Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
GOVERNOR BUYS
A HEALTH BOND
State Executive Urges OBJ
servance of Tubercu-
losis Day

Governor William c. Sproul has
bought the first health bond and in
statement issued to-day suggests
! that the residents of Pennsylvania
| join other states in observing tuoer-
| culosis day in December in connec-
| ton with the Christmas seal SAFE
| The dates named are Friday, De-
| cember 5th, as tuberculosis day IN
the schools; Saturday, December
6th. as tuberculosis day in the Syna-
gogues. and Sunday, December Ith'
as tuberculosis day in the churches.
Governor Sproul in buying the
| first health bond in the seal cam :
paign has become the first member
of the keystone Health Bond Club.
The Health Bond is n new feature
| in the seal campaigns. 1t IS sold TO
n person who wants to aid the health
and tuberculosis work in substan-
tial way and does not care for the
large number of seals his donation
would buy. Health Bonds run IN
denominations from SIS to 500.
DR.. Thomas E. Finegan, State
Commissioner of Education, is send
ing a letter to the $4,000 pubic
school teachers in the State calling
losis campaign and asking them to
bring the matter to the attention or
their pupils on tuberculosis day.
The day Will also be properly OBJ
served in parochial schools and the
colleges.
Pastors all over the State have al
ready given assurance that they Will
preach December 7th on the White
plague and the public health prob
lem. The matter will likewise De
brought to the attention OF many
Sunday Schools on that day. Many
State mayors will back up the Gov
ernor by asking their citizens to Join
in marking tuberculosis day, which
will be observed throughout the
country.
Governor Sprouts statement fol-
lows:
In many of the states of the un-
ion, as a result of arrangements al
ready made IN connection with the
Christmas Red Cross Seal Sale, Fiji
day, December 5, will be observed
as Tuberculosis Day in the schools,
Saturday, December s, as Tuoercu-
losis Day in the Synagogues, ana
Sunday. December I, as Tuber-
culosis Day in the other churches.
In the schools there will be special
instructions regarding the white
plague menace, and the part that
the men, women and children OF the
land should take in hedping State
and Federal authorities halt the
yearly ravages of tuberculosis. IN
the churches there will be timely
comment upon the duty the iudi-
vidual owes to the community Ill
connection with tuberculosis-a pre-
ventable disease-that each year
causes the death of 10000 people in
this State.
II believe it would be fitting If
the schools ard churches OF this
State, as far as is practical. make
December 3, and I, days upon
which special emphasis is placed
UPON the dangers of the White
plague and the part the public gen
orally can play in overcoming those
dangers. Only when the public IS
FULLY Informed concerning its patt
in the fight against tuberculosis Will
II be possible 70 cause the reduction
in the annual tuberculosis death rate
that those engaged in tuberculosis
Oo k confidently nope for.
Nc state in the union has Deen
more aggressive than Pennsylvania
in tho fight it has made against tu-
barculosis. The fact that a natioh-
wide observance of tuberculosis Day
is possible, is, in conslderanle
measure, due to the influence OF the
tuberculosis program developed III
our Commonwealth"