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Show ; RED CROSS SEALS IN POST OFFICES. I On the opening of the sale of Red Cross Seals next Thursday permission to sell these Christmas stickers in every post office i in the United States has been granted to the agents selling seals, according to an official announcement made from Red Cross Seal Headquarters this morning. In a letter to Charles L Magee, secretary of the American Red Cross, the Treasury Department gives directions to the custodians of all post office buildings throughout the country to comply with requests of local agents who wish to sell seals in the lobbies of these buildings, not only for the coming Christmas holidays, but every year until the Department shall direct otherwise. The order says : . ' "The Department is in receipt of a communication from Mr. Charles L. Magee, Secretary of the American Red Cross?- to the effect that nearly the whole territory of the United States is covered by their arrangements for the sale of Christmas Seals during the coming Christmas holidaj's. "In line with the request of the American Red Cross, you are hereby authorized, in case application is made by a representative of that association, to permit the sale of Christmas seals in the corridors of the building in your custody, not only during the coming Christmos holidays, but during those to follow each year unless you are directed to the contrar'." The post office department has also approved of the Red Cross Seal design. Thus official sanction of two government departments has been given to the Red Cross Seal movement against tuberculosis. tubercu-losis. An effort will be made to sell 100,000,000 seals this year, and an army of practically 50,000 paid and volunteer workers will cover the entire country. |