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Show AMERICANS FIGHT GERMS IN ITALY VB Tuberculosis Experts Sent by Red Cross Will Use Lat-- f ; est Methods. Included In the unit of medical and lay workers which the American Rod Cross has sent to Italy are a number or trie leading work ers of the country, sponsored by the .National Tuberculosis Association. tr. w imam Charles White, who heads the unit, is medical director of the Tuberculosis League of Pittsburgh. bum ur. uooert a. Bishop, the assist- ant, director, is secretary nf ihn Ani Tuberculosis League of Cleveland as wen as health commissioner of that city. Dr. John H. Lowman of Cleveland, a former president of the National Association, Is another prominent member of the unit. Others are Dr. Robert G. Patterson, secretary 'of the Ohio Tuberculosis Association ; Seymour H. Stone, until recently secretary of the Massachusetts League; Dr. Gertrude Stur-gisecretary of the New York City Association of Tuberculosis Clinics, and N. A. Nelson, superintendent of the Cincinnati League. Throe, men and women, at the request of the Italian government, will with that country in applying the latest approved American methods for combating the spread of some of them will be lunercuiosis. charged with the establishment of clinics where people of all ages ma? .be examined and treated; others will devote their attention particularly to preventing tuberculosis among children, and a third group will develop health publicity and education. It is to the credit of the campaign In America that It has produced specialists of such International standing that Italy wishes to call.thera Into her service temnnrnriiv But the campaign will be continued unremittingly here at home. Its support during the ensuing year will be uenvefl not as heretofore from the .sale of Red Crass Christmas Seals, but ny a special appropriation made by the Red Cross to the National ,Tubereulo-si- s Association. Tuberculosis workers on their side will line un with thp nA Cross In' Its Christmas Roll Call for universal membership. is s, is ; CONTEST FOR THE JUNIORS. feature during the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call will be a A special e (Junior Red Cross Men -;M)niesi on wny.vou Should Join the fRed Cross." The contest will be similar to those previously conducted bv me li vision 01 rour Minute Men of the Committee on Public Information It will be held on Friday. December Mia, in an or the School Auxiliaries, and friends and parents of the pupils' Kour-Mlnut- Tim uicu 10 auena. Low Meat Prices vs. HighCattlePrices If the farmer cannot get enough for his live stock, he raises less, and the packer gets less raw material. If the consumer has to pay too much for his meat, he eats less of it, and the packer finds his market decreased. The packer wants the producer to get enough to make raising profitable, and he wants the price of meat so low that everyone will eat it. live-sto- ck But all he con do, and what he would pave to do in any case to stay in business, is to keep down the cost of processing the farmer's stock into meat so that the consumer pays for the meat and only a little more than' the farmer gets for his animals. by-produ- Forexample,lastyearSwift&Company paid for its cattle about 90 per cent of what it got for meat and (such as hides, tallow, oils, etc.) by-produ- cts If cattle from the farm were turned miraculously into meat in the hands retailers (without going through the ex-of pense of dressing, shipping and market-tag- ), the farmer would get only about cents 18 per pound more for his cattle or consumers would pay only about 214 cents per pound less for their beef! ms cent or o0 Swift & Company pays for thePer pound, operation of extensive plants, pays freight on meats, operates refrigerator care, maintains branch houses, and in most cases de- 1 over toe United VvStailerl States. The profit amounts to only a fraction of a cent, and a part of this profit goes to build more plants, to eive better service, and to increase the y s usefulness to the country. "WUt SAVINGS SUMPS lUED BY THE UNITED STATTt Swift & com-pan- Company, U. S. A. |