--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 24 number: 1 published: 1920-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "I Am the Tuberculosis Christmas Tree," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 1 (November 1920): 67–68.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2401unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2401unse start_page: 67 end_page: 68 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2401unse publication_year: 1920 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # I Am the Tuberculosis Christmas Tree I am the Tuberculosis Christmas seal, you know me = | only one month in the year. You shall know me throughout all I i the days and weeks and years of your life. You shall know me i | as the Modern Health Crusader; as the School Nurse; as the Public | | Health Nurse; as the Open Air School; as the Tuberculosis Sana- | torium; as the National Tuberculosis Association; as the Utah f | Public Health Association. \ 1 I am an inseparable part of your every day life. i I am dumb; but I am eloquent for Health. i I I am tiny; but I am as broad as the noblest impulses of the | | human heart. = I am simple; but I am as versatile as the human mind. I I am inert; but my reservoir of energy has hardly been tapped. | 1 I am the Messenger of Good Health, the Herald of the New | | Day of Right Living. | | You are my Sovereign, meet me Thanksgiving day, when I will 1 I first appear for this year, and commend me until Christmas Eve, | | when I leave, assured that my good words will remain behind. | 1 I am the Tuberculosis Christmas seal! | 71 1 1 1 1 J 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 [ 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 J I ; 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 [ 1 1 1 ] M II f 1 1 1 , 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 MU U I I < M [ I ] 1 1 ! I M 1 1 ! M 1 1 1 M 1 1 . 1 J 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 M 1 1 1 M 1 1 < 1 1 1 1 1 1 ! 1 1 S I i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1^ . —