An open letter to Ray A. Goldberg '48, treasurer of the Student Council:

Your letter published recently in the Harvard CRIMSON has come to our attention.

For several years our Association has sent Christmas seals to the students of Harvard and other colleges in Cambridge. The response in interest and money has been spontaneous and generous. Last year the per capita return from Harvard students was only 1 percent less than that of the institution with the highest rate. The heavy returns coming in daily this year from Harvard students and from students of other colleges in Cambridge demonstrate individual and personal interest in the cause for which the Christmas Seal stands.

The reason we have always used a direct appeal to students is that we feel it is the best way to interest and inform them of the work of a tuberculosis association, for we realize that college students represent the future leaders of their respective communities.

We have never asked for nor received, an allotment by the Student Council from its Service Fund. We, however, shall be glad to recommend to the 1948 Seal Sale Committee that it take the matter up with the Student Council.

This year, as you may know, we are participating in a city-wide Community X-ray program through which we hope to X-ray 80,000 Cambridge residents in an effort to stamp out tuberculosis. These X-rays will be free to Harvard students, faculty and other college personnel on a voluntary basis.

We hope you and the Student Council will urge all to take advantage of this opportunity in the spring of 1948.

Dwight H. Andrews,

Chairman, Christmas Seal Sale

Committee.