Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-11-09
Pictures
Will Help
In Fight
EDISON PERFECTS GREAT MOVING
PICTURE TO AID RED CROSS IN
IT'S BATTLE AGAINST TUBERCU.
L0SlS.

Hope" is the title and the leading
note in a new motion picture film
which will be released for exhibition
on November 10th, by Thomas A, Ed.
son, working in cooperation with The
National Association for the Study and
Prevention Of tuberculosis, The seen
arlo Of the picture was written espe-
cially for the anti-tuberculosis cam
paign 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.. OPP
pcnheim tells of a 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 holiday season, Harvey one day re-
ceiyes a letter and some literature
from The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis,
asking him to engage in a tuberculosis
campaign in his district, to form a
committee to sell Red Cross Christ
mas seals, and to work for the erection
of n local sanatorium. He shows the
material to his old bookkeeper and
both the men laugh at the idea that Il
country district need engage In such a
fight. tuberculosis, they believe, Is a
thing only Of the city slums, Careless
and |unthinking, however, Wells puts
some Of the pamphlets in his pocket
and forgets the incident.
Meanwhile Edith is trying hard to
conceal from her father and lover the
annoying cough which she has devel-
oped and also the knowledge given her
privately by the old family physician
that she has tuberculosis. She strug-
giles hard against her love for Harvey
ard 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 90
to a santorium, when one evening she
accidently discovers the tuberculosis
literature in her fathers pocket. AS
she reads of the dangers 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 a sanatorium, she
finally conquers her immediate desire
and resolves to live for health and a
cure, She writes a note to her father
and to Harvey releasing him from
their engagement and leaves home Sc
cretly for New York to see what
chance she has Of being cured for
there is no s%anatorium nearer to her
home than a days journey,
1t is the bitter realization of the
truth that tuberculosis turks every
where, ever in their own homes, that
spurs Harvey and Wells to arouse
their townsfalk to the need Of prevent
ing this disease and erecting a sanato.
rum. And all the while they are
searching for Edith, until one day by
chance they find her name on the rec
ords of Bellevue Hospital tuberculosis
Clinic. They trace her to the ferry
boat day camp at that institution and
finally to her own miserable hall bed
room. 1t is not a difficult task to per-
suade Edith to go home and take the
cure in the new sanatOrium on the
outskirts Of the town. Here she com
pletely RECEIVERS her health and as an
indication of her future mode Of life
on entering her new home for the first
time, a happy bride, she throws the
windows wide open to let in the fresh
air.