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Sword of Hope
. Back a few centuries when a literate person was a rare phenomenon in the American colonies, inn* keepers and tradesmen depended on pictorial signs for identification of their establishments. For a date at a tavern, one said, “I’ll meet you at the sign of the Brown Jug.” -r Or if you wished to find a barber, or a surgeon, you simply looked for the striped pole signifying both professions.
That quaint but necessary custom . in our Country passed along with illiteracy, but it has its , parallel now in a familiar usage— ' that of identifying many phases of modern life with symbols. _
Today one of the most important of those symbols is the Amencan Cancer, Society’s sword. For years that sign, on a flag, a door, a window, or an inner wall, has been a rallying point for legions of socially-minded p e o p 1 e—physicians, research scientists, and laymen—all deeply concerned about cancer control. " This weapon, with serpents entwined around its hilt, symbolizes the most determined attack in our ? history on “mankind’s crudest
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