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In the dingy smoke begrimed street the white front of one house gleamed prominently. White curtain hung at the windows. Tb doorstep was immaculate and an air of cleanliness and well being radiated from the place. A sign over the door read "Tuberculosis Clinic." Out of curiosity the passerby stepped inside. Of ali places which might be expected to radiate hopelessness and despair the tuberculosis clinic seemed to him the most likely. A nurse in white linen with a smiling face bustled up to him and inquired if ihe could do anything for him. "1 am just curious." he said. "1 would like to watch." The nurse led him to a chair where he could see the whole room and satiate his curiosity. Some of the neen and women who crowded the place did look ill, but none of them hopelessly so. Some were pale and emaciated and some coughed occasionally, but for the most part they were rather normal looking and not at all depressed. In the corner a woman was standing n the scales and smiling at the nurse. "I have gained a pound," she said proud ly. "1 have taken the milk and eggs regu larly nerer missed once." The nurse laughed and a doctor peered trom behind a screen. "She is dome

ARMY OF WORKERS NEEDED ON THE FRENCH FRONT TO SUPPORT THE GALLANT MEN liEHIND THE GUNS

The recent experience of the United States engineers near Cambrai when many of them dropped shovels and spades to seize irons and fight side by side with their British allies, emphasizes the fact that an army of workers is needed constantly to supplement an army of fighters. Tho upper picture shows in striking silhouette a detail of sappers secured by the British and Canadian Recruiting Mission returning at night after a hard day's work consolidating gains on the French front. The lower photograph apparently doesnt show the ,?bone dry district because .Tommy is r.e?t ji-r

' A School for White Plague Victims.

N. 1. Waiting for Their Friend the Doctor. No. 2. The Poorest Citizen Has the Benefit of a First

Tuberculosis Clinics Teaching Patients How to Cure Themselves of Dread Disease. splendidly." he said. "Be sure to keep up the milk and eggs and don't forget your nap every day." The stranger became fascinated as he listened to the patients' talk. It was cheerful, though there were frequent references to temperature and "cure," but for the most part it was about out of door life on tenement roofs and in back yards. There were a number of children in the crowd and they all seemed happy. They were certainly coming in for their share of attention and appeared to enjoy it The sounds that came from behind the screen were anything but mournful. Every now and then a newcomer entered and was greeted with a general smile. It was all very mysterious until he talked with the nurse. She told him that tuberculosis is one of the most curable of all diseases and that the clinic is a sort of school in which those who have it learn to take care of themselves and others so they will not spread infection. She explained that the children belonged to tuberculous fathers or mothers and were coming to the clinic as a matter of precaution so they could be watched for symptoms of the disease and it could he arrested in its iocipiency. load of corkscrews. These are not used for bottles, but as posts upon whieh to hang barbed wire for the famous barbed wire entanglements. Pounding in a post is not only hard work but noisy work as well and is apt to attract the unwelcome attentions of the German snipers and machine gun "pill boxes, so Tommy laboriously but silently screws these corkscrews into the ground and then strings his barbed wire between them. The insert at the left is a striking silhouette of an anti-aircraft gun at twilight guarding the workers and the fighters from German -roplaries. . Among the men urgent-.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM.

Class Specialist. "Home work centres about the clinic," she- said. The visiting nurse sends her patients here for medical attention. The clinic acts as a feeder to the hospitals, and if a patient is in need of sanatorium care we see that he gets it. Prevention is the keynote of the work. It is impossible to tell how many people are saved from getting tuberculosis by the teaching that emanates from the clinic." The Tuberculosis Clinic is established in every community in the country where the. fight against pulmonary tuberculosis is being carried on To-day there are nearly 500 of these clinics and dispen. sarics which radiate hopefulness and promote education, but this number is insufficient to care for the cases that are calling for attention. The American Red Cross and the National Association for the Studv and Pre vention of Tuberculosis a r emphasizing toe need or more clinics la connection with the annual Christmas sale of Red Cross seals. The seals will provide any community with funds to start a clinic. Ninety per cent of the money raised is left in the community and State to be used as an educational fund in anti-tuberculosis work. The war has made it necessary to open new clinics to care for men rejected from the army on a -count of tuberculosis. Everybody is asked to do his bit to help esraousn tnese centres of cure and lizhtenment. en-

