Milford chronicle., 1934-12-14
OUR Ne e. ID s


bring our death-rate from the White
Plague down much more quickly
than we have been able to do SO far,
to a rate so low as to bring the dis
ease under control as the experts
put it. Many years can thus be saw
ed with all their misery and loss.
Thousands OF young lives, with all
their hopes and values, can be saw
ed from being blotted out. This is
our great need-this adequate plan
to be adopted and followed. We are
assured that such an enlarging plan
is perfectly possible for us If all will
work for 1t. We are also told that
no such plan, covering an entire
state. has ever been developed, and
that Delaware is ideally situated and
circumstanced to become a labOra-
tory for such a plan.
CAN WE DO IT?. The answer is
just as much yours as ours. We need
the people to carry out the plan.
Money can not buy the groups of
helpers that we need. In every
neighborhoOd there must be earnest,
enthusiastic, persevering workers.
We need in every town people who
will study the question, learn what
to do, and do it. We need the CO.
operation of every doctor, every
nurse, every hospital, every club
woman, every business man, every
teacher, every labor leader, every
official i'm the State. Such an en-
larging plan as we need must be ev-
erybody's plan. "ALL AT 1T AND
ALWAYS AT IT." must be our slo-
gan.
These, then, are two supreme
needs-the plan and the people. We
are working out a plan this next
year, studying and considering 1t.
The National tuberculosis Associa-
ton is helping us. Their experience
and knowledge have been put at our
service. They believe that our So
ciety can embark upon such a State
" ide effort, and make 1885 the be-
ginning of a developing plan that
will put Delaware in the front rank
of the 4S states. She is now, am
ashamed to say, the 18th state as re-
CARDS the tuberculosis death-rate,
with a present record of rs deaths to
100000, while the rate for the na-
tion is so per 100000.
Last year it seemed as if tubercu-
lOsis was actually increasing trihe
in Delaware. We do not find it so
this year. 1t is declining slowly, but
it is still striking at the young. Our
boys and girls are still claimed as
its victims. In talking ON this point,
/ feel how empty and unreal all our
statistics of loss of value to the |
State become when we think of the |
life and death realities that we must |
face. A child, born to love and care
in it's home, whose future is the first |
thought of its father and mother, in /
whom so many hopes are centered |
how can we value its unfolding J
life in any terms of dollars and |
cents? What can compensate for its /
loss? And when that loss is preven-
table, what can we say to our con-
sciences if we refuse to think about
it or to help as best we can?
We are going to ask more and
more of you to become members OF
Iur Society and helpers in our plan.
We are going to try to make every
conscious of the work,
and conscious that he or she is
needed in it. This fight against death
S not a matter of few people in
New Castle and Kent and Sussex
working along limited lines. 1t is
he fight of every one in the Dia-
nond State against a common enc
ny who may invade your home and
nine if not driven back.
Our emblem is the Christmas Seal.
I started in this little State. II
our aims and our needs.
{ is the instrument of our work. We
ope that it is going to mean more [
0 you this Christmas than ever be- J
ore. We hope that you are going to
isualize the little children who are
citing we'll at SunnybroOk through !
our aid. When | look at them, rosy |
nd active, gaining weight and grow
lg happily in the country air, and
hen think that there might have {
cen Just a row of little white cof- :
MS instead, give thanks that there {
re so many generous folks in Del {
ware who would as soon omit their \
hristmas dinner as their Christmas s
eals. May a blessing come back to
Il of you who buy these messeng- [
IS of help and hope! O
(Broadcasted over Station WDEL ON 4
rednesday, December ~. by Miss En-
Y +. Bissell. President Delaware Anti Il
tuberculosis Society