Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-08
RED CROSS LETTER SEALS
Plan to Help Study Of Prevention Of
tuberculosis Continues
SEALS ARE NOW Fer SALE
objection g. Made TO the stamps that
Were Formerly Used and they
Are changed 60 q Differ
ent Form.

The executive secretary for Nebraska Of
he National Association for the study and
Prevention OF tuberculosis Mrs Albert
Edholm will open an office immediately
to begin the winter campaign for the sale
Of red cross letter seals
The seals which were formerly known as
red cross stamps uetted S.7C0 for the cause
last year and that amount will probably
be doubled this winter. one hundred
towns have sold them for several years
and nifty more towns will be added as
points Of distribution.
A dispute with the postal authorities Of
several foreign countries has led TO a
change ia the name OF the labels. They
we're called stamps formerly and were
placed on the diverse side OF the letter
near the regulation postage stamp Many
people Thought .tha' they were good for
carrying letters instead OF regulation pos
tage and tried 10 save a cent on each letter
by using them. The British and German
postmasters found it too much trouble TO
distinguish between real stamps and char
ity labels so they refused to take letters
that we're too much stamped
Consequent they will be called seals
from now on and they are supposed to be
pasted on the back Of the envelope. where
spreading the knowledge Of the associs-
tions viii be accomplished without causing
confusion.
The towns that are to sell the seals will
be given them in quantities 81 100 or 200
and they will be allowed 80 per cent OF the
net proceeds for use In their own anti
tuberculosis work. The other half goes to
the state society, The idea Of ant-tuber-
culOsis work Is very inclusive and even
such sanitary improvements are considered
rs a part Of the work. There are branches
u the society in North Platte and Hol-
drego and IN many other cities. Ere
mont, SCOTS Bluff, Lincoln and others
have agents who superintend the seal sale.
offices In Omaha.
The executive secretary Will be in her
office during the morning hours in room
N Brandeis building and from there the
10000 seals win be distributed. All of the
work OF reeordipg the financial transact
uCns and arranging the revenues and opera
lions OF the association is done by unpaid
volunteer officials who work for the ma
uonal association.
The following statement is issued by the
national association:
Judging from reports at hand today, the
National Association Tor the Study and
Prevention OF Tuberculosis estimates that
by December ! not, less than 75OO0,OOO Red
Cross seals Will have been distributed to
selling agents in forty different states of
the country. a. '4 -'
Forty millions seals have already been
printed and another large edition Is being
prepared. Agents orders TO date aggregate
all OF that amount and a considerable num-
Der have not yet stated how many. seals
they can use. Taking into consideration
this latter class and the agents who will
be appointed before December the PROS
poets for selling 1O0,oO0OOO stamps, which
Is the goal that has been set by the ma
tiOnal workers, are g extremely bright
Over thirty state societies have organized
the sale on an extensive basis, and in
about ten more states Red Cross seals will
state. city, county and subagents. an army
OF fully 50,OO1 men. women and children
will be engaged IN selling the bright Christ
mas seals for the prevention of tubercu-
loss. Permission to sell seals in the cor
ridors OF all postoffices has been granted
by Secretary Hitchcock. They will also be
on sale In department stores, hotels, rail-
way stations. drug stores and in thousands
OF other places ,.-f
Every conceivable device for advertising
the seals Is being prepared. In some places
valuable prizes will be Civ On. Millions OF
slips dodgers. posters and other kinds OF
literature will be distributed calling upon
the public to buy Red Cross seals.
Among the agencies that are co-operat ting
with the Red Cross and the tuberculosis
societies are wOmcns clubs, lodges, labor
unions business mems associations, stores
banks, newspapers and thousands of school
boys and girls.