The Syracuse Journal, Volume 2, Number 6, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 June 1909 — Page 2

HELPING BACEWWI) PUPILS.

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F the removal of adenoid growths or enlarged tonsils: would transform a dullard into a child of normal mental activities, wouldn’t you consider it a good investment.’ If fitting the eyes with glasses steadied the nerves of a child,suffering from defective vision, wouldn’t you regard it Is the proper course to take? If any one of a dozen or so minor operations would enable a backward pupil to take the rank in which he be-

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longed wouldn’t you advise such disposition of the case? That is the attitude assumed by’ the child study committee of the Detroit public-schools, which js-performing service of incalculable value in eradicating, or at least alleviating,- the ailments to which the younger generation are -subject, -says the FreeJ-Tess. > In its chosen field child study is working wonders. Comparatively few aside from those actively identified with, educational work in the public schools are aware of its existence. Even among those who know of it there are many with only the. slightest conception of what is being done, or the significance of its labors. The movement grew out of the realization that, through no fault of their own,- great numbers of children labor under a handicap that makes advancement slow, if not altogether impossible. In nearly every instance the continuation of these troubles that cast a blight anon'the youthful mind could be traced to parental ignorance of the true state of affairs or indifference. Not a few cases were found where of means prevented the prescribed course being followed, even when parents were warned of the danger. And all the time these children were greying into men and women who must go out into the world ill-fitted to fight lifb.s battle, that, had they been given attention in time, migh/: have been eliminated. ■ . ■ • ' . . . ‘

WOMAN ROUTS TAX MEN. Routed by one of the biggest potato mashers in Cumberland county, held tightly in the right hand of Mrs. H. L Frank, Tax Collector J. H. Deckman, of Harrisburg, Pa., is resting upon his arms and making further plans. Deckman went to Frank's bouse to collect taxes and found ' Frank seated in a kitchen chair. Just .then the potato masher and Mrs. Frank broke into the scene and Deckman retreated. Deputizing . A. D. , Brandt' to assist him, he returned. Both were routed with the masher, bat not before Deckman had obtained an inventory of part of the household; goods. A third visit to tack up a levy notice on the front door met with a third rout. Mrs. Frank is awaiting the fourth move by Deckman. The potato masher is. still in service. GIRL LEFT FOR TRAIN TO KILL. At Gary, Ind., a man not known to . any who saw him, placed a 5-year-old girl on the track of the Michigan Central just before a passenger’ train was due, and then disappeared in the woods. Police Officer William Miller witnessed the affair and. grabbed the child from the track in time to safe its life. The little girl was taken to the police station and an effort made to find the man, but no trace could be found. The child said her name was Virginia Zaletto and that she is 5 years old. As no reports of the missing child were received Officer Miller took the little girl to his home.

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The “Great White Plague” is a black curse. In jthe past men have suffered from its ravages, hopeless, despairing, believing there was no way of escape. To-day courage lias been renewed through a knowledge that this greatest of all modern scourges can be checketl. Further, that it can b« controlled as surely us smallpox or yellow fever. It is to hien of science that credit is due for this blessed relief. Unrelenting, these tireless toilers of the library and the laboratory have kept up their self-appointed task of devising ways to lessen the frightful mortality from this one cause. Ignorance and - carelessness on the part of the people, their indifferent attitude in important matter, have boeu discouraging enough to all save the most persistent workers along this line, but these have kept up the fight, with no thought of .personal reward, intent only in securing for humanity • -the priceless benefit of immunity from the ravages of the white plague. Unless existing conditions are improved there are 8.000,000 persons how living in this country who are destined to die of consumption. This dread disease attacks old and young alike, and is particularly deadly between the ages of 15 and 40 years. It destroys more lives than any other disease. It also causes incalculable losses from a monetary viewpoint, since it not only prevents the person attacked from working, but makes him a burden on relatives or oh the public. As an offset to this alarming outlook, the crusade against consumption—which is world-.

wide in its scope—is rapidly getting under full headway in this country. Everywhere are seen encouraging signs of public and private appreciation of the situation. Congress will be asked to make a large appropriation' for the purpose of investigating anti cheeking the disease and of publishing amd distributing material for the education of the public. There was a bill to this effect before the last Congress, and favorabie legislation this session is expected. The General Federation of Women’s Cldbs, with 800,000 members, is pledged to work for this legislation and to aid the anti-consumption crusade in every way possible, as are many other large and influential organizations of men and women. Public institutions for the treatment of consumptive patients are becoming numerous. The public, seemingly, is at last aroused. Persons attacked no kmger fold their hands and wait for the end. Summer and' winter camps in the Adirondacks and the Roekies, open air sleeping quarters, sun parlors, “solariums” on the roofs

