The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
100000 SET
AS GOAL FOR
HEALTH FUND
A.Christmas Seal and Bond
Sale to Begin Thanks
giving.
ENTIRE STATE COVERED
All of 81 Counties Now
Organizing Against
tuberculosis.
ENTIRE STATE COVERED

Thousands Of volunteer workers
in each of Indianas ninety-two
counties during November will per-
feet organization of local commun-
ity groups to carry on the annual
sale of Christmas seals and health
bonds starting Thanksgiving day. A
total of more than 100000 worth
of the health emblems has been al
lotted Indiana, according to Muir
ray A. Auerbach, executive secre-
tary of the Indiana tuberculosis
Association, which is sponsoring
the sale.
A total of 65,OOO,OOO seals, which
are used on Christmas mail and
packages very generally throughout
the world now, has been received
at the Indiana headquarters of the
state association in Indianapolis,
and millions of the seals are being
shipped daily to counties. The Ma
tional tuberculosis Association, with
which the state and local organiza-
tions are affiliated, expects $6,000,-
900 this year as the sum to be de-
rived from seal and health bond
sales. This sum will be applied
throughout the nation to the edu-
cational struggle against the white
plague.
In a score of years the death-rate
from the disease has been cut down
in Indiana and the nation by this
organized fight by more than one
half; and for more than a dozen
years, Indiana has held an i'm
portant place in the nationwide
effort.
Scope of Work Shown
Accompanying each shipment of
the seals. is a bulletin emphasizing
the small price at which the seals
are distributed a hundred-and the
important effect they have had on
public health within two decades.
The bulletin points out that more
than 100000 lives annually now are
being saved by the health emblems.
He says further: "Six hundred mil
lion pennieS-each Of them meaning
little by itself. but enlarging into a
vast network Of tuberculosis clinics,
public health nursing, educational
programs among children, the gen.
eral education of adults and children
in methods of disease control-are
needed this year to fight the foe.
$500 900 at least must come from
Indiana citizens if the state is to
continue the forward strides it is
making against the disease.
THE finest thing about this con-
tinuing battle is that it has proven
concluSively that tuberculosis is in
many instances can be prevented or
cured. In twenty years from Maine
TO California, and from Seattle to
Miami, death rates have been cut
in half by the intelligent nation
wide campaign for better living.
Death Rate Declines
an dozen years of organized eff
fort against the disease in Indiana,
the death-rates have decreased ap-
proximately one-half annually. This
has been due in very large part to
the preventive and curative work
financed by the Christmas seal sales
each year. What will the next
twenty years Of this struggle pro-
duce? Those who know say that
By that time-if citizens continue
to buy Christmas seals generously
tuberculosis will have to take its
place in the back rank of diseases
of the human race instead of being
mans most dreadful enemy as it
was once.
Every community in Indiana is
preparing to start the 1929 Christ
mas seal sale. which begins Thanks
giving day and continues through
December. This is the opportunity
of every Hoosier citizen to- take
his little part in the fight to save
his children and himself from the
ravageS of the white plague. 1t is
confidently hoped that 100000 will
be raised through the Christmas
seal sale to carry on the 1880 fight
against tuberculosis in Indiana"