Valley Farmer's Cooperating As
socirtiou at Palmer, A lasl'a .
ling. Editor: Irving .'ewville
purpose of giving information
and :t?v-s of the liatanuska Valley
Farmer's Cooperating Associa
t Ion' s v.’orh, probioms, accomp
lishments, also nov/s of local
and • general interest; and to
foster the cooperative spirit of
the farmers of- thu ?!a tanuslca
Valley.
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T:ru OLD,OLD STORY
Thor-'- is one loiter that most of
us except ns a tradition of
Christmas, It is the lott -r that
brings us our Chris trees S els.
Yoer eft r veer, wo receive tlu.t
letter. Me send our none”. ' c
do this because v;c know thet some
thing worth while is being done
v; i t h our no no y.
Fov; of us, though, cede an active
inter, st in hov; our none is
spent to comb.-.t one of our most
dr cadful ohonios --ti’borculos is •
The horror of tuberculosis is
fading gradually. That is enough
for most of us. ' 'e road or. eh year
of the declining death rate.
Perhaps, we even know the fact
that the death rate from tuber
culosis among people of all ar:os
has been cut three fourths since
1907, the first year of the Coal
Sale .
V/o have forgotten the despair that
once struck us whenever wo hoard
the verdict-consumption. c know
that tuberculosis, if discovered
intimo, can be cured. V/o know
that the X-ray can find early
tuberculosis in time to euro it.
Thi3 year,
in other
recently, the tuborculos s . scor
ia fcions arc asking us to ■. e-'o
more thing in addition to .. vkij
our Collars • Thoir request is
rjr.sonr.Uo, Thoir ’raving t - make
such request is ironical. They
arc forced to r.s’c us to -Ire. our
attitude of complacency tor:. ?d
t’ bcrculosis . Groat thcu~h the
victories of the past are, tubor
cul jsIs is not under centr'd, in
this country. It is our lives
end our children's lives the
tuberculosis associations o fight
'■lor 5 persons bo t we on the a ;os of
15 and 45 are killed by tu> ..rcul
esis than by any other dis '.so,'
Vr.d these are the young, ‘active,
productive years of life.