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Show ; BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS ... - - J$ III lHOPE JWh&lTX HAPPINESS i$3V ;3C!ynVw ON EVERY LETTER- pi if if I Enlist Under This Banner THIS year's winner of the Pulitzer Pulit-zer prize, Charles R. Macauley, drew the above .cartoon, "Enlist Under This Banner." "He's done," they all said three years ago. "Macauley was a good man while he lasted. But he can't come back. They never do after 50." In March, 1927, Macauley entered a hospital and underwent a difficult operation op-eration for tuberculosis of the spine. For three months afterward he lay in bed, with his drawing hoard strapped up In front of him. Fighting every inch of the way, back to health. "I would not be alive today," wrote Macauley to one of his friends, "if it were not for the remarkable advances made medically and surgically in the treatment of this disease." They said he was done, but he wasn't. A few months after he came out of the hospital, Macauley was drawing a cartoon a day for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. For two years he has been turning out work as vigorous vig-orous as in the days when "T. R." were the best known initials in the world, and he drew a cartoon inventing the "Big Stick." And now, in 1930 as he nears the age of 60 years, this man who had William McKinley for a godfather god-father and mentor back in Canton, Ohio, and was supposed to be a "has-been" "has-been" wins the cherished honor coveted cov-eted by every cartoonist in America the Pulitzer prize. "Sure I'll draw a cartoon," he ald when the subject was broached. "I'm an old pal of the Christmas seal. Both of us have fought tuberculosis." |