It is so odious, however, to raise hopes that may
not be gratified that it is a duty to insist that we must make sure that science really finds the best weapons for us to use. In the last few years cancer has been taking a much heavier toll of human life than ever before. We must know the reason for this before we can win, just as the soldier must understand his enemy before he can hope to beat him. The Red Cross Campaign, on behalf of which we publish an advertisement this week, and the Cancer Hospital, which is the only hospital devoted exclusively to cancer, are deserving of ample and instant support. The Red Cross prepares the grand attack, and the hospital performs the double function of trying to find out the facts while it is curing large numbers of patients when the disease has been taken early enough,
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