Annual Christmas Seal Drive to Open Monday

With a seven percent increase in contributions needed in order to meet the quota, the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association will open its annual Christmas Seal drive at Harvard on November 27, it was announced yesterday by Mabel M. Brown, executive secretary.

This year's design pictures a postman in commemoration of the Danish mail clerk who conceived the Christmas Seal idea in 1903. Each student will receive an envelope of seals November 27, payment for which will be on a voluntary basis.

According to Miss Brown, funds collected in the local campaign go primarily toward prevention of tuberculosis. Citing last year's project in Cambridge industry when 5,000 workers were X-rayed in cooperation with labor and management, she emphasized that the Association places the most importance on "finding the symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis early. This enables us," added Miss Brown, "to reverse the bulk of the cases before they become serious."