Show I Ring Ring in Health I With Chi Christ 1 s' s Seals I d anyone anone could be ba bea baa In the oWen olden days Y a bell a citizen had to for or the privilege if he abused pay par In All the honor he be had to pay a An Saints' Saints Church at Hastings England Elgland these words may still be seen This ThU U is a belfry that Is 13 free For all those that civil be be And If you please to chime er ring t It Is a very pleasant thing ua All through history his his' I tory tort a since I nee th the century which was wu the golden age of bells chimes have havo called out to people people peo peo- pie their cheerful messages usually telling a story tory For example with ray 19 1929 9 the passing of the tha theCA CA tt S Sf old year the bells were tolled In sadness then theu when midnight had struck the merry peals peaU clanged forth their welcome to the Invention 11 of the new year Before DeCore 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 vic- victory 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 la is reality an Inverted bell boll It Is equally fitting that on the gay little Christmas seal for 1029 1929 a bellringer bell bellringer bellringer ringer should be portrayed tugging at ata ata ata a heavy bell announcing once again to the nation that further victorious advances have been made against the tha enemy tuberculosis year the tha seal brings its message of health at atthe atthe atthe the Christmas season to remind people people peo pen pie that sickness can be prevented pre Although the stamps are now well known they originated In a modest manner o only n 1 y twenty five years agi as the invention of a Danish po postal s t a I clerk who devised devis devie ed them to raise money for a tu tu- l lIlT I T TM roe First Firs A G. G CAI G s ma may mae y e TIo Th first Firs O C S Sad Sitt hospital for the children of ol Copenhagen Miss Emily P P. P BIssell of Wilmington Delaware was the god godS godmother godmother mother of the Christmas seal In this country She also abo vas eras seeking for a method to raise money for a tuberculosis tuberculosis I losis Institution In her state and in I 1907 found the solution to her problem i In a magazine article describing the Danish seal and Its Us successful mis mis- I elon sion Through her effort a a. a fund a-fund fund fun of ot was raised and the project I begun The following year the first firs I I wide nation sale of tuberculosis Christmas Christ Christ- Christma mas ma seals was undertaken and women's wom worn I ena ens clubs religious bodies bailie and and business I groups gave their support to this cheer cheer- f ful ul method of raising raising- I money In 1910 the I then young National i Tuberculosis Association I atlon took over the tha I Isale sale of the seals and j has baa directed It ever since Th The seals therefore should be called tuberculosis Christmas seals Thanks to the tiny seal state after i state has bas been organized to attack I tuberculosis with a scientific c program i Together led by the national body they have brought Into existence existence- 1 much of the present day community machinery that combats tuberculosis 1 Through the intensive educational work made possible by the Christmas Christina I seal health laws have been passed and are being enforced tuberculosis specialists and nurses reach the mos most I remote country districts printed matter mat ter on disease prevention is to circulated I ed In la schools homes and factories and there Is an n active public Interest In control among civic political po po- commercial social and religious groups This year again the seal carries It Its message of health throughout the country giving everyone a chance to be a bell ringer er as in olden days days days-a a of the tho Important tidings tiding that health Is the best Insurance to for happiness and that tuberculosis may be cured If it discovered In iii time And a as millions of letters letten and antI packages decorated decorated decorated deco deco- rated with Christmas seals travel trave from one end of the tha country to the tha theother theother other during December they will wil spread the messa message e Ring in a year yea of health with Christmas seals |