The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-01
SENATOR SMITH 4 BENEF ACTOR
TO THE AFFLICTED

Recently the following letter was
sent to Senator John Walter Smith
from one Of the NEST eminent and
public spirited members Of the Med
ical profession:
Baltimore. Nd Aug u, 1920.
Senator John Waiter Sm iii,
United States Senate.
Committee on the District Of
Columbia,
washington. D. G.
my Dear Senator
4 can most enthusiastically testify
TO the wonderful help that you have
been to the 1aedicaI profession for
many years In some Of the greatest
public movements which you have un-
dertaken IL this State and in the
whole United States. Yen have always
beers the one man in the United
States Senate to whom we could go
with a feeling Of certainty that you
would interest yourself ii the cause
for which we spoke. Your self-sacri-
ficing work for the tuberculonss OF
Maryland is a monument to your pub
lie spirit and fneness
With kindest regards and assur-
ances of my best wishes, / am,
Very sincerely yours.
''(Signed) HUGH H. YOUNG"
There are many reasons why SEN
ator Smith well merits this splendid
tribute
Having family history of consurnp-
tion, that most terrible of the min
listers of Death, Senator Smith deter
mined to do what he could to save
others from the bitter sorrow that he
had endured. Having conferred with
members Of the Medical profession
Senator Smith concluded that much
might be done to cure patients suffer
ing with this disease by proper treat
ment, and to prevent in great meas
ure its spread by taking patients away
from home wllile Under treatment
Senator Smith, therefore, at the
session of the Legislature in 1906.
prepared bill providing for a State
tuberculosis Sanatorium, carrying an
appropriation Of $165, 900. A splendid
site on the crest of the Blue Ridge
Mountains in Frederick county was
procured, suitable buildings erect
ed and a corps OF physicians and
nurses engaged whO have made this
the model institution Of the kind in
the United States It has about $50
patients at time According to the
report of DR.. Victor f. Cullen, the
Superintendent, for the years 1918 and
1913, 1,746 patients were admitted, and
a like number discharged, many OF
them restored to health ard many
more improved and that many homes
relieved of the imminent danger Of
contagion and the spread Of the dis
ease. In the dozen years that this
great institution has been in opera
ton, thousands OF patients, many OF
them little children, have been treat
ed, many restored to their homes,
cured or the disease arrested; and
the State has an investment of about
$75O,O there. Mothers have re-
ceiyed their children, rescued from
death, children have had mothers and
fathers restored to them, and thou
sands have had occasion to thank Sen
ator Smith as their benefactor. Such
work as this should appeal especial
ly TO the women of Maryland SEN
ator Smith is still President of this
Sanatorium, and his interest in it is
unabated. At each Session Of the
Legislature he is on hand to urge the
appropriation for proper support.
{ Does not a man who has done all
this disinterested benefaction IN his
fellow citizens deserve their support?
Is it not well for the State that this
faithful public servant should be re-
tanned in the public serxice2