symptoms developed. Her father took her to the office of Dr. G. W. Copeland, then in Versailles Dr. Copeland's brother-in-law, Dr. C. D. Christie. Cleveland, was visiting him at the time.

Upper left: A patient in the Greens’ Log Cabin. Upper right: Beatrice Green, who won a long battle for her life against tuberculosis, and then opened the cabin. Center left: The pretty little cabin, near Versailles. Below: Dr. C. D. Christie.

REMEMBER her as she was then, thin and wizened,” Dr. Christie said. “She wore the evidence of her disease like a blighting badge. “So I sat down with her and told her what she must do—go home and go to bed.” Her case appeared hopeless, Dr. Christie said. Denied the advantages of many other patients —her father came to the doctor's office in his farmer's blue jeans and his farm produced little cash —Miss Green had what many patients lacked—an indomitable will and the realization she must follow her doctor's orders.

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Hoosier Woman Crusades for Lives

Victorious in Own Battle Against T. B.,, She Now Aids Other Victims

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believes “it was he who saved my life.” ® = = HE spent that first six months in bed on her father’s farm. Dr. Christie, visiting Versailles again, called on her. “She was intelligent,” he recalled. “She was still sick, of course, but you might almost say she had blossomed in that length of time.” Miss Green was beginning her battle. It meant bed, not for days or weeks, but for months and years. Thoughts of school were given up. The stricken girl of 18 had become a woman of 24 with only one thought—to recover. She went to the State Sanatorium at Rockville for 25 months. Meanwhile, her interests had begun to broaden. =» = = R. CHRISTIE sent her books, mainly on tuberculosis, for she was interested in the disease that had cast a shadow of despair across her life. And slowly that shadow changed: she began to see her malady as an opportunity. Gradually, she conceived the idea of returning to her farm home and building a log cabin. But—“T had learned to share things at the sanatorium and it wasn’t really any fun having a cabin to oneself.” she said. “I talked it over with my folks and

we decided to turn the cabin into |

a rest cottage.” She did. Since

then, 23 pa-

tients have been treated for tuberculosis at the Log Cabin Cottage. All but two recovered, and “they were brought to us in a dying condition,” Miss Green says. ® ” 2

ISS GREEN had a quiescent case when she returned home from the Sanatorium. She continued part-time rest for two vears, then opened the cabin. But she had to continue her three hours’ afternoon rest in bed until this year, when she has been working a full day for the first time in 15 years. The cottage, built of logs in rustic style, has facilities for nine patients in four rooms. Every stick of furniture was made by Miss Green's father. Food is prepared in the house on her father’s 117-acre farm, Miss Green is helped by her 21-year-old sister, Thelma; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Green; a trained nurse, Miss Dorohty Miller, who gave up a $40-a-week job in Cincinnati to assist Miss Green, and the farmhands. Patients at the cottage—Miss Green savs explicitly it is not a hospital—are visited by their own or local physicians. ” ” ” HE Cabin is one part of what Miss Green has made - her life work. The other is to educate people to the perils of tuberculosis She says: “I think that it is not until we, or those near or dear to us, are stricken with the disease that we really become conscious of it in the sense that we want something about it. At least, it was my own encounter with the enemy that conceived the dream of helping others, especially those in poor circumstances,

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their way back to health and happiness.” She speaks of how often a fight against tuberculosis is a losing battle, then says that “it shouldn't be a losing battle if victims receive proper care early.”

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ISS GREEN explained that rates at the cabin are low, since it is operated as a nonprofit institution to benefit patients of modest means. Miss Miller helps at the cabin now while Miss Green is out selling magazine subscriptions, homemade bric-a-brac and hosiery to raise money for the project. “I hope the cabin has awakened interest in tuberculosis, its prevention, treatment and cure,” Miss Green says. “When and if a large sanatorium is built I hope to rebuild the cabin into a convalescent home for all helpless folks.” Right now, there are three patients there. Another was cured recently and has left. Miss Green hopes there will be more like that.

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GANNERS TO ELECT

OFFICIALS TODAY

Fay Gaylord of Purdue to Talk to Association.

Fay Gaylord, Purdue University, was to speak today at final session of the Indiana Canners' Association convention in the Claypool Hotel. A business session and election of officers also were on the program, Other speakers included Neil Fure long, Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. sales manager, and Hassil E. Schenck, ' Indiana Farm Bureau president. Ralph O. Dulany, Washington, National Canners’ Association president, yesterday warned members against legislation expected to come before Congress. He said: “Agitation for elimination of the canning crops from exemption in the marketing control act is danger= ous to the industry.”

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