| Show BULLETS FOR HEALTH li in europe they are expending millions of bullets made of metal for destroying human lives in this country we are using a different kind of bullet to save life about of these bullets have been sold and used during the past eight years this year it is expected that will be sold to be used in this war to save what are these bullets simply the red cross christmas seals what is this war to save life the war against tuberculosis and other preventable and curable diseases how do these bullets save life by educating people to the fact that tuberculosis can be prevented and cured by furnishing money to support the organized work to this end then the story of the red cross seals is is interesting nine years ago miss emily P bissell of wilmington delaware read in a magazine an article by jacob riis which told how charity stamps were sold in norway to raise money to fight tuber culo sis it looked to her like a good idea so she had some stamps printed and sold them in wilmington the result was 06 00 in clear moneys money and great public interest in the W work 0 she then suggested to the American red cross that they take up the idea on a national scale the sale and use of these seals has increased by leaps and bounds last year over were sold by the national stats and local associations the cost of selling these is very r kiil 1111 this means that about from this source wat was devoted to this health work thus many lives have been caved and much suffering prevented by these effective little bullets the merry red and green christmas stickers buy them end use them on on the backs of veur your letters and christmas parcels each seal that you buy is a bullet for health FRANK W LE LB CLERE executive secretary utah public health association |