SAVING SOULS BY MATT,. Oklahoma Gler»yman to Send His Sermons Broadcast. Christianity carried broadcast by a twocent stamp seems odd compared with the methods of the late Sam Jones, Dwight L. Moody and other great evangelists who relied largely upon personal magnetism as a means of securing converts ; yet this idea has been adopted by Rev. Ward R. Clarke, pastor of the Unitarian Church of Oklahoma City. "I see no reason,” says Mr. Clarke, “why my innovation should not, if faithfully followed, .b® th® means of great good. A sermon is a sermon, no matter whether delivered orally or in

Teachers are required to note the^condition of all children under their care. Where defects are noticeable they make out a detailed report on blanks furnished for the purpose and forward it to the parents, with the request that a physician be consulted concerning the cause. If they fail to heed the warning the committee is notified, and an investigation instituted! If it is found that the parents are too poor to bear the expense of the necessary treatments, the work is performed gratuitously by one of a number of leading specialists who have been Interested in the work of saving the children, and who are no less .enthusiastic over what is being accomplished than are members of the committee. A prolific source of trouble is the lack of attention on the part of parents in providing proper nourishment for children. Cases are constantly coming to light where children are given a light breakfast and sent off to school with a few pennies with which to provides mid-day lunch. Usually these pennies are invested in sweetmeats on the way to school, the child, through lack of sufficient food, being in an exhausted condition long before the school dav is over. Eye strain, defective hearing, adenoid growths, enlarged tonsils diseases of the nose, spinal curvature, due to physical weakness or assuming bad positions; nervousness in varied forms, and defective teeth are among the most common ailments with which the child study committee deals Everv case is taken up by the committee and disposed of as circumstances warrant. The work does not end when a defective child has been turned over to a physician. From that time on he is watched as closely as before and the change, if any, carefully noted. The improvement is usually apparent at once, the pupiishowing fnarked advancement in his studies and displaying a keener interest in what is taking place about him. ‘ Since the establishment of the child study committee in Detroit something over 500 cases have been handled, and almost without exception results have been beneficial. Wherever conditions warranted such a course, backward children have been singled out and placed in classes where they could be given special attention. At the outset only one room was opened, but the number has increased until now there are seven schools in whicn separate departments are maintained for backward pupils, and where they are given advantages that be theirs if left to their own devices. Raise Fund to Help. When it was. found that many children afflicted with defective vision could not find relief because their parents were too poor to buy glasses, the Teachers’ Association voted a sufficient sum to keep the cause moving. En tertainments have been given, and in various ways, funds have been raised. A manufacturing optician' was found who expressed a willingness to help the good work along by furnishing glasses to needy children at wholesale. Several of the best- known specialists volunteered their services where parents were found to be unable to bear the expense of treatments, and in various other ways substantial aid has been rendered. “Think of the thousands of children who, because of some slight physical defect that with proper attention could be easily remedied, may have to go through life laboring under a handicap,” says a medical pioneer in clinical study. “Think what this work means to the community, aside from the benefits conferred upon individual. I am confident that not less than 85 per cent of the so-called juvenile disorderlies could be converted into normal children if their cases were properly diagnosed and treated. That would mean that there would be fewer truant officers and no juvenile court. They are doing good work in this respect, but naturally the greater field lies in the public schools, where we are seeking to locate the defects and remedy them before the sufferers become juvenile delinquents.”

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of greatest. usefulness. Even from an economic standpoint the loss is staggering to the senses. Statistics show that fully one-tenth of mankind die of tuberculosis, the estimated mortality for the United States being 200,000 each year. In ten years this means two jnilliou? per sons swept out of life in this awful white plague. Yes, over five hundred a day! If war or famine,’ fire or flood, should break forth and swwp toeternity 500 of our people every day, what- an outcry ■there would be I How prompt would be the measures of prevention taken by our government, national and State; and by' our people, both urban and rural! But so insidiously does the white specter go about his grim harvest that we are apathetic in the face of our great danger. Once the people come to know their peril and to realize that there are means of arresting the ravages of the disease, then will our progress toward absolute, or practically absolute, immunity become a matter of speedy accomplishment.

