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Show SAVINGS BOND DRIVE Replicas of Liberty Bell T0l Nation During Bond Campo Few historic relics have a greater romantic or , peal to the people of this country than the Liberty firfi" lie 1950 Savings Bond drive now underway. eiH None, certainly, could tell so completely the ston, winning its independence if it could speak. If it could": Croat men who touched it and their thoughts, or of it. ures, a new history of the United States would be rev1 In 1751 the assembly of the colony of PennsylVaJ a committee, headed by Isaac Norns, speaker of th. 7. 1 chase a bell to be put in the state house. After due consideration and debate, de-bate, the committee commissioned a bell that was cast in London in 17,r)2 and had it brought to Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. It was recast the following follow-ing year when the inscription, "proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof," was placed on it. Then on July 8, 1776, 23 years after it was cast, it pealed the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Inde-pendence. The next year the British Brit-ish took it from the tower of Independence Inde-pendence Hall and threw it in the Delaware river. But it was recovered re-covered and rung on July 4 every year until the day it cracked. That is the bell which is the symbol of the 1950 Savings Bonds Independence Drive. The theme: "Save for your independence buy U. S. savings bonds." Silent for 69 Years On May 15 the drive got underway under-way with Secretary of the Treas- to the mayor of have the bell sent to "i Pacific exposition. ' Symbol of Freedom There and on its jour: to and from the Golde-estimated Golde-estimated 17,000,000 turned out to see fte New Year's, 1926, struck 18 times with tipped gold mallet to s-new s-new year, it has not be' directly, nor is it likeln ury Jonn w. snyaer symDonuauy tapping the bell. The drive opened with a nation-wide radio program carried by 2,000 stations and featuring fea-turing stars of stage and screen. Television stations on networks lined with Philadelphia and New York carried the program direct from those places. A record number num-ber of people heard the broadcasts and saw the television show. Rut the most dramatic moment mo-ment of the show was when Secretary Snyder gently tapped the cracked, old bell that symbolizes sym-bolizes liberty for the people of this country. Why did he just tap the bell? Therein lies another story of interest to every ev-ery American. The last time the Liberty Bell really rang was on Washington's birthday, 1846. The original crack, that had appeared when the bell was being tolled in mourning for Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 had been drilled out in 1846 A trip across a cor.; voice of sorrow and stolen and cast Into i first to proclaim freed:-is freed:-is but a part of Its his:: continues to serve Its c: day it is the symbol teL cans to purchase savkg; insure their freedom pendence. Fifty-two replicas ol have been donated to tngs bond cause and on tour of the com bells, one for each s, for the District of C and one each for Ala wail and Puerto Rico act copies of the orid crack is Indicated on face; the bells ring harmonically tuned. The tour of the rep).: will end July 4, will s lions of Americans, w5; er seen the original beL never get to Philadelph.i to inspect an exact c: most hallowed of our b ics. Since its return tor. Francisco exposition it bell has not been allow -Philadelphia. Since C: 1917, when it was the ;! tion in Philadelphia's !. loan parade during the ! War, it has not even leS in Independence Hall, S the danger of further ci the historic relic. a " " 34 .. & W in Jbaal I Bennie Ray Wagner, Jr., 6, Is the son of a war hero. His father, Tfc. Bennie Ray Wagner, Wag-ner, was killed In action on Luzon, March 15, 1945. Here he displays the government bonds he has purchased each month with a government allotment check. He is well on the way to independence, his guardian sas, with Savings Bonds amounting to $1,000. so that the edges would not vibrate against each other. The bell rang clear until almost noon in honor of the father of his country, when the crack spread and the ringing changed to a hoarse rumble- That was the last time anyone heard the true voice of the original Liberty Bell. ' Made in France On the last journey i six-armed iron spider m to the clapper bolt crown, with arms hoc the lip of the bell to dist strain of its weight, 2!: more evenly. The bells now on tour tion were made at the ! the Sons of George F Annecy-le-Vieux in Arthur L. Bigelow, F engineering and be" Princeton university, measurements and dra I which the new bells we: j Andrew J. Dunn, direr I labor section of the U 1 I bonds division in Wasto its liaison officer with to Federation of Labor, France to expedite the ! and shipment of the lie-country. lie-country. To symbolize for " Americans the Idea which Is essential to dence, the replic" visited 2,000 commuoii ing the nation-wide tow Authorities report the cause of the painstaking production, sound exact- Liberty Bell would if 11 rung. They attributed t-fact t-fact the bells are of the position as the origin3; per cent copper, and tha. struction gives the sam Millions of Americans to the sound that the ; Philadelphia hearf . original bell ProC 31 , i "throughout all the W the inhabitants there At the conclusion drive on July 4. the the treasury will ' each state and territory nent exhibit. in 192G, to usher In the sesqui-centonm.il sesqui-centonm.il year of American independence, inde-pendence, the wife of Philadelphia's mayor tapped out 1-9-2-6. The ceremony cere-mony was broadcast, but radio could only reach about half the nation na-tion 24 years ago. The shattered rumble of the cracked relic has been heard by radio only once since then: on D-ay' D-ay' June 6. to signal the in vasion of the continent of Europe by American and allied forces in another way for freedom - and then a recording of its sound made on New Year's, 1926. was used On February H. i9lg the beU silence of nearly 69 years was broken to signal the linking of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts by long stance telephone. Three times it n mblec hoarsely over the wire to that rn , T 10 the c"versation that followed, the mayor of San franctsco made a personal plea I |