36 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



the National Tuberculosis Association and the American Red 

 Cross continued their plan of cooperation in the sale of the Red 

 Cross Christmas Seals. There was only one break in the suc- 

 cession of Christmas Seal Sales, this being in 1918. In the sum- 

 mer of 1918, before the armistice was signed, when the Red Cross 

 was planning for the continuation of its work with the army 

 abroad and at home, it entered into negotiations with the Na- 

 tional Tuberculosis Association whereby the Tuberculosis Asso- 

 ciation agreed to discontinue its plans for a Red Cross Christmas 

 Seal Sale in December. In lieu of this sale, and in order to per- 

 petuate the work carried on under the National Tuberculosis 

 Association and its affiliated agencies, the Red Cross made a 

 direct appropriation of $2,500,000 to the National Association 

 for distribution to its allied agencies. In the spring of 1919 the 

 Red Cross, having entered upon its peace-time program, notified 

 the National Tuberculosis Association that in order to avoid 

 confusion and in order to concentrate its own work more fully, 

 it would be compelled to withdraw its name and emblem from 

 the Red Cross Christmas Seal after the sale of 1919. This was 

 done. Consequently, in the fall of 1919 and the spring of 1920 

 the National Tuberculosis Association began plans for the con- 

 duct of a seal sale in December, 1920, featuring the double- 

 barred cross and omitting, for the first time since the inaugura- 

 tion of the seal in 1908, the Red Cross emblem. The success of 

 this sale, which reached nearly $4,000,000, clearly proved the 

 wisdom and possibilities of the new plan. (See Chapter VI.) 



The second problem, that of providing programs and stimu- 

 lating local effort, was a somewhat more difficult one. This was 

 particularly true in the early days of the movement, when funds 

 for the National Association were hard to secure. Thanks, how- 

 ever, to the generous cooperation of the Russell Sage Foundation 

 in standing by the Association during this crucial developmental 

 period, field and other educational service was provided, and 

 gradually the National Association began to standardize pro- 

 grams and methods of work. This standardization has steadily 

 progressed until at the present time the machinery for this pur- 

 pose is the most extensive part of the Association's equipment. 



The third problem, that of organization, was one which went 



