Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehicles — John Shaqi
Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehiclesRoutzahn, Mary Swain
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Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehicles
Routzahn, Mary Swain
Educational exhibits, Traveling
The Board of Health of Kansas has used a Pullman car to carry exhibits
on child welfare, tuberculosis, and other health topics. A woman
physician and public health nurses traveled with the car and gave
health talks and explained exhibits. Sixty-nine cities and towns were
visited, the stops varying from one to four days. The purpose was
chiefly educational, but an attempt was made to discuss their health
problems with individuals.
Another example of the Health Special was a car sent out by the West
Virginia Board of Health during 1919, and described in letters sent in
advance to the newspapers as:
A fine, vestibuled coach, equipped with electrically driven models,
health posters, exhibits of living bacteria, exhibits of Red Cross
work, a moving picture machine, and a small but complete chemical and
bacteriological laboratory in one end.
WAR PROPAGANDA
During the war, trains were used in several states to carry the
message of food conservation and more especially to encourage home
canning by simple methods. The Pennsylvania Food Administration, in
co-operation with the Pennsylvania State College of Agriculture
and the Pennsylvania Railroad, ran a train of three cars during the
first and second summer of the war. The train included an exhibit car
containing posters and graphic devices showing why food conservation
was necessary; and two cars where skilled demonstrators illustrated
methods of baking with wheat substitutes and the canning and drying of
fruits and vegetables.
A Save the Surplus Special of two cars toured New York State
encouraging home canning and helping practically to increase it.
During the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign exhibit trains were used in
some districts for displaying war trophies, and during the Fifth
Liberty Loan several shiploads of war equipment and trophies were
distributed over the whole country for display on trains which were
sent into the rural districts and cities. Each train included several
flat cars and a baggage car loaded with captured cannon, German
aëroplanes, machine guns, trench mortars, gas warfare apparatus and
gas masks, and thousands of other interesting trophies. One of our own
tanks, dressed up in its fighting clothes, was an interesting feature
of the exhibits. Each train was accompanied by an armed guard of
returned soldiers, sailors, and marines.
In Missouri a Women’s Patriotic Special made a two weeks’ trip carrying
women speakers who gave talks on the Red Cross, food conservation, and
other war topics.
A GOVERNMENT SAFETY FIRST TRAIN
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