Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-11-27
AHAh STRAUS IS
LAU0ED FOR PLAN
FwORPREVENTOR|UM
James B. Stokes. Of Newport
tuberculosis Association, De-
nOnnces Lakewood Citizens.
DECLARES LAW IS BEING
pURPOSELY DISTORTED
Letter from Governor Fort
Shows Controversy Is in Hands
of Charities Commissioner.
fspeclal 70 the Newark ssar,l

Especial to the Newark start
LAKEWOOD, Nov. 27.-In a letter
fun OF scathing denuneiatlon of the OPP
position TO the tuberculosis pre-
yentorium here, James b. Stokes to-
Sav urged Nathan Straus to put up the
hardest kind of a fight to prevent the
abolition of the institution that liter
ally means life or death to so many
poor children. Mr.. Stokes, who is try
ing against bitter opposition to a v
the poor of Newport from tuberculosis
wrote as follows;
81 read with the greatest indlg-
nation of the outrage committed at
Lakewood in the arrest of the superln-
tendent of the Children's Preventoriuni
Everyone familiar with
knows that for many years past it has
been a resort where wealthy consump>
tives have gone in large numbers, ana
that the place has reaped a rich har-
vest from them.
For Lakewood to debar poor chill
dren. who are not ~tuberculous, from
coming there is to announce TO the
world that New Jersey has now created
a trust to control Gods free air, and
that only the rich are to be permitted
TO DIGalllt us OdllASJ
breezes.
IF Grover Cleveland. to whom this
institution is a memorial, and whose
former residence is being utilized as
the preventorium, We're alive today
how he would blast with tongue and
pen those who are trying to keep the
children of the poor from their birth
right.
sfrr1,1 s1a, Af TIM CLEVELAND Pre-
yentorium is a superb one-the ounce
Of prevention in time. instead of the
pound of cure too late-and 1t is des-
tined to accomplish the highest good
for humanity. Lakewood should be
proud that go b~road-spirited an institu-
ton Is established there. 1t Is a col
lege of health, the continuance OF
which would advertise Lakewood as a
progressive community, in the same
class with Chautauqua or with Colo
RADIO Springs, where, under similar cir
cumstances, real estate has advanced
by leaps and bounds.
Instead of using breadth of vision,
Lakewood has committed something
worse than a crime, namely, a colossal
blunder. She has placed herself on
record as narrow and reactionary, and
discriminating people neither invest
nor settle in a place of that type.
her action meets with public disap-
) prevail rs shown by the press comments
on it today.
THE law which is now distorted to
serve these opponents of progress was
originally passed for an entirely diff
ferent purpose It's present application
is a miscarriage of justice. If New Jer-
sey can invoke a law to prevent poor
boys from coming there to improve
themselves physically, then with equal
injustice it can prevent them from
coming there TO improve themselves
mentally, and his would debar all poor
boys who annually como from other
states to enter Princeton University,
Princeton Theological Seminary and
other New Jersey institutions of learn
ing. Many OF the brightest ornaments
in Americas public life were poor boys
Who had to work their way through
school and college. The enforcement OF
such a law would debar an Abraham
Lincoln. for example, from entering a
New Jersey public school or college.
Such a law is class Legislation OF the
rsnkest description, and its present 'ap-.
~plication is q piece of contemplate
~pettifoggery.
IAN workers in the field of tubegcu-
losis know thai hundreds of thousands
of lives are annually sacrificed which
might be saved il they could receive in
time pure air, sunlight, rest and proper
food, and these are what the Proven
forum is giving the poor children.
1T is the most important institution
OF which / have knowledge; to close 1t
would be deplorable. Its abolition
would make difficult the starting of
many similar institutions in other parts
of the country, and would be of meal
culsble harm TO the cause Of the pre-
vention of tuberculosis.
IT therefore trust that nothing will
prevent you from putting up the hard
est kind Of a fight to keep it open, for
1t means literally life or death to
thousands of tho poor. AS Governor
Hughes said in this connection last
winter, We must help those who are
unable to help themselves
II shall be very glad to assist you
in this fight for progress to the utmost
of my ability. Let me know how /
may best aid you. You know. from
tho work that our Newport association
is doing on these lines. To- much in
terest / take in your great efforts to
provide healthy milk for the poor and
in the other preventive measures you
are using against tuberculosis
It became known here through pub
licity given to a letter written by Gov
ernor Fort to Marcus NJ. Marks, pres
ident Of the tuberculosis Preventorium
for Children, a New York p~hilanthropic
society. the further invasion of which
is being fought by the residents of
this resort, tina the settlement of the
entire controversy now rests with the
commissioner Of charities and correc-
tons at Trenton.
The announcement has come as a
great surprise to the Citizens' protest
committee, which was appointed at a
mass-meeting last Saturday night, and