Show A GREAT MIE S VING WORK WORIC 11 SAYS DR WIDTSOE salt lake city nov anil 2nd utah is getting ready to parti participate clOate in the nineteenth annual christmas seal sea sale beginning after Thanks thanksgiving givin 9 day and lasting until christmas Cliris tinaa utah is expects to raise in this campaign supplies were unpacked yesterday at the office of the utah public health association in the state capitol this health association is the agency in this state through chich these seals are sold and six million of seals posters and other supplies necessary to the campaign will be distributed this coming week to I 1 ocal local coan committees throughout the state the christmas seal this year is a four color design somewhat similar in effect to the beautiful 1924 seal which was universally conceded to have been the most artistic seal produced up to that time the subject consists of ahree old fashioned minstrels garbed in vivid yellow and rich red singing and playing christmas carols the background is a pleasing blue shaded from a light sky tint to a very deep hue suggesting a clear christmas dawn the message is merely amerry merry christmas in the very middle is a white shield bearing the red double barred cross the camill ar emblem that stands for the worldwide movement for the prevention of tuberculosis in which are enrolled the international union against tuberculosis cu losis and national tuberculosis association 48 at state I 1 ate associations and about 2000 local associations this campaign has resulted in a saving of millions of lives throughout the world said dr john A soe president preside ht of the utah public health association and in the united state alone it has effected a reduction of the death rate in the past fifteen years from deaths a benr to this is the great lifesaving work in which the utah public health association is a participant and which bighearted big hearted men and women serving on seat seal sate saie 00 committees m mit tees have been responsible in large measure for foi without the money raised from selling christmas seals scala the saving of so many lives each year could nol have been accomplished thel the quota of seals for utah if placed side by side would extend from logan to st george or would nuke make a belt across utah in both directions I 1 |