Show L D S CHURCH STARTS SALE OF CHRISTMAS SEALS CHECK FOR 1000 OPENS UTAH CAMPAIGN FOR FUND TO WHITE PLAGUE salt lake A check for 1000 from the L D 8 church received yesterday by the utah public health association afforded an auspicious spi cious opening to this years campaign for the sale of christmas seals the check was accompanied by a letter to former governor heher heber M wells director of publicity of the christmas seals sales signed by the throe ru members embers of the first presidency of the church and reading as follows at our council meeting of or the first presidency and twelve yesterday after considering the importance of ot the work which the utah public health association Is now engaged in in an endeavor to overcome the dread insidious disease of tuber culo cul IA which I 1 Is spreading through the land wo we appropriated 1000 to assist the association in carrying on its work and have very great pleasure indeed in enclosing herewith our check for that amount and improve the opportunity of wishing the association the success it is anticipating MISSION OP BE TOLD tho the mission of the seals was thus explained yesterday by james H wallis executive secretary of the utah public health association which Is in an auxiliary of the national tuberculosis ercul osis association the organization which has notion wida charge of the seals seats sales campaign we know that about 80 per cent of tuberculosis is contracted in child hod but this should not discourage us for it is also true that in childhood the disease may mav beauch bo much more easily and quickly cured the little christmas seals which you and others bought last winter and helped start on their mission mis slon of 0 health tor for the children ENLIST CHILDREN WREN IN 1015 it was tho the ancestors of the christmas seals which in 1816 1916 started the groat great modern health crusade crusado movement among amont the children of our schools a movement which has now spread throughout the country the health crusade has discovered a moana means of or interesting and inducing the children to put into practice certain rules of or hygiene and health habits which physiology and hygiene only teach this year more children are being given tho the opportunity ot of building up their resistance to tho the disease by become health crusaders but the seals have other duties while tho the infection of tuberculosis Is largely contracted in childhood its I 1 disastrous results occur chiefly between ages of 15 16 and 45 it may snatch the most valuable person in the community as an well as the most useless it costs our country in an OcOno economic mio sense alone yearly a recent estimate of phipps institute of philadelphia it iff generally curable if it diagnosed in its earliest stages and if the patient conscientiously follows instructions will medical 11 start curly early diagnosis in both ch chaerest adrest and adult adults is therefore one of the most strategic points at which to ati at i tack the disease the seals will en able us to add to our staff a physician one who is a tuberculosis special lat who Is in constantly meeting groups of ot physicians throughout the state 1 lecturing showing educational mol mo l pictures and holding tuberculosis clinics and this service will be tree free to any community to in the I 1 state which may desire it the public health nurse will vill ever be ono of ot the most important detachments of or our anti tuberculosis forces j A portion of the money on from the tile seals which you u purr chased haW goes es to help establish and develop delop this work i theao four things the modern modem health crusade medical education the development of public nursing and educational work of many kinds and methods are some of the important ways in which the little christmas seals are work ing for you fighting constantly for your own your and your health |