Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-27
FRATERNAL ORDER
HELPS SUFFERERS
Organization Gives Free Treat
ment to It's Members HaV-
ing tuberculosis

In the campaign against tuberculosis
Tho Modern Woodmen are doing great
work. At Colorado Springs the san
atorium for free treatment of members
has been operating since January l.
1909 and by this time there can pc
shown nositive good results. RECORDS
show 45O patients have been treateu,
and of these 156 have been dlscnaI 70, seo
as cured or with the disease arrest@eu @
OF these SO were discharged IN sess
than six months, 80 are III per-
health, 25 show q percentage Ol ~
GOOD health and one reports 0V beI
cent There were GA discharged aIter
treatment of six months to year, IL
rennrt perfect health, u are rated at
e5 ner cent. at 81 per cent ana one
Of 9 ner cent OF those VINO were
treated for a year or more there were
33; they are rated as follows: 1nlr =
teen perfect, 8 at 60 per cent auu z
at 5n ner cent OF the whole nuInp
5iscbarped 38 report perfect working
ability. while all the rest, WIN IilV
execution of one. are able to report
efficiencv ranging from SO 1-3 per cent
Head Consul Talbot has hit upon
plan for raising money to erect the
central or main building. II Is tue
formation of a club of lO,OOO hlelipeIs
In a circular 10 MuuSlh "OO'
says: ,, ~
10 ono members of our society, to De
known as the Sanatorium Ten Thou
sand club, and each member Oh tne
club is to pledge and pay INTO the
treasury of the club 81 per month LOT
ten months This will raise $lOOOVu: IL
will provide a systematic metnod Oh
giving which the members Of this cup
The mem her
may pay any number of lnstallmehts'
or ali of his pledge in any payment
or subscribe for more than one coupon
pledge if he desires. =,
'Trhe demand for this building is
such that it must be built and equipped
a. once or our sanatorium receive d
very serious handicap in its progress
and development. This building Is 10
he the central or main, building, con-
tanning the office of the superintendent
in charge of the institution, together
with the postoffice, the library, the as
senbly room, the dining room, the
kitchen and pantry, the storeroom,
cold storage, heating and lighting
plants and other facilities, without
which we cannot hope to properly push
forward the great work so nobly be-
gun.
cording to the estimate of the arclll-
tect and builders, SIS, 600; for furnish
ing and equipment, as it should be
for the comfort and best care of our
afflicted ones, together with the eX-
pense of organizing and doing the bus
mess of the club, will cost 1000, max
ing the total building and equipment
100000.
with this central building suggested
here. the sanatorium will be equipped
for the work of caring for the number
of patients we now have and at a
later time our head camp can make
provision for any additional improve"
ments.
MY conviction is that our sanator-
ium needs, and our members desire,
some plan of systematic giving to IN
sure all needed funds; therefore TINS
club of 10000 Woodmen is proposed
for that purpose. After a thorough
consideration of the matter [ presented
it to the members of the executive
council and other active members ana
all enthusiastically approved. There
fore, with a faith unmeasured in the
willingness of our members to cheer-
fully build this sanatorium with all OF
its improvements, so that the head
camp appropriation can all be used for
the monthly current expenses in main
tenance, l have started the organlza-
ton of what shall be known as the
Sanatorium Ten Thousand club.
II propose to make this not only
the privilege of doing a tremendous
good for humanity on the part of each
of the members of the club, but that
it shall be the crowning glory and
highest honor of a lifetime that shall
come to any of the members of the
club.
THE pledges of membership and
payment shall be signed by the men,
made this pledge will be marked paid
and all of the 10000 pledges received
and paid will be framed in a suitable
frame, under glass, and hung upon
the wall in this central building, so
that all visitors to this building will
have the privilege of viewing the
actual pledge and signature of the TO-
900 men who built and equipped it, In
addition to the framing of these cou-
pon pledges if the 10000 members who
are privileged to join this club will send
to me their photographs as soon as
their pledge is paid in full I will have
an artist reduce the face of the pho
tograph to a miniature size and have
them all placed in one huge group pic
ture, properly numbered, and with fac
simile Of their signatures, so that any
one of the 10000 members may be easily
located in the group picture. This
group picture will be suitably framed
and hung upon the wall of the main
hall of this building.
Il desire to emphasize here that the
organization of this club is not a clas-