New Britain herald., 1915-11-26
CHRISTMAS SEALS
 ARE ON SALE TODAY
You Can Help in the Great Fight
 Against Tuberculosis


 l ciate it if some good samaritan hap pened along offered to help you and also your family while you were away ! and actually made it possible for you to recover from the ravageS of the dis | east?
 There is a good samaritan right here | in New Britain and it wants to help those who cannot help themselves The | samaritan is the New Britain Iuber-
 culosis Relief society, an orgahlzatloh
 whose object is deserving of praise
 and support from whichever angie It
 is viewed. It wants to help the SICK
 and comfort those who are deprived
 of a breadwinner.
 Tn order to aid in this work, the so-
 ciety each year sells Red Cross Christ
 mas seals. They are sold for one
 cent each A cent is the smallest com minted by the United States govern ment. Hardly any person in the city cannot afford to divert a few of these cents from their usual channels ana exchange them for Red Cross Chrlst- mas seals. Americans have been called on recently for many contributors TOT various objects and they have re- sponded nobly so that this natloh stands alone today as one where the
 
 ism is strong. The United States has sent millions of money abroad to help non- com batants who are desolated py the war. It has also sent money ana supplies to those who are actually en- gagged in the great conflict. NOW Am ericans have an opportunity to con- tribute to a cause just as Worthy-a home cause They should respond Just as quickly, just as freely, because the fight going on here is equally as he- roic and equally as deserving or en- couragement and aid.
 Buy some Red Cross Christmas seals this year. The money Will De used in New Britain to alleviate the suffering of New Britain people. You will be happier this Christmas when you realize that you have perhaps been the means of contributing to the health of someone who could not help himself. Aside from the sentimental side there is an economic arugment which should not be passed over light ly. Every dependent on the city means increased expenses for you. If a breadwinner is too sick to work and TO organization takes cognizance of his case, he becomes a dependent on the city of New Britain and must be supported In addition to that, his family must be taken care of and this means a drain on the taxpayers poe ketbook. You pay anyway but if you help to pay by buying Christmas seals you will have the satisfaction of know ing that your money was spent to cure a disease that must be fought day and night, a disease that never slumbers in the trenches.
 The publicity department of the Red Cross Christmas seal campaign has is- sued the following "Tuberculosis Ser mon':
 Many people have a notion, be- cause they are not themselves afflicted with tuberculosis and have no one in their family who is suffering from this disease, that therefore they have no responsibility in the anti tuberculosis campaign. Aside from the purely altruistic and humani- tartan motives which should stir any strong man to help those who are weak and suffering, I propose to show that every man and woman in this terrible disease, tuberculosis.
 Scientists have informed us that tuberculosis is a communicable, in fectious disease, and that it may be cured if it is taken in the early
 
 to those who are well if proper pre- cautions are taken in time. Starting on these scientific foundations, I main tain that every man and woman in this community has a responsibility for the stamping out of tuberculosis from our midst.
 First of all, you have responsi- bility as an individual residing in this I living IT, ganized society. Your responsibility in this capacity is purely selfish one. It is for example, toward the protec- ton of your own health. If I could show you in some dramatic way how the subtle menace of unprotected cOnsumptives in our midst threatens to undermine your health or that of your family, it would not take long for you to realize your responsibility in the control of this disease. While cannot demonstrate this condition in such a way that you would be shocked at once into action, I can appeal to your reason. The consumptives who walk the streets of this town, in the community, the germs of their disease, will sooner or later come in contact With you, your wife, or your children. Your responsibility as an individual is to protect yourself and your family.
 Your second responsibility is as a citizen of this community. The mere fact that you have agreed to live here and have tacitly or otherwise made yourself part of the civic cor poration which we call our city or town, gives to you a responsibility for every other man in this community who calls himself your fellow citizen. Any catastrophe or disease which im- pairs the efficiency of one or more 1 members of the community weakens by just so much the efficiency of the | entire citizenship and impairs the | usefulness of the civic body tn it's in |