Evening star., 1924-03-09
Committee TO PUSH
CANCER CURB HERE
One Hundred Lay and Medical
Members to Serve in Months
Campaign.

The District Of Columbia committee
troll Of Cancer is forming a COM
mittee of one hundred to aid in the
forthcoming campaign of education
for the eradication of cancer.
In connection with the movement,
which is to open March Is and con-
tinue for one month. the society last
night directed attention to the clinic
maintained by the Women's Welfare
Association, at Eleventh and l. streets
northwest where women NAV obtain
! examinations.
Emphasizing that the public must
| be brought to the realization that
early diagnosis and appropriate
care is going to save lives" the COM
nittee said that this clinic offers to
women the opportunity Of having
IL careful examination of any portion
of the body when they suspect that
there is any new growth, cancer
| tumor, lump, mass sore or any other
| persistent evidence of trouble that
| raises the question of cancer in the
patients mind. and after that eXami-
| nation to direct the patient toward
| safe and sane treatment in competent
! hands"
Clinic Shows Value.
The value of the clinic. which has
| been in operation since fall, already
has been shown, il was added. be-
cause, in most cases where examina-
veloped that "the trouble was more
| in the patients mind than in her
| body" = /
The committee of one hundred will
be composed of both lay and medical
members Among the former, who
already have pledged their support,
hGs Epscopa a: ksE sishop aa"ef Of Il
Rev. John B; Creedon. president Of
Simon of the Eighth Street Temple: !:
DR. Charles Wood of the Church of
| the Covenant. Roland S. Robbins.
William Phelps Emo. Rev. G.. F; Dud-
Miss Janet Richards. Mrs. Herbert E..
Day, president Of the Y. w. c. A.:
Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president Of
the District of Columbia Congress of
Mothers and Parent cher Asso-
Citations; Miss Clara D. Noyes, direc-
tor of nursing, Red Cross: Mrs Will
liam E. Chamberlin. president Of the
Women's City Club; Miss Ida Haf-
Federation of Women's Clubs: Mrs
Charles Wetmore, president of the
Women's Welfare League;- Judge
Mary O'Toole and Mrs. Ellen Spencer
Mussey. dean of the Washington Col
lege of Law.
| Physicians on Committee.
|
| are: Surgeon General Ireland of the
! Army, Gen. Hugh S. Cumming.
surgeon general, United States pub
| lie health service: Admiral +. r..
| Stitt, surgeon general of the Navy;
| Dean George NJ Kober of George
| town University, William CO Borden,
George Washington University; Ed
ward A Balloch, Howard University;
John ID. Thomas, president of the
| Medical Society of the District of
Columbia; JONES F. Mitchell, II. c.
| Macatee, John a. Foote, G.. Brown
Miller. A. B. Bennett, Sterling Ruf1in,
Joseph j. Mundell, c. w. Richardson,
c. b Conklin, H. Fl. Hazen, Joseph II.
Bryant, William b. Mason, Thomas
a. Clayton. Louis S. Greene, William
E. Clarke, r. B. Carmichael, Harry B.
Parker, H. A. Fowler, F. Y.Davidson,
r. T. Holden. z. F. Pickford. James
A. Cannon, Harry A. Kaufman, L. T.
Jones, Albert E. Pagan, Frank Leech.
d. L. Borden, Robert Sullivan, j:
Lawn Thompson, John w. Warner, A.
w. Boswell, Truman Able. S. R.
Karpeles, c. S. White. E. A. Merritt,
Joseph D. Rogers. Arthur c. Christie,
J. Russell Verbrycke, jr.: Louis Lehr,
Kate Karpeles, Isabel H. Lamb, A.
Frances Foye, Ada Thomas and
Sophie A. N. Jung.