The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-17

homes to be made into healthy boys
and girls on the schoolhOuse roof.
Fin New York city, too, they hnanceo
the executive organization of the AS
ISOLATION of tuberculosis Clinics, and
have increased the number OF sucn
dispensaries from six to thirty; anu
they have helped to circulate the
e'tuberculosis text book" in pubic
and parochial schools.
They have established six active
anti-tuberculosis societies in TeXas,
A hospitals and dispensaries where
two years ago, before the sale OF the
stamps began, not one organization
fought consumption. In Wisconsin
they have done the biggest part OF
the work for the establishment OF I
hospitals for the treatment of con-
sumption. In Chicago they have en-
ployed Is visiting nurses to care for
tuberculosis patients in their homes,
and in Pittsburg they have given
thousands of dollars to the work of
the league that supports a sanitO-
rum FOR durable cases of tuberculo-
sis. hospital for the segregation and
care of hopeless consumpt1Ves, uls-
pensary. a babies clinic, a farm for
convalescents, a staff OF visiting
nurses, and an Open-a1r school
Throughout the west they have IL
nanced and engineered a campaign
of education that has had results IN
a dozen or more states.
These are a few of the most strik-
ing things that, in four years, the lit
tie Christmas seals have done. But
these are chosen almost at random.
They are not the only big things that
have been accomplished in the war
against consumption by the tiny
weapon of the Red Cross seal. A
million dollars to spend for fresh air
living, for sanitoria, for the segre-
CATION of advanced stages of con-
sumption, and for preventive" edu-
cation, stands out as a potent cause
for the beginning of real hope in the
fight against the white plague and for
the decrease of New York's tubercu-
losis death rate by 80 per cent.
Their Fifth Season.
The Red Cross seals are entering
upon heir fifth seasons sale. They
are the latest in a long series of
charity stamps which, invented in
this country in the civil war, were
duOpLSu III 4IuIOpC5 anu AAAe1AAJ NoAlO
back to us by way of Norway, Swe-
den and Denmark in the anti-tuberc-
ulosis work In 1907, when they had
been used in Scandinavia for years,
Jacob Riis, Miss Emily Bissell of the
Delaware Anti-Tuberculosis Associa-
ton and the Red Cross Society of
Delaware combined in issuing a tu-
berculosis stamp in that state. New
York heads the country now, both in
the sale of the Red Cross seal and the
progress of the fight against con-
consumption. But it was Delaware
/ that began the stamps sale. Nearly
| $4,000 as raised in that first sea-
sons sale in Delaware, and the next
year the national stamp came into
existence, under the auspices of the
/ American Red Cross.
In that first year the sale of the
national Red Cross stamp brought in
$135, 900. The next year the sale was
increased to $23O,0O0; in 1910 the
Red Cross added almost 1910, 600 to
the funds of the anti-tuberculosis
war, and in 1911 the amount of mon
ey raised by the sale was little
more than $330,00O. This year S..
100000 stamps have been printed
and thousands have alreay been sold
John D. Rockefeller sent in his CHECK
the other day for $500 for Red eros:
seals. Officially, it is scarcely neces
l sary to explain, the little weapons
against tuberculosis are called seals