Iron County Record | 1954-04-08 | Page 2 | No Armistice in Sight

No Armistice in Sight Signing of an armistice last July ending hostilities in Korea was an occasion for rejoicing throughout our, country. During three years of warfare with Communist armies, arm-ies, American forces had lost more than 25,000 men killed in action on a foreign battle field. Today we are still engaged in a grim fight on the j home front with an enemy more deadly than all of the , armies which th Communists put in the field in Korea. And on this battle front there is no armistice in sight. This current conflict is taking a yearly toll of lives nine times greater than those suffered by our armed forces during three years dt war in Korea. The foe responsible for this daily threat to the lives Of Americans is cancer. During 1953, a total of 227,000 persons in the United States died from the dread disease, which, it is estimated, will strike at one out of every five Americans at some time in their lives. The nationwide campaign to conquer this country's second most deadly killer is being spearheaded by the American Cancer Society with a comprehensive, threefold three-fold program of public and professional education, service to patients and scientific research into the causes and most effective methods of curing or arresting the disease. Everyone cannot engage directly in the campaign being be-ing fought by scientists, family doctors, nurses and hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of volunteer workers to eradicate cancer. can-cer. But we all can join indirectly in the struggle by contributing con-tributing generously to the cause through our American Cancer Society unit. We hope when a volunteer calls for your donation you will not miss this chance to strike back at cancer man's crudest enemy.