The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-21
THE CHRISTMAS STAMP.

4: We wish to make one more strong
appeal to the good people OF this
community in behalf of the Christ
mas stamp which is doing such
marvellous work for suffering human
fly throughout the length and breadth
:sof this great country.
1t is beautiful little sticker print
ed In color bearing the words "Merry
christmas" and "Happy New Year"
Iand sells for one cent. 1t is on sale
~ the drug stores and many of the
other leading stores in Winchester.
There is no profit to anyone. Every
dollar of revenue goes to the Anti
.faberculosis Association of Kentucky
(. whose object is to stamp out and
keep out the dreaded disease of. con-
sumption. While they are not post
age, these stamps ought to be put
upon every letter that is mailed and
npon every holiday gift.
As tuberculosis is, for some un-
known reason, the cause of larger
proportion of deaths in Kentucky,
than In any other State except Ten
nessee and w. Virginia, we should be
snore interested in anything pertain
ing to it, and buy more Christmas
stamps according to our population
than should the people of the rest
of the country. We all believed, for
SO many years, that tuberculosis was
hereditary and incurable, that we
aearn very slowly, the truth-so i'm
portant to us as individuals and as
q nation-that it is not inherited, and
mot necessarily fatal, but that every
case of consumption, or any other
form of tuberculosis, must come from
She germs of a preceding case-us-
naily from the sputum-and that,
treated early, it is one of the most
-tnrable of the protracted diseases.
These glorious facts can be brought
to the attention of every citizen Of
our State until tuberculosis is abol-
-ished from Kentucky, if this pretty
Attic message of good cheer is re-
.sceiyed now with the cordiality it de-
lAeerves..-5 - 1921
Up to last week the Red Cross So
caety had received orders for more
than 3O,000,O00 of these stamps,
l1he proceeds of the sales in each
State go to the furtherance of the
work In that State. While Kentucky
Is a little slow In the matter of re-
farm, it seems that we are going to
-eeme well to the front in this mat
ter and it is estimated full million
stamps will be sold in the State. Will
not every citizen in Winchester take
some part In this work?
a, 1t is scientifically estimated that
each consumptive coughts out from
one to three million germs every day,
And it is only from taking these
germs into the system that the dis
case comes to others. Everybody is
"A daily danger from it.
With the education and other help
that this money will give to the peo-
de Of our State the mortality can
be wonderfully decreased, and it is
sconfdently hoped that the disease
can ultimately be eradicated. 1t
strikes the rich and poor alike. All
are interested.
A few cases of cholera or small
pox would throw us into panic, yet
many times as many cases of con-
sumption, more deadly and more GER
tain, are right about us every day,
and yet we are Indifferent. This is
dine solely to ignorance. We should
let the people know how to prevent
It and how to cure it when once con-
traeted. This can be done only
through an educational campaign
that necessarily costs some money.
: This beautiful little stamp will
furnish the money if everyone will
do his part. Let us see if Winchester
can't go right to the front. Other
towns of our size, like Paris, have
sold twenty times as many stamps as
ne. This is not the way Winches-
ter generally does things. 1t is not
too late to get In line and take the
advanced position that we ought to
hold. Let no one neglect this, but
buy as many stamps as he can afford
for use in this holiday season.