pangled Tree OLGER McKINSEY 1 Baltimore Sun AGA GOANGY ‘ AGFA GN ver was a forest that bore ngled tree, ne that Christmas comes re everywhere to see; s set them glowing, or in land they’re growing, nd I never a I ery glad it’s true! y have green branches ike the pines that dwell ble forest of chestnuts by er) | that beauty a gradual y seems ng their swaying boughs memorial gleams. t I remember an old tale ) me— | of fairies where grows angled tree, 1 December the loving , crawl d and snowy miles— nd all songs and smiles— 1 our hall. as a forest except a fairy tree of greenwood all 1 with moon and sun, ars and candles and s and cake, 3 of the Christmastide le childhood’s sake. d I’m living where peo- so fine ter season the tree that a pine e fairy gardens all span. does this or little children with we love to kiss! l a droll Seamus Me- lich made Bozo hide mory of his vaudeville S moreish!” he ex- she had finished, and onded. “If you'll play ra piece, Ill try to ing.” They alternated t a story, then music, that even laughter one hunger much long- Il slipped to the boys iches prepared by her The boys collected from their own bags illing passengers, and mnced : mber will be Santa . His sledge is stalled iis reindeer lame, and across the snow pur- | this party.” been performing mir- noking car, now ap- bright red handker- ead, a tissue paper or’'s fur coat, with ne collar over it, and from various boxes sleeves, Then, with ter, he passed down ing a pack looking pair of wild-colored er Will Be Santa 1 Person.” ‘astened with. safety ack he dispensed to 1 containing a sand- , fruit and a few iat the crusty man thermos bottle, say- put this in my bag, I despised cocoa, so further suggestion, dren were drinking per train cups; and was finished, the out: plow’s come! Mer- hich was echoed all Newspaper Union.) THE PATTON COURIER By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HEN you buy a big sheet of Christmas seals, does it ever occur to you that there's an interesting story back of the addition of these little “scraps of paper” to the list of sym- bols of Christmas time? And do the names of Einar Hol- boell and Emily P. Bissell come to your mind when you stick one of these gayly-colored little stamps on a Christmas package and send it away to carry its message of Yuletide cheer as well as the message that you are thus helping in a great humanitarian work? If not, they should, for it is to a Danish postal clerk and an Amer- ican Red Cross worker that we owe the idea and development of the Christmas seal. Back in 1903 a man named Einar Holboell, a postal clerk in the post of- fice at Copenhagen, Denmark, was busy in the division of outgoing mail. It was Christmas week and he was literally buried in cards and letters. The faster he sorted the faster they flowed in. For a moment he paused in serious thought; then his face brightened. “These Christmas cards and letters should have an additional stamp—a benevolent stamp or seal at a small price within the reach of all. Why not call it a Christmas stamp? “Even a ‘two ore’ (about one-fourth of a cent) stamp on all these cards and letters would create a mighty sum if the plan could only be realized. Christ- mas is a time of generosity and good will, when we send a kindly thought even to those whom we neglect the whole year through. Two ore each on every greeting would mean a sum to be reckoned with—well, then, to the task!” He went with his plan to the head of the postal service and others with in- fluence and authority. And so, when the first Christmas seal committee was formed, including, among others, six representatives from the postal de- partment, the interest of the postal employees was insured from the start. In 1904 the committee met to dis- cuss the purpose and use of the pos- sible income from the Christmas seal, and it was decided that the first ob- ject was the erection of a hospital for tubercular children, and, in general, the income from the seal should al- ways be for the fight against tuber- culosis, in one form or another. Upon application to the then King Christian IX, Holboell secured the per- mission to have a likeness of the de- ceased Queen Louise on the first Christmas seal, and the king became so interested that he himself selected the picture which he wished used. Naturally, Mr. Holboell and his com- mittee felt some anxiety over the out- come of their first venture—an anx- jety which proved to be without foundation. The success was over- whelming, The first printing of 2,000,- 000 was immediately increased to 6,000,000 and over 5,000,000 were sold. Since that time a capital of 3,000,- 000 kronen has been realized, which has been used for the erection of large numbers of sanitaria and convalescent homes for tubercular patients. Hol- boell, the modest postal assistant, be- came postmaster at Charlotten Zund, near Copenhagen, and a Danish cross of Knighthood was his badge of honor. He died of heart trouble in his sixty- second year on February 23, 1927, and, ag was fitting, the Danish Christmas seal for 1927 bore the picture of Einar Holhoell, whose idea has spread over the entire world. The story of how Miss Emily P. Bis- sell’s name came to be associated with the Christmas seal was told in an ar- ticle by Leigh Mitchell Hodges which appeared in The Survey last year and which has been reproduced in pam phlet form by the National Tuberculo- sis association. His story of “The