The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
RED CROSS SEALS RAISED A MIL
LION.
Three Hundred Million Penny Holiday
Tokens Sold in 1916 Christmas Cam
paign-Newspapers Thanked by Ma
tional tuberculosis Association.

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seals raised in the 1916 sale $1,000
for the tuberculosis campaign, accord
ing to the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis,
which announced today the results of
the recent holiday campaign. All re-
ports are not in, but carefully revised
estimates of the few yet outstanding
indicate that more than one hundred
million seals were sold.
All the proceeds of the sale, amount
ing to a tax for health work of one
cent on each person in the country
except the insular possessions, are de-
voted to preventive tuberculosis work
in the states and communities in which
the seals are sold.
The National Association points with
qualification to the fact that it realized
its slogan Gone seal for each inhabi-
tant in the United States" Seals
have been sold annually at the holiday
season, beginning with 1908. They
have been the means of raising a total
of $4,2O6,051 for tuberculosis work. In
addition to the thousands of tubercu-
losis beds which this sum has made
possible, the seals have also aided in
the establishment of hundreds of open
air schools, employment of thousands
of tuberculosis visiting nurses, and
have been an indirect cause of tremen-
dous advances in the whole field of
public health work.
tuberculosis committees have been
organized in practically every commun-
ity of any size in the country. Every
state in the union now has a state So
ciety engaged in statewide anti-tuber-
culosis work. Hundreds of thousands
of open windows, letting in unwonted
quantities of fresh air to sleepers, may
be traced directly to the public health
educational effect of the Red Cross
Christmas Seals.
Last fall agents sold seals in every
state and territory of the United States
except Guam, Tahiti and Samoa.
Counting the school children, some
100000 the total number of agents of
the country approached 100000. These
included club women, school teachers,
merchants, bankers, post masters, and
in fact, every kind of business man and
woman.
The educational features of the seal
campaign was developed in 1916 on
larger scale than ever before. School
teachers received and read to their pu-
pills one hundred and fifteen thousand
story talks on tuberculosis. During
tuberculosis Week in December three
hundred and fifty thousand pieces of
educational literature, containing sug-
gestions for sermons on tuberculosis
and recommendations for medical
examination for employees were distri-
buted.
Without the cooperation of the
press of the country unstintedly
given, as it always has been,
these tremendous results from the
Red Cross seal sale would have
been impossible" said DR.. Charles J.
Hatfield, Executive Secretary for the
National Association, in making pub
lie the results of the sale. fBoth d.
rectly and indirectly the newspapers
of the country have, through the Red
Cross Christmas seal sale, contributed
to the alienation of human suffering
and to the total of human happiness,
to greater degree than any other sim
gle agency"