New-York tribune., 1919-12-01
Red Gross Stamps ON Sale 10
Days to Raise Quota of
10 Per Gent of u. S.
Total of $6.5OO.OOO
Governors Proclamation
Smith Names. Month of De-
cember for S58O.OOO
Drive Outside New York


Christmas seals to fight tuberculosis
was launched at mass meeting yes
terday afternoon at the Metropolitan
Opera House.
Prominent on the stage were dozen
children from the Farmingdale SAM
tarium at Lakewood. N. j., where little
victims of the white plague from New
York City are sent for both preventive
and curative treatment. Opposite them
were dozen adults treated at the
Gaylord Farm Sanitarium and pro-
nounced cured. These rose and bowed
TO the audience. Among those pro-
nounced cured was Mrs. Martha Crown
inshield, SIS years old. who had suffered
from tuberculosis for seventy years.
The use of military training to de-
velop the youth and eradicate tuber
culosis was urged by James W. Wads-
worth jr., senior United States Senator
from New York According to Senator
Wadsworth 80 per cent of the draft
army we're unfit for active military
service, an alarming percentage of
s..
examinations OF college freshmen have
shown the same condition, he declared.
He also urged better housing as
means to fight the plague.
$1,000 Army Rejects
DR.. David W. Lyman. of the GAYLORD
Farm Sanitarium, vindicated the anti
tuberculosis campaign as paying
economic proposition. In ten wears
experience, he said, one sanitarium had
scored 81 per cent complete cures, the
patients IN that time earning 81 700 900
more than the cost of their care. Tuber
culosis alone, he said, caused $1,000
men to be rejected from the draft
army. France is now fighting tuber-
eulosls as hard as it did the Germans.
ne added. particularly in the devas-
tated districts, where thousands of
persons are living in caves
Or. Hermann NJ. Biggs, State Com
missioner Of Health; Leslie NJ. Shaw.
eX-Secreiary Of the Treasury, who de-
clared that 10000 useless laws have
recently been passed; Abram L. Elkus,
Judge Of the Court of Appeals. who de-
clared that conditions conducive to tu-
berculosls are worse in many small
towns IN the state than on the East
Side, and Dr.. James a. Miller spoke.
GEORGE Gordon Battle presided. On the
platform with Mr.. Battle sat Mrs. Oil
Yer y.I,, !h"rrman' Mrs. John +. Yawger
William fellowes Morgan, Ludwig
Missen and others. The Erie Prize
Band volunteered its services for the
meeting Miss Gladys Axman. soprano.
and Rafaelo Diaz, tenor, Of the Metro
poMtan Opera Company. sang.
Governor smith was unable to attend.
but issued yesterday at Albany proc
- lra 80. Il
csmner as fne period OF the Christmas
Sea- campaign and calling upon. the
pubic t. assist. The proclamation:
Whereas. The prevalence of tu-
oeiculosls is matter of serious con-
Germ to the state and to all its cit
zens and.
Whereas, The public health au-
thorties of the state and localities
reeve valuable support and coopera-
non IN their work from the state and
4oca. tuberculosis societies; and
Whereas. The funds for the SUP
port OF these voluntary organizations
are derived from the annual sale of
Red Cross Christmas Seals,
Now, therefore, |, Alfred f. Smith,
Governor OF the State of New York,
90 hereby proclaim the month os De-
cember the period of the Christmas
Seal campa gn, and call upon the peo-
pie OF the state to aid the cause by
her personal services and by
npeIai purchases of the Christmas
Seals"
Governor Smith recently accepted the
ena rmanship Of the State Christmas
sea- Campaign Committee and ap~
pointed prominent citizens to act as
county chalrmen. Commissioner Biggs
Is Nce-chairman. Homer Folks is sec
retary Of the state committee.
=, New lorK States quota outside Of
New FORK City is $3.50 900, represent
ing $4,000 100000 seals, and three times
me amount realized from the last sale
OF Christmas Seals.
There are 125,000 known cases Of the
oisease In the city, and 10.O97 deaths
resulted IN 1918, according to statistics
tuthlSned yesterday. In the first nine
months OF 1919 1916 new cases were
eH'S'ered The clty's death rate from
tsuoefcNiosls. however, has declined
,rotn coI 80 per 100000 IN 1898 to 1874 in
~ ana 100 IN 1918. II is estimated
'n@e 'here are now LOCO cases between
'ue battery and Fourteenth Street, west
OF Broadway
me emphasis was laid yesterday
v" 'Ne Importance of curing and pre-
V"Nng tue disease among children tho
economic loss caused annually by the
ulSe"se among adults and children alike
nnn wa estimated last year at 81 200 OO0.-
Ssv iVt me nation and $e07700 600 for
New York City.
ne canvass in New York State is
oeing made Jointly by the Red Cross
ana the National tuberculosis Associa-
uon, working outside of New York CITY
VITA the tuberculosis committee of the
s,a'e Charities Aid Association. The
proceeds OF the campaign viii be
divided as follows: Ninety-one and
seNen-tenths per cent for work in the
state where contributions are made. md
'he remaining s.3 per cent divided be-
,,"'en the American Red Cross and the
National tuberculosis Association after
campaign expenses are deducted An
organization dinner meeting to discuss
p'Ans Tor the drive viii be held to-
night at the Hotel Astor