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Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, December 5, 1946 SOUTHERN OREGON 1907. After a lew days the progress report, however, was not en couragng. The sale was going badly and Christmas was two weeks away! NEWS R EVIEW Monument« and marker». Set Horn« Memorial». On the Plata. Elizabethan Chorus Started at SOC W ulluce Sapp, m usic ln s tiu c to i Precision tnn»'n»<*red at S o u th e rn O regon C ollege, an l'hen Mis ss Bissell went to Philadelphia to see the editors of th TRANCI nounces th a t plans fo r a c h o ra l North American, the city ’s leading newspaper, lo r some time this g ro u p w h ic h w ill specialize in the NEW paper had been trying to stir up people to "do something" aboift tub m ad rig als and fo lk tunes o f tin erculosis. She decided to stop by a columnist’s desk, "just to see what E lizab e tha n period are undei w ay. M em bers o f the g ro u p w ill an optimist looks like, she explained to the writer of "The O ptimist” lie chosen fro m the college c h o li BIKE MOTOR column. Could he do anything for her? No, she had come to ask a and w ill inclu de tow nspeople of favor of the Sunday editor. 1 he "Optimist” inquired about the favor A shland. . acto ». mici T he singers p la n to he dressed and they showed him the Christinas Seal I matching it . . he’d be back In costum es o f S hakespeare’s day in a minute . . . he took the stairs two at a time and arrived out of and w ill present th e ir p ro gram breath at the office ot Editor E. A. YanValkenburg to shout: "Here’s w h ile seated in fo rm a lly about tile stage. P la n n in g to m ake th e ir a way to wipe out tuberculosis!" o w n costumes, the c h o ra l mem hers discovered th a t needed m at lhe scene in that editorial office was one of those which seldom e ria ls were p ra c tic a lly n o n -e x happen but when they do occur the result makes history. Editor Van- is te n t. F or Hits reason, th ey are Valkenburg caught the enthusiasm of the Optimist. "It’s the human c o n sid e rin g la u n ch in g an "o ld PUTS WINGS ON YOUR BIKE c lo th e s " d riv e in an e ffo rt to fin d interest story of 1907," he ‘told his men. "Play it up. Use it oil on the a p p ro p ria te fabrics. J sc it A m a z in g . new . d r i* » v !<»•!< d«wx to- i I im h l i t a t i * * » » ' U S trouble i«r< front pages. Buv 50,000 Seals. Give Emily Bissell the new spa per for M r. S iipp also stilte d .that "The mtlra i * i «'f « • • • S 10 ii'ilw E liza b e th a n chorus w ill he used l* r hour In ata lU r«»ilv <»n any l»«l the holidays.” C o n lire«! lube Sc» You« N «w W lu a rtr th is sum m er In the S hakespear M o t « T O D A Y at A lew weeks later Miss Bissell telephoned the North American to ian F e s tiv a l w h ic h is an a nn ua l A s h la n d e v e n t." A series o f tours say: It seems impossible but we have just counted up and find that to n e ig h b o rin g schools is also *’c have raised $3000. Americans had given ten times the suota set under co nside ratio n 343 E. M ain — Ashland. Ore. Published every Thursday by THE SISKIYOU PUBLISHING COMPANY 167 East Main Street Ashland, Oregon "¡M t** Carryl H. Wines and Wendell D. Lawrence, Publishers WENDELL LA WHENCE, Editor Entered as second-class mail matter in the post office at Ash land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress oí March 3, 1879. The Story of the Christmas Seal The Christmas Seal was born in Denmark . . the birthplace, too, ot the tender fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. It was a busy afternoon just before Christmas in 1905 and holiday letters and packages were pouring in to the post office in Copenhagen. Einar Holboell, postal clerk, expertly handled the mail, lovingly sort ed it and sent it on to its happy destination. Line all Danes he knew the Andersen tales and he thrilled to the task of spreading joy to boys and girls and grown-ups in his beloved Denmark. As he worked he pondered on an idea which was destined for a great future. Why, he thought, wouldn’t it be a good idea if each letter or pack age earned another penny stamp the sale of which would swell a fund to build hospitals for children. There are so many children, he mused, for the C hristmas Seal Sale. U N IT E D S T A T E S D E P A R T and so many who are ill. It would cost each giver so little to share in | Thf fjrst nMton. wldc chrijtm as Seal Sale was in „ 0 8 and netted MENT OF T H E INTERIOR, giving this great gift to those sad little people. Everybody could help. The stamps could be bright and cherry and everyone who bought them or who received them on their Chriitmas mail would be