Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-11-26
SALE Of RED
CROSS STAMPS
Campaign Will Start After Thanks
giving.

MILWAUKEE Wis, Nov. % By
making a business of selling Red
Cross Christmas Seals to moneyed
men and large financial interests as
an investment of security. the bond
statesmen of Milwaukee, including
representatives of all it's banks. it's
bonding conc erns, life insurance COM
panies, and other financial corpora
tions, will this year carry on the
most unique selling campaign that
Wisconsin has ever known. They are
inaugurating a plan which will prob
ably be copied by other cities in
this and other states and which prom
ises to be one of the most effective
means of financing the right against
disease, which is being carried on
by the Wisconsin Anti-TuberculOsis
Association and kindred organization
The sale will be entirely separate
from the usual sale carried on by
the association through it's campaig :.
managers, the schools and other
agencies.
Following the statement of Samuel
Hopkins Adams the eastern maga--
zine writer, who has been in WiscOn-
sin gathering material for AN arti-
Gle on the public health work of the
Wisconsin Anti--TubercuIosis Asso--
citation, to the effect that the Wis
consin organization lis the most ex-
pert and most economically admins
tered of the state associations for
fighting disease, it occurred to sew
eral Milwaukee men that such a
work should not be forced to rely for
financial support solely ON the pen
nies brought in by the annual sale
of Christmas Seals. These pennies a.
mount to less than $50, ,000 a year,
part of which goes to local health
organizations, making the balance
devoted to the state work which in
every instance is the foundation Of
LHE NCSkta VIOLIN.
The Milwaukee men decided that
the work of the Wisconsin. Anti-Tu-
berculosis Association deserved rec
ognition from the state and from its
large financial interests as a busI-
ness proposition rather than as a
philanthropy. They felt that if the
facts were brought home to money
ed men and large employers of Ia
Dor. they would see the economic va
ue of a movement to prevent the
spread of disease and thus increase
human efficiency. They decided to
do their share in bringing about
new condition of affairs and they be-
lieve that as a result of this year
work in Milwaukee, other cities will
be stimulated to follow the example
set by this unique campaign.
On he thirtieth day of November
a selling force of from thirty five TO
fifty of the best known bond and Sc
curity statesmen in the city OF Mil
waukee, organized into four teams
captainde by representative bond
men, will start out on a systematic
campaign to sell Christmas seals by
the hundreds of dollars worth. They
will call only on business men, leaV-
ing the general field to the school
children and other agencies in the
regular sale and will work for one
week, each man having volunteered
to devote at least from one to two
hours to this special campaign.
Walter Kasteen, vice president OF
the Wisconsin National Bank, is
the campaign treasurer, and R. W
Schoyer, a well known bondman, is
campaign manager. The general ad--
visory committee is composed almost
entirely of bank vice presidents and
cashiers and some of the best known
men of the state are sponsors for
the movement which it is believed,
will have a statewide interest.