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Show I The Red Cross and the Tuberculosis Campaign (Weekly Health Talk No. 40) (Frank W. LeCloro, Utah Pub-, 11c Health Association) . The Red Cross is conducting a Ricat fight on tuberculosis throughout the nation. Every itcd Cross Chapter has received a Utter from the national head-quart head-quart of the Red Cross urging their full co-operation with the anti - tuberculosis organizations and explaining the relations between be-tween these organizations and the Red Cross. This anti-tuberculosis work of the Red Cross is carried on through the National Tuberculosis Tuber-culosis Association and its affiliated affiliat-ed organizations, in t in state the Utah Public Health Association. The tuberculosis societies arc supported largely by the Red Cross Christmas Seals. These seals were first published by the Red Cross in 1908. They originated originat-ed with Miss Emily P. Bissoll, a nurse of Wilmington, Delaware. The Red Cross agreed to furnish the seals and give the cause its I moral oacKing arm general supervision super-vision but delegated the management manage-ment of the sales and the expenditure expendi-ture of, tiic proceeds to the Na-- Na-- tlonal Tuberculosis Association and its affiliated state and local .societies. The Red Cross, how ever, defines the uses to which this money shall b put and animal an-imal reports arc made to it by the various bodies, showing how this mniiey is expended and what is being accomplished. A snall percentage per-centage of all the proceeds is paid into the treasury of the Red Cross. i Since the Red Cross Seals first appeared in 1008, more than five million dollars have been raised by their sale and devoted to this great work. Last year more than one million dollars was realized. This year the slogan adopted by the Red Cross and the Tuberculosis Tubercu-losis Societies is, "You must buy three times as many this ycar(be-cause ycar(be-cause war increases tuberculosis." Every Chapter and every member is urged by National headquarters headquart-ers to help make this slogan an accomplished fact. With such a fund a magnificent drive against man's most dreaded enemy, the white plague, will be possible. |