Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-22
$4,000 STAMPS.

On Tuesday last S. b. Tobey, super
intendent of the city schools, placed a
telephone order with the Wisconsin
Anti-Tuberculosis association for %, 600
Red Cross stamps. The headquarters
of the association is in Milwaukee Mr.
Tobey promised the association, eoocrd-
ing to Milwaukee report, that Wausau
would take care of at least 90, 900 of the
stamps. The first lot has been received
and has been placed in the hands of the
school children who are dsposing of
them very fast. They are also on sale
at the book stc-es of j. Rohda and A
w. Mumm and at all The drug
stores. Many business men are
subscribing for large amounts and
every letter leaving their office bears
one of the stamps. The Wisconsin
association started out to sell 1900 900
before Jan. lst. The sales so far have
been considerably over half that
amount. One Milwaukee firm alone
ordered $4,000 and is placing one on
every pay check ard every letter going
out of the Office. The stamps are
slightly larger than the regulation post
age stamp and of neat design. They
are sold at lie each and the money de
rived from the sales is turned over TO
the association to be used in helping to
stamp out the white plague. Since the
tuberculosis congress was held in the
East a short time ago, similar associa-
tions to the Wisconsin organization
have been established in all the princi-
pal states in the union.
Wisconsin people have taken long
step in combating tuberculosis, and
the money derived from this stamp sale
will be used in educating our people in
ways of right living to ward off the
disease and in methods of caring
for patients The association has
a tuberculosis exhibit which took
first prize at the International
tuberculosis congress. During the
winter this exhibit will be shown
in many of the large cities of the
state, while smaller one will be taken
to the smaller cities In the past few
years the disease has been increasing
in the large cities and decreasing in
small towns.
The exhibit will be in charge of
trained man who will tell its story
quickly and effectively. He will offer
suggestions to physicians, teachers,
scholars and the people in general on
the best methods to be employed in
combating the disease. 1t will be his
purpose to study the community and
find the plague spots, if any, and assist
boards of health to clean out places of
Infection. The necessity of having
plenty of fresh air and sunlight will be
insisted upon, likewise the use Of
wholesome food.
The stamp campaign will educate the
people to welcome the exhibit and the
people who offer the stamps for sale
and those who buy them will be in
strueted in the fundamental principle
that it will drive out tuberculosis. The
conditions that make that disease inn
possible will drive out other similar
diseases, so that the campaign is strictly
an educational one.
All funds raised will be placed in the
treasury of the Wisconsin Anti-Tuber-
culosis association and expecded in
printing literature and maintaining :ne
exhibit but the latter will be in charge
of the university extension division at
Madison.
We understand that cities selling the
stamps in large quantities viii be the
ones first visited, so that our people will
have good opportunity of securing
] this exhibit.