The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 28, 1915, Page 4

sicaslihinmeeevisin teapsetentpageenrindtin ys setnicntnunaeertteteer oe a see ROWAL, JAN. 2b, iyi, FAGH 4 ‘One-Fourth of the 20,000,000 School Children in the ¢ THE SEATTLE STAR MEMBER OF SCHIPES NORTHWEST LEAGUR OF NEWSIAPHRS raph News Service of the Uulted Preas Association United States Are Suffering From Defective Eyesight | There are 20,000,000 public school Think of this and eee if you can-!to receive and profit by education,| children in the United States. At] not help to stamp out blindness! and thus rear good, valuable and| wr least 5,000,000 of The question Is again asked, why) respectable eftizens and save mill-| ee Entered at Seattle, sth 8 oa a as Seoond-Cinss Matter By mail, out of elty, month up to # mon, $1.80; year $3 rier, clty > th n 0400, Private wong these children are these things not done? | And|ions of money that can then be de-| suffer from eye again the anawer returns—"'It is dif-| flected into desirable channels, | |} diseases or de fleult to say,” | New York elty has 660,000 public | WELL, IF we were secretary of state, we'd send a bunch of deserv-| fects which seri Both reforms could be accom-|*hool children, and 30 per cent! Ing democrats farther than Santo Domingo, ously tmpair thelr plished for perhaps $100,000, and |! there children are two years be-| “ od school progress, yet It costs $15,000,000 to care for, ind their natural grades. NEW J Y¥ Bachelors are to be taxed $50 a year; and @ lot of |About 12,000,000 the dependent blind. Ninety per cont of this misfor them declare it's worth it. ¢ sutter from eye, To this should be added the enor-| tune Is due to defective eyes, ears, . ear, nose or throat dises or de] mous cont of bullding and support-| Roses and throats . . fects, which prevent proper school! jng almshouses, charitable homes,|_PP. Cronin found in one school Belgians in the South advancement. len 150 defective, backward children: It costa about $15,000,000 of |” Gnraren who have detective eyes,| 127 had bad tonsils and adenoids TI. HOLLAND and England, tens of thousands of sturdy! pubiic money to support the 800.! oars, noses and throats cannot, un.|®"4 1% had defective eyes | Belgian fafmers, dispossessed of their farms and_ their ones dependents in the L sesaee| oo lags receive seg profit by PRL one Fonsdiging wore ail remaye| homes by war, thrown upon the beneficence of their hosts for) Most of this blindness could have} ‘To such children, schoolwork ia a/c@Me good and tractable puplis, sustenance! ‘been prevented by a two per cent) pain and a burden. They are al-| This Is a striking Itustration of In the southern United States hundreds of thousands of! solution of nitrate of silver dropped! weys behind their classes, some-| What may be done in other schools : f opt in the eyes at birth and by the an-/ times remaining in one room year| !t must not be supposed that eye acres of land literally crying to the heavens for the hand Of/ yuqi, systematic examination of all after year, an exasperation to the| tests among school children are| man to make it blossom and produce sustenance! school children’s eyes lteachers and die merely for the purpose of correct But there are difficulties that must be overcome before! This means that the lawmakers) thompecives uiragement to | ing ocular defects by glasses | ; 3 " . ; a" and the law enforcers of this coun-| Untess relieved and rendered fit, Such instances are, of course, ex-| even one Belgian family can be transported acr CHO. WETET Te ace hot Gatngr. thelr duty for study, they are regarded as men- tremely frequent, and many chil to a new Eden, Else the whole thing will be a failure Why do they not do their duty?| tally deficient and mo dren are retarded in their school The prime consideration lies not in the transportation) This fs hard to answer, as it is 00] become personally disheartened and, Work by nearnightedness or by oth problem, That is comparatively easy, But the great fact) cheap and easy and unobjectionable) truant, drift into bad society and|¢r defects, such us hypermetrop! that the Sout! t bear in mind is that these Belgian out-|*° Se¢ that thése two important pub astigmatiom, muscular weakness, hat the South must bear nde ipliaees 93 Bia OUT io duties are performed. €asts are destitute. They possess no means, All they have| ‘There is apparently no reason| Qe the