The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-10-27
~ uoux rYrnErH WATKINS.

!, nv JOay EIFRETH WATKINS.
- HIS our church salendar sayeth.
is Tuberculosis Day.
With the rest Of the preachers,
- haze been asked to devote 1t to an
sosiuhthisis sermon for my focK--tnose
<,o..ands OF heather who will stay at
80. from church and read the Sunday
papers.
perhaps YOU rcInenf5sr prison sun
Say." q Sabbath which many choie nes,
= Generation ago. devoted to sermons
,snose6 to lessen crime and aid the
asarpo of criminals. Wei, PRISON
sU,say" susgestea Tuberculosis sun
aav" which il was proposed TO observe
o,, the last sunday Of April ont "hich
h.a n be postponed because OF con
al, with some church calendars with
,ba chang. Of date chrGe also chahse
p, name. from Tuberculosis sohoaS
~ ..1,,hsrcuIosis Day" Arransement
. SIC observance has feen made oS
- Ha,iona Association for the STUDY
"a prevention of tuberculosis, a-ieo
With which are $50 local antitnoe'cu-
,nsis associations and completes scat
tered about the country. 1hese ofsah
stations constitute vast arm! "a
phvsicians, Aocial workers ana phiian
shro,;srs volunteering in a twentieth
century crusade against 'he CONF |"
.hs white vampire. Through these 900
a;m,,,s the commando in CHIEF, Ho-
,rsr folks (president of tho national
.ssociationD. and his stat have hahoeo
Anu, the schedule FOR to-days much
.aa6aS educational campaign president
ro,xs Ia q charity expert VINO heipeo
aha government reorganlze the pue'AS
charities of Cuba, and who mas serHeu
~ Commissioner of Charities OF Ne"
very CITY. Among his deid marshals
tv this crusade are President iatt
h.as Of the Amer can Red Cross, which
has raised over 100000 Cor the tu-
hsrculosis sufferers; Theodore Roose-
v>St and Sir William Osler.
Cost. Haif Billion Yearly.
tuberculosis Is costing our country
$500 900 a year in loss of life ana labor.
IL We could stay this monsters hand
Tor lust eight months we would save
enough to pay for the entire Panama
Canal Every three minutes some
American falls q victim 20 its sung.
Murder all the people in Denver, 81
Paul or Portland. Greg, and you put
r>peat the slaughter caused by 'h's
srtm foe in one year. 1t Stays one
saird of all Americans wfo die dur
ing their most useful and productive
nsrtod OF life-that between eighteen
and forty-fva- Herd all American
eonsumptivss to-day into one area
and you have a population OF one mill
lion souls-eQual 70 that ~ Sistsouis
and Detroit combined
Won are a Sinking citizen II, with
tbese cold facts fresh in your mind,
a
problem. Among the
m non peop,e directly surrounding you
there will have been 100 deaths from
within this year OF
rrace. and for every one of these
3asth. there will be Ave consump- |
ives lauguishing in the same COM |
nuoi,y. Even though you cannot con-
rihute YOUR mite of money toward the
elevation of this suffering. you can
useful knowledge tha'
nav save lust one life from the white
"a mpire. YOU can do a little tact1ui
MISSIONARY work by correcting the
alse beliefs which nine people out OF
en- foster regarding this disease
Nor hare are some of these facts
vf,fch the national association would
Ike you TO help scatter among the
No DruK VIII Cure.
no drug or specific for the cure OF
has yet been discovered,
announces the national association.
The only cure for this disease. az rec
,gnized by scientific men to-day, is
the combination Of fresh ai., rest and
wholesome food taken under the d;rec-
ton Of a competent physician The
United States Department Of Agrlcul-
.ure the American Medical Associa-
Hon and our own body. besides num- I
.rous individual authorities. have DEM
onstrated that the great majority OF
Alleged cures for tuberculosis which
Ire now being sold and exploited be-