Col. Osmundo Mondoñedo, head of the Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financing Administration, and Pedro S. Lopez, executive secretary of the Philippine Tuberculosis Society, were the guest speakers at the Manila Rotary Club's regular luncheon-meeting last September 15. Rotarians heard the ACCFA chairman stress that the office he heads receives no budgetary outlay from the government but supports its operations out of the earnings from interest charges the farmers pay. "Despite this handicap, however," Mondoñedo said, "the ACCFA is giving the national economy a big boost and the small farmers, solid security." He averred that by increasing the productive capacity and income of 90% of the people, there would be enough purchasing power not only to create a demand for consumer's goods produced locally but also goods that have to be imported. Lopez made an appeal for greater support in the anti-TB drive. He cited statistics on the tuberculosis mortality rate and disclosed that some 30,000 Filipinos a year die of tuberculosis alone. "All elements should lend a helping hand in the campaign," Lopez declared, "because the task is too gigantic for health agencies alone to undertake." Col. Osmundo Mondoñedo, ACCFA administrator, and Pedro Lopez, executive secretary of the Philippine Tuberculosis Society, addressed the Rotarians on Sept, 15. Colonel Mondoñedo is shown above speaking as Jonby Carlos, acting Rotary Club president, looks on.