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
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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.
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167 East Main Street Ashland, Oregon
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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
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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."
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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!
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