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Show SALE OF CHRISTMAS SEALS OPENS DEC. 1 Army of Volunteer Salespeople Await Call to Their Posts in Nearly Every City and Town in tha Country. $6,500,000 IS THE GOAL Fund Needed to Meet Expenaea of the National Tuberculoeii Association and Ita Allied 8ooietiea During Dur-ing 1920 Educational and Preventive Campaign The 1919 sale of Red Cross Christ mas Seals will begin on the first day of December. With the opening of buataass oa Uit day an army of volunteer vol-unteer italnspeople will sound "Buy Red Cross Christmas Seals! "--the call to arms In the war of extermination Hkidnst tuberculosis. The sale will extend through December 10th. 'I 1 1 - annual Red Cross Christmas Seal sale provides the chief Income of the National Tuberculosis Association Asso-ciation and its one thousand afllllat ed associations which are In the very forefront of anti tuberculosis organi .atlons The 1920 programme of the allied organizations calls for greatly ncreased activities. To meet thin xtension of effort a combined bud ;et of more than S6.k00.000 la re-nilred re-nilred and with this goal In view the intensive sales appeals will be made A recent hnalth survey resulted '.n tartling disclosures I'nMi the sur-ej sur-ej tuberculosis experts were, to a large degree, In the dark as to the real extent of the ravages of the dls- 'ise In this country. Ail doubt on this point ens been cleared up and the estimated total of active cases Is placed above the 1,000.000 mark. To search out every caae of tuberculosis In the country Is the ultimate aim of the National Tuberculosis Associa Uon and its allies. Tennis :ire being formed In ecry community, Business men ure fonn sales organizations and similar bodies ure being organl-ed by former sertee men. |