The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1920-01-23
fine ADDRESSES
At LIONS CLUB
MISS EARL CHAMBER. MAJOR e
A. KINGSLEY AND SENATOR e
E. ALEXANDER TALK AT
LUNCHEON.


The regular meeting of the Lions
Club at noon on Wednesday of this
week was one of the most interesting
sessions the members of the organ
ization have yet held, made so by
three very splendid addresses de-
livered by Miss Eearl Chambers Of
Little Rock, Major E. A. Kingsley
also of Little Rock, recently back
from France, and Senator f. E. Al
exander of Blytheville.
Miss Chambers made an address
on the necessity for enlistment in the
fight to prevent tuberculosis. Her
talk was most interesting and con-
vincing in that she made a powerful
presentation of the menace of tuber-
culosis. She is fluent talker, with
wonderful command of expressive
words and fortified her arguments
with startling statistics that showed
the borrow of this dreadful malady.
She called attention to the fact that
while there were more than two hun
dred men and women in Arkansas
giving their full time to education
along agricultural and livestock lines,
there is only one man in all the state
who is giving his full time to the pre-
vention of disease among people and
the educational work along hygenic
lines to prevent the spread of tuber-
culosis. There are even specialists
in the state to tell people how to
handle bees, to prevent cholera among
hogs and diseases of all kinds among
sheep and cattle. but nobody to tell
parents how to conserve the health
of their children. During the recent
world war 6,500,000 lives were lost,
and during the same period tubercu-
losis claimed 100000 victims. The
total loss of American soldiers dur
ing the war was $4,000, while in
the United States in one year 15O,-
900 people died of tuberculosis. Ar
kansas loss in soldiers during the
war was 396 men, yet during one
of tuberculosis. In Pulaski county
alone tuberculosis claimed 3c6 VIC
Tins last year, an average Of almost
one a day. There are now $4,000
cases of tuberculosis in the state.
The burden of Miss Chambers plea
was that the people should wake up,
that they should contribute to the
fanti-tuberculosis fund so that edu-
cational work may be carried on in
every county in the state, among
whites and blacks. teaching parents
and children how to avoid tubercu-
losis. She said arrangements had
been made to do some of this work
in Lee county.
Miss Emma Clark, who had charge
of the Christmas sale of seals, the
proceeds from which sale go to the
fund for fighting tuberculosis, said
Lee county feel down on her quota
during the Christmas drive-that less
than $500 worth of the seals were
sold
Major Kingley who served with an
engineering corps in France. told
something about the wonderful road
system In that country and how inn
portant it is that the people of Amer
lea, especially in Arkansas, wake up
to the Importance of good roads and
street paving. Major Kingsley is
not stranger to the people of Ma
rianna. He was here more than ten
years ago and assisted in the pre-
liminary work incident to the crea-
tion of the first paving district here.
Senator Alexander made a charac-
teristically witty speech during the
course of which he had many com
plimentary things to say about Ma
rianna and her progressive citizens.