The log cabin Democrat., 1921-11-21
Appointed Honorary Chairman of Xmas Seal Sale. Col. K. P.
 Williams Chairman.
IN NEED OF ATTENTION
Col. Williams In Interview Gives Startling Facts and Figures on Tuberculosis. Urges
 Buying of Seals.

Col. Kenneth P. Williams of Little Rock, President of the Arkansas Tub erculosis Association, has assumed personal direction of the annual Christmas Seal Sale. Governor Thom- as C. McRae is honorary chairman. Other members of the state execu- tive committee for the Seal Sale are: c. J. Mansfield, Warren; F. C. Bridges, Pine Bluff; Mrs. H. C. King, Ft. Smith Chas. Mccain, Little Rock.
 Col. Williams calls attention to the grave need in Arkansas for very ac- tive campaign to stamp out tubercu- losis. He says:
 Arkansas has only one sanatorium of 1S0 beds, in spite of the fact that 5000 Arkansans die each year of this dread disease. Where are these tub erculous patients to be cared for? The state does not do it-;le county does not do it, the family of the stricken one are all too frequently un- able to do it. Therefore the greater proportion of these 5000 unfortunates who could have been saved to useful citizenship, with potential value to the state of an average earning cap aclty, in an ordinary span of life, of $2o,000-shows an economic loss to the state of approximately s60,0oo,- GOO, annually. These figures do not take cognizance of the 30,00O men, women and children whose earning capacity is reduced to a negligible value through impairment of body and mind because of this disease.
 Astounding as these figures seem to the average mind-to minds not ac- customed to making first hand investi- gations-to minds deliberately closed to condition for which they do not feel personally responsible, the facts Will be almost unbelievable. But if the case work of the all too few workers could be vizualized by our citizens, these conditions would be al most stamped out within a few years"
 Recently in one of our larger cities, mother and father, leaders in social and civic affairs, blest with several healthy, happy youngsters, and splendid home, sent out the nurse to give the eighteen months baby its daily outing. The nurse. with the child, spent the afternoon visiting negro family in which four members were i'll with tuberculosis. two of them far advanced.
 "The visiting nurse, employed by the Tuberculosis Association, happen ed to go into that home on her regu. lar rounds and found the white child crawling about the floor of this squalid shanty, where she had been for several hours exposed to the most insiduous enemy of mankind"
 This could happen to your child or mine. If this helpless baby develops tuberculosis whose fault will it be? Do not say it will be the fault of tho father or the mother. It is your busi- ness and my business.
 There is no need to call attention to the fact to any rational thinking person that We spend thousands of dollars each year (money which is well spent) for the eradication of ticks, the improvement of live stock. for good roads program; and for other public works. But it is high time we spent money for the preser. vation of our chief asset-human life.
 The astounding situation revealed to the American people in the physical examination and mental test of the flower of our manhood in the world war must have immediate response in sane program to save the man and woman power of our nation.
 "The Arkansas Tuberculosis Asso- citation must have money for its pro. gram. 1t will have to come from the pockets of the people, it will have to come in small amounts because times are hard, but everybody should give SOMETHING"
 "Ths Christmas Seal Sale is an an. nual event four weeks proceeding the holidays which gives each one an op- portunity to aid in the greatest re- construction work this State can ua. dsrtake. Let every family discuss this momentous question and decide that from the oldest to the youngest each member, by the purchase of Christmas seals, will have some part in raising a fund in Arkansas to blot out this dread disease"
 Huv aeals and save livee AAws~