Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 175, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1927 — Page 11

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STAIN PUT ON ‘TRIAL’BRIDE BYJATHER Haldeman-Julius Asserts Daughter Born 6 Years Before Marriage. BIRTH IN NEW YORK Adopted After Publisher ik and Wife Had Gone to Kansas. Bu Pres* Kan., Nov. 30.—E. Haldeman- Julius, publisher and author, today' issued a statement in which he sav\d his daughter, Josephine, was bOuVi in New York six years before .Tier parents were married. The girl, who is now 18, entered a “companionate iWarriage” with Aubrey Roselle, University of Kansas sophomore, tt'.n days ago. It had been generall.Y understood that Josephine was i\n adopted daughter. Haldeman-Julius also made public a statement by Jacob Wettstein, 52, Swiss miner, of Ringe, Kah-, who previously had been quoted ks saying that he was the father of Josephine, in which Wettstein reevealed his part in the career *of the girl. Married in Girard i Haldeman-Julius is a combination of the names of the husband and wife. Julius was a New York newspaper man when he met Miss Haldeman, who aspired to become an actress. That was almost twenty years ago. They lived in the same apartment building and fell in love, today’s statement by the publisher said. The child, Josephine, was born in the Benedict Apt. on the east side of Washington Square, he said. The parents lived for six years more in New York. Then, in 1916, they came to Girard and were married, combining their mames into Haldeman-Julius in accordance with their beliefs that the identity of a. wife should not be submerged after her marriage. Parents ‘Adopt’ Child The child had been left in New York, but Mrs. Haldeman-Julius-longed for it. The child then was placed with the Wettstein family pending formal “adoption" proceedings by her real parents, HaldemanJulius said. After the adoption Josephine was brought up by the HaldemanJuliuses. Wettstein’s signed statement in connection with the case said: “Josephine Haldeman-Julius is not my daughter. I brought her to Girard for Mr. and Mrs. HaldemanJulius ten years ago after Josephine had been with us only a short time.” Haldeman-Julius said he had paid the Wettstein family well for its part in the deception. The “companionate marriage” of Josephine and Roselle stirred widespread comment and was criticized severely from many sources. Under the arrangement as announced by the girl’s parents, both the girl and her husband were to continue in school, each being supported by his parents. When Roselle becomes able to support his wife, they are to live together if they still desire to do so. Otherwise, a divorce is to be arranged. Haldeman-Julius, explaining his motives for making his unusual statement today, said: “I have made this statement because I would rather have the world know that the child was illegitimately bom than to have a ridiculous lie made public which cast a shadow on my daughter’s parentage. It is far better this way than to connect my daughter’s birth with the Wettstein family.” SEEKING BODY IN CASE OF CORPSELESS KILLING Whitley County Officials Plan for Second Trial of Verne Martin Hu Timet Sne.cial COLUMBIA CITY,, Ind., Nov. 30. —Whitley County officials are making efforts to produce a body in “the murder case without a corpse.” Preparing for the second trial of Verne Martin, Elkhart, for the murder of Franklin Tucker, Warsaw, following disagreement of a jury at, the first trial here recently, the officials are extending the search for Tucker’s body, latest clews having 'ed them to Elkhart and an undisclosed point in Michigan. Tucker disappeared the night of Jan. 28 last. Authorities assert he was robbed and murdered, but months of searching have never . ielded even a trace of his body. TWO IN SAME CHURCH DISAGREE ON RELIGION Divorce Granted at Auburn Separates Aged Couple B ?) Times Soccial AUBURN, Ind., Nov. ? 30.—A. E. Farrington, 74, and his wife. Ida, 64, were both members of the Church of Christ, but they couldn’t agree on religion and today the wife has a decree of divorce granted in the DeKalb Circuit Court. “‘He cursed and struck me,” Mrs. Farrington said. She also testified thai' her husband upheld the total immersion theory of baptism, but she couldn’t see it that way. The ’ wife was given SSOO alimony and $75 for attorney fees.

