The spectator., 1920-12-21
ACTIVITIES OF THE
 HEALTH CRUSADE
The People ef ArkaWsAs Responding Generously to the Nssds of Those
 Subleet to White Plague.

assume shape. with pronatss of . steady growth. That faads may Dc provided with which te promote this campaign and make !t most effective. the Arkansas Public Hsaish Assscia- sion is making plans for i>s annual sale of Christmas Seals tustoS the month of December. IL ts hepsA tAst q total of at least Si36.ooe may be raised through he sale of seals aad other contributions. With sucA . fund the budget which has hesn ap. proved by the National Asseeaaticn and spportionsd among As several counties, will enable tho assesiaSSoa to do an extensive educational voSh and put on health programs sAAt v<il tn' xure splendid results.
 The campaign Asetast tuberculosis by this Association vas soaasAssA Ia 1918 by sAs sADaoyosas sf . suhss. ealoais Aarss ia L~tees 1os4 v1sl sAs proceeds of the sa1s sf Red t~oeo seals Struggling lsc~l sssos4a,ioas. with very limited NaaAs, AsF&vsA from rte same source exSstsd also ia Fost Smith rsxarksas. Pins Basx. Not Springs and HeleAa. sad wsrksd chiefly in connection with the local charities. Through tAs vasion sf the State President, Dr A. c. Shipp enough Red CFess scala were sold ia 1918 to employ . fuli,sime State Field Secretary The year lsfi was speu, i'll studying the territory. establishins contacts, creating geasrAi iHtersst and securing strong local coMmistess te assist in the Christmas seal sale that funds for extension of the prograN during the next year might bs he'd.
 During this period sspsesal ass4ss <nee was lsnt by the State Depart ment of Health and Education. the University Extension forces and ths State Federation of Womeas Clubs Thirteen hundred aad seventy one pso. pie, llS4S whites and 1,223 aegross were reached that year by addresses, and 1,343 pieces of literature diserIb, uted. Tho seal sale of 1917 nettsd s7,ss7.s1 10 the State Association aad $4,I70.S2 to local assoc1A&ioas
 The year 1918 saw the ssginains of real State program The coz, seription of workers by the war made It difficult to procure . complete per, sonnel, anu especially was ehis true of the nurses, until late i~ the year but despite what fact much was ac. eomplished h midsummsS, Mrs (. l.. Shafer became a fuIl-ttMs Ex ocutive Secretary, agreeing to serve only during the acute sAoseAee el workers, while two Held secretaries two nurses and an office secretary completed the force. The AsiA score taries met numerous snaA iaSornal groups, teachers ins&ttutee. womsat clubs. school children. and addressed a total of 1S,460 people 4ux1AS ths war Work was seriously intsssupteA by the flu" and most of Novemboe and December was devoted to sssis< Roll Call. ali our iatsrsst ever the state being placed a2 she AasDossl u the Red Cross at the rsQVsst of SAs National rubsrculesls Assessseloa.
 The arst nsal Hsssss bsssa wss& h March. 1918. rAs ssssol is Mav \ demonstration of ysAiis hsaish ssss1As has bean given in the so0Atiso of Loe, Lonoks. Bradley. Shayp. CSesssadsn. Graighead, Crawfosd. Ssvlsr Aoaros, Mississippi Clay. q. Fssasis. sa,aas. Ashley Cleveland, u1Aaa. hsoDstea and Independence. O. AvAaesl ed fortySevsn different ssDAAA1isass wsss visited. s4o tuberculosis sases were located, and a total sf S.4N vis1es mxde by the nxFrses Hvs gAeNsaaA five hundred and siSAteea ssAosa eAti. dreD in those coun;iss were exxsatAeA. and it is believed shAs hunds essld easily be procured f% s~ssy sas of them for public hsalsA A4rss e . result of this dsaonssrAstsa. The number of eases of tubsEcWlosis vis. tied by the nurses should not bs taken as in any sense an indication of the amount of tuberculosis existing
 In the fall of lsis the Na,.oaal Tuberculosis Association and the American Red Cross agreed to a tenn. p0rary discontinuaacs of the Christ
  mas seal sale at the request of Prssi. dent Wilson. and the Red Cross made an appropriation of $2,50o. ooo to ths former association for it's 1919 work, from which the state associations were financed. A special fund for work was allowed to the newer states, and Arkansas received $3,s0o for special sanitary campaigns in five counties
 The biggest health msssaee given to the people of Arkansas Is the Mod ern Health Crusade. It has progressed very slowly because of lack of funds in January last the National Tuber culosis Association arranged with the Junior He'd Cross to make it their health program for A national tourna ment, in consequence of which 30.oO0 children were enrolled in Arkansas in a joint campaign conducted by this Association and the Junior Red Cross
 A more elaborate program has been