Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1916 — RED CROSS SEAL FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS SEAL FIGURES.

325,000,000 Holiday Stickers Already Distributed in United States. Few people have any conception of the magnitude of the Red Cross Christmas Seal Campaign. Here are a few figures that will show what a gigantic movement this is. Already 325,000,000 Seals have been printed and practically that entire number distributed to agents in every state and territory of the Union from Alaska to the Canal Zone, from Porto Rico to Hawaii, and even in the far-off Philippines, Advertising circulars, posters, cards, etc., to the number of several millions, have also been distributed. Not less than 1,000,000 personal tetters asking people to buy Seals have been sent out. It is estimated that the army of workers. nearly all of whom are volunteers, engaged in selling the Seals, numbers well over 500,000 The advertising and publicity devoted to the campaign amounts to several hundred thousand dollars. Every effort is '"being put forth to sell 100.000,000 Seals, or only one for every man, woman and child in the United States. This will mean $1,000,000 for the anti-tuberculosis campaign in the United States. Over 1,500 anti-tuberculosis associations of the country derive their support from Red Cross Seals.