Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1920-12-14
NEED BIG SUM
TO AID FIGHT
AGAINST I. B.
Ten Million Christmas Seals
Must be Sold to Garry on
Work in State

I.
The war on the "Great White
Plague" is now well under way IN
West Virginia, and from the small
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
will continue to do so In the future.
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 to 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 $4,000 are
in the early or incipient stages of the
malady. While the Nation leads 30O..
900 people annually into the path of
this dread white plague, there is be-
tween $15.000,00 and s25.000,000 be.
ing wasted by persons infected with
the slow but sure death who are try
ing to save their health by taking
s'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 wait
! ing list of 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 more
| of them.
West Virginia is in a spirited race
this year in the Christmas seal Sale.
Governor Carl E. Milliken of Maine
and Governor ]. 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
nicknamed 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 show that tuberculosis Is
| 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 are
| between the ages of Is and As years.
Death of these valuable citizens at this
year in their lives nets the Nation an
annual loss Of $40, 47O, 900, much of this
being contributed by West Virginia.
tuberculosis exists in many forms.
1t eats slowly into family. and some
times before the first case is diagnosed
within family the entire membership
of the family is suffering with the
disease. tuberculosis is not hered-
itary. The only persons from whom
others can contract the disease are
those who have active consumption,
This can be conveyed in many diff
ferent ways. A family in which a case,
Of tuberculosis is located is not a
tainted" family as some people would
have others think tuberculosis is
durable. 1t must be caught in time.
In West Virginia 50 per cent OF the
school children are suffering from
some disease. 1t may be minor. but
they are physically imperfect. Money
secured through the sale OF Christmas
seals will materially aid in establish
ment Of child clinics and subsequent
reduction in the number of abnormal
children
In West Virginia 1872 beds are main
tanned for tuberculars. 1t has been
estimated that there should be at least
one bed for each death from the dis
ease in the State. According to these
figures West Virginia is away below
par Buy Christmas seals and help
stamp out the disease. DR.. Hinzman
gave seven of the best years Of his life
at the State sanitarium caring for
those afflicted with the dread white
plague He died several weeks agn
There are many more in the santa
rum doing the same thing. Their
work will be in vain. however, If they
are not backed up with sufficient work