Willmar tribune., 1912-11-27
MOVING PICTUREs TO AID
BALE OF RED CROSS sTA1iPs
Thomas A. Edison Co-opsrates With
Administrations Campaign
Of the Country.


Hope" is the title and the leading
note in new motion picture film which
was released for exhibition on Novem-
ber 18th, by Thomas ~. Edison, working
in cooperation with The National AS
sociation 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 a special
feature Of the Red Cross Christmas
Seal Sale.
The story, as portrayed by Mr.. Open
helm, tells of young banker in a little
New York town by the name of John
Harvey and Of his bookkeeper Wells,
with whose daughter Edith the banker is
in love. A few weeks before the holi-
day season, Harvey one day receives a
letter and some literature from The Ma
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis, asking him
to engage in tuberculosis campaign in
his district, to form 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
idea that country district need engage
in such fight. tuberculosis, they be-
lieve, is a thing only Of the city slums.
Careless and unthinking. however. Wells
puts some Of the pamphlets in his pock-
ct and forgets the incident.
Meanwhile Edith is trying hard to con-
ceal from her father and lover the an
noying cough which she has developed
and also the knowledge given her priv
ately by the old family physician 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 re-
solved not to yield to the doctors ad-
vice recommending that she go to
sanatorium, when one evening she acci-
IDENTIFY discovers the tuberculosis liter
ature in her fathers pocket. AS she
reads Of the dangers to which she is ex-
posing those whom she loves and of the
hope of cure that may be hers, if she
will go to sanatOrium, she finally con-
QuerS her immediate desire and resolves
to live for health and a cure. She writes
a note to her father and to Harvey re-
leasing him from their engagement and
leaves home secretly for New York to
see what chance she has of being cured,
for there is no sanatorium nearer to her
home than a days journey.
1t is the bitter realization of the
truth that tuberculosis turks everywhere
even in their own homes, that spurs
Harvey and Wells to arouse their towns
folk to the need Of preventing this dis
ease and erecting a sanatorium. And
all the while they are searching for Ed
ith, 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 miser-
able hall bedroom. 1t is not difficult
task to persuade Edith to go home and
take the cure in the new sanatorium
on the outskirts of the town. Here she
completely recovers her health and as
an indication of her future mode of life
on entering her new home for the first
time, happy bride, she throws the win
doWs wide open to let in the fresh air.