The courier-index., 1918-01-18
REPORT ON
SALE OF STAMPS
MISS EMMA CLARK SAYS 42.6o6
RED CROSS CHRISTMAS SEALS
WERE DISPOSED OF IN LEE
COUNTY.

MISS Emma Clark, chairman of the
Lee County Red Cross Christmas
Seal Campaign, made the following
report to the Arkansas Public Health
Association on the 10th instant. the
day requested by the State Board
of Health for these reports to be
sent in:
Number OF stamps received for dis.
tribution 100000.
Total number of stamps sold
1886.
Total number returned to state
agent 44,154.
Total number distributed but not
returned 13, ,150-1OO.0OO.
Total amount of money remitted
$426.96.
1t had been the hope of the COM
mittee to sell the full $1,000 worth
OF these seals, and Miss Clark thinks
there would have been no trouble
in doing so had it not been that
weather conditions were such that
the campaign could not be carried
out as planned. She was unable to
get out to any of the schools in the
county and, while the children in
Mariana did wonderfully we'll,
they could not do as we'll as if
they had not been handicapped by
the weather. AS it was, the children
OF the white schools sold about $145
and the colored children about $40
in Mariana. The children of the
Moro school, the only school Miss
Clark was able to visit, sent in
nearly SIS and Miss Howard, of
La Grange, sent in $3.50 that her
children sold in the few days
available after they received the
stamps. So it may be said that the
school children, even under existing
difficulties, sold practically $1750O0
worth of the Christmas seals, besides
learning the value of this work and
the good the money derived from it
is to do in the fight against tuber-
culosis. If those who still have
seals that were mailed to them and
not remitted for, will make a report
it will be very gratifying to the
local committee, so that either the
to the state board and credit given
for same. Stamped envelopes were
enclosed in all packages mailed out,
so it should be an easy matter for
ho ~ hn Mics
Clark wants to thank all who help
ed in any way in this work, for the
spirit of willingness and generosity
that was manifested on all hands.
The children and their teachers show
ed unusual interest and enthusiasm
and we hope that next year when
we again make the Red Cross Seal
Campaign for the tuberculosis
Branch of the American Red Cross,
all will show the same spirit and no.
thing will interfere with our doing oil
we plan to do. From the reports
that are appearing daily in the pap
ers, this work will be moe necessary
than ever, for each day there are
reports of men being sent home
from the training camps and army
cantonments with tuberculosis. They
are given book of instructions as
to the care they are to take of
themselves and precautions against
injecting others with whom they
come in contact, but how many of
them will not be financially able to
carry out these instructions none but
those interested enough to iuvest1-
gate will ever know; and so this
terrible disease will spread unless
the public is fully awake to the ne
cessity of educating themselves, and
this can only be done by such work
as this branch of the Red Cross is
undertaking at this time. From one
camp 500 men were given honorable
discharges on account of disability
from tuberculosis, and what is true
of one camp will be true of many
others and now is the time for the
nraventive measures to be hurried