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Show Cancer Drive Project Is Being Sponsored In Washington County In keeping with the national program, pro-gram, the Cancer drive project is being sponsored this month. This is a part of national defense, to promote health and to save lives. It is an annual national project which the federated clubs are asked to carry. The purpose is to raise funds to educate the public. To teach the public the early signs and the significance of them when present. That in the early stages, cancer is curable. That the control of cancer is a personal matter, that it is up to the individual indi-vidual to take the first step. To take unreasoning fear from the public mind by replacing fallacies and misinformation with known facts. To warn the public against all persons advertising or guaranteeing guar-anteeing cancer cures, something which no reputable ethical physician physi-cian will do. That the problem in each community be recongized, and ways and means for handling han-dling it be taken up. This, as you see, is not something some-thing that can be put off until after the war. It is an enemy within our lives which we must fight now, while we carry on our war in other fields. As you see the germ is here today. Thousands Thou-sands die each year, so we cannot can-not work too rapidly. The lives we can save today would be snuffed snuf-fed out before the year is past. Time is an important element in fighting this disease. Knowledge is of greatest importance and so we need funds to educate to save time and thus save lives. When asked, remember the cancer can-cer drive is a worthy one. Be sure to contribute. It may be your life or some of your loved ones that will be saved through this work. |