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Show FIVE MILLION CHRISTMAS SEALS SHIPPED TO UTAH The final shipment of supplies for the annual sale of Christmas seals in the state were received yesterday at the headquorters of the Utah Public Pub-lic Health association, state capitol. The first seal was sold in Utah in 1910 under the direction of the State Federation of Women's clubs. In every ev-ery campaign, since that time, the club women of the slate have ren-dere ren-dere dinvaluable service in the health activities financed by the little penny pen-ny 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 antituberculosis associations as-sociations and the more than eleven hundred local similar organizations scattered throughout the United States. These seals if placed in a row, would reach fifteen thousand miles. These statistics, given out by the Utah Public Health association furnish some idea of the scope of this national health campaign which opens op-ens Thanksgiving day and continues until Christmas Eve. "This state has been called upon to eaise $50,000, which is barely 10 seals for each man, woman and child in Utah." said James H. Wallis, executive ex-ecutive secretary of the Utah Public Pub-lic Health association, "part of which money goes to the Naetional Tubei- colosis association, which has been fighting the white plague for the pas 15 years, and which has resulted In cutting tjie death rate from tuberculosis tubercu-losis in the United States 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 tu-berculosis which takes its greatest toll from early manhood and womanhood woman-hood strikes the individual after the community has educated, clothed ana fed him, and just after he has reached reach-ed the productive age where he ca begin to repay. "The strength of the fight against tuberculosis has been in the fact that it has bee ndemocratically financed. fi-nanced. The man in overalls as well as the hank president has paid the pennies at Christmas time, whicti have gone to make a healthier community, com-munity, and by so doing has awakened awaken-ed his conscienc eto the farces and acts which mean better health. It Is the only volunteer philanthrophy that has been financed by such small subscriptions from every man, woman wo-man an dchild in the country." E O. Howard, president of Walker Wal-ker Brothers Bank, was recently reelected re-elected president of the Utah Public Health association for the sixth time. Besides him on the executive committee, com-mittee, are James H. Wallis. executive execu-tive secretary; Mrs. W. C. Howe sec retary; Edgar Bering, treasurer; Dr H. G. Merrill. Dr. Heber J. Sears. Mrs. Clarissa S. Williams. Mrs E. O Wattis. Alex Hedquist, Dr. T. B. Beaity, Dr. Joseph R. Morrell. Dr. C. N. Jensen, Mrs. R E.l Bristol Senator LeRoy Dixon. Dr. O. K. Hanson Han-son and Mrs. G. N. Child, in addition to which W. W. Armstrong. 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 representative men and women of Utah will he engar; this year In the sixteenth annual sole of Christmas Christ-mas seals. Tn Ogden the following committee has just been selected, and a viborous campaign will he ' waged in the Junction City so that i an experienced tuberculosis nurse i will again be located there to takejl the place of Miss Sophia K. Larsen, who recen:ly removed to Chicago. S G. Dye, chairman; Angus E. Berlin, secretary; Jesse Richards, B A. Fowler, W. Karl HopkinB, C. Angus An-gus Wright, Joseph Shez, Aggie Stev ens, Thomas Maginnes Mra. A. h. Bigelow, Mrs. E. C. Olsen, Mrs I. N. Fulton, Mrs. George A. Mattson, Mrs Florence Nebeker. Mrs. H. S. rraven, Mrs. J P. Corry, Mrs. David Johnson, John-son, Mrs. E. I. Rich. Mrs. J. Gager Miss Margaret Stewart, Rev. W. E. Bennett. Frank Francis, John Ms-Cbild, Ms-Cbild, Mrs L. A. McBride and S. D. Young. , |
