Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1915 — BIG SALE OF RED CROSS CHRISTMAS SEALS [ARTICLE]

BIG SALE OF RED CROSS CHRISTMAS SEALS

Money Going to Most Worthy Cause —Tuberculosis On Decline — All Take Interest. From every. section of Indiana come reports to the effect that the Red Cross Seal campaign this year is a record breaker. While the sale of these cheery little holiday greeting bearers, issued by the American Red Cross for the war on tuberculosis has grow nsteadily yepr by year, 1915 bids fair to exceed 1914 by a far wider margin than 1914 exceeded any previous year. Counties that here-to-fore have indicated but little interest in Red Cross seals, now are clamoring for seals faster tfyan the state headquarters can supply them. Already nearly 6,000,000 seals have been distributed in Indiana to local anti-tuberculosis societies, ‘women’s clubs, and others. Business men are using the seals in grtater quantities this year and reports from school authorities indicate that the number of children engaged in the campaign this year is greater by several thousands than ever before.

Anti-tuberculosis workers throughout the state have been greatly encouraged by the announcement that results very much worth while are being obtained in Indiana as the result of the intensive fight that is being waged against the “white plague.” fv is shown that in 1904, the total deaths from consump + ion in Indiana were 5,178, compand with 4.077 in 1914, despite an increase of approximately a quarter of a million in population. With the unprecedented success of the Red Cross seal campaign this year, it is expected that still greaterinroads will be made on tuberculosis during the next few months. The policy of the organized antituberculosis movement in Indiana, is “Prevention rather than Cure.” Thus it will be found that a great proportion of the Red Cross seal fund will be used in a broadening of the educational campaign through schools of the state, and by means of literature, exhibits and newspaper pubilcity, as well as by lectures in moving picture shows, churches, the schools and other meeting places where the public generally congregates.