Arizona republican., 1917-12-01
RED CROSS SEAL
 ON EVERY PIECE OF MAIL, SLOGAN
Anti Tuberculosis Society
 Starts Drive to Aid in Work Being Done for White Plague Sufferers
"A seal on every piece of mail"

"A seal on every piece Of mall.
 This is the slogan around which the Maricopa Tuberculosis Society will construct it's program for carrying on the big drive for the sale of Red Cross seals in this county. And 1t IS altogether likely that the Arizona Anti Tuberculosis Association will find 1t altogether effective.
 While the big drive begins officially today throughout the state, President Bertrand R. Cocks of the Maricopa so- ciety yesterday launched the work in this county. That is, he launched one branch of the drive by calling upon business men generally to cooperate not only in the sale of the seals over their counters, but to make general use of them in their business correspon- dence. So successful was he at the out set that a number of business houses in sending out their monthly bills to- day will affiX a seal to every envelope. This means a substantial sale of the seals at the outset.
 The drive for the sale of the little seals in Arizona this year will be made more energetically than ever before be- cause it is apparent the needs of the organizations combating tuberculosis have been increased many fold because of the war In letter which is being mailed out by Rev. Cocks to selected 1 list attention is called to the fact that hundreds of thousands of soldiers have | been invalided from the trenches by | tuberculosis and, left without care, have spread infection in their homes. In this country. medical examination | has disclosed thousands of unsuspected cases of tuberculosis among the ten million registered men.
 | Tt is of the utmost i.nportance,' th9 letter reads, that the tuberculosis as- sociations in every state teach the newly recruited soldiers how to avoid tuberculosis and secure treatment or relief for those who have broken down and their families. Red Cross seals supply funds for this work"
 Enclosed with each letter are 100 Red Cross seals.
 We know that you are interested and want to help in this work" the let ter continues. We are sending you ont hundred seals on approval. The cost is one dOllar-(one cent each.) To save you trouble and expense, we are en- closing a stamped and addressed en, Velope in which to send your remit tance-or return the seals.
 The Maricopa Anti Tuberculosis SO
 ciety is in charge of the sale of seal
 for Maricopa and Pinal counties. Tn
 money derived from the sale will b
 used as follows: 10 per cent of tn
 gross proceeds goes to the National as
 sociation, 50 per cent of the net pro
 ceeds for the Arizona Anti-Tubercu
 1osis association, and 50 per cent t
 relief and educational work in this dis .1 trict. Visiting nurses will be engaged
 and relief will be rendered through rec
 ognized channels, especially throug
 St. Luke's Home.
 Rev. MT. Cocks said yesterday tha
 one million seals had been allotted fo Arizona. He said that the various dis = trict societies have organized in Q movement to see that not one of thes 0 seals is left unsold at the.end of tn i big drive. He hopes that tie sale wi 0 go even beyond the goal fixed