Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
BIC SUM IS EXPECTED
Red Cross Campaign to Begin
This Week.
HOPE FOR 100000 FUND
Millions of Little Stickers for
Christmas Shoppers.
EXTRA ORDER TO MEET SALE
Stamp Sales to Continue for a
Month-$5.O 900 Needed for Dis
trict White Plague Camp.


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The Red Cross campaign for funds for
tuberculosis camps will be in full swing
this week and if it docs not swell the
treasury of the society b3- 100000 every
body. from Miss Mabel T. BoardInan down
to the youngest maid who is having her
first try at putting Up packages or
stamps. will be bitterly disa ppointed.
! Since it brsnched out into practice Ly
every field of relief work the American
Red Cross has given particular attention
| to tine work of stamping out the white
| plague. In nearly every state in the Union
Red Cross tuberculosis camps have been
! esta bIished. The Christmas stamps are
| responsible for most of the money that
goes to their maintenance.
| Last year S15Gon worth of the little
penny-a piece "stickers'' were sold This
year 3O,COOOeO were ordered, but the de-
mand has been so heavy that the national
| officers have ordered an additional TO-
| 100000. If all these stamps are sold SUI
| ferers from tuberculosis will be the richer
by 100000.
What a Penny Will Do.
A penny spent for Red Cross Christ
mas stamp bring several results. II
places in the hands Of the purchaser a
very bright little Christmas greeting to
place on letter or a Christmas parcel.
1t carries good cheer from the sender to
the person who receives the mail. The
penny goes to swell the white plague fund
and in the end it is spent to help save the
life of some person who is afflicted with
tuberculosS-cO
When a person buys stamp the pur-
chaser expresses confidence in the work
OF the Red Cross. 1t means. too, that
the purchaser widens his circle of friends
until it embraces the ffiendess element.
among whom the Red Cross is doing
much of its philanthropic work.
While the penny in itself is small
amount of money to multiply il by mil
lions means the rounding up of great
sum for the maintenance of a great work
-open-air camps for the cure of tubercu-
losis 1t Is the pi1ilanthropic sentiment
behind the Red Cross stamp that makes
this little Christmas ''sticker" intensely
popular throughout the United States.
Reception of the Stamp.
The Red Cross Christmas stamp, doubt
less the most prominent little factor in
the holiday activities Of the United States
today traces its ancestry back to Bos-
ton, where stamps. or ''stickers.' were
first sold in this country TO raise money
for philanthropic purposes. In 1862 the
CnlloQ States sanitary
Quoted great fair or bazaar and used
the money raised to care for sick and
wounded soldiers in the civil war. Some
resourceful person conceived the idea OF
selling special stamps as one means of
swelling the proceeds of the bazaar From
Boston the idea spread to many other
cities In the east.
Mrs. Boardman ard Mrs. T. n. Nc
I.aughin are looking after the work Of
the District Red Cross in the Christmas
They have taken
office in the Corcoran building, and for
week or more they have been at
work preparing packages of stamps with
the assistance of a number OF young
work OF preparation will be completed
and everything will be in readiness for
the sales. which will continue for
month. Five thousand dollars is the
District Red Cross. Stamps representing
that amount have been taken by the
local organization and must be sold.
Local Camps Successful Work.
The past season was an unusually sue
cessful one for the local tuberculosis day
camp The sufferings OF hundreds of
consumptives in the District were relieved
during the hot weather, and many were
materially improved by their stay at the
camp 1t was open from early in April
! until November 10. With the 5000 the
District Red Cross hopes to obtain
through the sale of the Christmas stamps
the camp be enlarged and greatly
improved in every other way.
One Of the features of the campaign
Will be Red Cross free lecture Wednes-
day night at the First Congregational
Church, 10th and G streets northwest.
The speakers will be Attorney General
Wickersham, Miss Mabel T. Boardman.
Miss Isabel Strong and probably Ernest
Bicknell. Kiss Boardman will tell of the
various branches of relief work in which
the Red Cross is engaged.
Mr.. Bicknel. who is now at Cherry,
H., representing the National Red Cross
at the mine disaster. will. ii he is able
to return to Washington in time, speak
on the work at the scenes of the va
rious disasters pf the past few years.
Will Interest District People.
II Westinghouse want to know just
what their local tuberculosis camp
amounts to- how it is run and what is
being accomplished by 1t they will be
interested in what Miss Strong has to
say. Miss Strong is in charge Of the
camp. She knows all about all the pa
tients who go there. what IL costs to run
the camp and what is needed to make ii
bigger. better and more useful camp.
Miss Strong's topic will be What the
Christmas Stamp Has Done. She will
describe not only the work at the District
camp, but the work at the p's camps of
New York and New England as we'll
All the lectures will be illustrated with
interesting stereOpticon views OF Red
Cross work all over the world. Free
tickets may be obtained at the American
! Red Cross headquarters In the War De-
parlment or from the District Red Cross
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