ly wanted by the inland waterways and docks section of the Imperial Royal - Engineers are blacksmiths, boat builders, carpenters, caulkers, drillers, frame benders,, heavy timbermen, platers, platers' helpers, pile drivers, auarrymen, riggers, rivetters and - their mates, seamen, shipwrights, shipyard machinists and stevedores between the ages of 41 and ,56. A sapper, who ranks as rivate, receives 76 cents per day, a ance corporal ' 84 cents, a second corporal $1, a corporal $1.08 and a serges it $1.28, and all get free transportation to the point of enlist menfc.

KAISER IN CLOSEUP GARBED AS TURK

KAISER Wl LH ELM. This unusual pboto of the kaiser vas taen " in ' Constantinople during his recent diplomatic visit to Turkey. He is vearing a Turkish field marFill's uniform. HEADS BUREAU TO HELP AMERICANS Jules Cambon. PARIS. Jan. 1. Jules Cambon, formerly French ambassador to the United States, will be the director of the new American department in the French government which has been formed to assist Premier Clemenceau in giving direct attention to the requirements of the American expeditionary force and to any other American activities. C:?mbon is not a member of the cabinet, but his functions will be as important as if he were one. He will rpresent the premier in all dealings with American representatives. In Cambou's department will be a central office of orders and buying for the American army, which will be directed by Mr. Gane, who, with Captain Andre Tandien, was on the high commission to the United States, The office will perform the ame sort of work for Americans in France as the government is doing for the French in this country. GKOV3 PRODUCE, ND CANS II Flenry M. Jett, Policeman, who has signed the U. S. Food A rl ministration pledge and this fall, has canned the produce of his garden.

TUESDAY, JAN. 1, 1918.

APPEAL TO PATRIOTIC LUMBERJACKS IN SOUTHERN PINE CAMPS

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posters in the forests as a reminder of the Lumberjack's DUTY TO LUMBERMEN: For the support of onr soldiers in France the Government must have wooden ships. Without ships the war cannot be won. Without timbers ships cannot be built. OUR COUNTRY LOOKS TO YOU. Every swinjr of an axe, every cut of a saw, may score as heavily as a shot fired from the trenches. Help our boys in France. He'.p them win the war. Make the world safe for democracy. ' SOUTHERN PINE ASSOCIATION. Lumberjacks far back in the forests are eating their dinner these days to the accompaniment of patriotic oratory. I Aroused to a realization of the important part they must play in the war for democracy, woodsmen, sawyers and axemen, hard-fisted, strongmuscled men, are toiling with might

uu uiuu lumus me uiS us unuc rae Association engaged the servSaio needs to build his wooden fleet. I ices of a number of forceful speak

Barring Red Cross Seal Doing its Bit at Ousting an "Enemy Within." This is a true story of a man who wanted to go to war and who enlisted when the first c::ll enmr. He passed fbe physical esnrnination. He told hi? friends t h :i r it wn? lite pnudest d:iy of his life when lie riiiirclie'l down the street of liis home town and hoardeJ the troop train for camp. He gloried in the hardships of riimp life. He plunged into its' routine 'ind went vigorously throcsrh drill and march and bayonet and target practiee. OftD be was drenched to the skin hv dw Hnrll often at niclit he slept under sranty corering. He scarcfly noticed tins, for he was training to strike a Mow for lihertv. The blood of Revolutionary ancesrc flowed in his veins. After a mr.nth or c the strain bejran to tell on lu.-n While o-ber men seemed to grow stronger he began to lose weight and strength. He would cot admit this, even to himself. In every camp in the United States toJay tuberculosis experts are conducting a special examination of recruits. Tbon sands of men who passed the first pbysi cal examination ire being sent rome lie cause these experts find their lungs nffected. Latent symptoms of the diseass. nnsafipecteJ before, bave developed under the hardships of camp life. This young fellow came op for this examination in October. It was found that he had an active case of tnb-reolosii The fighting blood of Revolutionary an cestors did not avail to keep him in the service. He was seDt home, broken hearted. Tbe record of his case is on file In the office ot the National Association fur tbe Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis in New York city, where it was sent by tbe division surgeon in accordance with tbe request of military authorities. When notice of his discharge reached the association a letter was sent to the Health Commissioner of his State asking that be interest himself and help tbe young fellow in his fiebt against the discasee. - The Commissioner answered than ting tbe association and saying be bad sent Instructive literature and would see that tbe young man received medical atten tion- But the association did net stop

