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Show FOR COUNTRY-WIDE MOVE Foes of Tuberculosis Have Plan t Use Most Powerful Weapon on Earth. April 30 has been set aside this year as "Tuberculosis Iay," and will be observed ob-served In 200,000 churches In the country in a manner similar to that of "Tuberculosis Sunday" In 1!I0, when 40,000 sermons were preached on the prevention of tuberculosis. In the first official announcement of the occasion, made by the National Asho-elation Asho-elation for the Study arid Prevention of Tuberculosis, the leaders of the movement state that they hope to enlist en-list all of the 3.1,000,000 church mem , hers In the country. In one respect .Tuberculosis day will differ from Tuberculosis Sunday of I 1910. Instead of rerjuestlng the churches to give to the tuberculosis cause a special Sunday service, the national association Is going to ask this year that meetings, at which the subject of tuberculosis and Its pre ventlon can be discussed, be held on Sunday, April 30, or on any other day near that date, either In the week, preceding or the week following. "What we want," snys Mr. Living ston Fnrrand, executive secretary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, In a elation for the study and prevention report on this movement, "Is to have this whole subject of tuberculosis discussed dis-cussed in all of the 200.000 churches of the I'ntted States at as nearly the same time as possible." |