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FIGHT TO SAVE RUTH SNYDER Test by Alienist Demanded by Defense Counsel. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Continuiing their battle, for permission to have an alienist examine Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder in Sing Sing, in a desperate attempt to save her from death in the electric chair for the murder of her husband, defense attorneys will go into Queens County court today to request an order to permit the examination, according to Joseph Lonardo, associate defense attorney. Following yesterday’s refusal in Albany by Raymond Keib, State commissioner of correction, and Warden Lawes of Sing Sing, to permit the sanity test, Lonardo said the defense must go into court to force the warden and commissioner to observe New York’s criminal Jaw code in the matter. “This examination is not a matter of discretion for the commissioner and the warden,” Lonardo explained. “It is a matter of law set out in section 491 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which states that a physician has the same right of entrance to see a convicted criminal as has defense attorneys or relatives.” CHURCHMEN OBJECT Oppose Salesroom Near Nazarene Edifice. Safety board members today had under advisement a protest against the erection of an auto salesroom adjoining the Church of the Nazarene, State and Washington Sts. The Rev. Howard Paschal headed a delegation of objectors Thursday. Ira P. Haymaker, Democratic member, presided in absence of Board President Fred W. Connell. Haymaker, Robert F. Miller, Republican member, and Police Chief Claude M. Worley conferred briefly with Mayor L. Ert Slack before the meeting. It was the first conference between Worley and Slack since his election as mayor. Slack said there was no discussion of proposed changes in the police or fire departments. It is understood Slack plans to confer with Worley soon regarding the police department.

TWO NEW YORK WOMEN HAVE DIED IN CHAIR; SHADOW NOW OVER RUTH SNYDER

BY HORTENSE SAUNDERS NEa Service Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—The last chapter in the somber story of the Snyder-Gray murder case soon is to be written, and New York wonders if the threatened electrocution of the beautiful Ruth Snyder in gray Sing Sing’s “back there”—the death chamber—is to become, some time between early morn of Jan. 9 and midnight of Jan. 15, a flashing actuality. Governor A1 Smith becomes a co-star with Mrs. Snyder in the drama as the final act nears. He is the State’s sole dispenser of clemency. And New York recalls that few governors have shown a disposition to distinguish between sexes in such matters. Extraordinary appeals to the courts present possibilities, too, with psychiatrists and psychoanalysts summoned to the aid of Mrs. Snyder’s lawyer in an eleventh hour attempt to invoke theories of “repressions,” "erotic tendencies,” "mental distortion” and the like in her behalf. But the governor in his office at Albany and Ruth Snyder in her little cell at Ossining, hard by the bare room where they keep the “chair,” are the chief characters to which the story has simmered down. - Judd Gray, the dapper little corset salesman, almost has been forgotten. It doesn’t seem to matter much to New York now whether Judd Gray lives or dies. a a a a an TWO other women, both mothers, have been electrocuted in New York State. Before that, five were hanged. All had been convicted bf murder.

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Veteran Leaving His Route Recalls Deliveries to Notables. “Here’s your ‘Hearth and Home Magazine,’ Mrs. O’Ginty, and how’s the baby getting along with the colic.” “Thank you, sure he’s fine now, Mr. Tipton. How’s yourself?” “But that was back in ’93,” says James L: Tipton, 64, of 3105 Graceland Ave., who will retire after thirty-four yehrs and six months service as mail carrier, Saturday. “I used to know every person on my route ” says Tipton, “but nowadays I don’t know very many. They don’t get those old-fashioned magazines any more. They get modem stories. “I was bom in Boone County, Dec. 5, 1862, and my father was killed in the Civil War. I never saw him. I worked on the farm until ’93 and then entered Uncle Sam’s service, carrying mail down around Kentucky Ave. and Merrill St. Wasn’t many houses there then and I knew every one and'all their troubles. “About ten years later I was transferred to the north side. I had Charles W. Fa:-banks on my route. He got magazines and papers mostly. “It’s funny about Harry S. New, now the Postmaster General. He very seldom got mail. Governor Warren T. McCray was the most consistent mail getter I ever saw. He got a big mail regularly. “Governor Jackscn gets a lot of mail now. Mostly magazines. “It’s funny, too, about Christmas mail. Twenty years ago I’d be through at 2 p. m. No mail at all. But now I don’t get home until 7 p. m. People used to send’ lots ot cards. They are a thing of the past. All under cover now. “The lexers themselves get bigger every year.' Good thing I’m quitting Saturday. Guess I’ll go to Florida this winter. Just roam around. Then I’m going to Colorado and California. “Don’t matter where I go. I’m all alone since my wife died this spring. We sort of planned on traveling together this winter after I retired, but—” Hunting Injuries Fatal COLUMBUS, Ind., Nov. 30.—Joseph H. Houk, former clerk of Bartholomew County, is dead here today, victim of injuries received in a hunting accident and few days ago. Houk was shot when a gun in the hands of his son-in-law, Dr. Roy T. Marshall, dentist here, was discharged. He* was struck in the right hip. The right leg was amputated and blood transfusion resorted to in an effort- to save his life.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, NOY. 30, 1927

