Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1919 — BUY RED CROSS CHRISTMAS SEALS. [ARTICLE]

BUY RED CROSS CHRISTMAS SEALS.

Surgeon General Rupert Blue has issued an appeal to observe Christmas Seal day in the schools and in all places of worship in the United States, December 6, 6 and 7. The surgeon general, who is deeply concerned with the spread of tuberculosis in the United States, calls upon the people of the country to buy Red Cross Christmas seals and to aid in the fight being conducted by the National Tuberculosis association against the white plague. The appeal follows: • .. “Over one hundred and fifty • thousand Americans die annually from tuberculosis. This is an appalling waste o flife when we consider that tuberculosis is classed as a preventable disease. Moreover, because this loss of life occurs almost entirely in the ranks of the young adult population, health authorities the world over have come to consider the control of tuberculosis, as still the most pressing health problem confronting them. Every year the National Tuberculosis association, by selling Red Cross Christmas seals, raises a considerable sum of money to be used in a na-tion-wide campaign to combat tuberculosis. This year a special effort is being made to interest the school children in this work and December fifth, sixth and seventh have been designated as days on which the seals are to be sold in the public schools, synagogues and churches. Because of the seriousness of the situation, I trust that the campaign this year will be particularly successful. “RUPERT BLUE, “Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service.”