Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1918 — AMERICA’S WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS [ARTICLE]

AMERICA’S WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS

Democracy has vanquished the king-of-kings of the dark forces of Autocracy, which have ruthlessly sacrificed millions of human lives to their ambition for dominion. Democracy has written FINIS on Kaiserism. Now Democracy in America is pitted against the Iring-ofddngs of the legions of death—Tuberculosis— which takes a toil of humlan Eves exceeding that of any other disease by which mankind is afflicted. In farmer years, the nation-wide campaign against the White Plague, led by the National Tuberculosis Association, has been supported in the main by the sale of the little Red Cross Christmas Seals, which any one Who had a penny to spare might buy. The war has served to reveal’ to America more tellingly than ever how enormous our tuberculosis problem os and how imperative is the continuance <qnd extension* of the campaign against tuberculosis, for tens of thousands of the nation's young men. have been rejected in the draft as unfit for military service on account of tuberculosis. The American Red Cross, therefore, faces an obligation to assist this campaign to the utmost. To rtfhat end, and as a means of replacing the usual sale Of Christmas seals at a time when as few appeals as possible should be made to the public, the Red Cross has set aside an appropriation to cover the financial necessities of the campaign for the year 1919. The National Tuberculosis 'agencies throughout the country, wiH on their side join the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call for universal membership. Every new and renewing member of the Red Cross will be awarded ten of the little Christmas Seals as messengers of health.