Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1918 — WHITE PLAGUE KILLS MORE MEN THAN BULLETS [ARTICLE]

WHITE PLAGUE KILLS MORE MEN THAN BULLETS

It seems longer, but It was less than four years ago that the nations had not ybt started in to wipe each other off the map and that the only times when one heard of the Red Cross were times ot flood or disaster and at Christmas time, when the peaceful lit* tie Red Cross tuberculosis seals mads their annual appearanca Perhaps, in fact. It was the long, an dent, tight in America against the White Plague which; tn spite of the war's enormous new demands, is responsible for the especial Interest being taken by the American Red Cross Id France's frightful struggle against consumption. This scourge seems to mark the trench fighter for its own. It kills more men than do bullets and poison gas combined. Utotil the American Red Cross was permitted by the French government to start its drive against tuberculosis it looked as if, even with a victory over the Bun, France might eventually be conquered by this deadlier foe. Already things are looking brighter. The Red Cross has taken over old hospitals and built new onea More than 300 tuberculosis dispensaries are to be opened throughout the country, and ! Red Cross doctors and nurses -scores > of them —are devoting themselves e» clnslvely to this fight, doing over there exactly the same kind of work which Is financed tn America by the little’ Christmas seals. It is one of the ways tn which by our c ntribntion!« to the Red Cross America can repay her debt to France.