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Show UTAH BACK OF GREAT CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE TO WAGE WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS First Presidency of Mormon Church Requests Bishops and Presiding Presi-ding Officers, to Stress Subject in Sermons Medical Society Endorses Good Work The Christmas Seal Sale received j great impetus the past week when both the new Catholic. Bishop for Utah, Rt. Rev. John M. Mitty, and1 the First Presidency of the L. D. S. church endorsed it. Here is the announcement an-nouncement made by President Heber J- Grant and counselors: Notice ! To the effort now being made in.' twhalf of an extensive sale of Christ- mas Seals, the proceeds to be used to waging a campaign against the dread disease of tuberculosis, we give r hearty approval. We request Bishops and presiding officers to ake special reference to the subject the services to be held on Sunday, November 28th; and we hope the people peo-ple throughout the different states tod wards of the Church will make beral response in the purchase of these Seals. - "MEK J. GRANT ANTHONY W. IVINS, CHARLES W. NIBLEY. First Presidency. Bishop Buys Seals h "ishop Mitty at the time he gave s endorsement, accepted the posi-n posi-n of Vice-president of the Utah "N'e Health Association. In his n handwriting he said: "I eamest-Pe eamest-Pe that your appeal this year toeet with the greatest success." bun P'xtUre apPears n. Sunday's Tri-huv' Tri-huv' vember 28th, in the act of, lU,ing Christwas Seals from a little tZ eaUh Cruder. Then' Society Endorsement I Utah County Medical Society, at its last meeting in Provo, unanimously unani-mously and unsoflcitedly passed the following resolution: "Resolved, that the Utah County Medical Society, in appreciation of the good work being done by the Utah Public Health Association, As-sociation, goes on record as endors-, endors-, ing the work of the Utah Public Health Association and the sale of Christmas Seals, from which it derives de-rives the revenue for its public health work." |