Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-04

night the sales in one or two dollar
amounts, including advance sales to
business firms, had reached a total of
about $1,000
Requests for more seals came in yes
terday from the patients at the Tuber-
culosis Hospital. who had been organ
lzed In teams for the different wards
10 carry on the sale of seals as in for
mer years. They have now taken over
$4,000 seals, indicating a purpose to ex-
coed their goal of $500 Requests for
seals have already come in from many
private schools.
Discontinue school Sales
But the association is keenly alive
this year to the absence of the public
schools in its usual seal sale campaign,
and the directors realize that extraor-
binary efforts must be made in other
directions to make up for this loss. The
officers of the association are assured by
the public school authorities that the dis
continuance of the sa lie of the esals in
the schools is not due to any lack of
interest on the part of the school board
superintendent and teachers This
change of policy is due to the opposition
of some of the citizens associations on
the ground that the selling Of seals by
the children violated the standing rule
of the board against charitable collec-
tions.
The board itself did not so interpret
this rule, but in view of this organ
lied opposition, 1t did not feel in
cllned to continue the school sales.
Last year the public schools in this
way brought into the treasury of the
tuberculosis Association S7,905.92,
but in return the association eX-
pended for its various kinds of health
work for the benefit of school chill
dren Sl4,750.09. This money was used
to provide lunches in the open-air
classes for underweight children az
the Blake and Stevens schools; addi-
tional workers at the two schools for
tuberculous children. the Harrison
and the Hamilton; a Summer night
and day camp for tuberculous chill
dren, and number of nutrition
clinics in various public schools, with
provision for a director and three
teachers, besides various materials
and supplies.
Hope to Make Up Deficit.
Consequently the associations di-
rectors hope that the parents of the
children, and especially the members
OF the citizens associations who have
protested against the school sales,
will themselves come forward with q
generous purchase of the seals to off
Set the sales of the seals BY the chill
dren.
The National tuberculosis Associa-
ton has just issued a statement con-
corning the rank Of different States
and cities throughout the country as
to the total sale of seals in proper
tion to population. The city Of Wash
ington is credited with rs seals per
capita, which brings it second among
the State and city associations selling
Christmas seals. In 1921 Washington
stood thirteenth in this list, and in
1922 II had risen TO fourth place New
York State, outside of New York City
and Brooklyn, heads the list with SS
per capita.
The Moving Picture Theater Mana
gers Association has now joined in the
health campaign sponsored by the Tu
berculoSis Association by showing on the
screens of their theaters a comic
trailer in which a sidewalk splitter is
arrested and hauled off to prison in
police patrol wagon, after which
two magic workers build q monu-
ment of stones labeled with different
health habits, after which the monu-
ment changes into living picture of
the 1924 Christmas seal girl holding
aloft her torch of enlightenment
At the Cranch School Yesterday aft
ernoon the teachers of the intermedi-
ate grades of the seventh district
We're called togther by Supervising
Principal Johnson to hear addresses
by Mrs. Ernest r. Grant, director of
nutrition work for the tuberculosis
Association, and DIR. Joseph A. Muir
ply, director of medical inspection in
the public schools