made happier. He liked the thought and he smiled as he worked. He just had to tell someone and so the word got around and before long the post office hummed with talk about the Christmas stamps, he clerks could not resist telling the stamp customers and with so many people hearing , $ j < OOQ HowjrJ about it something was bound to happen. The idea was soon presented to King Christian who immediately warmed to the thought. N ot only should Holboell’s idea be tried but the King himself would authorize the Seal and it should bear the like ness of his beloved Queen. More than 4,000,000 Seals were sold in the Copenhagen post office that year of the first Seal Sale, which opened B U R E A U t)E L A N D M A N A G E M EN T, D is tric t Land O f f ic e , Roseburg, Oregon, N ovem bei 13. dejjgned has been designed by some well-known artist and the sale conducted 1946 i by the tuberculosis associations of the United States. Receipts from N otice is hereby g ive n that the sale have gone up year by year. In 1944 close to $15,000,000 was Jackson C o u n ty, M ed ford , O re gon, file d exchange a p p lic a tio n . raised. In 1904, the y®ar after Holboell proposed his novel idea, the N at ional Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis (now the National Tuberculosis Association) was organized in Atlantic I itv, by a group of doctors and laymen. The stated objectives of the organ ization were: To study tuberculosis in all its forms; to spread know ledge as to its causes, treatment and prevention. Roseburg 022908, on June 29. 1944, under the A it ot J u ly 31. 1939 (53 Stat. 1144). fo r the N W 'i S E 'i, Sec. 23, N 'z S E 'a , Sec. 27, T 33 S „ IL I E . N W G S W 'i. Sec. 11, S E 'iN E G , N 'z S E 'i and S E G S E 'a , Sec. 17, T. 33 S , R. 2 E., W. M., Oregon, c o n ta in in g 320 acres, in exchange fo r lhe S E 'i, Sec. 6. S W 'i N E 'i . W ' i , W'-a S E G . S E 'iS E 'a , Sec. 1«, T. 40 S., IL 2 W „ W. M , O regon c o n ta in in g 640 acres. T h is notice Is fo r the purpose o f a llo w in g a ll persons h a v in g bona fid e o b je c t ions to the proposed exchange an o p p o rtu n ity to file th e ir o b je c t ions in th is o ffic e w ith in 45 days fro m the date o f fir s t p u b lic a tio n , to ge th er w ith evidence th a t a copy th e re o f has been served on the a p p lic a n t. R ichard M c E lllg o tt, , A c tin g M anager, F u s t p u b lic a tio n N o v im h e r 28, 1948 11 28 4t During the first years the National Tuberculosis Association coop erated with the American Red Cross in carryng on the Seal Sale and until 1919 the Seal carried the symbol of the Red Cross. In 1919. there first appeared the double-barred cross, an adaptation of the Lorraine Cross, which is the official emblem of the tuberculosis as sociations. Since that time it has appeared on all Christmas Seals. Tub erculosis associations are carrying on work in all the States and in the originated. 1 Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, Puerto Rco and the Philippines. Of He lived to see the idea travel round the world with Christmas Seals contributions made, 95 per cent remains in the State where it is col sold in Austria, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Frence-lndo- lected to aid in tuberculosis control work: 5 per cent goes to the N at China, Finland .Sweden, France, Italy, England, India, Korea, all the ional Tuberculosis Association, which carries on a medical research itates of the United states. . . . 45 countries had used Christmas Seals program and aids in many ways with the work in the various states. _ by 1927. Mexico was added to the list in 194} when it held Its first The "miracle” which people of 1907 thought was the only way to Seal Sale. The idea, born in Denmark, was supplying funds all over conquer tuberculosis has not yet been discovered. Bift the national death rate from the disease has been beaten down from 174 per 100,000 the world to carry on the fight against tuberculosis. In 1904 the Danish Christmas Seals were appearing on letters to population in 1907 to 43 per 100,000 in 1943. "Knowledge is power," people in America. One of these caught the attention of Jacob Riis. and as the people of America have come to know that tuberculosis is In the July, 1907, issue of The Outlook. Riis published an article curable, preventable and can be conquered, so nearer and nearer is December 6, 1904. Einar Holboell died in 1927, but he lived to see a tuberculosis sana torium, bigger and finer than anything he had dreamed, three Christ mas Stamp Homes for boys and girls, a children’s sanatorium in Green land, and the establishment of several "funds’ for war