Arizona republican., 1919-07-27
Local M. E. Centenary Head Home from East = Good Prospects for Obtaining National Tubercular Hos pital Here - Church and Individuals Interested

J. Stanley Howard, president of the board of trustees of the First M. E. church and chairman of the Centenary fund of the church for Arizona, has lately returned from the great Cente- nary of the church at Columbus, Ohio, later visiting New York at the Inter church movement. MT. Howard comes back greatly heartened at the prospect of the success of a movement which he has long been urging for the establish ment of a national tuberculosis sani- tarium.
 He has succeeded in enlisting the support of the church and is hopeful that as much as a quarter of a million dollars may be set aside for that pur- pose, probably more than that much from the Inter church fund. A fur ther contribution from the Rockefeller Foundation and subscriptions from than $250,000. All these expected funds, in the opinion of Mir Howard, would build a sanitarium that would fall far short of the scope of the in- stitution that he has in mind. It is the belief of the promoters that it will become a great world institution and 
 the government with liberal appropria- tions.
 The site selected, or tentatively se- lected, for the sanitarium is a section of land at the base of the southern mountains in Hieroglyphic canyon. Thatis unsurveyed land, and MT. How ard, backed by Governor Campbell and others. has been seeking legisla- tion by which the government can turn the land over for that purpose. The matter had been referred to the Ari- zona delegation in congress and all of the members had promised it their support. But lately there has been in- troduced a bill which authorizes the commissioner of the general land office to make such transfers of sites for in- stitutions not to be conducted for profit.
 Site Is Secured
 In order that thesite might be se- cured pending legislation on the sub ject, MT. Howard and eight other per sons some time ago covered it with placer claims.
 The first subscription, by the way for the sanitarium, was taken by MT Howard while on his way east He met T. E. Pollock at Flagstaff and re- ceived from him $250 in cash. The only other person he has approached for a private subscription was Mrs Nettie Mccormick of Chicago rela. tive of his and the widow of the late Cyrus H. Mccormick MT. Howard spent the week end at her resident in Lake Forest while on way east ant again on his return. Mrs. McCormicl pledged him s10,0O0 She also gave him the following letter to John D Rockefeller
 Letter to Rockefeller
 Lake Forest H.. i June 25, 1919. i Dear Mir Rockefeller: There is matter of most pressing importance 1 which, in my opinion, should be next l on the calendar-namely, nation wid i tuberculosis There is not a place il the United States where people o moderate means can go, in any mum bers, and receive treatment and cure | Thousands remain in an uncongenia | climate on account of there being n | place where they can go, and use Wha strength they have in earning at leas part Of their living. If such a plac was provided thousands would g while in the incipient stage of tn disease, and in one to two years woul be entirely cured
 MT. J. Stanley Howard, of Phoenix Ariz., has a plan he wishes to lay be l fore you, and I trust you will gran him a hearing.
 q have known MT. Howard fo many years. He is perfectly reliable and you can depend upon the truth fulness of any statement he may make He is president of the board of trus tees of the First Methodist Episcops