Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-22
PRESIDENT WILL USE
RED CROSS "SnCKERS'
To Put Seals on All Private
Mail During the Christ
mas Season.

President Taft has heard the cry of the
| little Red Cross Christmas seal and re-
| sponded with generous hand. So the
| first citizen of Washington will use on all
| his private mail the little messenger of
happy greeting during the Christmas sea-
| son, and-who knows?-the check he sent
| for them may save a human life.
Private Secretary Norton also has heard
| the call for help. and he, too, has gen.
| erously given to the cause. And so the
| little story of the Red Cross Christmas
seal finds its way into the high places as
we'll as among the lowly, and wherever it
| is told the heart softens and the hand
Involuntary goes to the purse in re-
| Spouse.
Only two days remain for the sale OF
| the little seals and in which to raise the
| needed money for the Red Cross tubercu~
| losis day camp. When the big stores
close Saturday night and all the world
| is preparing for its Christmas morning
the committee of three, Mrs. w. J. Board
man. Mrs Theodore North Mclaughlin
and Mrs. w. H. Bayly. will count the
proceeds of the brief campaign for the
City Healthful' and learn whether the
| result is message of hope to the suffer-
ing consumptive or a sigh of isappoint-
ment.
Committee Working Hard.
For days and nights this committee
and it's army of young society women
have humbled pride. neglected other
duties and put aside their pleasures that
the sanctuary of hope at 18th and Up
shur streets, when 1t opens it's portals in
April. may be able to care for the many,
young and old. who are suffering the
blight of tuberculosis. with no other
means of help available. Already they
| are seeing the enlarged Red Cross tuber-
culosis camp, ample in facilities, and
replete with comforts and conveniences
for the battle against the deadly white
plague that devastates the land. Their
hopes are high. and it is for the good
people of Washington. who are not one
bit less sympathetic and generous, to
realize them.
1t does not matter whether one has
letters or bundles to send upon which
to paste the little stickers.' as some
have called them. A young department
clerk yesterday afternoon. in the post Of
flee lobby, bought dollars worth, and,
not knowing what else to do with them.
set fire to them and watched the blaze
with satisfaction.
Should Not Be Given Away.
No one lost anything by the action. for
the seals themselves have no intrinsic
value. They ought not even to be given
| away. for it may prevent sale to the
one to whom they are given. 1t is the
money paid for them that counts in the
cause Of humanity. Their little message
of Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year is only genuine when the seal is
sent by one who has given it's cost to the
cause of suffering humanity.
The workers in the cause will be on hand
I ,S<ry,A ~
| little Red Cross Christmas seals There will
be plenty Of seals and plenty of assistants
eager to sell them. A nickel, a dime, a
share toward the great object for which
the seals are sold. Those who are blessed
with abundance will feel better. perhaps,
| If they contribute more generously. But
| whether the contribution be large or
| small. the seal sellers say, it will be very
| acceptable and gratefully received for the
| motive that prompts it.