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Show LIFE SUVtO STAMPS HELP FUSE VICTIMS Each "Mercy" Sticker Purchased for Three Cents Provides Food for One Day for a Chinese. Sales of "Life Saving Stamps" by the American Committee for China Famine Fund for the benefit of China famine victims have reached a total of thousands of dollars at the end of the first month, and already the money Is actually saving lives In China. Orders Or-ders during the first month aggregated more than -10.tlttO.000 stamps, which will mean-at the rate of 3 cents for ! each stamp - S':'00.0o0 for the Chinese when the complete returns have been made. The stamps are intended to secure se-cure a multitude of small contributions contribu-tions from persons who will not have an opportunity to contribute In other" ways. The campaign for China Is the greatest single philanthropic effort j now before the American people. F.very slate In the Union Is now eo- operat tig In the life saving stamp stiles, and special committees are lit work in more than 2.000 cities throughout through-out the country. The circulation ot the stamps Is being effected by sales organizal ions composed of officers ot the Woman's Foreign Miss onnry Societies, So-cieties, assisted by commercial organizations, organi-zations, schools, churches, Boy and ' Girl Scout Camps, Y. M. and Y. W. Christian Associations, fraternal lodges, hotel assoc ations, boards of education and other volunteers Interested Inter-ested in the movement to exlend a helping hand to a sister republic In dls- tress. House to bouse canvassing for the sale of the stumps which an" intended to be placed on the backs of letters nnd packages has proved the imi't i'ffj - . five method in the smaller eommi ' ties. In the big cities the stamps In been sold to business houses, wh are uslm' then) on their outgoing n and packages. A nominal quota t stamps for every adult, has been set the comtn'tlee, but it) many ecu this already bus been passed. If ; able to obtain stamps through a lo committee write China Famine I' " ill ' I Committee, Bible House, New York. |