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Show remote 'country districts; "printed "matter "mat-ter on disease prevention is circulated circulat-ed in schools, homes and factories, and there is an active public Interest in tuberculosis control among civic, political, po-litical, commercial, social and religious groups. This year again the seal carries Its message of health throughout the country, giving everyone a chance to be a bell ringer as in olden days a nroclalmer of the ImDortant tidincs that health is the best Insurance for ' happiness and that tuberculosis may be cured if discovered In time. And as millions ot letters and packages decorated deco-rated with Christmas seals travel from one end of the country to the other during December they will spread the message, "Ring in a year of health 'with Christmas seals." , Ince. The seals therefore snoliia be called tuberculosis Christmas seals. Thanks to the tiny seal, state after state has been organized to attack tuberculosis with a scientific program. Together, led by the national body, they have brought into existence much of the present-day community machinery that combats tuberculosis. Through the Intensive educational work made possible by the Christmas seal, health laws have been passed and are being enforced; tuberculosis , sneciilisls- and vsxz23 reai.JUie msist I Ring in Health With Christmas Seals In the olden days anyone could be a bell ringer. Sometimes a citizen had to pay for the privilege; if he abused the honor he had to pay a fin-. In All Saints' Church, at Hastings, England, these words may still be seen: "This is a belfry that Is tree For all those that civil be, And if you please to chime or ring It is a very pleasant thing." S fee HEAUH i ( Greetings i j All through his- tory since the 16th century, r which was the I golden age of 5 bells, chimes have 1 called out to peo-J peo-J pie their cheerful ) messages, usually telling a s t o ry. For xample, with the passing of the old year the bells The 1929 Christmas Seal were tolled In sadness, men, wnen midnight had struck, the merry peals ( clanged forth their welcome to the new year. Before the Invention of the newspaper the town crier focused the attention of the people by lustily clanging a bell before he shouted the important news it was his duty to spread throughout the city. Since bells have so often served to proclaim victory vic-tory It Is not surprising to find that the design of the modern cup presented present-ed as a token of victory in sport is In reality an Inverted bell. It Is equally fitting that on the gay little Christmas seal for 1929 a bell ringer should be portrayed tugging at a heavy bell, announcing once again to the nation that further victorious advances have been made against the enemy tuberculosis. Each year the seal brings its message of health at the Christmas season to remind people peo-ple that sickness can be prevented. Although the stamps are now well known, they originated in a modest manner only twenty-five years age a3 the invention of a Danish po s t a 1 clerk, who devis ed them to raise Th First money for a tu- Christmas Seal berculosis hospital for the children of Copenhagen. Miss Emily P. Bissell of Wilmington, Delaware, was the godmother god-mother of the Christmas seal In this j country. She also -'as seeking for a j method to raise money for a tubercu-' losis institution in her state and in 1907 found the solution to her problem in a magazine article describing the I Danish seal and its successful mis- ' sion. Through her efforts a fund of S3, 000 was raised and the project begun. The following year tht first nation-wide sale of tuberculosis Christmas Christ-mas seals was undertaken, and worn- ItwVjiWfcAfi en 3 ciuus, religious -? bodies and busyness S groups gave their J support to this cheer- ) ful method of raising money. In 1910 the j then young National J Tuberculosis Associ ation took over the "cnvLlw0" sa, ot the seals .nd has, djrected It ever |