The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-11-11
SALE Of RED
CROSS SEALS
STARTED

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Mrs. Swanzy and Secretary Rath
Pleased With First Days Re-
suits; Indications Are That
Every one of Half Million Seal
Will Have Been Sold When
Campaign Ends Friday Even
ing.
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X "Thc annual Red Cross Seal X
x campaign in Honolulu and on the =
!; other islands has started in a way y
X that indicates we are going to X
meet with greater success than \
X ever before. Though ! have re- X
X ceived only meager reports from v
:. some of the district managers to- \;
X night, they are sufficiently encour- X
4: aging to warrant the claim that 4;
4 the people are responding nobly X
* and that before the campaign X
i; closes next Friday night we will X
); have sold practically every one X
\ of the half-million stamps. - X
II James A. Rath. Secretary of the X
X nti-Tuberculosis League. *
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With most encouraging reception
given the authorized sellers of the Red
Cross Christmas seals for the benefit
of the local fight against the great
white plague, the campaign under the
direction of Mrs. +. NJ. Swanzy, chair
man of the committee of Honolulu la
dies who are engaged in this splendid
work, opened yesterday.
The city was divided into thirty dis
tiicts, beside the part of the Army and
Navy in the work, and the reports from
number of the districts last evening
Indicate that total of about 100000
seals had been sold on the opening day.
AS these sell at the rate of 81 u hun
dred, the amount realized, it is esti
mated, amounts to about $4,000.
Altogether, there were 100000 seals
apportioned to the Island of Oahu by
the National Red Cross Society,
through James A. Rath, local represen-
tative of the society, secretary of the
Anti.Tuberculosis League, and in
charge of the Palama Settlement work,
which is helping to combat the spread
of tuberculosis among the poor of the
city.
Big Sale On First Day.
With the sale of approximately
three-fifths of the number of Red Cross
seals available it is confidently ex
pected that the balance of the stock
on hand can easily be disposed of by
the time the selling campaign ends
next Friday evening. 1t is expected
that all returns will he made by the
district chairman to Mrs. Francis NJ.
Swanzy on Saturday at the latest. All
seals remaining unsOld, and it is hoped
that there will be none, will be re-
deemed by the National Red Cross SO.
ciety, which takes ten per cent of the
proceeds of the, sale to pay for the
stamps and the expenses of distribu.
ton. The balance of the money is
raised entirely for NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
work in the Territory.
The plan of the campaign was for
every chairman of district to appoint
number of workers to assist in dis
posing of the seals. Each worker was
given n block. which was supposed to
be for her exclusive use as n sales dis
trict, but it was discovered yesterday
by some of the women that someone
had gone about in advance and sold
great many stamps without authority.
In one block reported upon when
the women went to the downtown
stores assigned to her she discovered
that Chinese girl and japanese
man had been ahead of her and had
sold large number of stamps. From
number of other districts also came
reports of someone selling ahead of
the authorized agent, and it is pos
sible that an investigation will be made
to determine Just where the trouble is.
Mr.. Rath stated last evening that
while he had received no detailed re.
ports he was, nevertheless, exceeding
" pleased with the way the campaign
had opened and looked forward to the
disposal of all of the seals which have
been distributed for sale to help the
good work along. He confidently ex-
poets that the entire $4,000 will be
raised by the end of the week.
No official reports were made by the
women in charge of the work among
the women of the Army and Navy, bat
IL was understood last evening that
they had accomplished fully their share
of the work as planned.
Everybody Buying Them.
80 feel that | could not spend fifty
cents aud get more good out Of it than
for these Red Cross Seals said n
Honolulan yesterday. "When Wv
look over the past few years and
realize the wonderful work this organ.
ilation has done in this one branch of
combating tuberculosis We should
feel that these workers have done q
great service for humanity aud now
nj the time when aid Is most needed
every one should give his mite 10 the
good cause.
Mrs Harold llnyselden, In charge Of
one Of The districts Is among those
who reported gratifying success an the
opening Of tbe campaign Yesterday.
IN convention with friends She nx
pressed confidence that all the stumpr