Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1916 — Red Cross Seal Campaign On. [ARTICLE]

Red Cross Seal Campaign On.

Under the direction of the local committee, the Red Cross Xmas seals tins weUkr A committee from the Home Economics club will co-operate .with the Ladies’ Literary committee, and it is hoped to make Jasper county a banner county this year. Red Cross seals were first put on sale in 1907 in the single state of Delaware. The movement has since spread over the entire country. As a result, hundreds of associations have been formed which are fighting tuberculosis in practically all the states. The facts about tuberculosis have been published widely. Hospitals, dispensaries, open-air have been established; The educational influence of the Xmas seals campaign has been as much responsible for this as the money derived. Every effort on the part of the thousands of volunteer workers to call attention to the seals, even where no actual sale has been made, every display of seals, newspaper notices, sermon in church, health talk in schQol, has counted in educating the community to guard against tuberculosis. The local committees are as follows; Ladies Literary Club, Mrs. M. D. Gwin, Mrs. F. H. Hemphill, Mrs. G. A. Williams, Mrs. E. J. Randle, Mrs. J. J. Hunt. Home Economics, Mrs. M. E. Drake, Mrs. Oscar Hauter, Mrs. Joe Pullins.