Important Notice to Subscribers

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Every American citizen who has come in contact in any way with the nationwide anti-tuberculosis campaign owes something to Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, to whose faith, perseverance and genius the founding and much of the later success of this movement have been due. But more than the average citizen, does the physician, the tuberculous patient, the nurse and the anti-tuberculosis worker, those who make up the backbone of the JOURNAL's subscription list, owe to the Seer of Saranac Lake. To him they owe the scientific foundation on which the whole structure of cure and prevention of tuberculosis to-day is erected.

It is, therefore, highly fitting that the JOURNAL should appeal to all of its readers for the support of the Trudeau Foundation, a fund of $500,000 being raised both as a memorial to Dr. Trudeau and also to carry on the unfinished scientific tasks which he was obliged to lay down. Every one owes Dr. Trudeau something, and every one must feel a thrill of joy at being allowed in some measure at least to discharge that obligation. His fondest hope was that his work might be per

petuated in a research fund. Readers of the JOURNAL, to whom Dr. Trudeau means so much, are given a chance to help. In an accompanying article Dr. Walter B. James tells more in detail about the inception and purposes of the Trudeau Foundation.

Any contribution, no matter how small, will be welcome. If you wish to give a pledge to pay in installments or in full at a future date, such pledges will be welcomed. Send cash or pledges to Trudeau Foundation Fund, JOURNAL OF THE OUTDOOR LIFE, 289 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Checks should be made payable to George S. Brewster, Treasurer.

A report of the fund will be given each month in the JOURNAL and subscriptions received during the month will be acknowledged in this way. The following subscriptions have been sent in to start the JOURNAL'S fund:

Mrs. Albert J. Milbank
A Friend...
H. J..

E. J.

A. K.

$250.00

50.00

20.00

10.00

5.00

During his entire professional life, spent of necessity at Saranac Lake, Dr. Trudeau's constant and only aims were, first to develop and maintain a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis, and second, to create a series of agencies directed to research in tuberculosis and to teaching to others the most advanced knowledge of it. In all of these objects he was brilliantly successful. The sanatorium is a model of its kind and the laboratories at Saranac Lake harbor a group of ardent research workers, whose labors are constantly devoted to increasing our knowledge of the disease, always having as an object the discovery of means of curing it or of alleviating its sufferings.

Not long before his death Dr. Trudeau planned the establishment of a school of tuberculosis and much of his strength during those last days was devoted to the details of this project, which had been suggested by the repeated and insistent demands for enlightenment received from physicians all over the country who found their knowledge of tuberculosis inadequate to their needs. In response to this normal demand the school has been founded and is now in operation, and its success exceeds even its original promise. Those who are now seeking its instruction come from all parts of the country and comprise physicians who purpose becoming specialists in tuberculosis; who desire to devote their lives to institutional or to public-health work; or who merely are ambitious to pursue the study of the disease further than can be done in the medical schools. They form an eager, enthusiastic band of workers, who moreover will furnish many recruits to the ranks of the research students whose lives are given up to the search for a cure.

A distinguished rector of the University of Edinburgh once said, "The higher education

much as two-thirds, of all the original work of value upon tuberculosis done in America has come either from Saranac Lake or from graduates of Saranac Lake-that is, from workers who while being cured there came under the influence of Dr. Trudeau and imbibed his enthusiasm, his spirit of altruism and his abiding faith in man's ability eventually to solve all of man's problems, even the most knotty. These young men have gone out from this village in the woods, its sanatorium and its laboratories, and have taken up their labors in all parts of the United States and Canada, even the most remote, and are adding their contributions toward the solving of this great problem.

The chief purpose of the "Trudeau Foundation" is to maintain these various scientific activities in Saranac Lake, in connection with the Adirondack Sanatorium, as a memorial to Dr. Trudeau and to insure the permanence of his spirit and his effort toward the development of knowledge of the disease. One of the objects of the Foundation is to furnish fellowships to doctors who have been overtaken with tuberculosis, and who, while taking the cure at Saranac Lake, have shown an aptitude and enthusiasm for research laboratory work. Such fellowships should yield income sufficient to cover the simple living expenses of the worker.

To do this, an endowment yielding a yearly income of from $20,000 to $25,000 is required. Already $268,000 have been promised in sums down to one dollar or one-half dollar.

The JOURNAL OF THE OUTDOOR LIFE Subscription list to the Trudeau Foundation is designed to give an opportunity to all who desire to testify to their appreciation of what Dr. Trudeau's life accomplished, and to their share in his optimism, and his belief in the ultimate accomplishment of a real cure through the faithful and patient labors of those who make up the army of science.

Subscriptions of any amount may be sent to the JOURNAL OF THE OUTDOOR LIFE, 289 Fourth Avenue, New York City, for the Trudeau Foundation.