Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-12-23
NEED BIG sum
TO AID FIGHT
AGAINST 7. B.
Ten Million Christmas Seals
Must be Sold to Carry on
Work in State

Plague" is now we'll under way in
cities and towns and the rural dis
tricts, where red blooded men and
women fear it greatest. as well as the
larger cities. officials expect the great
est support that has ever been given
the movement. tuberculosis has
wrought havoc with the population of
the Mountain State in the past and
for it will be some time before it can
be checked.
But through the West Virginia Tu-
berculosis Association and the aid OF
the States citizens, campaign is to
be waged in the future that will not
only decrease the number Of victims
to the malady. but will reduce the
number affiliated 10 a minimum. The
work in West Virginia, while not new,
has just been started on its present
scale and effects of the work being
done will soon be discernible to every
one.
tuberculosis claims $500 people IN
the State OF West Virginia annually.
Estimates made by the State health
department and the West Virginia Tu.
berculosis Association show 10000 are
in the early or incipient stages Of the
malady. While the Nation leads 3O0..
600 people annually into the path OF
this dread white plague, there is be-.
tween SIS 100000 and $4,000, 900 be
ing wasted by persons infected with
the slow but sure death who are try
ing to save their health by taking
sure cures" and discoveries"
Buy Christmas seals. Purchase of
the seals means the conquest Of tuber-
culosis or consumption. West Vir-
ginia is one of the few States in the
Union that does not have anywhere
near enough beds for the tuberculars
OF the State. At Terra Alta there is a
splendid sanitarium, but it is very in
adequate, and there is always a wait.
Ing list or those who have the disease.
While they are waiting they are los.
ing ground and are also injecting
many of their best friends and fellow
workers. Good sale of the seals means
better equipped sanatoria and NOR.
of them.
West Virginia is. in a spirited race
this year in the Christmas seal sale.
Governor Carl Is. Milliken of Maine
ana Governor J. A. A. Burnquist of
Minnesota have challenged Governor
Cornwell to bring West Virginia on an
equality with the two most Northern
States. Governor Cornwell answered
that West Virginia would stand con.
test with the other States. This extra
impetus is expected to put West Vir.
ginia over big. The rural sections
which many out of the State have
nicknamcd the black counties" will
be the ones to file reports which will
Slowly pile up the funds for the care
OF the tuberculars of the State.
surveys snow that tuberculosis 10
taking the men and women at their
very prime. One-third Of the men and
women who die annually in this State
fall victims to the insidious disease.
the great white plague. while they ara
between the ages of IS and a. years.
Death of these valuable citizens at this
year in their lives nets the Nation an
annual loss OF Sl0.i7O 900. much of this
being contributed by West Virginia
tuberculosis exists in MANY fo,m,
ii eats slowly into family. and some.
times before the first case is diagrosed
within family the entire membersbfn
or the family is suffering with the
disease. Tuber, ulosis is not hcr.d.
ltary. The only persons from whom
Others can contract the disease ara
those VINO nave active consumptiop
l MS can he conveyed in many dit.
felent ways. 4 family in " lin a case
OF tuber"" is is Toe, ted is moi
tainted" family rs some pcop.e womb
nave Others think Tube culc.is &c
durable. 1t must be caught in time
In west Virginia 50 per cent Of the
school children are SUFFERING from
some disease. II may he minor nm
they are physically imperfect None,
secured through the SAFE Of Christmas
seals will materially aid in estabush.
ment of child clinics and Subsequent
reduction in the number of abno, NAL
children
In West Virginia 1S2 beds are main
tanned for tubercuars. II has hoo,
estimated that there should be at least
one bed for each death from the dis.
ease in the state. According 10 these
hgures West Virginia is away below
par Buy Christmas seals and helm
stamp out the disease. DR.. Hinzman
gave seven of the best years of his Iifa
at the state sanitarium caring for
those afiiicted with the dread white
plague. He died several weeks ago.
THere are many more in the santa.
rum doing the same thing. Their
work will be in vain, however II thew
are not backed up with sufficient work