The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-01
SATURDAY CLUB
HAS SALE Of
XMAS STAMPS
PLYMOUTH LADIES WILL AID
IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST
TUBERCULOSIS BY HELP
ING SALE
Season for Christmas Seals Arrives
And Engergetic Campaign for
Disposal Is
Planned.

The Saturday Club of Plymouth
will again aid in the crusade agains
tuberculosis, being waged in the sal,
of Red Cross Christmas seals, tn,
season for which has opened in Indi
ana, and several hundred Thousand
of the little stickers have been dis
tributec to local agents from tn.
Red Cross bureau, at 246 Fedora
building, Indianapolis. The selling
campaign is being conducted by tn,
same committee which has had it II
charge in former seasons, it beins
made up of Noble c. Butler, chair
man, Rowland Fans, secretary an'
James w. Lilly, treasurer, the oper.
ations of the bureau being directed
by Lannes McPhetridge. This is the
third year that the Red Cross Christ.
mas greetings have been sold in In.
diana. The proceeds 60 to the Red
Cross fund for combating tuberculo-
sis in this state. The sales the frs
year amounted TO about $4,000 aid
last year reached $500. The Indiana
committee has expended the funds b,
erecting colonies of frame cottage:
for the fresh air treatment of tuber.
cular patients the cottages being or
the city hospital grounds at Indian
apol's, South Bend, Frankfort, Vim
cennes and Evansville. The commit.
tee hopes that as the sales increase
from year to year to establish the
colonies in all Of the larger cities Of
the state where local organizations
will be willing to look after the vel
fare of the patients.
In addition to the colonies manv
individual patients have been treated
at the expense of the Red Cross COM
mittee in sanitariums and several
are now receiving attention at these
Institutions. Since it was first or
ganized the committee has been able
to help many victims of the plague
to q permanent cure. Members of
the committee say that they are anxi-
ous to make the Christmas seals
money go as far as possible toward
wiping out the plague and they will
help any deserving patients that the
brought to the attention of the Red
Cross.
The Red Cross has changed the
name of the little sticker from
stamp" to- seal' the charge be-
ing regarded as necessary since manv
people year after year use them unA
der the impression that they take
the place of postage stamps in send
ing letters and parcels by mail. BY
adopting the name of "seal" the
Red Cross hopes to get entirely oui
of the public mind the idea that the
seals will pay postage. Another step
in this direction will, it is under
stood, be taken by the postal author
tiles in requiring the seals 10 be
placed ON the back of letters and
parcels, instead of on the address
side.
A much stonger selling force is
being organized over the state in the
hope of largely increasing the sales
this Christmas season. Mrs. Grace
Julian Clare, president of the Indi-
ana Federation of Clubs has sent a
letter to ahont 240 preside .nts of To-
cal organizations asking that they
form Christmas seals committees to
promote the sales in their communi-
ties. "The effort of the Red Cross to
comtat tuberculosis in Indiana is a
splendid philanthropic work. Mrs
Clare s letter saws (which seriously
needs the active help of our clubs. 1t
can be made broader and more effect
i've by giving the Red Cross our CO.
operation and the time is at hand tcI
show our willingness TO do so." The
local presidents are now sending the
names of their seals committee chair
men to the Red Cross bureau, and
them the seals will be on
sale in a number of Indiana town not
reached last year.
The Red Cross has asked over l.
600 fourth class postmasters in Indi-
ana to take the seals on consignment
and several hundred have agreed to
do so. This will get the seals on
sale in general stores In the small
owns and villages for the first time.
where they will be brought within
reach of farm as well as town people.