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Show WORLD FAMOUS BLIND GIRL MAKES PLEA FOR CHRISTMA8 SEAL CAMPAIGN Helen Kellar Writes letter to Execu- tlvo Secretary of Utah Publlo Health Association Endor- Irttj Work "Wo nre often romlndod that experience ex-perience Is n dear tonchor", doclnrod Mr. B. O. Howard, president of tho Utah Public Health Association when Jntervlowod recently. "But thoso who suffor loam thoir lossons woll. Soino-tlmos Soino-tlmos It tokos bitter oxporlonce to toach us. At tlmos howovor, wo can loam to opprociato from tho unforun-oto unforun-oto exporlonccs of others. Hero Is tho caso ot nelon Kollor for lnstanco. Having oxporloncod tho donlal nnd sufforlng attendant with tho lack of full physical capacity, sho Is koenly sympathetic with tho cause which alms to decroaso human sufforlng and misery." mis-ery." Mr. noward then produced a letter received from Helen Keller, written while she waa staying at the notel Alexandria In Los Angeles, California. It follows : Tho Utah Public Health Association., Salt Lake City. I am with you whole heartedly in your war against ono of tho cruellest foos of man kind. That is the only kind of war ever worth waging to exterminate the forcoa that destroy tho lives, the health, tho happlnosss of human beings. Not only doss your good work moan the subduing of disease, dis-ease, It also means the romovnl of tho wrong social conditions that breed It. Tho truo test of civilisation Is not how much sufforlng it allovlatos, but how much misery It provonts. Enllghtonod selMntorost toachos that If n part of society suffors, nil tho rost must But-for. But-for. Wo all rlso or fall togethor according ac-cording as wo safeguard or neglect God's laws of llfo nnd hoalth. Cordially wishing you ovory succoss In this splondld and vital work, I am, Slnccrly yours, Helen Keller. "Just now tho Utah Public Hoalth Association is conducting a salo of holiday greeting seals deslgnod to bo affixed to mall prior to tho first of tho year. Moro than 05 of the monoy ralsod In Utnh will bo spent In tho state to provont tho occuranco and spread of tuborculosls," said Mr. Hownrd. |