Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1917 — Million Raised By Sale Of Red Cross Xmas Seals. [ARTICLE]

Million Raised By Sale Of Red Cross Xmas Seals.

Red Cross Christmas seals raised in the 1916 sale $1,000,000 for the tuberculosis campaign, according to the National Association far the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, which has announced the results of the recent holidy campaign. Ail reports are not in, but carefully revised estifates of the few outstanding indicate that more than one hundred million seals were sold. All the proceeds of the sale, amounting to a tax for health work of one cent on each person in the country, except the insular possessions, are devoted to preventive..tuberculosis work in the states and communities in which the seals are sold. The educational features of the seal campaign was developed in 1916 on a larger scale than ever before. School teachers received and read to their pupils one hundred and fifteen thousand story talks on tuberculosis. During Tuberculosis Week in December, three hundred and fifty thousand pieces of educational literature, containing suggestions for sermons on tuberculosis and recofmendations for medical examination of employees were distributed.