Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1916 — GRATEFUL PATIENT BUYS RED CROSS SEALS [ARTICLE]

GRATEFUL PATIENT BUYS RED CROSS SEALS

Tells Why He Supports Great National Red Cross Christmas Movement. “Personal experience means much in one’s attitude toward the Seals. Will you let me tell why both gratitude for the saving of my life and a desire to help exterminate tuberculosis makes me buy and use Red Cross Christmas Seals?’’ This is a request in a letter from a cured patient in one of WisconCounty Hospitals for Tuberculosis'? who says:

“I was shocked to learn in 1910 that 1 had consumption. I thought that was the end of me. Fortunately for me the National Tuberculosis Association and the American Red Cross had taken up the task of informing .the nation that a pulmonary tuberculosis can be arrested and perhaps cured by a combination of fresh air, good food, perfect rest, and freedom from care. In course of time this good news had reached Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association was organized to carry the message into every corner of the state. Through this propaganda sanatoria were established tn various parts of the state. So when the disease became a very personal matter to me, there was an institution near at home to teach me how to breathe, eat, rest and think, so as to live with tuberculosis, and it a price within reach of my moderate purse. This was all the result of the philanthropic propaganda of these national organizations and the Wisconsin AntiTuberculosis Association, to whom I must always be grateful for my present health and strength.” What Red Cross Seals have done in Wisconsin they have done and are doing in every other state in the Union. All but ten p.er cent, of the proceeds, which is used for expenses, remains in the state where the Seals are sold to be used for tuberculosis work.