Show SIX MILLION SEALS IS STATE QUOTA UTAH ASKED TO KEEP UP ITS RECORD IN FIGHT AGAINST tuberculosis six million christmas seals have been received by the utah public health association at its offices in the state capitol building this is quota in the seventeenth annual sale gale epich opens in the united states on thanksgiving day and closes christmas eye eve there are enough seals in the shipment it placed side by side to extend from salt lake city to denver or would make a belt across utah in both directions the 1924 christmas seal Is said to be the most artistic ever produced la in all the 17 years during which the annual seal sale has become a recognized popular institution said james H wallis executive secretary of the association it is done irr in beautiful shades ot of red blue and gold eold and Is the equal ot of any commercial seal put on the market and advertising experts declare that they should sell readily merely tor for their decorative value the designs contains the words health christmas 1924 1 the red double barred cross on a white shield bordered in red symbolizes the world wide vide movement tor for the prevention ol of tuberculosis in which are enrolled the international unon ablon against tuberculosis the national tuberculosis association 48 states associations and about 2000 local a associations s this campaign has resulted in a saving ot of millions ot of lives live throughout the world and in the united states alone has effected a reduction or 0 the death rate in the past 16 15 years from per hundred thousand to 9 97 this Is the ahe great lifesaving life saving work in which the utah association is a participant at the left ot of the christmas seal nere here Is a womans comans figure clad cad in gold ar drapery apery holding aloft a torch which symbolizes the hope that has been brought to mankind through the successful efforts ot of the public health movement a message to the ill that tuberculosis can be cured and to the well that it can be prevented verl ted resting her hand upon the shield ot of he double barred cross she indicates that she Is defending the wor world id against tuberculosis the word health on the seal beal indicates the enlargement ot of the tuberculosis bercu losis movement into a general work tor for the betterment better of public health in all directions T the he health program is is based on the theory that any educational effort or sanitary measure that tends to improve general health conditions or to prevent ary acy form of disease leads to the eradication ot of tuberculosis the seal was designed by the celebrated artist george V curtis of new york mr curtis Is an artist of international reputation for bof lover over sixty years since boyhood he has been drawing and pal rong he spent a very large part of 0 his life in france at Bar barbizon bizon the headquarters ot of the famous millet school As a painter of landscapes and portraits he gained arl enviable reputation both in europe and in this country many of his paintings have been exhibited in paris and other european and american galleries ile he has made a special study ot of the christmas seal idea |