Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1919 — Your Red Cross Is Still Busy [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Your Red Cross Is Still Busy

—— — READ WHAT YOUR DOLLAR IS DOING

f — | —SHE best dollar any commun--I ity can spend Is the dollar It invests in conservation of community life and health. It yields biggest returns. The finest advertising asset which a community can have is a low sickness and death rate. The community nurse Is a form of Insurance which no community can afford to be without. The community nurse cares for the sick, protects the well and teaches the principles of good health to all. She is the “lookout on .the Mountain,” giving the first warning of the approach of the enemy, disease. Through its endless chain of chapters, 375 of them in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky alone, the organization is to help to promote the establishment of rural and community nursing. If you live in the country or a small town and you wish to know how to ot’ ganlze, how to raise funds, how .to carry on your work, where to seta

nurse, what she will do, write to tne director of the Red Cross Bureau of Public Health Nursing tn the Lake Division, Cleveland, Ohio. A Red Cross nurse in every community is the ultimate alm. Just now the depleted ranks of the nurses provide too small a personnel to make the immediate realization of the plan possible. The American Red Cross is urging every nurse to enroll for peace-time service. With an eye to future needs, the Red Cross is also urging the young women of the country who are just graduating from schools and colleges to enter the nursing profession." Consider the Red Cross conclusion — Twelve million school days are lost to measles every year. Nine labor days are lost through sickness by the average working man every year. Every fifteen seconds a human being is Injured; every fifteen minutes one is killed. Two and a half million soldiers were rejected in the first draft. The death rate over 40 is rising. Therefore march with the Red Cross In the advance against disease. Do your share for the health of the world.