The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-08
WOMEN REGISTER 1OO PER CENT IN
 DRIVE FOR FUNDS
Workers In Anti-TuberCulosis Campaign Report Good Re- suits Despite Rain-Dr.
 Boswell to Talk

Although the subscriptions and the cash turned into head quarters of the campaign com mittee of the Anti-Tuberculosis association yesterday was most gratifying to the committee, the spirit of rivalry which ex- ists among some of the organ izations was evidenced by the fact that several teams turned In only a part of what they had collected, holding back some of the money to help swell their total at the close of the campaign.
 The fact that every committee was at work yesterday in the city and suburbs despite the constant rainfall, encouraged the chairman, Priestly Toulmin, and the field marshal J. Frank Rushton. They felt certain that the earnestness of the workers and the vital importance of the cause which they were helping would re- suit in the full amount desired being secured by the end of the week.
 Only in the rural sections were the workers held up by the rains. The condition of some of the roads off the main highways was held responsible for this fact and confidence was ex- pressed that later in the week with fair weather there was every indication that each house in the county will be visited during the week.
 WOMEN 100 PER CENT
 Workers reported that subscriptions from women in the offices and stores were running almost 100 per cent. One case was reported of an elderly woman who informed the committee that she could not give $1, which was the min mum subscription sought, but she ex- pressed a willingness to give 50 cents. A like amount was added to this sum by Field Marshal Rushton, and she was credited with the full dollar. ''The widows mite sometimes represents greater sacrifice and more real mean ing than even the largest donation from those in better circumstances" declared MT. RAshton.
 pr. Henry Boswell of Sanatorium, Miss, will be the principal speaker at the luncheon which will be held to- morrow at 1 o'clock in the ballroom of the Tutwiler. Dr. Boswell is in charge of the tuberculosis department of the state board of health of Mis- sissippi and is considered one of the greatest authorities on the disease and how to cure and prevent it's spread in the United States.
 MOMMOTH HOSPITAL
 It was through the efforts of Dr. Boswell and after seeing what had been accomplished in curing and pre- venting the disease in Mississippi, that the state legislature made an appro- priation of $1,250,000 to establish mammoth hospital for tubercular patients at Sanatorium. Miss, a point between Jackson and Hattiesburg. pr. Boswell will explain to the workers to- morrow the seriousness of the menace of tuberculosis, menace in many cases not seen until too late, and he will out line the gratifying results which have attended the efforts to stamp out the disease in the neighboring state.
 While no official figures regarding the amounts reported by the different armies and the various committees were made public yesterday, it was learned that up to the present time the women were leading any of the armies of men, Some of the committees are maintaining considerable secrecy re- garding their work and it may be the end of the campaign before the exact amounts collected by the different teams can be learned.
 AT HEADQUARTERS
 Many visitors called at headquarters at 2O23 Second avenue yesterday to make inquiry regarding the campaign and the work of the Anti-Tubercuiosis association. Quite a few left subscrip- tions, fearing that they would be out when the workers called for the money. Chairman Toulmin, Field Marshal Rush. ton, Dr. Eyes, Dr. Hhumphries. Ben c. Morgan, MT. Dabney and others, assist ing the conduct of the campaign, are 10 be found at headquarters at all hours of the day. In addition, there is an ample force of volunteer clerks and stenogra- phers to handle all details of the cam paign.
 Among the larger subscriptions report ed to headquarters yesterday were w. J. and Frank Rushton, $500; Victor H. Han son. for the Birmingham News com pany, s22; Moore & Handley Hardware company, S2C0s loveman, Joseph x Loeb, $50; Louis Pizitz, $50; J. Black & Sons, s100; Birmingham Slag company sloo; Birmingham Chero-Cola company, $lOo; Caheen Brothers, s1o0; J. w. Donnelly $100; Saks store, s1OO.