HRE LOSS FOR YEAR DECLINES, REPORT SHOWS Decrease of $3,500,000 is Made From 1925, State ‘ Official Says. THEATER BLAZES FEWER Education on Prevention Lauded as Cause of Good Record. “State wide fire prevention education is responsible for the decrease of more than $3,500,000 in fire loss in Indianp, in the year just drawing to a close," State Fire Marshal Alfred M. Hogston, announced today in checking his annual report. "Cooperation of citizens with this department is to be commended. It is mainly responsible for the excellent showing made,” Hogston said. “Investigation reveals that damage to buildings this year totaled but $3,280,882 in comparison with $4,719,214 for 1926; and contents damage is $1,758,223, in contrast to $3,835,766. By adding the building and contents loss for 1927, and subtracting this sum from the total for 1926, we find that the fire loss for 1927 is $3,515,875 less than in 1926. School Drives Helped “Too much thanks can not be given the fire chiefs of Indiana cities who have conducted vigorous fire prevention education campaigns in the schools with the cooperation of the teachers and have instilled in the mind of the growing child the creed of carefulness.” As usual the greatest property loss was through the razing of dwellings which this year totaled $1,444,497 in comparison with $1,747,936 for 1926; a decrease of $303,439. Damage to barns ranks second, with the loss for this year at $308,967 in comparison with the 1926 figure of $405,322; showing a decrease of $96,355. Large loss to dwellings and barns always are expected as both are the most used and therefore the fire risk is greatest, Hogston said. • Theater Loss Down “The most gratifying and the greatest proportionate decrease is in the fire loss in theaters. The State fire marshal’s office has waged a vigorous war on fire hazards in theaters where large crowds are exposed to flame-borne death. “Close inspection is being made of operator’s booths, where fire might break out, due to the high combus-. tion properties of the celuloid film. All operators are warned that they must provide their booths with instantaneous shutter so that danger of flames leaping from the projection apertures is greatly lessened.” Fire loss to theaters this year was only $45,834 in comparison with $157,989 for last year; a decrease ot $112,155. Arson Division Praised Too much praise can not be given the arson section, which is under the direction of Bert Fowler, the fire marshal said. By arduous effort this department has gained an enviable reputation in the State for the great care exercised in investigating the causes of all fires and building cases against fire-bugs and others guilty of criminal arson. By continuing an active education campaign during the next year, Hogston said he expects*'to show an appreciable decrease over this year’s figures. LAST HOOSIER GROUP ON CORN BORER TOUR Party of Sixty-Five Leaves LaGrange for panada and Michigan. Bu United Press LA GRANGE, Ind., Nov. 30.—Approximately sixty- five Indiana farmers left here early today on the last of a series of tours of Indiana men to the corn borer infested areas of Canada and eastern Michigan. Several bankers and grain men from La Grange and Noble Counties accompanied the party, in addition to representatives from the Purdue extension department, Federal Department of Agriculture and officials from the conservation offices at Indianapolis and Auburn. The tours began early in August as an educational project to aid farmers of Indiana in protecting their fields from the spread of borer infestation Groups from all the sixteen infested areas in Indiana have at one time or another made the tour.