writigg, and, moreover, it is a fact that the average man or woman remembers more clearly what they read than what they hear. “Our idea of religion is plain. We do not depend upon working up an audience to a high pitch of fervor. We prefer to convert by the exercise of reasoning power. In short, we try to produce' argument in support of our belief—argument which can be considered free from exciting environments, free from the magnetic spell which so many public speakers cast over an audience. “According to my plan, I will mall a copy of my sermon to each member, and, of course, it is my hope to make

of houses and business blocks and hotels are so common as no longer to excite comment. Possibly the latest and most significant development in this direction is an open air roof garden on the top of a big Philadelphia hotel. 300 feet up in the air. Here there are attractive tents, growing evergreen trees, and a scene., that [suggests a camp the woods. ■ I’rebably ’ the most significant. feature of this crusade is that the war. has been carried into the public schools, with the idea of teaching the rising generation the nature, cawses, dangers‘and prevention of consumption. This new departure already obtains, in many parts of the United States. This movement for the popular education of school children on the causes and dangers of consumption is receiving a great impetus, and 'experts on this subject conclude that within five years the majority of children in the United States will be taught concerning the evils and dangers of tuberculosis before they leave the lower grades of the public schools. It seems as if this knowledge should form one of the most efficacious weapons that can be wielded against the “Great White Plague.” ’The importance of the question can scarcely be overestimated. ' More deaths occur from tuberculosis than from typhoid fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever and smallpox combined. Most of those who die of consumption are in tlie active working age, between 18 and 40, the period

the organization State-wide. Perhaps some will read my sermons more than once, and it is hoped that a system of filing the sermons will be inaugurated.” Mr. Clarke says that his scheme will “strike a blow at vanity, because it at once does away with the all too common habit which the women have of going to church nierely for a display of sartorial peacockage. There need be no bonnet carnival nor silk skirt exposition uhder the terms of my plan, for the church member, sitting in the quiet of his or her home, will simply read and assimilate my sermon, and if there be anything of good in it, there is every opportunity for it to take effect”

A NEW THRILLEE AT A CHICAGO AMUSEMENT PARK. h U ? ’ is? - ■ Imp- - Um f r ■>”</" W' JHI // // •>// / f •» THE STEEPLECHASE. One of the new thriller at a Chicago amusement park this season is the steeplechase, a riding device which never has been installed heretofore in an amusement park in the AVest It consists-of a number of parallel tracks, each nearly "half a mile long, and running, with many dips and rises from an elevated starting place to the ground. The gravity horses race at terrific speed along these tracks, those mounted with the heaviest riders attaining the highest speed. THE “PANTALOON” GOWN, THE LATEST FREAK IN FASHION. CL Jr FxSSSk pg; / 7 great z> ’ GREETS K Jfc ° VARIATcortS Fl * *■ * ’""J 'iwAC-norf Cartoonist’s Idea of the New “Pantaloon” Gowns. The “pantaloon" gown, the new thriller m feminine wearing apparel, sets the directoire gown upon a pedestal of modesty. Just one year ago the first tidings were given to an anxious public that the directoire was out. Now comes another creation still more startling. It has the directoire back, long effect, Louis XIV. front and bolero shape. Seven yardts of cloth compose the whole dress and the train is fifty-six inches in length. ' Hut that is not the point. When »he wearer stands still it resembles an ordinary, pretty costume. The moment she moves it is quite different What has seemed a skirt parts just above the knees ami regular trousers come into view. Trousers—just trousers. They make no pretense of being anything else. They measure thirty-six inches around the bottom and reach to the shoe soles. A seam that goes up the front of the skirt from the knees to the waist gives an all pantaloon.appearance to the front of the garment. . . ■ . ;

DUG A GRAVE FOR HIS WIFE. John Helmes, while insane, it is said, dug a deep hole in the back yard at his home on the Bridgetown Pike, near Cincinnati, and Informed his wife that he intended to bury her alive. The wife telephoned the police, but before the officers arrived Helmes

rushed after her. She broke away before he pould get her into the pit and sought refuge 'in a room, where Helmes locked her in. The officers found Helmes parading in front ,of the reom armed with a kuife. He was arrested only after a desperate struggle. Helmes was held on a charge of lunacy made by the family physician. Hedged About With Xovlna Care. Mote—l heard that old Goldie was going to marry again. Beam—Nothing in it. His children are too smart, for that. They never let him go behind the scenes. They keep him well so that he can't fall in love with a nurse. And for fear that he might’marry the cook ; they make him live at $ hotel.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. ■ . , A Position of Advantage. “I see,” said the progressive woman, “that a great many members of our sex are practicing dentistry with great success.” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “Some of us go to any pains in order to be in a position to absolutely monopolize the conversation.” —Washington Star

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