Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1917 — Buying Penny Seals Is Insuring Health of Soldiers and Homes [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Buying Penny Seals Is Insuring Health of Soldiers and Homes

By Dr. C .J. Mclntyre

“Many persons have not thought of anti-tuberculosis work as war work, although reports from the French Army have called attention to the need of effort along this line. Reports from our own army will soon bring this need nearer home. “Recently while examining picked men in a Southern training camp we

found active tuberculosis in approximately one man out of every hundred, and there was found evidence of healed tuberculosis in one out of every four. No one can tell how many of these may again become active when the men are exposed in the trenches. “Let us not lose sight of the antituberculosis campaign while contributing to the many other war works. Fighting tuberculosis is a war work. Who but the anti-tuberculosis societies will care for the afflicted in the soldier’s family? Who will care for the discharged tuberculosis soldier? Who will guide him to recovery if we fail to adequately finance our anti-tuberculosis societies? “The subscription to the Red Cross seal campaign should appeal to us much the same as an insurance premium. If individuals, partnerships corporations can afford to insure themselves and employes against illness and death, why should not every individual give to Jthe Red Cross seal campaign and by so doing aid those already afflicted with tuberculosis, prevent the infection of those now well, and by so doing insure against the possibility of oneself andAfamily becoming invalids and useless as producers at a time when every one should work?”