Mrs. Martha Place went to the chair March 21, 1899, and Mrs. Mary Farmer followed her March 29, 1909. Both died, courageously. They betrayed no "feminine weakness.” Mrs. Martha Place murdered her stepchild and attempted to murder her husband with an ax. Robert Ingersoll called her execution a “disgrace to the State,” and Theodore Roosevelt, then governor, severely was criticised for not acting to prevent it. That was before women had driven war ambulances and done Red Cross work. A woman was supposed to be a weak sister. The night before, Mrs. Place spent in prayer. At 9 in the morning she a£e a substantial breakfast, with two cups of coffee. Immediately afterward she was dressed in funeral black, with a skirt which came to the floor. She wore only one stocking, so the electrode might be applied immediately below the knee. Mrs. Place entered the death chamber with eyes tightly closed so she might not see the chair. She was backed into it, and the apparatus snapped into place. Two women were among the spectators. Dead silence prevailed. In a few minutes the affair was over. n n a ana TEN years later, Mrs. Mary Farmer was electrocuted in Auburn prison. She was a poor woman, married to a poor man. She murdered a more prosperous neighbor and took possession of her estate. The night before her execution she confessed her guilt and made a statement in which she absolved her husband. She divided her last night between prayer and writing a long letter to her infant son.

Only Woman State Treasurer Says She Learned Business by Being Wife

Mrs. Grace Urbahns Has Won Distinction by Work in Public Office. BY GLADYS CRAIG The only woman Treasurer of State in the United States! That is the record of Mrs. Grace Urbahns. What preparation did she have for the unusual position that she holds? Well, she was first a wife and mother, according to Mrs. Urbahns, that is preparation enough to fit any woman for business. “I learned management by running my house, planning meals, and living on a budget,” said Mrs. Urbahns. “Asa housewife, I learned to make use ol everything that I had.” Former School Teacher Prior to her marriage, Mrs. Urbahns was a school teacher in Montana. Then she was married in her home town of Valparaiso, to Ben Urbahns. Two children, Bruce and Dorothea, were born to them, for ten years, they were all the business experience Mrs. Urbahns had. After Urbahns was made Treasurer of State. Mrs. Urbahns assisted him in the office occasionally, but other than this she had no business experience outside of her own home. Then came the terrible catastrophe that made Mrs. Urbahns a pioneer woman. One night her husband went to the hospital for an operation. He did not recover. The very next morning the papers carried the announcement that the Governor had appointed Mrs. Urbahns to finish out his term of one year. “The appointment was a great blessing at the time,” said Mrs. Urbahns. “It kept my mind off of my trouble, and I had to arise to the occasion. I had a general idea of what the work was like and did not find it hard to learn/ The place calls for a strict accounting of funds, but this was easy, for mathematics was my pet study in school. I was always the first one through in class.” Calls It Thrilling After Mrs. Urbahns served her husband’s unfinished term, she ran for re-election and was the unanimous choice of the convention. During this period she became acquainted with quite another phase of political life. She made speeches in nearly every county in the State. Asa result she got a majority of more than 36,000 votes. In her home county of Porter, about 6,000 votes were cast, of which she got more than 5,000. She led her opponent in his own county. “It was all very thrilling,” declared Mrs. Urbahns. “It w&s a revelation to see what an interest women took when they found out that one of their sex was on the ticket. We were received most graciously everywhere and entertained with teas and banquets. “The men couldn’t have been finer and showed great interest in a woman candidate for office. In Ft. Wayne, we were met with a woman's band. It was the first time in history that women had held their own meetings.” Mrs. Urbahns says that she has enjoyed her experience in the business world. “When you work in the home, you work by yourself,” she said. “Business is much more fascinating because of the contacts that you make. I feel that business develops a woman and makes her more interesting. Still a Mother / “Mother takes care of the children, but we go out together often, and I do net feel that I have been any less the mother since I started to work. My children are proud of my position and realize that I am taking ‘Daddie’s place.’ One day Dorothea came in and said, ‘Mother, the kids say that you are a great woman and will be written up in history’.” If this is true, Mrs. Urbahns feels that it is because she first learned the business of being a wife and mother. EDUCATED BY POODLES Youths Pay Way Through College by Exercising Dogs. NEW YORK. Nov. 30.—Next time you see a young man promenading with a poodle or Pekinese, don’t pity him; he’s probably working his way through college. A number of students in Columbia and New York Universities are paying their expenses by exercising pet dogs for the wives of millionaires. They get 25 cents an hour for the job and, since they can champion three or four dogs at a time, the boys make a fairly profitable wage.

