The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-02-17
BREAK RECORD
BY 1915 SALE.
Wisconsin Anti tuberculosis
Association Receives
$36,OOO.OO for Next
/, Years Work.
Received FROM STICKER SALE
Little Christmas Seals Are Source of
Large Income to Be Used to
Fight the Deadly White
Plague.
RECEIVED FROM STICKER SALE

Kenosha did its part in the sale of red
cross Christmas seals which resulted in
a total of approximately $4,000 being
turned over to the Wisconsin Anti
tuberculosis association to use in it's
fight against disease in this state.
Approximately $4,000 worth Of Red
Cross Christmas Seals were sold in the
State of Wisconsin in the 1915 selling
campaign, the state sale being $1,000
better than the preceding year when a
total of $35,094.78 smashed all previous
records. This record of an increasing
sale each year save one since the organi-
cation of the Wisconsin Anti-Tubercu-
losis Association, which has been en-
tirely financed from the very beginning
by the sale of the little Christmas stick
ers, is a remarkable evidence of the
gradual and permanent awakening of
the public to a sense of its personal in
terest and responsibility in the cam
paign which is being waged against tu-
berculosis and preventable disease and
which is given a large share of the
credit for the fact cited in the census
bureau s recent report that deaths from
tuberculosis have fallen off 25 per cent
in the last ten years. Continued and in
creasing support are encouraging proof
of the fact that the interest In the
public movement is not spasmodic, but
that it is to be fight to the finish.
Rural districts and the smaller COM
munities of the state are largely re-
sponsible for this year IS seal sale again.
Milwaukee also won new honors this
year, the sale in this city being over
81 900 as against $9,018.32 in 1914.
In many of the larger cities, however,
the sale fell off, fact explained in
some instances by epidemics of whoop-
ing cough and measles which interfered
seriously with the sales by the school
children. The fact that this loss was
more than offset by the accumulated
gains in the rural schools and smaller
communities is regarded as a striking
illustration of the soundness of the
financial policy which recognizes at its
full value "The Power Of a Penny.
The deeper significance, however, lies
in the educational value of campaign
which brings support from thousands
of small contributors rather than from a
few large ones.
Under the plan by which certificates
Of honor were awarded to rural school
children in cities which took advantage
of the plan on the sale of larger amounts
of seals, over 10000 certificates have
been sent out by the Wisconsin Anti
Tuberculosis Association. Trades unions
throughout the state took an active
part in the campaign, the union sale re-
ported up to date being $486.72 with
quite number still to be heard from.
Reports from communities have been
slow in coming in and there are still
1900 rural school teachers and $50 local
managers to be heard from.
Comparison of the reports already In
with those of preceding years makes a
fairly accurate estimate possible the to-
tai state sale outside of Milwaukee
which has been reported up to the pres
ent time being $21,053.49. The Milwau-
kee sale on deposit is 81, 234.21 and it
is estimated that there are about 5000
in outstanding accounts. Of this amount
Sc, 700.S9 has been turned in by the pub
lie schools which will also receive credit
for the drug store sales, one half of this
fund being used for preventive work in
the schools.
The total sale in Milwaukee parochial
schools and churches was $167.42, being
part of the sale credited to the Mar
quette Woman s Club.