sufferers and hungry youngsters, all made possible by the Christmas Seal he had matter. It is because they do not know a few very simple things that people die of tuberculosis." On the Curve — Ashland, Oregon 7:00 p.m. Each Wednesday Phone 2-1496 1180 Oak S t F. K. M cC U T C H E O N I».. iper Hanging Signs 245 4th St A sh la n d Phone 4561 FRAZIER R i m . E stati B rok is ez HUFFMAN'S 144 E. M a in Phone 21101 GIFT ITEMS General Electric Travel Electric Irons Alarm Clocks PLAZA GROCERY Electric Clocks Hot Pads We Feature Sunshine Krispy Crackers On that idea the people’s war against tuberculosis" is based. But, in 1907, most people who read the Riis article thought the problem much too great to be affected by so small a thing as a penny stamp. It s a good story, they said, "but so are other stories of heroic but futile effort.” That year, tuberculosis killed 156,000 people in America. "How can this killer be stopped except by a miracle?” people asked. A panny stamp was far from a miracle. Late in the Autumn of 1907 .Emily Bissell, a young public health worker in Wilmington, Delaware, became concerned about the fate of a little sanatorium on the Brandywine River. She was Void it would have to close because there were no funds to keep it open. the first Christmas Seal Sale in America was under way December 16, SALE TA K E S PLACE AT Ben Hur Imported Spice Assortment plus A taste tempting booklet on "Spices and How to Use Them' all for only $1.19 letters, only of course she must tell folks the stamps would not carry mail. It was the printers, the postal clerks and the people who could only buy a few pennies worth of Seals who gave impetus to the first Christmas Seal Sale in America. The printer turned out 50,000 of the stamps and Emily Bissell ant her friends began making the rounds to encourage the sale. People in Delaware began to hear about tuberculosis. A Christmas Seal table was set up in the Wilmington post office and HERSHEY’S AUCTION With a store full of hard-to-get FOR A TASTY CHRISTMAS GIFT The article stressed one point which has become the keynote of the work of tuberculosis associations in America. Riis said: The Christmas Stamps should be sold . . not for the purpose of building a hospital . . . let each state or town build its own . . but for the purpose of rousing up and educating people on this most important It must not close," she insisted, "I will do something!” But the people of Delaware who could have helped her were not interested. "It only needs $300, she repeated overe and over, and the reply was always the same: "Better use the money for something less hopeless. You can’t cure those people.” In her blackest moment, Emily Bissell recalled the Jacob Riis article. The penny stamp was the answer to her problem! She sat down imme diately and sketched the design of America’s first Christmas Seal . wreath of holly with the words "Merry Christmas” in the circle. N ext day when she tried to interest her friends, she faced the wall of indifference to the project. Right then the idea which has persisted all these years was epitomized in Delaware, for it was the "little people” who helped Emily Bissell. The printer, to whom she took the design agreed to print the stamps and wait for his pay. The postmast er and the postal clerks said she might sefl her stamps to be put on 0. R. Edwards .. « "The Christmas Stamp,” urging the adoption of the idea in America the 'time when it will be conquered. as a means of "setting everybody thinking of a great wrong that can —From a booklet of the same title, published by the Oregon Tubercul osis Association, Portland, Oregon. be righted through everybody’s thinking of it.” He wrote: "Nothing in all the world is better proven today than that tuberculosis is a preventable disease and therefore needless. . . "Perhaps I feel strongly about it and no wonder. It killed six of my brothers and I guess I know! 97: SIMPSON’S HARDWARE A sh lan d FOR FARM BUILDINGS On The Plaza N ew farm buildings or improvements on exist ing facilities will increase the value of your farm. Greater efficiency and expanded opera tions mean bigger profits. You are entitled to those profits. This bank is anxious to assist you along the road to better farm living. See us about a farm loan. Your needs will receive prompt, sympa thetic, and friendly attention. ASHLAND BRANCH FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND M a n b tr P » 4 » rs l D . p o .it In .u r o n c . C o r p o r a tio n IF SHE’S AN ANGEL she's entitled to a heavenly gtft.j We have a huge selection of J "out-of-thls-world” gifts! HAYNES JEWELRY ssissisisisisigisisisiaisisiasisisisiststsi'