PRIZE BOY AND GIRL OF NATION CHOSEN

Kansas Maid and lowa Lad Win Physical Honors at Chicago Show. 81l United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 30.—Fred Christensen, 18, of Blanchard, lowa, and Marie Antrim, 15, of Kingman, Kan., today wore the crowns of most healthy boy and girl in the United States. They were selected last night by a committee of physicians for the annual award of the clubs. Miss Antrim, an attractive high school sophomore, has been trying for three years to win the health championship. In 1925 and 1926 she placed second in the Kansas State contest. Marie has dark brown hair, blue eyes and a complexion that does not •require cosmetics. Her features are regular, teeth perfect, and the proportions of her figure were adjudged “perfect” by the examiners. She weighs 124 pounds and is 5 feet ,5 ! i inches tall. Her health score was 99 per centMiss Antrim said she did not dance, but followed these rules for perfect, health: Regular meals, plain diet, nine hours’ sleep, adequate exercise and sensible clothes. Young \ Christensen attributes his physical condition to hard work on his father’s farm and football basketball’£t high school. He is a high school graduate. His score was 99.15 per edit. Annual convention of the “4-H” clubs is held in conjunction with the International .Livestock Exposition, and is supervised by the United States Department of Agriculture. INDIANA if? DEC. 11 Governor Asks Birthday Programs in Schools, ChuVches. Schoolboys and girls, who are spending all of their thoughts on what Santa will bring, are asked by Governor Ed Jackson to giw? a little thought to the fact that Indiana will be 111 years Sunday, Dec. 1.1. He urges all schools hold programs commemorating the event. Proclamation, issued by the Governor, says: “It would be particularly appropriate for people assem - bling in their places of worship to • remember the beginning, history and services of the State of which they are citizens.”

“I will go quietly, like a queen going to God’s high court, to atone for. my sins,” she said. And she did, thc'ugh her appearance was not regal. She was allowed, on the way to the chr'ar, to see her husband, James Farmer, who was in a cell in another part of the prison. Their greeting was warm, but was without even a handshake, by the warden’s orders. N, *an ana two men and two women attendants she was taken into the death chamber. Her skirt and her stocking on one side were slit to the knees. Without a tremor or a murmur, Mrs. Farmer sat down in the chair and was strapped securely. Current was applied three times before she was pronounced dfead. Pressed to her heart the undertaker found a photograph of her child. There was no less sentiment against the execution of Mrs. Farmer than for Mrs. Place. Charles E. Hughes, governor of the State, was urged to act fn her behalf, but he did not. Thousands of letters and appeals from all parts of the country did not change his attitude. Neither Mrs. Farmer nor Mrs. Place was a woman who approached Ruth Snyder in appearance, or in education, or social background. But both were stoics. New York wonders what Ruth’s final day will be like, if the calendar’s drab count is not interfered with.

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LET’S GO FISHING! There’s no closed season against “Fishing the Air,” radio fans. Each day, G. Shubert Frye, in The Times, tells you , where the “biting” is going to be the best that night. “Still line fishin’ ” for the “big uns” or “bucketing out the minnows”— FISHING THE AIR tells you where to go on the dials to do both. Every day in The Times.

