Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-12-04
Look for Record Sale
of Seals This Season
SALE OF CHRISTMAS SEALS ONLY
SOURCE OF REVENUE IN FIGHT
AGAINST WHITE PLAGUE


AGAINST WHITE PLAGUE
One of the important features in
the Shop Early, Mail Early campaign,
which is being put on throughout the
country by the Post Office Depart
ment, is the proper addressing and
securely wrapping of Christmas pacg-
ages. When you wrap your Christmas
BAGGAGE, wrap them securely, put
your address in the upper left corner
so, if by any chance, it should go as
tray, it can be returned to you and
not sent to the dead letter office. The
good folks Of our community last
year helped to bring joy and happi-
ness to hundreds of thousands of post
men and clerks. Let's do our shop
ping early and mailing early again
this year, so that we may again en-
able the postmen and the post office
clerks to eat their Christmas dinners
home with their families and at the
same time assure ourselves of having
our Christmas presents delivered to
our friends in order that they may
be opened on Christmas morning.
Mr.. e. w Kracht has been appoint
ed manager of the 1924 Christmas
seal campaign conducted by the Wis
consin Anti-Tuberculosis Association
in Eagle River. The sale of seals
opened Thanksgiving Day and con-
tinues through Christmas.
NIt's going to be the biggest seal
sale we've ever had, declared Mr..
Kracht in an interview today Buy
seals, lick tuberculosis is our slogan.
/ hope that every bit of Christmas
mail that leaves Eagee River will be
sealed with Christmas seals. Buying
seals isn't just philanthropy
something to help people who already
have tuberculosis; it's means of
projecting your own home. No home
is safe from tuberculosis until all
homes are safe.
A great deal of progress has already
been made in the fight against this
disease, but tuberculosis has been so
long in the making that it is going
to take a long time to wipe out. Since
the campaign against tuberculosis was
begun in 1908, the tuberculosis death
rate in Wisconsin has been cut SO
per cent. But there's still much to do
Last year 1879 people died of tuber
culosis in Wisconsin and there are
more than 1900 cases in the state
some Of them in nearly every COM
munity, no matter how small.
People used to think that tubercu-
losis was disgrace to be hidden, and
a diagnosis of tuberculosis was re-
garded by the layman as death war
rant. Now they know that it's a cur
able and preventable disease to be
fought in the open. They have been
taught that by the Wisconsin Anti
tuberculosis Association which has
conducted over $50 free chest clinics,
the chief purpose of which is the dis
covery of unknown and unsupported
cases of tuberculosis, in more than
$50 Wisconsin towns and made over
$4,000 chest examinations. The chest
clinic is by no means the only health
activity supported by the Christmas
seal. 1t pays for school for training
public health nurses; for monthly
health magazine. The Crusader, which
goes to 1000 rural schools alone; for
literature that spreads all over the
state the knowledge that tuberculosis
is durable and preventable; for the
Modern Health Crusade in schools
that is teaching thousands of children
health habits which will protect them
not only from tuberculosis but from
other disease; and for lectures, ex-
hibits and newspaper publicity to
spread the health message through
the state.
Death from tuberculosis confronts
over $4,000 of the children now en-
rolled in the schools of this state.
Figures given out by the Wisconsin
Tuberculosis Association indicate
that out of the 100000 pupils in the
public schools of Wisconsin, 1925
will die of tuberculosis before the
youngest of them reaches the age of
Sc, unless the present death rate is
lowered
Reports from the State Board of
Health show that 66.7 persons out of
every 100000 died of tuberculosis in
this state in 1923. Unless this rate is
reduced one child out of every thirty
now of school age faces a lingering
death from this disease.
By the time that the child has
reached the age of Is, according to
leading authority, the chances are
two to one that he will have been in
fected by the bacillus of tuberculosis.
This means that, within the next
eight years, these children will carry
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