Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-11-26
ENTHUSIASTIC FOR
HEALTH CAMPAIGN
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS ARE
PLACED IN CHARGE OF SALE
OF CHRISTMAS SEALS.
Counties Of the State Being Organized
by Executive Secretary Of Public
Health Association to Secure
Quota Expected OF Utah.

A flying start toward whirlwind
finish has been made by the Utah Pub
lie Health association in its Christmas
seal sale In securing the services OF
former Governor Heber NJ. Wells, In
charge Of Salt Lake City and Ogden,
and of Mrs. A. j. Gorham, as chair
man of women's activities during the
sale.
In cooperation with James III. Wallis,
executive secretary OF the Public
Health association. who is in charge
of the state campaign and who has
been busily working on plans for the
sale relative to providing compre-
hensive health program for next year,
express gratifying satisfaction over en-
thusiasm being shrown throughout the
state.
Realizing that the funds raised In
the seal sale, with the exception of a
meager 10 per cent, will all be used
at home q generous response Is being
met with In spite OF the fact that the
sale comes in the midst of two national
drives" stated Mr.. Wallis. 1.-THE seals
20 to support the national and state
movement for the fight against tuber-
culosis, from which there are 1000
victims suffering In Utah at the pres
emf time. aud two million throughout
the remainder Of the United States.
Ninety per cent of the money raised
In Utah will go to alleviate the suf-
fering of those 1000 victims, while
the other 40 per cent will be Utah's
share TO the National Tuberculosis as
ISOLATION"
The National Tuberculosis assocla-
ton has been fighting the white
plague" for the last twelve years and
although the death rate In the nation
is still alarmlngly high, 1t has been
materially decreased in those com.
munities which have become awake to
the necessity for a vigilant war
against ii, according to Mr.. Wallis.
The health seals have been sold In
Utah since 1910, during which time
the Utah Public Health association
has been founded with representative
citizens from all parts of the state on
Its board of directors standing sponsor
for the expenditure of Its funds and
the manner of its health campaign.
This association has installed the
modern health crusade in the public
schools of the state, thereby providing
an attractive manner for the founda-
ton Of health habits by boys and girls,
which will serve as a lifelong safe
guard against disease. Twelve thou.
sand children have already been en-
rolled in the crusade, with the pros
poets of 10000 more before the school
year expires, according to Mr. Wallis.
Public health nurses have been in
stalled in thirteen counties at the In
stigation and through the cO-opera-
ton of the Utah Public Health assocl-
alton, with the school authorities and
state board of health. Counties which
cannot afford nurse nor even pay
part of her expenses have been pre-
scented with this most valuable bit of
community service through the asso'
ciatlon the association paying the ell
tire expenses In some cases.
Indicating the unprecedented inter
est being taken IN the health sale this
year are the contributions from insti-
tutions already received. Through
IItSlutul biuhb anu
bers of the first presidency of the l.. d.
8. church, a check for $1,000 has been
received. THE association is indeed
grateful for such enthusiastic sup
port" said Mr.. Wallis, the interest in
our work which prompted the giving OF
such a large sum OF money augurlng
well for the public cooperation In our
plans for next year." The Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance company has
pledged the sale OF two thousand dol
lars worth of seals through their
thirty-slK selling agents during the
drive, which opens Thanksgiving day
and continues until Christmas eve.
Pledges of cooperation have also
NsA received from the STYic,e Star
In, the American legion, State
NNfses' association, Salt Lake Presi-
dents club. Ministerial association,
Utah Bankers association, Beehive
girls, Boy Scouts, State Board Of Edu-
cation, National Rotary clubs, Saliva
tom army. AID from Livingston Far
rand, chairman of the American Red
Gross. Back of the national move
ment stand the prominent men and
women of the country headed by
President Woodrow Wilson.
Governor Wells, who has direct
charge OF the sale In Salt Lake and
Ogden, will raise $4,000 In those two
cities, the balance of the state quota
$4,000 will be raised throughout the
stale This calls for 10 cents per
capita for every man, woman and child
In Utah
All other counties of the state are
being organized under the personal
supervision of Mr.. Wallis. Rich was
the first county to complete its or
ganizatlon, which, in the unique man
mel of one-day health carnival, has