Switzerland 1915 # B3 - Girl (Lucerne) - Pro Juventute used semi-postal
Issued on December 1, 1915
B2 - Girl (Lucerne)
Note on early Swiss semi-postals: The surcharge was not printed on the stamp but was charged at the point of sale as follows:
A premium of 2c for 3c stamps; 5c for 5c-20c stamps and 10c for 30c-40c stamps.
The Pro Juventute issues are the longest-running and most popular stamps of Switzerland.
Beginning in 1912, the Swiss PTT began cooperating with the Pro Juventute Foundation in distributing semipostal stamps in support of youth charities.
What does Pro Juventute mean? It is the Latin phrase “for the children”. You will notice Latin being used quite often in Switzerland when an organization wants a generic name to avoid the complications of the three official languages of Switzerland (four since the addition of Romansch as a national language in 1938 and an official language in 1996). Pro Juventute is the name of the organization in Switzerland devoted to the welfare and health of children. It was formed in 1912 from the nearly 3,000 local and specialized child welfare organizations that existed in Switzerland at that time. Prior to unification these various organizations had often competed against one another for limited resources.
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