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Show my courage. It is a wonderful book, not only to help those who are sick to better health, but those who are well to keep well. It has been a great help to me. Assuring you that I appre-ciate appre-ciate what you did for me, and that you will be able to help others, I am Very Sincerely, (Signed) Mrs. Bertha Graff. . Mr. Wallis, in commenting on the recovery of this woman, says, "If we only saved this one Five Million Christmas Seals Sent to Utah The final shipment of supplies for the annual 3ale of Christmas Seals in the state were received at the headquarters of the Utah Public Health Association, state capitol, last week. The first seal was sold in the State of Utah in 1910 under the direction of the State Federation Federa-tion of Women's Clubs. In every ev-ery campaign since that time. tarian standpoint for tuberculosis tuberculo-sis which takes its greatest toll from early manhood and womanhood, wom-anhood, strikes the, individual after the community has educated, educa-ted, clothed and fed him, and just after he has reached the productive age where he can begin be-gin to repay. "The strength of the fight against tuberculosis has been in the fact that it has been democratically demo-cratically financed. The man in overalls as well as the bank pres ident has paid the pennies at Christmas time, which have A- 1 t lit family, also helped others who are sick; so you see there is a great change. Never before did life seem so sweet to me. I have tasted of the bitter, therefore can more fully appreciate the sweet. If there is anything in this letter that you wish to use to encourage others, you have my permission. I know that if the sick will but keep up their faith and courage they can arrest the disease just as I have done, but they must NEVER GIVE UP. But have a strong determination life, the pennies collected from the sale of the Christmas Seal, which were used to send the 1 Clinic on its journey of discovery, discov-ery, was well worth it. But we have accomplished so many things, that those who have contributed in the past to the Christmas Seal Sale may feel that their investment has been well spent several times over. to get well and when they feel blue and want to cry, just smile and say, "No T. B. you will never nev-er get me," and they will be surprised to see how fast they will improve. For more than a year I could not eat, or sleep, or do a bit of work. Now I have a good appetite, ap-petite, sleep soundly all night, and have a nap every afternoon. I work most of the day without getting tired. If one would have told me a year ago that I "would be feeling so well in another year, I never could have believed believ-ed it. I weigh more than I have done since I have been married. I stood the cold and the heat better than ever before. I have drunk about 3,000 eggs since I went to the Traveling Health Clinic. I am returning to you your book and "Journals of the Outdoor Out-door Life." Many thanks for the use of them. I certainly do appreciate the interest shown in me during my illness. The book, (Pottenger's "Tuberculosis") "Tu-berculosis") came just at the time when I most needed it ; my lungs were bleeding quite badly just at that time, and it was such a help to me in keeping up the club women of the state have rendered invaluable service ser-vice in the health activities financed fi-nanced by the little penny 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 mil-lion have gone to the forty-eight state anti-tuberculosis associations associa-tions and the more than eleven hundred local similar organizations organiza-tions scattered throughout the United States. These seals, if placed in a row, would reach fifteen fif-teen thousand miles. These statistics, given out By the. Utah Public Health Association fur-nish fur-nish 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 fo reach man, women and child in Utah," said James H. Wallis, executive secretary sec-retary of the Utah Public Health Association "part of which money goes to the National Na-tional Tuberculosis Association which has been fighting the I white plague for the past fifteen years, and which has resulted in cutting the death rate from tuberculosis tu-berculosis in the United States one-half. "The saving of these lives through the purchase of Christmas Christ-mas Seals is important from an economic as well as a humani- guue io maKe a neaunier community com-munity and by so doing has awakened his consciousness to the forces and acts which mean better health. It is the only volunteer vol-unteer philanthropy that has been financed by such small subscriptions sub-scriptions from every man, every ev-ery woman and child in the country." E. O. Howard, president of Walker Brothers Bank, was recently re-cently reelected president of the Utah Public Health Association for the sixth time. Beside him on the executive committee are James II. Wallis, executive secretary; sec-retary; Mrs. W. C. Howe, secretary secre-tary ; Edgar A. Bering, treasurer; treasur-er; Dr. 11. G. Merrill, Dr. Heber J. Sears, Mrs. Clarissa S. Williams, Wil-liams, Mrs. E. O. Wattis, Alex Hedquist, Dr. T. B. Beatty, Dr. Joseph R. Morrell, Dr. C. N. Jensen, Jen-sen, Mrs. R. E. Bristol, Senator LeRoy Dixon, Dr. O. K. Hanson, and Mrs. G. N. Child, in addition addi-tion to which W. W. Armtsrong Malcolm E. Keysor, Rev. Arthur W. Moulton, Elias S. Woodruff, Dr. George H. Thomas and Mrs. A. H. S. Bird are members of the Board of directors. More than one thousand of the representatives men and women of Utah will be engaged this year in the sixteenth annual an-nual sale of Christmas" seals. A TRUE STORY OF THE WORK OF CHRISTMAS SEAL A letter l'ust rer-eivprl nf tho - office of the Utah Public Health Association, from one of the cases discovered by the Traveling Travel-ing Health Clinic when it was making its tour through the State, throws great light on the possibilities of saving human life if such cases can be found early enough and then followed up with proper instruction. J. H. Wallis, executive secretary of this organization has personally visited many of these cases in the State, and by words of encouragement, en-couragement, correspondence, literature, books and other means, has helped these sufferers suffer-ers to get back on the road to recovery. The writer of the letter referred re-ferred to is Mrs. Be-tha Graff, who lives in Santa Clara, five miles distant from St. George. She is a prominent Relief Society Socie-ty worker in her community and the mother of a large family. Her story is best told by publishing pub-lishing her letter: I t Santa Clara, Utah Nov. 16, 1923. Mr. James II. Wallis, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Mr. Wallis: I hope you will pardon me for being so slow in answering your letter, asking the permission to use my last letter to encourage others who are fighting the same battle as I am. You are more than welcome to use it, if it can help some poor suffering soul to better health. There isn't anything that would give me more pleasure than to visit the sick and encourage en-courage them. When one is so weak, one needs others to help them keep up their courage. 1 hope you will have time to call on some of the tuberculosis cases on your trip through the state, and encourage them, as you did me a year ago, I also hope you will call and see me, and note what a wonderful change has taken place in one year's time. It is simply wonderful; won-derful; I can hardly believe it myself. I thought it would take at least five or six years before I would be able to do as much work and fell as well as I do now and many of my friends have told me since I am better that they used to pity me so when they would come to see me suffering and one would say to the other, "Oh, what a blessing it would be if that poor soul could only die and be free from her pain." They thought that I would never get well again. I was an invalid until in' March when the change came and since then I have been doing most all my housework; put up 350 qts. of fruit and vegetables for my |