The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-12-19

4113'Ooo stamps had been sold and paid for
about two for every man. woman and child in
the country. The children's hospital had to Ira
account In the savings bank $4,000 kroner through
this penny subscription.
THAT was the first years showing when tha
matter had been talked OF only month or two.
saw In the Danish papers that last years re-
cepts-the third season's-were nearly four
times as big. The hospital is built | suppose, by
this time, or under way. and out OF small be-
ginning has grown great benefaction But that
IS not the greatest thing about It. to my mind.
The thought Itself, with It's power of setting
everybody to thinking of great wrong that can
only be righted through everybody's thinking OF
1t deserves that place. What else is the tubercu-
l0sls scourge than such wrong?
Nothing In all the world is better proven
today thnn that 1t is preventable disease, and
therefore needless. And yet In our own country.
TO bring the matter home. 1t goes on year after
year killing an army OF one hundred and fifty
thousand persons. and desoating countless homes
IN when nalr million men and women are al
ways YEARLY dragging themselves to graves dug
by this single enemy. Perhaps l feel strongly
about 1t, and no wonder. 1t killed six of nv
brothers. and guess | know. That was In the
Gays when there was no help for 1t. There is now
what want to know Is why we cannot Dor
and do as they have done. Why should we not
have Christmas stamp, printed by tubercu-
losls association, not for the purpose OF building
hospItal-let each state or town. bnIld its own
but for the purpose Of rousing up and educat-
ing the people on this most important mattpr2
LOOK at the photograph of the three yearold
ietter mere II Is Just as II came to me- except
that In the upper row. whence collectors had
pirated three stamps. three OF last years have
been pasted In instead. while In the lower right
nand corner have placed one of the 1905 kind
80 that all the three years there represented
Assume that the practice became general of
putting on letters even one or two Christmas
stamps and think Of Uncle Sans mail In the
same BREATH What might 1t not mean In reya
nue. to finance the cause that creeps along where
II ought to run? But, much more than that what
might 1t not be made to mean as an educating
medium In fighting the white plague?
Practically every man who saw this stamp on
letter. or on postal card--it Is pasted on both
In Denmark-Wonld want to know what 1t meant
ana Wnen people want to know, half the fight IN
Won 1t is because they do not know few amaz-
ingly simple things that people die OF tuberculosis
why should 1t not be done? Is the country
100 Dizzy The bigger the mortality from this
pestilence. the bigger the results to be got from
lnat KIM OF education. Are the mails too heaYy7
A"Sf "V"id iiot bS HlJ ul0Fe IeTIerS because OF
It, and even II the number of stamps per letter
were limited to labor In cancelIpc the oh
)ect would be attained. Would there be a rnsh
on the government by all the charities in the
land FOR like privilege? That could be pre-
vented by giving notice at the outset that ner-
mission 70 use the malls for this purpose was
only for the one cause because Its appeal Ia in
'omparably the greatest. The object attanedr
( should be dropped. AT any time 1t might be
'eyived In the face of national emergency far
which alone 1t should be used
AT the very time three years ago when the
christmas stamp was invented In Denmark to
'rovide hospital for tuberculous children the
National Association for the Study and Proven
ION OF tuberculosis was formed In New York
pom basis or careful and conservative computa-
ION, rs president estimated that the mere loss
7 revenue to the country In nursing and bury-
ng tuberculosis Victims three hundred and
hrty millions OF dollars
The society often spoken OF as the Tnherrn
isis Committee. has today 400 members doc
ors and laymen Education is Its shIbboleth
ne three points 1t tries early and late to I'M
ress upon the consciousness OF the people are.
= mat tuberculosis Is infectious; ~ that, ii
liectlous, 1t Is preventable; and (3) that In
re early stages II Is, as rule durable
III has organized associations, In 15 statee and
towns and maintains a. tuberculosis exhibition
at travels about the country, from city TO city.
avng wave OF aroused. intelligent interest
its wake campaign Is now being MANNED
4 Inc south, where It u badly needed but