Show The sale of Christmas seals inthe in inthe inthe the United States was a success from the start However it took some time for the public to become conscious enough of the great work for which the seal was instituted Early purchasers were mostly made by those whose friends or relatives had been stricken with tuberculosis Leigh M. M Hodges then a columnist columnist col col- col- col mist un-mist for a Philadelphia newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper helped publicize the first sale In 1907 when he wa watched a Philly newsboy purchase one of the first seals with these words Gime one Me sisters sister's got it Hodges wrote That settled it If It a street boy could get the message the message is the kind we need For 44 years Christmas Seals h have a v e successfully carried the message to America that tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis tuber tuber- 1 can be wiped out if we fight it together together together-by by purchasing Christmas s Seals |