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Show Five Million Xmas Seals Are Shipped to Utah The final shipment of supplies for the annual sale of Christmas Seals in the state were received yesterday at the headquarters of the Utah Health Association, state capitol.t The first seal was sold in 1910 under the direction of the State Federation Fed-eration of Women's clubs. In every campaign since that time, the club women of the state have rendered invaluable in-valuable service in the health activities activi-ties financed by the little penny Christmas Seal. This year's supplies include five and one-half million seals, enough to reach from one end of the state to the other. In the United States nine hundred million have gone to the forty-eight state anti-tuberculosis associations and the more than eleven elev-en hundred local similar organizations organiza-tions scattered throughout the United Unit-ed States. These seals if placed in a row would reach fifteen thousand miles. These statistics, given out by the Utah Public Health Association Associa-tion furnish some idea of the scope of this national health campaign which opens Thanksgiving Day and continues until Christmas Eve. "This state has been called upon to raise $50,000.00, which is barely 10 seals for each man, woman and child in Utah," said James H. Wallis, executive secretary of the Utah Public Pub-lic Health Association, "part of which money goes to the National Tuberculosis Association, which has resulted in cutting the death rate from tuberculosis in the United States Stat-es one-half. "The saving of these lives through the purchase of Christmas Seals is important from an economic as well as a humanitarian! standpoint for tuberculosis is which takes its greatest great-est toll from early manhood and womanhood, wo-manhood, strikes the individual after the community has educated, clothed and fed him, and just after he has reached the productive age where he can begin to repay. "The strength of the fight against tuberculosis has been in the fact that it has been democratically financed. The man in overalls as well as the bank president has paid the pennies at Christmas time, which have gone to make a healthier community, and by so doing has awakened his consciousness con-sciousness to the forces and acts which mean better health. It is the only volunteer philanthropy that has been financed by such small subscriptions subscrip-tions from every man, woman and child in the country." E. O. Hward, president of Walker Brothers Bank, was recently reelected reelect-ed president of the Utah Public Health Association for the sixth time. Beside him on the executive committee commit-tee are James H. Wallis, executive secretary; Mrs. W. C. Howe, secretary; secre-tary; Edgar A. Bering, treasurer; Dr. H. G. Merril, Dr. Heber J. Sears, Miss Clarrissa S. Williams, Mrs. E. j O. Wattis, Alex Hedquist, Dr. T. B. ! Heatty, Dr. Joseph R. Morrell, Dr. : C. N. Jensen, Mrs. R. E. Bristol, Seh-I Seh-I ator LeRoy Dixon, Dr. O. K. Hanson and Mrs. G. N. Childs, in addition to i which W W. Armstrong, Malcolm E. ! Keysor, Rev. Arthur W. Moulton, ! Elias S. Woodruff, Dr. George H. Thomas and Mrs. A. II. S. Bird are members f the board of directors. More than one thousand of the representative men and women of Utah will be engaged this year in the sixteenth annual sale of Christmas Christ-mas Seals. In Ogden the following committee has just been selected, and a vigorous campaign will be waged in the Junction City so that an experienced tuberculosis nurse will again be located there to take the place of Miss Sophia K. Larsen, who recently removed to Chicago. S. G. Dye, Chairman; Angus E. Berlin, secretary; Jesse Richards, B. A. Fowler, W. K. Hopkins, C. A. Angus An-gus Wright, Joseph Chez, Aggie Stevens, Thomas Maginnes, Mrs. A. P. Bigelow, Mrs. E. C. O'lsen, Mrs. I. N. Fulton, Mrs. A. Mattson, Mrs. Florence Nebekev, Mrs. H. S. Craven, Mrs. J. P. Corry, Mrs. David Jensen, Mrs. E. I. Rich, Mrs. J. Gager, Miss Margaret Stewart, Rev. W. E. Ben-net, Ben-net, Frank Francis, John McChild, Mrs. L. A. McBride and S. D. Young. |