The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-03-10
Protect Christmas Seal


tuberculosis children" made this city, and since we
have been informed by the Minnesota Public Health
Association that all work along this line is carried
in Minnesota through the Christmas Seal sales.
Henry Head, Editor of the Aitkin Independent
Age the following letter pertaining to these
solicitors to the Public Health Association:
"A woman, about so years DID, solicited
our office yesterday asking if wished to
give quarter to help the little tuberculosis
children
I'VE told her that tuberculosis sup
port limited to buying the doublebarr
Christmas Seals, and asked her what
made of the money she collected She
claimed a portion of it used to finance
the Mantoux tests, and she didn't appear will
ing to argue when stated that our impress
sion that these tests were the work of
the Public Health Association.
For the 25-cent donation she gave
small 32-page pamphlet signed The Chill
dren's National tuberculosis Society,"
rs this just another racket is the
cety really on the level? Your advice would
be appreciated"
The answer is: The Christmas Seal sale is the
only approved non-offcial method Of raising funds
for anttuberculosis work in the state and nation.
letter from the Minnesota Public Health As
ISOLATION in possession, states in part as fol-
lows:
.tsince Mr. Mead's letter we have heard that SOL
citors have also appeared in other sections of the
state, and wish you to be prepared should they
appear in your community
Copies of this pamphlet have into our
hands at intervals for many years. They carry no
month date of issue. The agents have been halted
from peddling the pamphlets in several cities Tin
GLIDING St Paul several years ago. the ground of
Misrepresentation
IF any actual health work is carried on in Min
any other state by the Society has never
come light in Investigations by national organza-
tons including the National tuberculosis Associa-
ton, the American Medical Association and the Ma
tional Better Business Bureau, Inc.
I'VE you will wish to take every pre-
caution that residents of your community are not
duped purchasing this pamphlet thinking 1t is
Christmas Seal publication"
How They Started
In a recent editorial in Nations Business. Merle
Thorpe tells of the origins of number Of todays so
called economic royalists" and points out that most
of the high executives in American business and in
dustrial life came from humble homes. He says
Whence came this new captain Of great steel
company? From a coal miners hut Where did econ
omc autocracy go the other day to get the new pres
ident of great packing company? An office boy ~
years ago.
He then recalls that more than 100 presidents of
our biggest railroads from the ranks OF tele-
graphers track-walkers, transit carriers clerks and
other small jobs. Half of New York's bankers were
born in the Middle West and most of them on farms.
All the presidents of Bell Telephone companies
began at the bottom none earning much as $40 a
week in the beginning. And taking the heads OF the
three greatest motor companies President knudsen
of General Motors landed as a poor immigrant LAD
in New York at the age of ID, Henry Ford was an
itinerant watch and clock repairer, and Walter
Chrysler was a mechanic in a railroad shop in Kan
sas.
But it is not recorded that any of these men
reached their present eminence by working only ~
hours a week.