criminal classes and then {fortable eye service, and which are is their knowledge of farming and their willingness to work.) why laws should not be passed re-) become an expense and care to the 2 ually followed by laziness, neg To bring them to America and set them down on some | during health departments to bi-| commonwealth as police court de- ecto P pvbal shetouetpenent, tru vac ’ ell the: vet busy would be an idle waste|*t that a2 per cent nitrate of sil-|fendante, and as dwellers in asy-/*ncy and school abandonmen| vacant land and tell them to get busy would be a ; ver solution should be dropped Into! jums, inatitutions and prisons. of time. They must have houses for their families, barns for] the eyes of every babe at birth, and| Education ts the greatest : F : x ns + | y ¢ 1 rye vuld ' 7 will disclose, such an the various ir crops, implements for their cultivation of the fields, cows) that school children’s eyes should to crime, and where education ts | “ae : , be systematically and annually ¢x-| not possible crime is almost sure to| frm of sore and red eyes, iritis, _ ete, Which prevent easy and com Hut there are many other ocular remy Conditions which the school tests! shictene fr sir food supply, horses a mules for their 3 and chickens for their food supply, horses and mu ss amined, and that vigorous step) raine ite ugly head. ulcers, cataracts, crosseyes and "hs, _ power, seeds for their first planting es }should be taken to eee that all de-| The war cry against crime should, | tearduct diseases. : Who is going to provide these necessities? tected eye diseases and defects) then, be “Education,” and where ed-| Are your child's eyes or lids In-| on ¢h, . : } e left the light shines directly into the pupil's face—this is harmful. On the right the flight Right there is the question that has caused the South to] should be relieved. |neation ts difficult or impossible, | flamed habitually? strikes the printed page over the left shooldenthie is proper. y' and ¢ sid And the answer to it seems universally If these two important reforms) owing to physical defects or din- Do they grow weary and painful pause and consider, / a al *“|should be carried out, a vast ma-| eases, immediate stops should be) after study? proceed from either ear? Does he; hold hand over one ear and then; mere eyesight. They also deter, to be, “The landowners. jority of blindness of this country) taken to relieve or remove such de-| Does he appear to be “cross-| fail to hear an ordinary voice at 20 the other.) Does he have colds in| \ heth hdd anu wade With this in view, a move has been started in Louisiana} would be exterminated! | fects, so that children may bs yed"? Does he complain of ear-|feet in a quiet room? (To test, the head? Is he a mouth-breather? Ne Whether your ! oon for a state-wide organization of the various promotion bodies | on we PLES SUE IO VT NARHA These tests cover more than ical attention. i It is planned by their co- _ Te i planned by their sononeration 2 Stiucreaiel te tie extes,| OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE || MISHAPS OF DIANA DILLPICKLES lPREAT NORTHERN ON WAY of providing a uniform and reasonable mode of settlement - - i Preferably rhe landowners should deal directly with the immi- HER FATHER’S FAVORITE BEAU ts and make terms that would be attractive to them. It aie AND is hoped to get the landlords to capitalize the Belgians for a ers coun SS “Tong enough time to get them thoroughly rooted to the soil RNEOD and then to sell them the land on very easy terms, payments to begin after the settlers have become self-supporting 4 One colonization plan already worked out contemplates opening up a tract of 16,000 acres in 50-acre farms. A family | of Belgians is to be placed on every other farm, their buildings and tools to be supplied by the landlord. It is the theory of ‘ ‘this plan that in a few years the intensive cultivation of thse > farms by the thrifty Europeans will make of each tract a gar © den spot. Then the landowner will reap an immense incre- ment upon the value of the intermediate vacant tracts. Thus "he will get his money back several fold | PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28.—Carry- placed in service between San Fran. “How (3 (1, DIANA HE'S Too OLD FoR ing 500 passengers en route for San cisco and Astoria. id Francisco for the opening of the mY ME, FATHER, 1 UK OLD FRIEND LARSON ne. Sam barter: Panama Pacific exposition, the BESIDES MR. SPENCE steamship Great Northern, built Or e ~—~\ 1S ALWAYS ROe here for the Northern Pacific 8. 