The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-13
Christmas Seals

Won't you step aside for just a
 moment with me from the stress of
 Christmas shopping and parties and
 pleasure and housekeeping and win
 ter togs and motoring and good times
 ard the hundreds of other things
 which occupy your time in this busy
 old work day world and talk about what you are going to do this year
 in the matter of helping the cam l paign for the sale of Christmas seals :?
 It's already in full swing, the cam paign is-and each little seal which l is sold is so full of meaning and l purpose that 1t behooves us to stop and consider for moment, at least 1 just what this wonderful campaign means.
 Suppose for instance you chanced 1 to turn the corner of Poverty Row" and drop in for moment and see lit-
 tie Tommy Tucker lying on his sick
 bed-with that dread disease, tu- berculosis, gripping his little life
 and tearing it away moment by mo-
 ment while his little playmates are basking in the sunshine of Para | hASt <AAAFSt HiRiii6 anu pldY lliS anu 1 enjoying lie to the utmost.
 Wouldn't your first thought be:
 ''I wish I could do something for that poor little mite of humanity ly- ] ing there in that sick bed.
 Of course. it would and then maybe you'd stop to think the second time
 and say:
 But I have so little to help with 1 this Christmas; times are harder than 1 they used to be- and there's Sarah and Johnny and Minnie and Ben to l be remembered and all the servants and ali the uncles and aunts and l father and mother-oh, dearl I
 haven't anything left to give this
 poor little boy!'
 Of course this Is the case with you
 and me and lots of others. but just | stop and listen to this:
 The purchase of Christmas seals 1 those pretty little effective seals that
 make a Christmas package look just l too beautiful for words. are very in- expensive--in comparison at least to
 other Christmas things and just one purchase of little batch of these seals will go straight to that little l sufferers home and provide for him | | his little body will be made to rest more comfortably and his little heart healed and you in your big beautiful
 luxurious home sitting by the fire
 side knowing nothing of poverty and 1 distress like they do In Poverty ! Row can say to yourself:
 My Christmas seals that I bought
 are sending comfort and hope to a
 little sufferer on his little bed in l Poverty Alley!"
 Oh, how hard everybody is working l Rl,s .lrz SI~a -..4.. l. campaign a big success; and nobody l is doing more for it than Mrs. H. E. Pearce-that big-hearted whole souled splendid Birmingham woman
 who is never asked in vain for any thing.
 Mrs. Pearce is the most satsfac-
 tory person I know when 1t comes to 'doing things; l mean by that put l ting things over,' and | always love 1 dearly to write 8 story about her be- cause she so richly deserves every l thing good that anybody can say about her.
 l While other women arc doing their 1 Christmas shopping and baking fruit | cakes and decorating Christmas trees,
 Mrs. Pearce and her associates are
 working diligently to make the l Christmas seals campaign for the | <1HlA- dSSOCldVlOH OL DIT
 mingham and Jefferson county suc-
 cess and she Is going to make 1t a success for that word goes hand in 1 hand with her name.
 | Mrs. Pearce, as state chairman for l the Alabame Federation of Women's 1, clubs anti-tuberculosis committee. and a member of the board of direc- l tors of the national association, in addition to all her duties incurred by holding these positions has taken on
 the chairmanship of the woman's committee for Birmingham and Jeff ferson county for the campaign for selling Christmas seals, and she ex- poets you and me and every woman
 in this big old Greater Birming gham and bigger old Jefferson county to help her make this campaign bene-
 diction to the sufferers in this city and county.
 ! Listen to what Mrs Pearce says and how conveniently everything has been arranged for the selling of the Christmas seals this year and how easy it is going to be for you to buy them.
 "The booths have been placed on | all the prominent corners of the downtown section of Birmingham"
 said Mrs. Pearce yesterday, "and a | committee Of women from the cluDS
 of the Third district, Alabama Fed
 eration of Women's clubs, will have
 charge each day. At the same time
 the resident section of the city and suburbs will be in charge of the school children, and quite a little spirit will be injected by the various city and county schools, owing to the | fact that two handsome silver loving
 cups will be awarded one to the city
 school selling the largest amount of 1 Christmas seals and one to the county
 school selling the largest amount" | These cups were donated by lobe
 Rose and Bromberg Jewelry compan- ies, and will be on display in their
 windows, and are really beautiful"
 Seals have been mailed out to regular contributors of the associa- tion and with the assistance of the woman's committee and schools a sum sufficient for carrying on this splendid work in Jefferson county is expected to be raised during the week." Mrs. Pearce said, "and we are depending upon the cordial co-opera- tion of the citizens of this splendid community to help us in this respect also. More than 500 deaths occur in lJefferson county every year from a very conservative estimate; for every death, 10 others become infected.