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Show I "We Shall Be Healed" I i j By Victor Croley : f 111 flBI f i herry -Christmas y 1 I ill J Wistful and still, on porches, row on row, ' J We wait and hope and watch life hurry past; ? And it is one with us when shadows fall, V . i And all the same when morning comes at last. & We know the prize of patience and of rest, i . & We know that only thus it victory won; i & But we are young, and driven by the fires f Of work to do before our webs are spun. . . . i V We calm our hearts; we know His way is best, y 1 J And faith becomes an all-protecting shield; i1 ' J For each of us another dawn will break y j Someday we shall be, will be healed. EDITOR'S NOTE: This poem was written expressly for the Christmas. R Seal sale by Victor Croley. who was (.onflned to bed with tuberculosis Toi & ? six years. '"After a liali-slarved and neglected childhood, 1 went to work J at the ripe age of twelve," he writes. "1 was tortured by envy of others ft i happiness and the ambition to become rich enough to have a vacation. J so that after working beyond my strength ull day I spent half the night i In public libraries and at nighl schools. I was kicked nut because I ! w couldn't stay awake." c At one time he got a Job singing in a cheap movie show so he could gt ? to high school during the day. When he was eighteen years old he ft p weighed under luu pounds, and had already entered a promising career i Q as an advertising writer in New York City. Two years later he was w f discovered to have a far advanced case of tuberculosis. Today, thank to modern sanatorium technique, he weighs 1-10 pounds, feels better than f ever before, and is looking forward to a second and happier start in life, f y "My case should be a warning to everyone who does not know enough f to take care of himself," says Mr. Croley. "Why cannot young people y be taught the need of good health habits as a protection against tuber- if culosis? I hate to thinit tha: anyone else should have to go through whal c y 1 have suffered because he did not know." X. For twenty-five years Christmas Seals have been trying to prevent ? Y just such cases as Mr. Croley's by teaching the facts he learned through J bitter experience and has outlined so concisely in his last two sentences |