Connecticut western news., 1919-12-04
CHRISTMAS SEALS
 ARE PLACED ON SALE
Only the School Children Will Sell Seals
 Here

 of the 17,000 persons who are suffer ing from tuberculosis in Connecticut rests in the success of the Red Cross Christmas Seal Sale which formally began on Monday, December 1st.
 The State Tuberculosis Commis- sion, which has organized the move ment in this state, has launched, first, a publicity campaign which it is ex- pected will result in informing the people of the state how to avoid the disease and how to detect it in it's early stages and, second, in raising funds to support the anti-tuberculo- sis work and warfare in every com munity of the state in 1920.
 To assist in carrying out this pro- gram Governor Holcomb has issued a proclamation appointing Tubercu- losis Day in the schools next Friday, in the synagogues next Saturday and in the churches next Sunday, Decem- Der 7th, and has urged that appro- priate addresses be made in them at that time, calling attention to the recent spread of the disease, to the enormous number of present cases, to the fact that the disease is prevent able and eIrabel and that the atten- tion. of the public to the existing situation n desired, in fact almost imperative.
 The State Tuberculosis Commits sion has sent literature to the clergy, to >the schools and to public speakers of the state, and has urged them to refer to it for facts in their talks on the disease which are given in res ponse to the Governors proclamation and request. In addition, trailer films have been prepared for the mo- tion picture theatres of the state. These will be attached to the big pictures which will be sent out gen. olaiiy ior distribution during Decem- Der.
 The national part of the Red Cross Seael Campaign includes appeals from President Wilson, ex-President Taft, Surgeon General Victor Blue, to rally to the call to prevent the lamentable and unnecessary waste of human life from tuberculosis, annu- ally amounting to 150,0O0 persons in America. As 150,000 is about three times the number which the country lost in the World War, the situation is regarded by such persons as Wilson, Taft and Blue as nothing short of appalling.
 Last year there were 1777 deaths from the disease in Connecticut. To meet the situation in the state, the Tuberculosis Commission and it's local agents in the cities and towns have devised program which is aimed to attack the disease in it's early stages, as we'll as to care for the stricken in sanatoria and their homes. The sum realized from the sale of seals will be devoted to the tuberculosis nursing, clinics, dis pensaries, open air schools, preven- toria, and other forms of community activity which have been organized to combat the disease.
 The State Tuberculosis Commis- sion hopes to raise $125,OOO through the campaign in this state. The in tensive campaign for, funds which began on Monday will last eleven days but booths for the sale of seals will be kept open in many towns until Christmas.
 Our visiting nurse, Miss Price, has explained the use and purpose of these seals to the school children and has enlisted nearly every child in town as a salesman. In addition to the seals, envelopes also are sold for 2 cents each which bear the in- scription ''For the health of the con- munity." Those who wish to con- tribute $500 are given what is a 'health bond" which is equivalent to 500 seals.
 It must be remembered that 85 per cent of the proceeds of this sale of seals remains in town for the pur- pose of fighting tuberculosis, and in this way bringing back to health onu who xuo111J