Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1916 — W. c. T. U. AND RED CROSS [ARTICLE]

W. c. T. U. AND RED CROSS

Women Say Elimination Wf Liquor Would Lessen Tul>erculosis. Indianapolis, November 21.—The National Women’s Christian Temperance Union, today unanimously endorsed the anti-tuberculosig movement and the wider use of Red Cross Christmas seals. The resolution was seconded by a former patient of Dr. E. L. Trudeau of the parent tuberculosis sanatorium at Saranac Lake, New York. The resolution is as follows: “Whereas, Liquor and tuberculosis are two of the fundamental, causes of poverty and the elemination of either aids in the elimination of the other, and “Whereas, The national campaign against tuberculosis, through its success in establishing open air schools, community nursing, dispensaries, hospitals and sanatoriums for the tuberculosis, is materially reducing this preventable disease, therefore

“Be it resolved. That the National Wpmeii’s Christian Temperance Union in its forty-third annual convention assembled at Indianapolis commends to its members a eordigl co-operation with all antituberculosis societies in their educational and other work, and “Be it. further resolved, That this convention endorse tlie wider use of the Red Cross Christmas seal provided by the American Red Cross as a means of supporting the tuberculosis movement.”