The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-29
RED GROSS SEALS ARE ON SALE TODAY
  Will Be Sold in Every Ham, let of Alabama  COVER THE COUNTRY Proceeds From the Sale Will Be Used in the Nationwide Fight Be-
 ing Waged Against
 Tuberculosis
COVER THE COUNTRY

Beginning today over S0,000,000 Red Cross Christmas seals will be placed on sale in almost every large city and nearly every state of the United States. the proceeds to go for the benefit of the anti-tuberculosis movement in tho community where the seals are sold. This announcement was made today from headquarters of the National As- sociation for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, which is directing the sale from its New York office.
 l So carefully has tho sale been or ganized throughout the country that with the exception of the states of Florida. Oklahoma, Nevada and Idaho. Red Cross seals will be on sale in al- most every city. town, village and hamlet of tho United States and even in Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Canal Zone.
 The seals will be sold from drug stores department stores and other kinds of stores and shops, from post offices, railway stations, booths on the street. hotel offices and in numerous other places. The number of agents handling the sale in this way aggfe- gate over 25,000 while the actual num- Der of individuals engaged in the sale, almost entirely volunteers will reach well over 100000 Society leaders in almost every large city of the country. notably in Pittsburg. Brooklyn, cleve- Hand, Chicago, Cincinnati San Fran cisco and elsewhere are taking q lead ing part in this campaign.
 The American Red Cross has it1re-..s.S printed for the work over S5,000, 900 seals and probably the edition will number 10O.0O0,O0 before tho end of the campaign. Fully 1O,00O.O00 pieces of advertising literature have already been sent out, and several million more are being distributed from local and state agencies throughout the coun- try It is planned to make the cam paign this year the largest that has ever been held If the antlcipations of the anti tuberculosis workers are reallzed no less than st0o,oOO will bo obtained from the sale of Red Cross seals. Practically all of the money remains in the state or city where the seals are sold, only very small per centage of it is going to pay for the cost of the printing and distributing the seals and for the expense of run ming the campaign.
 Red Cross seals cost one cent each and every seal sold is bullet in the fight against tuberculosis.
 This year is the first that a concert ed effort has been made to sell seals all over Alabama. It is the desire of the state committee to have the seals on sale in every town in the state and they have endeavored to do so, but in some instances no responses have come to their call for workers in this campaign of education. as well as funds. It is not only the means Of raising enough money to further the anti-tub erculosis work, but the op- portunity of bringing the subject be- fore the people, the chance to give them ideas. If any person desires to aid in the sale of the seals, and Is un- able to get them In hls town, he may get them from the Alabama Christmes Seals committee, 3f1 F South Twen- tieth street. Birmingham, Ala.