Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-08
Motion Pictures Will Aid Rod
Cross Seal Sale. .aYt

"Hope" is the title and the leading
note in a new motion picture film which
will be released for exhibition on No
vember 18th, by Thomas A. Edison,
working in cooperation with The
National Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis. The
scenario of the picture was written
especially for the anti-tuberculosis
campaign by James Oppenheim, and
the film will be used during the next
six weeks as special feature of the
Red Cross Christmas seal sale.
The story as portrayed by Mr.. Open
helm, tells of young banker in little
New York town by the name of John
Aarvey and of his bookkeeper Wells,
with whose daughter Edith the banker
is in love. A few weeks before the
holiday season, Harvey one day receives
a letter and some literature from The
National Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis, asking him
to engage in tuberculosis campaign in
his district, to form a committee to sell
Red Cross Christmas Seals, and to work
for the erection OF a local sanatorium.
He shows the material to his old book
keeper and both the men laugh at the
idea that country district need engage
in such a fight. Tuberculosis, they
believe, is a thing only of the city
Sums Careless and unthinking, how
ever, Wells puts some of the pamphlets
in his pockets and forgets the incident.
Meanwhile Edith is trying hard to
conceal from her father and lover the
annoying cough which she has de-
veloped and also the knowledge given
her privately by the old family physi-
clan that she has tuberculosis. She
struggles hard against her love for
Harvey and her father, especially when
the banker shows her the new home
which he is building for them. She is
about resolved not to yield to the doc
tors advice recommending that she go
to a sanatorium, when one evening she
accidently discovers the tuberculosis
literature in her fathers pocket. AS
she reads of the danger to which she is
exposing those whom she loves, and of
the hope of a cure that may be hers, if
she will go to sanatorium, she finally
conquers her immediate desire and re-
solves to live for health and a cure.
She writes a note to her father and to
Harvey releasing him from their en-
gagement and leaves home secretly for
New York to see what chance she has
of being cured, for there is no sana-
forum nearer to her home than days
journey.
1t is the bitter realization of the
truth that tuberculosis turks every
where, even in their own homes, that
spurs Harvey and Wells to arouse their
townsfolk to the need of preventing
this disease and erecting sanatorium.
And all the while they are searching
for Edith, until one day by chance they
find her name on the records of Bellevue
Hospital tuberculosis Clinic. They
trace her to the ferryboat day camp at
that institution and finally to her own
miserable hall bedroom. 1t is not a
difficult task to persuade Edith to go
home aud take the cure in the new
sanatorium on the outskirts of the town.
Here she completely RECEIVERS her health
and as ali indication of her future mode
of life on entering her new home for
the first time. happy bride. she throws
the windows wide open to let in the
fresh air.