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j From 700,000 feet of ship timbers j a day which were going to shipyards ; the middle of November, Southern j pine mills are now furnishing the government 1,200,000 feet a day. j Production is increasing rapidly, and j soon it is believed the goal of 2,000,000 feet a day which the Shipping Board set as necessary to operate all shipbuilding plants at full time will be reached. In order that every man engaged in mill and woods operations might be thoroughly impressed with the vital necessity of exerting his utmost ettorts to furnish the enormous quantities of ship timbers needed by the government to construct ships to transport men and supplies to the 'battle line in France, the Southern

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No. I Getting instruction in health rul li'.ng. No. 2 Each soldier is thoroughly examined. No. 3 Rejected on account of Tuber culosis. here. J he Anti-1 uoercuiosis society is tbe young man's town received a letter requesting that a trained nurse call on bun and ;ct him to attend a clinic An answer is on file saying this will be done, and that the local authorities will try to arrest the disease and aid in llie paticut'n cure. The file under which this information is gathered will npver accumulate dns-t. Neither ilJ tbe many other records on similar cases that are piling up in tbe association's office. As far as possible every man in the United States who us rejected from the army or Marine Corps because of tuberculosis will he followed no and induced to take the "core." ' It may seem a far cry from the sale of Red Cross Christina sestls to tbe story of this man. The National Association and the American Red Cross, however which are Jointly conducting the sale, wish the public to understand that there is a close connection. Millions of dollars are needed for the care of toberenlnas "rejects." The tus cbicery that-has been set in motion in their behalf mast not rest or slacken its speed. Local anti-tuberculosis aasocm tions upon which tbe care ot these canes will fall mast have funds for nurses. clinics and sanatoria. Red Cross seals can sopply this money. Ninety per cent of the funds stay in tbe community in which tbey are raised sad

ers, who are now canvassing the entire Southern lumber producing territory. Congressmen, former governors and other notables have lent their services. After making three, sometimes five addresses a day, campaigners frequently travel from point to point at night in automobiles, in order to lose no time.. The ship timbers producing area, which extends from the east coast of Florida 100 miles into Texas, is being thoroughly covered. "Indications are that the wooden fleet program will be well ahead of schedule by the middle of next summer," said J. E. RhoJes, secTetarymanager of the Southern Pine Association. "The South's lumbermen are thoroughly aroused, and may be expected to do their full duty to the nation." 3 J i i .-sis can be used tut clh work. So every seal pur:haet is doing his bit to save the rejects." The National Association '. bes IJQW agencies co-operating with it in this war work. Many ot these agencies are entirely or partially dependent upon tbe sale ot Christmas lesls for their main tenance. A recent study ot resources and incomes of 100 ot the leading aLU-tuber-cnlosis associations kho wed that 4&3 per cent got their main support trom Red Cross soaJ funds, la some ioraUties the agencies are entirely dependent onoo the Christmas stickers for their existence. It is broadly estimated that ninety per cent of the financial support for the movement is secured by the sale, . These figures show bow imperative t is that tne sale ot seals is trebled this Christmas when the cemands anon ta associations are increasing and the war makes tbe fight against tbe daease a national necessity.

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