Evening star., 1922-11-12
AID FROM PULP|TS
FOR CANCER WEEK
Ministers Today to Promote
Work of Educating Against
the MaIady.
SERMONS ON SUBJECT
Object of the Movement Here to
Be Explained-Local Commit
tee Announcement.
SERMONS ON SUBJECT

The opening gun of the campaign
of education for the control OF can
Ter will be fired from the pulpit OF
every church in the city this morn
ing, according to an announcement
last night from the local committee
in charge of the Cancer week
movement.
The object of the weeks campaign
is to call attention to the early,
symptoms of the disease so that tne
victim may consult competent meolcai
advice before it is too late. cancer
IL is declared. can be cured IN its
early stages. but il is fatal alter IL
has progressed to any extent. lne
public, II is hoped by the conlmittee
in charge will be able 10 recos ui1e
danger signals at the end OF the
week and thus help to materially re-
duce the 10000 mortality rate III lie
United States annually.
Committee OF Fifty Members.
The campaign committee consists
OF fifty prominent members ol .v
District of Columbia Medical oocletS
and the local committee Of the amer
lean Society for the Control or can
Ger. Members of the first committee
include Brig. Gen. Charles +. Sawyer,
the Presidents personal physician
surgeon General ireland. U. S. A;
Surgeon General Stitt, Z. S. ~; sur
reon General Cummings, pubic heaieh
service: DIR. George NJ. kober. George
town University: DR.. Wlliiam Cllne
Borden, George Washington
sity: DR. f. A. Balloch, Howard I'M
cersity: DIR. \. W. Boswell. president
DR.. II. {. Macatee. DR.. T. l.. MacDon-
aid. Dr. CT Brown Miller. Dr. j.
WeStley Bovee. Or. Charles w. klcn-
ardson. DR.. W. Is. Mason. DE- n. n.
Hazen, Dr. Joseph H. Bryan, Dr.
Randolph Carmichael. DR.. Louis lehr.
Dr. James +. Mitchell, DR.. Thomas A.
Clayton. DR.. Henry p Parker, Dr.
William Earl Clark. DR.. Louis Greene
DR. s r. karpeles. DR.. Truman Abbe'
Or r. T. Holden, DR.. f. +. Pickford'
pr. Albert Pagan, DR. J. A. Cannon.
DR. Daniel Borden. DIR. Robert Suiii-
van, DR. T. l.. Thompson, Or. j. Rus
sell Nerbrycke, DR.. y. C. thrlstle'
Dr. H. NJ. kaufman. DIR. Ada Thomas.
DR.. Taylor Jones. DR. John Foote, Dr-
ISABELLE Haslup Lamb. DR.. a. Frances
E'oye Dr. Joseph Rogers, DR. W. Z.
Fowler. health officer. DR.. l.. H.
Reich elderfer and DR.. Kate kar-
peles
Others to Take Part.
A special committee appointed by
the District of Columbia Medical So
ciety includes Dr. f. a. Merritt. chair
man; DR. A. L. Stavely. DR.. Thomas
Grower. DR. E. NJ. Farmer. Health
Officer W. c. Fowler, DR.. Charles
Stanley White, DR.. Lester Neuman
and DR.. George Ruffin.
The local committee of the Amer
lean Society for the Control of Cancer
includes DR.. Harry H. Kerr. chairman;
Mrs. Joseph Letter, secretary; Mrs.
Whitman Cross. Arthur c. Moses
Thomas Bell Sweeney. Henry 3. Spen-
GER, Dr. Frank Leech and DR.. Harry
FoowIer.
The Washington women who have
heen assisting Mrs. Joseph Letter In
active part in the work this week. in
clude Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe. Mrs.
Alexander Wolf. Mrs. James F. Nit
chelI. Mrs H. Fl. Kerr. Miss Char
lotte Harding; Mrs Truman ,:,, Abbe. Or.
Chamberlain. Miss Anne w. Ruft1n,
DIR. Kate karpeles, Mrs. Flora Camp
bell. Mrs. Joseph Saunders. Miss Flora
Hendley Mrs. Whitman Cross: Miss
Gertrude Macarthur: Mrs; william
Frey, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey. Mrs.
Virginia White Speel. Mrs. Theodore
Richards. Miss Ethel Bagley. Miss
Agnes Regan and Mrs. Fairfax Har-
rison.
OrSaniza lions to Aid.
The women's organizations which
will take part in the campaign will
consist of the Federation OF Wom-
ems Clubs. the Women's City Club,
the Twentieth Century Club. Busi-
ness Women's Council. the Parent
Teachers Association, the Y. w. c. A..
the Ladies Aid Societies, missions
and auxiliaries of all Protestant
churches, the Council of Jewish
Women Order of Eastern Star.
of Nursing Education. superintend
cnts of courses of all training schools,
Red Cross nurses. Army Nurses AS
sociation, the public school teachers
and the Christ Child Society.
The program for the week will in
clude noon-day meetings at neitn's
Theater, beginning Tuesday: ad-
dresses at meetings of various citi-
zens' associations and other orggani-
zaztions during the week and the
meetings at the home of Mrs. Joseph
Letter every afternoon, excepting
Saturday.