First Christmas Seal” follows: December, 1907—the World war seven years ahead, but a deadlier war at flood—tuberculosis taking one-tenth of all who died from dis- ease—folks everywhere wondering what could be done to stem the tide. Mid-morning, December 13 — a ragged, dirty newsboy walked into a Philadelphia newspaper office. Reaching up to a marble counter higher than his head, he put down a copper cent, “Gimme one, me sister’s got it.” (What he was given is the seal illustrated above directly under the letters “Ch” in the title of this ar- ticle). Noontime, December 9, 1907, in Wilmington, capital of little Dela- ware, two pretty girls in Red Cross uniforms taking their place at a table in the post office corridor, ask- ing a quarter each for little pay en- velopes thus labeled: 25 CHRISTMAS STAMPS One Penny Apiece Issued by the Delaware Red Cross, to stamp out the White Plague. Put this stamp with message bright On every Christmas letter, Help the tuberculsois fight, And make the New Year better. These stamps do not carry any kind of mail, but any kind of mail will carry them. Mid-morning, December 11, 1907, eighteenth floor of the North Amer- ican building in Philadelphia, a day member of the staff in his cubby- hole. “A lady to see you,” passing a card engraved “Miss Emily P. Bissell.” “Is she good looking?” “Sure.” “Show her in.” Enter the secretary of the Dela- ware Red Cross on unofficial busi- ness. She had come to ask a favor of the Sunday editor and thought she’d pay her respects to the col- umnist, who hoped the Sunday edi- tor had granted her wish. He had pot. She had wanted him to run a little story about this, tak- ing a sheet of stamps from her hand- bag. Delaware was worried about tuberculosis, needed a few hundred dollars to start caring for poor pa- tients. She had read Jacob Riis’ story about the Danish Christmas Stamp in the Outlook, wondered if Delaware couldn’t issue one and sell enough to build a small shelter— here it was, but she was afraid—. Downstairs went the occupant of the cubby-hole, two steps at a time, to the office of E. A. Van Valken- burg, president and editor of the. paper that had been first to dis- please the doctors by proposing pub- licity as the weapon to use against the white plague. “Here's the way to wipe out tuber- culosis,” half-shouted the man from up%tairs, as he waved the sheet of stamps under the editor’s nose! “What the hell do you mean?” A brief explanation. “Tell Miss Bissell the North American is hers from today.” “How soon can we have 50,000 of the stamps?” was asked of the lady from Delaware. She gasped and said she’d telephone from Wilming- ton that evening. “Fifty thousand,” she echoed as she left, “Isn't that too many?” Ten o'clock the morning of De- cember 13, 1907, a few thousand of the stamps, they were so-called at first, on sale in the publication office and a few more at a booth in Wana- maker’s. Also a top-of-column five- bank head on page one of the North American. Next day the whole edi- torial space devoted to a plea to buy these “bullets in the battle against the worst foe.” Next day a seven-column “spread” on page one, and on December 18, with the stamps selling by thou- sands and telegrams from many parts of the country asking about them. The presses in Wilmington couldn’t print them fast enough, so a Phila- delphia printer was enlisted. Through its Washington correspondent, the newspaper got the postmaster gen- eral’s permission to put up a booth in the Philadelphia post office lobby. From Jacob Riis, on December 19: “Good for you and for Philadelphia and the North American. Keep it up. I am glad the little seed I sowed in the Outlook last summer | has borne fruit.” Five days before Christmas the governor of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania branch of the Nation- | al Red Cross indorsed the stamp. Four days before Christmas an edi- | torial urged that “A Million Mercy Messengers” be bought by the peo- ple. Two days before Christmas “Happy New Year” was added to the stamp design, the demand hav- ing grown so. The day after Christmas more than half a mil- lion already distributed to city, state and nation, Then a flight of signed indorse- ments from Washington, President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Root, Secretary of War Taft; from Balti- | more, Cardinal Gibbons; from other | places leaders in public life, phil- anthropy and education all featured on page one. On January 8, a check for $1,013.97 | sent to Miss Bissell, the proceeds of | the North American’s part in this preface to stamping out the plague —several times the sum Delawar- eans had wanted to raise and feared they could not get. And as much more from other sources in Pennsylvania. All told, Delaware and Pennsylvania raised $3,000 from this first sale of stamps. Meantime, the National Red Cross stopped, looked and listened, | hd | munching a hot dog—Sirius, no less! at an annual meeting, to Miss Bis- sell and the cubby-hole man, and | slowly but surely decided to get be- hind the stamp. So the field was widened for the second round of these harmless “bullets,” harmless to all save the deadly germs. On November 12, 1908, the first gun in the second campaign was | fired by the North American, a page- | one promise to sell 1,000,000 of the 1908 stamps, and one month later to thee day it ordered its fourth mil- lion. Meantime— Every day from November 12 to January 1, the