Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1919 — FACTS ON THE ARCH ENEMY OF HUMANITY. [ARTICLE]

FACTS ON THE ARCH ENEMY OF HUMANITY.

Tuberculosis kills producer*chiefly men and women between the ages of 16 and 45. It claims worker*—active men and women in the homes, the office and the shop. It causes 150,000 dbaths in the United States every year. It costs the United States tn economic waste alone about 1500,000,000 annually, More than 1,000,000 persons in this country are suffering from active tuberculosis right now. It menaces every community, every home and every individual. AND YET TUBERCULOSIS IB CURABLE AND PREVENTABLE. It is spread largely by ignorance, carelessness and neglect ’ i ■ The National Tuberculosis A*- 1 soclatlon and its 1,000 affiliated state and Ideal organizations wage a continuous winning war on tuberculosis." The work of these organisations is financed chiefly by the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals. < Drive the menace of tuberculosis from your door.