The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-13
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
The Red Cross Stamps.

The Red Cross Stamps.
They are on sale all over town.
Wayne County has fifty thousand to
sell.
Fifteen thousand have already been
disposed of.
The next two weeks should see the
sale of the balance.
This city has always been generous
in its purchase of the red seals the
proceeds from which go toward the
fund to fight tuberculosis.
Much has been said about this fight
recently.
And much more will be said,
One of the most important local civ
ic movements is that undertaken by
the Wayne County Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis.
The definite object being to erect
a hospital for the care of hopeless
cases in this country.
The beginning of this can be done
with about one thousand dollars.
That is, with that amount the tents
or "shacks" can be put up under
certain form of organization and the
fight against the terrible scourge in
this locality commence.
It's a crying necessity.
The writer in this column a week
or so ago cited certain instances.
OF how these infect houses and 9th
er people.
That these hopeless cases should be
segregated is without question.
That there is far more danger in
this community than the average cit
izen is aware of is the fact.
| Very few people notice things they
are not personally interested in, or af
fected by, unless their attention is for
chilly turned in the formers direction,
That Wayne County should take
care of this class of citiZens-the ma
jority of whom are unable to financial
| ly take care of themselves-is admit
! ted
The sale of the red cross seals
should be accelerated from this day
on.
The fifty thousand should be dispos
ed of before Christmas.
A portion of this money will go to
i the local fund.
The writer has also called attention
to the concert to be given under her
auspices in the Murray theater on the
first Sunday afternoon in January.
After all expenses are paid, she will
turn over to the Association the sur
| plus.
| While this will not be great, even
if the house is sold out, from the fact
that only a popular price, fifty cents,
will be charged, it will add to, or start
hospital fund.
There have been some questions
+ relative to the time, Sunday afternoon
| The fact is that Sunday afternoon is
becoming more and more used for
high class concerts.
! Not only in certain portions of the
country but all over.
The indianapolis Symphony orches-
ira gives two concerts each month in
the Murat theater.
! And the writer gave a successful one
in September with Carl Morris as the
! musical piece de resistance.
And, in any event, concerts for char
ity are expressly excepted by law from
any contrary operations.
So that it has become a national
custom to arrange events of this char
acter for charitable objects on Sunday
; afternoon or evening.
| Much interest has already been
manifested in this concert for the ben
eft of the tuberculosis Hospital and
any information concerning it can be
had from the writer
AS previously stated the tickets will
sell at fifty cents and can be reserved
without extra charge.
| The boxes sell at five dollars
straight
Here is an opportunity to make a
contribution toward the beginning Of
hospital of this nature.
An institution more imperatively
necessary than many another more
conspicuously exploited.
You can talk forever about the dan
gers of this disease.
/ OF it's fatalities.
Of its menace to the we'll being of
the community
You can illustrate this with lantern
slides
And convincing lectures.
! The public must be educated, you
say.
But it has been educated in this city.
And in this manner
So that the time is now arrived for
definite action.