Show EDUCATING PEOPLE tho the new york times tells of tho the yar war on consumption get a transfer from the street car conductor today look on the back of it through the courtesy of a dry goods firm which has tho the advertising to the reverse side of the transfers one million street car transfers telling on the back edw to avoid prevent or cure tuberculosis have been given out in new york city practically every sunday during the lost last twelve months stretch these transfers lengthwise and join them together and you haye have eighty seven miles of reading mattor matter multiply that by fafty allea ot of transfers in a year tar far more i than would stretch cli across the united states at the congestion exhibit you saw f the dark rooms the models of the lung block and the horrible bor examples exhibited in alcohol by the committee on all the prevention of tuberculosis that tuberculosis exhibit has been a L great traveler ono one finds it in many places two months ago people often blocked the sidewalk before the me metropolitan building in twenty third street where the exhibit was for several weeks installed in vacant office settlements rn ants halls and other buildings have housed it it hundreds of thousands have understood by seeing boeing what they might not comprehend by hearing the committee commit mado made an educational ton strike when it began to publish the dont cards the phrase dont give consumption to others dont lot r others give consumption to you has become to many ears earn as haunting as alink trip slip blip for a six cent fare six hundred thousand thoua and of these cards printed in various languages and telling in the simplest language fundamental rules for guarding against consumption have bave been given out at dis Ped pen sarf saries c clinics clinics lectures and ill all through the congested portions of the city remarkable results have been thereby achieved only in ono one way can consumption bo be materially checked and that leby Is by the education education of the in to protect himself and others |