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Show FIGHTING THE WHITE PLAGUE Educational Posters by the Thousand to Be Displayed All Over United States. During the next three months, the bill boards of the United States will display 20,000 educational posters on tuberculosis, according to an announcement an-nouncement made by the National Association As-sociation for the Study and Prevention Preven-tion of Tuberculosis. This will conclude the campaign begun be-gun a year ago, when the National Bill Posters' associaation donated free space to the tuberculosis cause, the Poster Printers' association offered free printing, and nine paper manufacturers manu-facturers gave the paper for the posters. post-ers. The combined value of these several sev-eral donations for this three-month campaign is nearly $100,000. The posters are in six different designs de-signs and are all printed in three colors. col-ors. They are seven feet wide and nine feet high. Already nearly 2,500 of these posters have been hung on the bill boards of 46 different cities, and it is planned to distribute 20,000 more before April 1 in over 400 towns and cities. Any anti-tuberculosis society so-ciety in the United States may receive re-ceive free of charge, except for transportation, trans-portation, as many of these posters as can be hung on the boards in its territory. ter-ritory. The National association with the tuberculosis committee of the National Na-tional Billposters and Distributors are conducting the campaign. The posters show in graphic form how fresh air, good food, and rest cure tuberculosis; how bad air, overwork over-work and closed windows lead to consumption; con-sumption; and how the careless consumptive con-sumptive menaces the health of his family by spitting on the floor. |