Red Cross Christmas Stamp was a matter of first-page moment, and many a day it was given precedence over all other news in the North American. “It is splendid,” said President Taft at the meeting of the Red Cross in Washington, December 8. Two days later the first page of the North American came out with a border of the stamps in red and a three-column facsimile likewise col- ored. Other newspapers in many parts of the land were joining the procession. When the curtain was rung down on this act, in January, the net result of the stamp sale throughout the nation was $135,000. “I never could have believed it,” | said Miss Bissell, “Gimme one—" and how the tinkle of that copper coin has grown! Annual sales of Christmas seals amounted to $53,000,000 to date, from this source alone. Yet the money is the least part of it. The message Is what has counted most. Between them, the death rate from tuberculosis has been cut in half, And it is still going down. I4 Tate is sealed. : (©, 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) | ing found in the we Boy Falls in Lye Box; Burns Fatal Waterbury, Conn.—Peter Rizk, six years old, son of Mr, and Mrs. Sheehan J. Rizk of 119 Windsor street, died of burns suffered when he fell into a mortar box filled with lye at a building under construction near his home. EHH HHH HE ALLEGED SLAYER OF FIVE JAILED Caught After Two Days Hunt of Countryside. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.—~Hunt- ed for two days in the bush country near Smoky Lake, 80 miles northeast of here, George Dwernchuk, alleged slayer of five persons on a lonely farm near Smoky Lake, was captured here a short time ago. For 48 hours provincial police and a posse of neighbor farmers scoured the countryside near the Walanski home for Dwernchuk, who is alleged to have slain four members of that family and a neighbor farmer. According to information received at Alberta provincial police headquar- ters here, Constable J. Christophers picked up Dwernchuk, while he was loitering near the depot in Vegreville, Alta, 60 miles northeast of here and only about twenty miles from Smoky Lake. Recently a man armed with a 12 guage shotgun entered the farm yard at the Walanski home, shot and killed John Walanski, his wife, their invalid daughter, Mary, sixteen, and serious- ly wounded Mrs. Anna Huchaluk, mother of Mrs. Walanski., The aged woman died in a hospital in Smoky Lake several days later. Fleeing the scene of his crime, the slayer started down the road, where he met John Darichuk, a neighbor | farmer, driving along in his wagon. Darichuk was shot dead, his body be- 1 box when the unguarded horses reached the farm | yard. Dwernchuk, who has operated a store in Edmonton for about two | years, left here recently for Smoky Lake. On reaching the home of some friends there, he is said to have bor- rowed a 12 gauge shotgun, ostensibly to start on a hunting trip. It was a 12 gauge shotgun that was used to kill all &ve victims. His Lucky Star Winks Clue to Stolen Auto New York.—When Lee Wick’s auto- mobile was stolen from his home in Brooklyn, he notified the police. Noth- ing happened. Wick asked neighbors if they had seen the car. Still noth- ing happened. Anyone else might have shrugged his shoulders, recalled the thousands of cars stolen every year, collected the insurance, if any, and bought a new model. But not Lee Wick, who is a musician by vocation and a stu- dent of astrology by avocation. He consulted his brother, Clarence, also a sky seer, and they sought the an- swer in the stars, They were impressed by the prox- imity of the Gemini twins to the Chariot; the significance of Sirius, the dog star, and the contiguity of Venus in the over charts and graphs they figured this: “The car is southwest of the point whence it was stolen and hard by a large body of water.” The Atlantic ocean is the largest body of water near Flatbush, and the brothers sped together to Coney Is- land, proceeded west on Surf avenue, and voila, there was the missing chariot with two men, by Gemini, near and a radiant girl, a veritable Venus, The Wick brothers saw the light. They called a policeman, who arrest- ko, Brocklyn. to go into eclipse. The accuracy of 1scendant. By pouring | | ed John McCarthy and Edward Stan- | Venus was permitted | the astrological arrest was assured | when the prisoners pleaded guilty be- | fore County Judge Conway. Wagon Falls 26 Feet, but Boy Is Only Bruised Kingston, Cunada.—A boy and the driver of a horse wagon narrowly es- caped serious injury when the horse ran away here recently and fell a dis- tance of 26 feet into a quarry, dying instantly. When he saw that his bolting horse was headed for the quarry, A. Mec- Gregor, Russell street, carter, leaped from the wag A moment iter horse and wagon tumbled into the quarry. It was soon | discovered that a youngster who had | , suffering no injury. | been riding in the wagon with Mec- | Gregor, had clung to the vehicle, but | with the exception of minor bruises | had escaped injury in the fall. “Stop” and “Go” Light Issue in Youth’s Death Memphis.—Whether a traffic light | | was red or green when Thomas F. | Queen, Jr. eighteen, pedaled his bi- cycle to death a few months ago, will decide a $53,000 damage suit the youth's father has brought against G. D. Perkins, driver of a car which crashed into the youth at a street in- tersection. 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