Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-27
Wis. Anti-TuberCulOSiS
Seal Campaign Started
DRIVE is NOW ON FOR CHRIST
MAS SEAL SALE-HOPES FOR
LARGEST EVER MADE

BrOadcasting its message of health
from one end of the state to the other
the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis AS
ISOLATION fired the first shot in its
18th annual Christmas Seal campaign
on Thanksgiving Day. More than 40
community managers and 1000 rural
and state graded schools are organic
ed for the big educational and finan
cial drive against tuberculosis, which
began November 9th and continues
through the entire Christmas season
that follows.
More than sO,OOO,OOO Christmas
seals have been rushed through the
mails to nearly every community il
Wisconsin, to seal sale managers, t.
local tuberculosis associations, to tn
schools Thousands of gay Santa
Claus posters urging support of the
battle against tuberculosis have beef
distributed, and movies, lectures
stunts and slides are being utilized
everywhere in the statewide campaig4
to raise funds for the fight.
The annual sale Of Christmas seals
is the one appeal made by the Wis
consin Anti-Tuberculosis Association
for money, and upon its success de
ponds the program for the following
year. The Association is an education
al institution the purpose Of which is
to fight tuberculosis by teaching pee
pie how to prevent it. 1t broadcasts
its message of health into every cor
ner Of the state through its travelling
free chest clinics which have visited
more than ESQ communities and exam
med over $4,000 people: it's Modern
Health Crusade which is teaching
thousands Of school children of Wis.
consin habits of health that result in
strong bodies capable of resisting
tuberculosis and other diseases; it,
monthly magazine, The Crusader, de-
voted to public health; its Health Ser
vice Training School from which
more than 200 public health nurses
have been graduated. The bigges
seal sale in the history Of the Assoc
iation is needed if the organization
to carry out the program planned for
1926.
It's a winning fight, but tubercul
osis has been SO many centuries Ii
the baking that it will take a long
while to completely control. Since the
work was begun in 1908, the tubercul
osis death rate in Wisconsin has been
cut SO per cent. The Christmas sea,
did it. And there's lots more for il
to do. Last year 1919 people in thi
state died of tuberculOsis-On 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 1894 deaths from tuberculosis
The rate has been cut, but it can be
cut much more.
The Christmas seal this year is es
pecially attractive with pred0minatins
colors of blue and gold. On the RICH
hand side is the red double-barreG
cross on white shield bordered /.
red, symbolizing the worldwide move
ment for the prevention of tuberculos
is. At the left is the figure of
woman clad in draperies of gold, holt
ing aloft a torch which symbolizes thu
hope that has been brought to man
kind through the successful efforts
the public health movement The wore
Health" on the seal indicates tn
enlargement of the tuberculosis move
ment into general work for the bette
ment of public health in all direction
the tuberculosis program being base
on the theory that an educational c,
fort that tends to improve gener
health leads to the eradication of tub
erculosis.