COOUDGE MAY ‘CHOOSniGAIN G. 0. P. Committee to Hear. President Monday. BY LEO R. SACK WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. All doubt as to just what President Coolidge meant by “I don’t choose” may be removed early next week when he addresses the Republican national committee. The committee will assemble Monday and Tuesday to pick a convention city for 1923 and otherwise to launch the coming presidential campaign. Committeemen and women will visit President and Mrs. Coolidge at the White House and during their visit the President will make a few observations. These observations, it is believed, may bo- in the nature of a more definite statement of his views toward a third term. The President is aware that the committee is assembling with a large membership inclined to disregard his wishes concerning re-election and willing to assume that “I don’t choose” does not mean “I will not.” Slaying Victim Buried Bn Times Soecial LAGRANGE, Ind., Nov. 30.—Funeral services were held here Tuesday for Dr. Charles s. Dryer, 39, former resident, slain Saturday night in his office at Cincinnati, Ohio, with Mrs. Andrew Gough, by her husband. Dr. Dryer was born here and was a student at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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BEACH FEELS STATE GUNS TURNON HIM ‘Mystery’ Witness Tells of Man in Brush Near Murder Scene. REFUSES TO IDENTIFY, \ — Chain of Evidence Against Lilliendahl Widow Is i Drawn Tighter. BY SAM LOVE United Pre.s Staff Correspondent COURTROOM, MAYS HANDING, N. J., Nov. 30.—The State today called its much heralded “mystery witness” in a determined effort to prove that William Beach was at the scene of the murder of Dr. William Lilliendahl, Sept. 15, 1927. The mystery witness proved to ba Harry F. Sanderson of Sidney, Ohio. A quiet spoken, plump, prosperous appearing person, Sanderson testified that he was driving along the road near Hammonton, N. J., the day of the murder and saw a “blue coupe” such as Beach owned, in the lane where Lilliendahl was killed. Identification Not Positive Then, Sanderson said, he saw a man in the underbrush near the roadside. “Can you see that man here?” asked S. Cameron Hinkle, the prosecutor. Sanderson said he wasn't certain. “Defendant Beach, stand up,” ordered the court. v Beach rose, slowly, Sanderson eyed him. “The man I saw looked like that man there,” Sanderson finally said. “I don’t know whether it was that man or not. I can only repeat that he looks like the man I saw by the roadside that day.” Sanderson’s testimony followed that of William Driver, a contractor, who had driven “forty to fifty miles” past the scene of the murder on the day Dr. Lilliendahl was killed. Picture Introduced He had seen a blu4 coupe come out of the lane, but he was unable to identify positively Beach as the driver of the car. Later, however, he was shown a picture of a man and said he believed it was of the car’s driver. It was understood the State would attempt to show the photograph was of Beach. Sanderson also was shown the photograph, but was only able to say that it “looked like” and “resembled” the man he had seen in the underbrush. Widow in Mourning Mrs. Lilliendahl and Beach came to court in high spirits today. Beach posed for photographs ana seemed most obliging. Mrs. Lilliendahl, wearing her widow’s weeds, swept dramatically into court just before th# •Tuning and spied Mrs. Beach among those near the front of the room. Mrs. Beach, who has stood by her husband and said little, is a woman not yet middle-aged, unassuming ,and conservatively dressed. The woman who the State alleges was, the mistress of Mrs. Beach’s husband, walked over to Mrs. Beach and greeted her warmly. Mrs. Beach smiled, but there was just a sign of constraint in her manner. As the testimony went on to tell of blood spots and to intimate ugly things, Mrs. Lilliendahl and Beach, both maintained their gay manner. Mrs. Lilliendahl from time to time smiled at the testimony. Three blood-stained $5 bills came back to court today to haunt Mrs. Margaret Lilliendhal. When court opened for the third day of this swift-moving trial John M. Arleith, chemist from Atlantic City, was called as the opening witness. He testified that he had found stains of human blood on “three of five $5 bills found in a purse, ownership of which is attributed to Mrs. Lilliendahl. The bills, the State contends, had been taken from the purse of Dr. Lilliendahl either before or after the murder. “Confession” Promised Then, Arleith added, stains on the dress Mrs. Lilliendahl wore the day of the murder, proved to be human blood when examined chemically. They mysterious “confession witmess,” depended upon to back up the opening statement that Beach admitted murdering Dr. Lilliendahl, was being sought in Atlantic City by defense investigators today. He is Samuel Bark, of Strieker St., Baltimore, it was learned from persons close to the prosecuting attorney, and he will be called to tho stand Thursday. , THOUSANDS VOLUNTEER FOR SEAL CAMPAIGN Tuberculosis Fight Striking Triumph Says Bulletin Severa* nundred thousand volunteer worker,' will cooperate this yearin the twentieth annual Christmas Seal campaign in the United States, according to a bulletin issued today by the Indiana Tuberculosis Association. “Within the memory 'f comparatively young people, tubercle ? was iegarded as the greatest scoone," the bulletin said. “Annuc” •, it t ok its toll of hundreds of thousands of lives, ard it seemed that nothiig could bf done to stem its advance The Christmas seal idea was born and an organized fight against th disease. In history there is no mor® striking triumph than that against tuberculosis.”