8 SMBERING ME | Co., left this port at 9:15 a. m. to- WITH CITTLe joay. 4 The Great Northern will steam through the Panama canal and is expected to reach San Francisco about Feb. 13. The vessel is to be} HARDLY EQUIPPED DOESN'T COME HERE ANY Moré $ HE'S 4 GooD FELLAR AND A DARN FINE RAILROAD CONTRACTOR,” io v/ Mi HOPE NEVER ceases. Silty Sunday has again been invited to " Christianize New York. AN ILLINOIS distiller killed himeelf; that's sticking close to his own business. A Splendid Cellfull 4 HE doors of Sing Sing prison have closed behind two notable convicts. One is Joseph Cassidy, the political boss of Queens county; the other is William Willett, Jr., a lawyer. For four years these men have fought up hill and down dale, through all the courts and quibbles of the law, to escape the cells of Sing Sing. And they have not escaped One of them, Cassidy, was enough of a political boss to dictate who should and who should not be nominated and} | elected judge of the supreme court in Queens county ; : The other, Willett, desiring to sit on the bench, paid Cassidy his price for the nomination Those of us who do not hold that judges are of finer clay; who believe them to be simply men and so liable to the errors and ills of frail flesh, are often chided and our! heresy held up in horror as endangering one of the deep rocks} of society and civilization. We have often felt that a similar amount of public atten- tion devoted to the other side of the question would be of greater benefit. To doubt that a judge is superman surely} is not so bad as to debauch him into bribery For the first time a political boss is in a cell for selling} places on a judicial ticket. ae cae i oe The transaction under discussion was a cash transaction It is a marked advance. Now if a man who gives places on} % | tickets not for sordid cash, but for private understandings, for| e favors in the past or to be presently rendered, if such a man,| otrudin Piles, hemorrhotds tnd al! troubles, in the prt cingr b or ten sample ng ox often cures. Free for trial, with bookiet, mafied free, in oe wey if you send us coup low. FREE SAMPLE COUrOoy PYRAMID DRUG COMPANY, 519 Pyramid Bidg., Marshall, Mich.: Kindly send sample of Pyramid Pt in plain wrapper. “A PACKAGE FoR MISS DILCPICKLES MOM ..ccccccceccasds Street City Thinness ls Dang ous EMINENT SPECIALIST TELLS HOW THIN PEOPLE MAY PUT ON Movie Director—And what ac- FLESH AND BECOME | complishments have you, that you| Sie anion think of andertaking a career in | ‘Thinness is unnatural and danger- | motion pictures? jours. It ts not necessarily the cause a Ambitious Seattle Girl—Er—I/ of consumption, indigestion, liver or sing! eatarrhal trouble, but im nearly every insta it is an indicatton that something ts radically wrong. Very {thin people may feel that th: are KILLED BY A BURGLAR 7° 200s". of active m truly say that I hav ‘tremely thin man or woman who was really SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. —-Mrs.\ healthy. Thin people are thin be- : . , A Little Bird Argument for Peace Olive Cooper, a scrub woman, was|cause they do not assimilate their and with him a lawyer who will give his conscience and honor} s vicbians Molla ta drop| “Here, what's all this row about? struck on the head by a burglar and — property a7 mey eat heart . ; : ; ey, jer, there's no >» . ? r vork | 11%: but thelr food dow instead of his purse in exchange for nomination, if such a). pot’ coftes ‘in this mature!” (asked the copper HERE, NOW, WASN'T I RIGHT & killed while she was;alone at work | fica’ simply becnose the aserntinny HERE MR, SPENCE HAS BENT in the Franklin cafe. organs are lacking in nerve force. pair shall be sent to some good penitentiary, justice may, with| prosh waiter: “Some little bird) “Why, this woman fs collecting This is why thin people are so often greater safety, resume her bandage |told you, I suppose?” per anche op ws society, ass Me 4 LOVELY | Sheth fy nervous, sleepless, and become ad- —— “ ™ when refuse oO cont ute she jected to the u if 4 ) - GET A pencil and paper and do a sum, Chicago spends $10,00000 etgeeoemae “a ¢ down,” explain the must be taken, and I have had won- jderful res in nearly every case I J., Jan. 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