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Show CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE OPENS SOOII THANKSGIVING DAY TO SEE BEGINNING BE-GINNING OF DRIVE FOR TU-BERCULOSIS TU-BERCULOSIS FUND a The four- rMkV teenth an- rygv nual call to- j6&jyySS arms in the Stv world war s:feit3' berculoai K at i onal i iSr Tuberculosa 0 l& Chriitmai Stal For 1921 (ion, til lOUgh the Utah Public Health Association, to the people of Utah. i The call is a personal one to every man, woman and child in the state and the nation. The Utah Public Health association expects every per- i son in Utah to do his "bit" In the ! ceaseless conflict against that arch en- amy of th human race, consumption. No' truce is to be declared until the ' Invading hosts of tubercle bacilli arc r ranquished. Misery, destruction and ! death tramp in the wake, of consurap- 1 tion and the cause of this devastation must be annihilated. It is a duty that every man owes himself and his fel-Iowmen fel-Iowmen to gird on the armor of pre- ! ventioa and render service in the cause of good health, j Enlistment in the ranks of the anti-! anti-! tuberculosis hosts for the next great : offensive against tHe enemy in Utah will commence on Thanksgiving day, November 24, when the 1021 Chnst- mas seal sale campaign will be 1.-Aich-, ed in every community of the state to raise funds with which to fight tuberculosis tuber-culosis in this state during the next year Every maa, woman and child can enlist as an active fighter in tne battle against tuberculosis by buying Christmas seals. It Is a simple, Inexpensive, Inex-pensive, easy matter to become a soldier sol-dier in a cause, the success of which will bring to humanity one of the greatest great-est boons it could receive freedom from the misery and death of consumption. consump-tion. , "Will you enlist in the cause of good health? ' , . "Will vou do your bit to help free Utah from that scourge of humanity consumi tic n?" These are the questions asked ot every citizen of th state by the Utah Public Health association. "I will." J . This is the answer expected from every red-blooded citizen who has the interests of his state, his own health, and the welfare and happiness of his children and his fellow citiiens at heart. , BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS To those who so answer the association associa-tion says, "buy Christmas seals", for . . Kt nn Ylinct T- n this way can you ueai. .uU -'ectively protect yourself and help ruard the safety of others. Be the purchase small or large, verv purchase supplies just that much nore effective ammunition for use . igainst the insiduous enemy. The Utah Public Health association loes not ask any maa for a donation, it simplv submits to him a business proposition that of making an investment invest-ment in good health. His investment may be large or small; the larger the more returns he is assured upon his investment. Every man, with egard for the future of his family buys insurance in-surance against death and pays large sams of money for this insurance year-lv year-lv In purchasing Christmas seals this same man is simply buying insurance against tuberculosis, for every Christmas Christ-mas seal represents a good health policy pol-icy the premium on which goes to help protect the purchaser and his from tuberculosis. No sound thinking man will denv the value of an insurance policv No sound thinking man can denv' the value of an investment m protection against tuberculosis, which . simply means the buying of Christmas seals. Statistics show that there are an average of 200 deaths annually m Ltah from tuberculosis. Experts declare this number of deaths means there are not less than 2,000 active cases of the disease in the state. Statistics further show that the death rate from tuberculosis tuber-culosis has increased in this state in , ,,ct few vears. This means an increase in the 'number of active cases. So onlv as there is a case of the disease dis-ease in the state, not under proper control con-trol and supervision, no man is wholly sate from infection. The only guarantee guaran-tee of perfect safety from the disease is complete elimination of it. This, then, is the goal toward wh en the arniv of good health in Utah is being be-ing martialed under the direction of the Utah Public Health association. Thorough education of all the peop e along lines of prevention is the only ! plan of battle that will bring ultimate i victory. Money is required to carry i .m this campaign. ! To the people of the state of Ltab comes the duty and the privilege of i furnishing the sinews of war with I which to "carry on" in this state Then buv Christmas seals and help make Utah a safer place in wnicn u live CLINIC TO CONTINUE One of the important things which those who purchase Christmas seals will help to do is to continue the work in Utah of the traveling clinic of the Utah Public Health association, which is now engaged, in a thorough tuber-. eulosis snrwv and. in conjunction with J the U S Public Health service and the state board of health, is making a child hvgiene survey of the state. The prime objects of these survey are two-fold, to educate tne people along lines of disease prevention and to secure the establishment of state agencies for the care of the tuberculous tubercul-ous and the continued education of the children along lines of preventive hy-i hy-i piene The Utah Tublic Health associ-i associ-i ation wants to determine to what ex-i ex-i tent tuberculosis exists in T tab. It is 1 going about accomplishing this by having hav-ing a government expert make a com. plete survey of every community. i |