Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-11-29
Christmas Seal Sale
Campaign Is On
Opening Gun Fired on Thanksgiving
Day; Thirty-three Million Seals
Sent to District Managers.

With an army Of more than 400
community managers and 1000 rural
and state graded schools organized
for the big educational and
financial campaign against tuber-
culosis, the opening gun in the 1924
ChFiStman seal sale, conducted by
the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis
association, was fired on Thanks
giving Day.
Thirty-three million Christmas
seals have been rushed through the
mails to nearly every community in
the state, TO seal sale managers, to
the schools, to local tuberculosis
associations, for the sale which open
ed Thanksgiving Day and continues
through the entire Christmas season
that follows Thousands Of gay
Santa Claus posters urging the sup
port of the battle against tuber-
culosis are being sent out and movies
slides. lectures and stunts are being
used everywhere in this statewide
campaign to raise funds for the
fight.
The annual sale of Christmas
seals is the one appeal made by the
Wisconsin nti-Tuberculosis as
sociation for money, and upon its
success depends the program for the
following year, The association is
an educational institution, the
purpose Of which is to fight tuber-
culosis BY teaching people how to
prevent it. 1t breakfasts its
message Of health into every corner
of the state through its travelling
free chest clinics. which have visited
more than $50 communities and
examined over $4,000 people: its
Modern Health Crusade, which is
teaching thousands of school child
rem of Wisconsin habits of health
that result in strong bodies capable
of resisting tuberculosis and other
diseases; its monthly magazine, The
Crusader, devoted to public health;
its Health Service Training School,
from which more than 100 public
health nurses have been graduated.
The biggest seal sale in the history
of the association is needed if the
is to carry out the
program planned for 1925.
It's winning fight, but tuber-
culosis has been so many centuries
in the making that it will take a
long while to completely control.
Since the work was begun in 1908,
the tuberculosis death rate in Wis
consin has been cut 80 per cent. The
Christmas seal did it. And there's
lots more for it to do. Last year
l ,819 people in this state died of
tubereulosis-one every four hours
and forty-nine minutes-and there
are still more than 10000 cases Of
the disease in Wisconsin. If the
death rate last year had remained
the same as in 1908, there would
have been 1884 deaths from tuber-
culosis. The rate has been cut,
but it can be cut much more.
The Christmas seal this year is
attractive with predomina-
ting colors of blue and gold. On
the right hand side is the red
double-barred cross on a white
shield bordered in red, symbolizing
the worldwide movement for the
prevention of tuberculosis. At
the left is the figure of a woman
clad in draperies of gold, holding
aloft a torch which symbolizes the
hope that has been brought to man
kind through the successful efforts
of the public health movement. The
word Health" on the seal indicates
the enlargement of the tuberculosis
movement into general work for the
betterment of public health in all
directions, the tuberculosis program
being based on the theory that any
educational effort that tends to
improve general health leads to the
eradication of tuberculosis.