Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXVI, Number 29, 12 November 1941 — Robert Moir First Buyer Of xmas Seals [ARTICLE]

Robert Moir First Buyer Of xmas Seals

j Tlie Christmas Sea! j tiie first purchast r of Uie 1941 | Christmas Seal Bor.d. He is -Rob- } | ert S. Moir, Execvitive Secrotary j j c£ the Chambcr oi' Comrocrco, : j "EaeU sucjce«si\ v' vo;\r soes a > '• domand for Cl»ristnjfts' | Soal B<mds," Mr, C 1 a y t o u J> ■ I Charnbcr!hi, gcncral ehalmian, ] | said. , I ■ The bonds rcseniblc oommercial ■ 1 bonds and run in denomination ■ ( from ?5 upward. They are labeled < } "The Crusade of the F>inib}e-barreu I cross, intemational insigma of | 1 the fight again&t tuberculosig, ] | The text of the bond, entltle«J j } "Victory," reads: | I "Man's battlc against tubci "ulo- i ! sis is about to be ded<ied. V>->

toiy is in slght. ' "Thoro was a timo when we had ta be co»t«nted.wlth stopping the t>nemy, re?ie\ing the suffering and heiping: the victims. This is necessarv. but at last the time iias eome when vvo dare to thinlt about a nation Iree from tuber- ] euloaia, ] "Victory ean be won if the Am- 1 ! enean public wili be as generous m the leas spectacular future a,i when there will be leaa and I iess tubescuolsis, as it has becn jin the dramatic past when the j diBeaso killed members in almost j ewery home. I "Your gift will further the I cause of health, hasten the api proaoh oi the day when this i communicable diaease no longer } \viil tAreaten your home, It wiil | weaken the hold of tuberculosi« j on our people aad strengthen the j forc«s of defense."