The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-10
Presents Squarely the Prob- lem of Making Alabama
 Safe From Tuberculosis
GETTING MONEY IS
 HARD STRUGGLE IN
 MIDST OF DEMANDS
Splendid Interest Is Being Shown, Especially in the Rural Schools of
 the State

"Yes, we are doing great stunts this year with our seal sale" said Dr. George Eaves. T am free to confess that each year it's complications and it's size grow so huge that come to it with dread.
 Why? Well, because of the tremen- dous physical strain. don't think am much of 8 weakling and not altogether q coward. But the last three sales have left me nearly blind or otherwise ex- hausted, and I approached this year-end expecting nothing better, but something even worse. Anyhow, the sale, simply as a means of making money, is an abom- inable thing.
 "Oh, of course, if you can find the fun in it and have the taste for sales nanship, that's another matter. haven't. I'm most at home with pen or per haps with my tongue. What I want to do is to lift something to a saner plane. But to have to sell penny seals and to cajole people into an interest in such things as a means of making money to save life has always appeared rather paltry Especially so when someone re- fuses to receive the envelope we send nlnl. mat IS why pSsSCu ny eoii " pitch in with me for a couple of months. He has won the reputation of a good salesman, and I borrowed him to save
 my soul alive.
 You know, we have to run two busi- nesses from one headquarters. The local associations sale is, of course, under my supervision, and generally there's an excellent response. It's too early to say what the results will be here. We sent out about s11,oo0 worth of seals by mail. Out of that about 5000 have come back
 in money already. But if we are 10 carry on our sanatorium, we must sell three seals this year to every one sold last Christmas. That's the nationwide cry Either we must get much money this Christmas (about $12,oo0) or presently close the sanatorium. Local needs or this sort are being set aside by govern ment appeals, Red Cross appeals, Y. M. |C. A. appeals, all inevitable, all com manding wonderful response. Then there are the taxes, the income tax and all sorts of new impositions which we must pay and may as well pal with a grin though a grim grin. On the other hand' our local association owes $loOo tooay. We asked for 5000 month ago nd got about $500. asked Mrs. Sper 'er what 1t would cost to keep Mercy Home running for a year. She said about s8OOO. Our budget involves, beyond pres ent receipts from the county ana the patients. approximately $9OO0 in addition to the open air school, another SloO or more to say nothing of repairs. Mrs' Dwight's work desperately needs an out lay of S15000 for equipment, the upkeep being state charge. There's $SS,ooo TOT these three enterprises of love and WIS dom for next year. Most of 1t could be as well paid in monthly or quarterly checks as in a lump sum. But where 1t to come from? And who will secure the pledges?'
 .sYou said you had two businesses un- der one headquarters?
 WORK OF STATE LEAGUE
 Yes. The other is the State league Ina Alabama Anti-Tuberculosis league as 1t is called. It has been sustained hv one-eighth of the seals income, and is the chief educational factor outside Jefferson and Montgomery counties. II issues vast quantities Of printed mat. ter. promotes county organizations ana carries on a better work. rms year II is doing more With great gratitude we TeCe1VcQ " ANS~A- and gracious response to our reques' for a word of his to emphasize the leagues message to Alabama. We have also had the wonderfully kind and in telligent help of Governor Henderson With this backing we have approached every county school authority and 1T almost every case have succeeded il powerfully interesting the teachers, es pecially in the rural schools.
 I've have begun the enrolment O Alabama's school population, black ant white, in the modern health crusade
 The crusaders will first of all learn ant ] practice the rules of personal hygien'
 and get credit for each rule kept. thu earning a crusaders badge. an esquire' badge, a nights, or knights bannere badge. Each group of crusaders will b.
 a legion and all the legions will forn
 a state league. More than a million vii
 be enrolled in the whole land. Thes crusaders also are pledged to work fo the sale of seals. The school in eacl l county which sells most seals in pro l portion to It's enrolment will win :; pennant, and the schools will be di | vided into classes. those under 50 those over 50, but not 100, and tn schools having more than 100 pupils Yes, a pennant for each class. Then
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